Text: “Be
pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together
that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to
shame that wish me evil. Let them be
desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, Aha.”
Psalm 40:13-15.
Good morning,
God-delivered Christian! You and I have
not delivered ourselves from being natural born sinners under God’s Adamic
curse for sin, and from the many gross sins and transgressions of God’s Law
that we have committed ever since.
No! It is the Lord God Himself
Who has seen fit to bring about such an amazing deliverance for us, and our
deepest gratitude, thanksgiving, worship and praise should be offered up to Him
continually for the Sovereign grace He has bestowed upon us, vile sinners that
we are! This is the only safe and proper
position for every believer to promptly assume, if we are to be of any real
Spiritual use in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Thanks be unto
God for His unspeakable (indescribable) gift.”
(2 Corinthians 9:15)
“Every good gift
and every perfect gift is from Above, and cometh down from the Father of
lights, with Whom there is no variableness (unchanging), neither shadow of
turning (immutable). Of His own will
begat He us with the Word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of
His creatures.” (James 1:17-18)
How often have you
and I, while suffering deep Spiritual, emotional, or physical sufferings,
needed to cry out for God’s Personal deliverance from all our enemies –
Spiritual and temporal – ‘that seek after our souls to destroy us’?
Personally, I have had to make this profound call again and again, and in most
recent times, when I almost began to fear that there was no hope for me in this
life and that the ‘enemies of my soul’ had beaten me into the ground. Honesty is the best policy!
Such defeat for
the ‘God-delivered Christian’ is, of course, an illusion from the pit of Hell
itself – but when one is wallowing in the mire of deep Spiritual depression,
that Devilish illusion can seem to be so very very real. All true and genuine, Spiritually regenerate
Christians, will always have complete Victory in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah!
“Nay, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, or depth, nor any other creature (including
ourselves!), shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:37-39)
How’s this for a full and complete Victory statement for genuine ‘born
again’ believers? Praise God for such a complete Victory over all things, in
Christ Jesus.
“Verses
13-17. The remaining
verses of this Psalm are almost exactly identical with Psalm 70.” (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 197)
Verse 13. “Be
pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. The Psalmist is
here exercising the faith God has blessed him with; he is reasoning out by
faith that, IF the Lord is his God, then, belonging to the Lord God, the Lord
God will therefore ‘be pleased to deliver…’ him from all evil.
The Psalmist is
encouraging you and I to practice this ‘logical reasoning out of faith’ as
God the Spirit instructs us to, in the book of Isaiah the prophet. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)
Verse 13. “…Make
haste to help me. When
afflictions and oppositions get most serious, you and I need to cry out like
the Psalmist, for the prompt help of the Lord God. Self takes a knock, self-sufficiency takes a
knock – the believer gets serious about seeking Divine help and support to
maintain a constant witness for Christ Jesus.
Those who dare to mock the faith of genuine Christians are in serious
trouble!
Verse 14. “Let
them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it. It is to the infinite confusion of Satan that his
attempts to destroy the Saviour destroyed himself; the diabolical conclave who
plotted in council are now all alike put to shame, for the Lord Jesus has met
them at all points and turned all their wisdom into foolishness.” (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 197)
Mockers of true
Christian faith, and genuine ‘born again’ believers today, place themselves in
a Divine vice of temporal and Eternal repercussion – God brings them into open
shame and utter confusion. They suffer
in this life, and they will suffer Eternally in the place of torment prepared
by God to receive all His enemies.
Verse 15. For a
reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. Do
wicked men today pour shame upon the Name of the Redeemer? Their desolation shall avenge Him of His
adversaries! Jesus is the gentle Lamb to
all who seek mercy through His Blood; but let despisers beware, for He is the
Lion of the tribe of Judah, and ‘who shall rouse Him up?’ O ungodly reader, if such a person glance
over this page, beware of persecuting Christ and His people, for God will
surely avenge His own elect. Your ‘ahas’
will cost you dear. It is hard for you
to kick against the pricks.” (C.H.
Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 197)
Pause now,
God-delivered Christian! Think it
through. Has the Lord God shed the Blood
of His only begotten Son, Jesus, for you and for me, and will He now just leave
us undefended, and unprotected in the hands of worldly scoffers and
persecutors? Never! Christ takes great
care of His Church which He has purchased in the agony of His own shed and
sinless Blood on the Cross. Mockers and
persecutors BEWARE! God is not mocked! True Christians, rejoice! We have full victory in Christ Jesus.
Thought: Serious saints are at
all times protected by our Omnipotent Saviour!
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