The thought will flash across us that God sees us. If that Being has gone down into these depths of human depravity, and seen it with a more abhorring glance than could ever shoot from a finite eye, and yet has returned with a cordial offer to forgive it all, and a hearty proffer to cleanse it all away, then we can lift up the eye in adoration and in hope. Struck by this view of God's omniscience as embracing the beginning, the unfolding and the completion of all things, the singer bursts out into a recognition of its value. It is here proposed to show, that every incumbent duty ought, in suitable circumstances, to be engaged to in the exercise of Covenanting. G. T. Shedd, D. D.: One of the most remark. It is here proposed to show, that every incumbent duty ought, in suitable circumstances, to be engaged to in the exercise of Covenanting. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. I will ask you three questions suggested by the words themselves, and according to your answer to these three questions, shall be Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859Question of the Contemplative LifeI. Though the transgressor is ignorant of much of his sin, because, at the time of its commission, he sins blindly as well as wilfully, and unreflectingly as well as freely; and though the transgressor has forgotten much of that small amount of sin, of which he was conscious, and by which he was pained, at the time of its perpetration; though, on the side of man, the powers of self-inspection and memory have accomplished so little towards this preservation of man's sin, yet God knows it all, and remembers it all. IN WHAT DID IT ISSUE? From the just we learn justice; from the charitable we catch an infection of charity; from the generous we receive the instinct of generosity. If God makes your son His son also, what do you lose or what does he himself lose? : While the Americans were blockading Cuba, several captains endeavoured to elude their vigilance by night, trusting that the darkness would conceal them as they passed between the American war-ships. ad probam IV. He may be an uncommonly thoughtful person, and little of what is done within his soul may escape his notice; nay, we will make the extreme supposition that he arrests every thought as it rises, and looks at it; that he analyzes every sentiment as it swells his heart; that he scrutinizes every purpose as it determines his will; even if he should have such a thorough and profound self-knowledge as this, God knows him equally profoundly and equally thoroughly. So that whenever we are on the point of doing or saying anything cowardly, or mean, or false, or impure, or proud, or conceited, or unkind, the remembrance that God is looking on shall instantly flash across us and help us to beat down our enemy. If you look at it, you will see that there is in its bowels a full description of a true Christian. Hilary of PoitiersThe Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers, PsalmsThe piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. That God had made the light, but had not made the sun? 3. The promise is not the foundation. S. Augustine, Of the Perfection of Human Righteousness, viii. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. Hoyt, D. D.: This psalm sings of I. The daily prayer in the closet, the endeavour to keep the attention fixed when praying with others, either in our regular services or in family worship. In the day when I cried Charles KingsleyOut of the DeepWherefore a Few Witnesses, which the Lord Deigns to Suggest to My Mind32. 5, 6. thou establish my soul in it more and more. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. But yet there is another, not less powerful than any, which deserves special mention. S. Thomas, On the Beatific Vision, I., xii. S. Thomas, On the Beatific Vision, I., xii. Being rich he becomes richer; being already high born, of still nobler lineage; being illustrious, he gains greater renown; and--what is more than all--once a sinner he is now a saint. (2)There is the error that imagines that death will make some fundamental alteration in their relation to God.2. If God makes your son His son also, what do you lose or what does he himself lose? 23, 24). The text, however, itself, is its own guard. Whose works of grace, in that same earth, have steadily built up a kingdom of love, of peace, of righteousness? His omnipresence. But the issue here is prayer. It is perfectly plain from the elevated central point of view where we now stand, and in the focal light in which we now see, that no man can be justified before God upon the ground of personal character; for that character, when subjected to God's exhaustive scrutiny, withers and shrinks away. The Coming Andrew MurrayThe Ministry of IntercessionForasmuch as Each Man is a Part of the Human Race1. 23:1) I confess all my sins and iniquities, cleanse me with your blood, Lord Jesus . To reveal the supreme interest of human life. If God makes your son His son also, what do you lose or what does he himself lose? We cannot live long with men without catching something of their manner, of their mode of thought, of their character, of their government of themselves. If that Being has gone down into these depths of human depravity, and seen it with a more abhorring glance than could ever shoot from a finite eye, and yet has returned with a cordial offer to forgive it all, and a hearty proffer to cleanse it all away, then we can lift up the eye in adoration and in hope. He is in (1)Heaven. 5, 6. God has made us so. St. Hilary of Poitiers is one of the greatest, yet least studied, of the Fathers of the Western Church. It is here proposed to show, that every incumbent duty ought, in suitable circumstances, to be engaged to in the exercise of Covenanting. Thomas AquinasOn Prayer and The Contemplative LifeEpistle Xlvii. Is he lacking in power or love? Unknown Location. S. Thomas, On the Beatific Vision, I., xii. 5, 6. Although he had averred so strongly his aversion to the wicked, he prays that this may be no mere outward separation. They cannot be numbered! That act whereby another being knows my secret thoughts and inmost feelings is most certainly inexplicable.I. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." That of a prayerful seeking of the Divine guidance (ver. The right state of mind plainly is to have the thought of God's presence so perpetually at hand that it shall always start before us whenever it is wanted. The brilliant searchlight sweeping the broad ocean and revealing even the smallest craft on its surface is but a faint type of the Eternal Light from which no sinner can hide his sin. : While the Americans were blockading Cuba, several captains endeavoured to elude their vigilance by night, trusting that the darkness would conceal them as they passed between the American war-ships. (Admonition 23.) Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." What we may comprehend as seeing a slow response is due to God not listening to us, we are not taking time to be patient. Does the Contemplative Life consist solely in the Contemplation of God, or in the Consideration St. If you look at it, you will see that there is in its bowels a full description of a true Christian. Those who are always hearing pure and high principles set forth as the guides of life learn to value and to know them even faster than they can learn to live by them. And in Christ we have the plan of God's redeeming mercy made known to us as it was not to prophet and psalmist of old. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius, The Saints' Final Perseverance Secured by the Mercy of God, The saints' final perseverance secured by the mercy of God, David praises God for the truth of his word, He prophesies that the kings of the earth shall praise God. AugustineOn the Good of MarriagePrayer Out of the Deep. "Forsake not the works of Thine own hands." For if God's exhaustive knowledge of the human heart waken dread in one of its aspects, it starts infinite hope in another. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. Being rich he becomes richer; being already high born, of still nobler lineage; being illustrious, he gains greater renown; and--what is more than all--once a sinner he is now a saint. )God all-seeing:In the mythology of the heathen, Momus, the god of fault-finding, is represented as blaming Vulcan, because in the human form, which he had made of clay, he had not placed a window in the breast, by which whatever was done or thought there might easily be brought to light. How shall we learn to walk by His side? The brilliant searchlight sweeping the broad ocean and revealing even the smallest craft on its surface is but a faint type of the Eternal Light from which no sinner can hide his sin. Though the transgressor is ignorant of much of his sin, because, at the time of its commission, he sins blindly as well as wilfully, and unreflectingly as well as freely; and though the transgressor has forgotten much of that small amount of sin, of which he was conscious, and by which he was pained, at the time of its perpetration; though, on the side of man, the powers of self-inspection and memory have accomplished so little towards this preservation of man's sin, yet God knows it all, and remembers it all. the fear of man, as in the case of the Patriarch, may not bring a snare. Nay, more, this process of self-inspection may go on indefinitely, and the man grow more and more thoughtful, and obtain an everlastingly augmenting knowledge of what he is and what he does, so that it shall seem to him that he is penetrating so deeply into those dim and shadowy regions of consciousness where the external life takes its very first start, and then he may be sure that God understands the thought that is afar off, and deep down, and that at this lowest range and plane in his experience he besets him behind and before.II. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. People Listen In Different Wayscan You Reach All Of Them? Psalm 138:8 says "The Lord will perfect that which concerns me." Notice the word PERFECT. v. 22). v. 22). For if God's exhaustive knowledge of the human heart waken dread in one of its aspects, it starts infinite hope in another. (2)His knowledge of us is entire, complete.2. vi. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." I am as certain of this as I am that I am alive; he has given me new tastes, dispositions, and desires; the sins I once loved I now hate, and the holiness which heretofore I had no care for I now long after; hence I am sure the Lord has begun his work in me. For if God's exhaustive knowledge of the human heart waken dread in one of its aspects, it starts infinite hope in another. But yet there is another, not less powerful than any, which deserves special mention. For it is written, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace (Gal. lxxxv. The separate, personal thinking of God toward every one of us.(1)Innumerable.(2)Constant.II. iii. But if that knowledge whereby man knows himself is mysterious, then certainly that whereby God knows him is far more so. 19-22).3. Does the Contemplative Life consist solely in the Contemplation of God, or in the Consideration, To Dominicus, Bishop. 13-16).4. Said Milton, speaking of his travels abroad when a young man: "I again take God to witness that in all places where so many things are considered lawful, I lived sound and untouched from all profligacy and vice, having this thought perpetually with me, that though I might escape the eyes of men, I certainly could not the eyes of God."4. His omnipotence (vers. For it is written, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace (Gal. Hence he entreats God to see and disclose it, and then taking his hand to lead him in a way which, unlike the way of the wicked (Psalm 1:6), does not perish, but ends in everlasting life. The faith of that Centurion He on this account chiefly praised, and said St. S. Augustine, Of the Perfection of Human Righteousness, viii. Does the Contemplative Life comprise many Acts? "Thy mercy, O Lord," etc. )God all-seeing:In the mythology of the heathen, Momus, the god of fault-finding, is represented as blaming Vulcan, because in the human form, which he had made of clay, he had not placed a window in the breast, by which whatever was done or thought there might easily be brought to light. Rom. G. T. Shedd, D. D.)God's presenceArchbishop Temple. 5, 6. For he who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exhibit the highest things. vi. The duties of that Covenant are God's law; and the demands of the law are all made John CunninghamThe Ordinance of CovenantingIntroduction. 15. 18, 19. Justice, in this reference, is out of the question. The text, however, itself, is its own guard. Hoyt, D. D.: This psalm sings of I. Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace. lvii. And how it would bless us! lxxxv. [2105] And these without all controversy we take to be humble. Does the Contemplative Life consist solely in the Contemplation of God, or in the Consideration St. It is here proposed to show, that every incumbent duty ought, in suitable circumstances, to be engaged to in the exercise of Covenanting. "The Lord will perfect that which concerns me. 15. That of siding with Him against evil (vers. Hence Paul Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatSense in Which, and End for which all Things were Delivered to the Incarnate Son. For he who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exhibit the highest things. 12), while the devil was exulting against us;--then God, in His loving-kindness, not willing man made in His own image to perish, said, Whom shall I send, and who will go?' --The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers. Like the air we breathe, like the light we see, it involves a mystery that no man has ever solved. He has suffered thus, partly from a certain obscurity in his style of writing, partly from the difficulty of the thoughts which he attempted to convey. Does the Contemplative Life consist solely in the Contemplation of God, or in the Consideration St. "Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us. The writer of Psalm 51. says if but the Lord will restore to him the joy of his salvation, and uphold him with his free spirit, "then will I teach transgressors," etc. Our hearts will put us in mind of God's eye being upon us every now and then involuntarily. But He sees all, His eye takes in the immeasurable universe. Mercy must be the theme of our song here; and mercy enduring for ever must be the subject of the sonnets of paradise. For that voice more readily penetrates the hearer's heart, which the speaker's life Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatHow those that are at Variance and those that are at Peace are to be Admonished. We do not agree with Momus, neither are we of his mind who desired to have a window in his breast that all men might see his heart. lvii. Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace. Self-consciousness has been the problem of the philosophic mind in all ages; and the mystery is not yet unravelled. Hoyt, D. D.)God's knowledge of manW. The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands. He professes his confidence in GodDictionary of Bible ThemesPsalm 138:86708predestination8125guidance, promise8441goalsPsalm 138:7-81265hand of GodLibraryFaith in PerfectionIn the opening, I must remark that this is not the heritage of all mankind. Now, in this condition of things, God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life. But if that knowledge whereby man knows himself is mysterious, then certainly that whereby God knows him is far more so. And it is also true of the work of grace all around us. Those who are always hearing pure and high principles set forth as the guides of life learn to value and to know them even faster than they can learn to live by them. 1. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. 2. said Collins, the infidel, to a poor but pious man. It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. From the just we learn justice; from the charitable we catch an infection of charity; from the generous we receive the instinct of generosity. But in almost every case the dazzling rays of a searchlight frustrated the attempt, and the fugitives' vessel was captured by the Americans. Wherefore a few witnesses, which the Lord deigns to suggest to my mind, I proceed to mention, from out the teaching of Christ concerning humility, such as perhaps may be enough for my purpose. He compasseth man's path, and his lying down, and is acquainted with all his ways. lvii. He prophesies that the kings of the earth shall praise God7. From the just we learn justice; from the charitable we catch an infection of charity; from the generous we receive the instinct of generosity. A Consolatory Letter to the Parents of Geoffrey. Like the air we breathe, like the light we see, it involves a mystery that no man has ever solved. able characteristics of a rational being is the power of self-inspection. In the day when I cried Charles KingsleyOut of the DeepWherefore a Few Witnesses, which the Lord Deigns to Suggest to My Mind32. GOD.1. But while all held their peace, the Son [441] said, AthanasiusSelect Works and Letters or AthanasiusCovenant Duties. But if that knowledge whereby man knows himself is mysterious, then certainly that whereby God knows him is far more so. In the day when I cried, 32. And have not you a corrupt nature, an evil bias, a heart prone to evil, and loving it all too well? From the just we learn justice; from the charitable we catch an infection of charity; from the generous we receive the instinct of generosity. 19 III. 1, 2. ad probam IV. He sees the whole of an object. Ted's Bio; Fact Sheet; Hoja Informativa Del Ted Fund; Ted Fund Board 2021-22; 2021 Ted Fund Donors; Ted Fund Donors Over the Years. So that whenever we are on the point of doing or saying anything cowardly, or mean, or false, or impure, or proud, or conceited, or unkind, the remembrance that God is looking on shall instantly flash across us and help us to beat down our enemy. He professes his confidence in GodDictionary of Bible ThemesPsalm 138:86708predestination8125guidance, promise8441goalsPsalm 138:7-81265hand of GodLibraryFaith in PerfectionIn the opening, I must remark that this is not the heritage of all mankind. He must be prepared for the Kingdom that has been prepared for him Saint Bernard of ClairvauxSome Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of ClairvauxThat the Ruler Should be Always Chief in Action. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." He has suffered thus, partly from a certain obscurity in his style of writing, partly from the difficulty of the thoughts which he attempted to convey. vi. (Weekly Pulpit. 2. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. ", 6708predestination8125guidance, promise8441goals, Question of the Contemplative LifeI. There is no reason to mourn a son as lost who is a religious, still less to fear for his delicacy of constitution. : The fact that God is always present and knows every minute trifle in our lives, and that His unerring judgment will assuredly take count of every detail of our character and our conduct, neither exaggerating nor omitting, but applying absolute justice; this truth is one of those which lose force from their very universality. )God all-seeing:In the mythology of the heathen, Momus, the god of fault-finding, is represented as blaming Vulcan, because in the human form, which he had made of clay, he had not placed a window in the breast, by which whatever was done or thought there might easily be brought to light. It is here proposed to show, that every incumbent duty ought, in suitable circumstances, to be engaged to in the exercise of Covenanting. To Dominicus, Bishop. For he who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exhibit the highest things. Verse 17: And I was on trial, alone, because nobody else came to stand by me, but Jesus stood by me and strengthened me. While the majority of the sermons listed below are "mine," several of them are sermons worked up by my dad, Frank Higginbotham, who preached over 60 years, and others were developed from seeds planted by various preachers I've heard throughout my lifetime. There is no reason to mourn a son as lost who is a religious, still less to fear for his delicacy of constitution. ", 4. "He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. 1, 2. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius John Edgar McFadyenIntroduction to the Old TestamentLinksPsalm 138:8 NIVPsalm 138:8 NLTPsalm 138:8 ESVPsalm 138:8 NASBPsalm 138:8 KJVPsalm 138:8 Bible AppsPsalm 138:8 ParallelPsalm 138:8 Biblia ParalelaPsalm 138:8 Chinese BiblePsalm 138:8 French BiblePsalm 138:8 German BiblePsalm 138:8 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)His knowledge of us is entire, complete.2.
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