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The Pilgrim Path (9-28-2020)

The Pilgrim Path---Psalm 33: 1

“Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.”

THE LORD’S AMAZING COVENANT LOVE

It would be a good thing to take your Bible and quickly consider “all” the reasons for praising the LORD for His Covenant Love and Mercy that this text mentions---The 33rdPsalm:

---v. 1---Shouting is appropriate for the righteous---He is worthy (Isaiah 52—shake off lethargy).

---v. 2---Stringed instruments ---will help give thanks to Him.

---v. 3---Singing is what He enjoys---especially His Word sung back in honor and joy!

---v. 4---Sure and strait is His Word / His Works as well---all done in faithfulness.

---v. 5---Steadfast LOVE---Is what He has touched the world with: every act of righteousness and justice is a GIFT from Him!

---v. 6---Search the heavens: He “spoke” them into existence!

---v. 7---Seas and deeps: He gathers and stores them all!

---v. 8---Stand in awe of our LORD! Fear Him (the fool is the one who chooses otherwise).

---v. 9---Speaking: everything came to be! All that we know---“stands” by His creative and sustaining power!

---v. 10---Survival of Nations: It is all in His Holy Hands. He provides wise Leaders-- or unyielding fools…

---v. 11---Standing Forever: Only the Counsel of the LORD---His eternal plans!

---v. 12---Sweetly Favored: the nation whose God is the LORD.

---v. 13---Seeing and knowing All: The LORD “sees” all the children of men…

---v. 14---Sitting Enthroned in Heaven: The LORD sees all the inhabitants of earth (none are missed).

---v. 15---Sovereign One: The LORD fashions hearts and knows the deeds of every soul.

---v. 16---Salvation does not ultimately come by a nation’s great military…

---v. 17---Salvation does not ultimately come by a nation’s cunning implements of war…

---v. 18---Steadfast Love: The LORD’S Covenant Keeping of those who trust Him (this is the Key).

---v. 19---Soul Deliverance: This is up to Jehovah-Jesus (no others are capable).

---v. 20---Soul-waiting: Confident expectation for the present and the future has no other object than the Person---The LORD Jesus Christ!

---v. 21---Supreme Heart gladness: that will abide all circumstances---this is only found in the Living Christ (Matthew 11: 28—30).

---v. 22---Steadfast Love: Let Your Covenant Love, O LORD, Flow Over Us this Monday Morning---and energize Us for your Holy purposes!

“As sure as he is God, he will perform his promises. You may well say there is no God as to doubt his performance. The glory of his being is concerned. He loses nothing if he performs, and all, if he does not. He engages himself when he engages his word. Men can be men, though unfaithful, but God cannot be God; he cannot deny himself.” David Clarkson

“A heart of iron and iron doors will not hold Christ out. I give him leave to break iron locks and come in, and that is all.” Samuel Rutherford

A Prayer from Tim & Kathy Keller: “LORD, I can hardly believe that you, with your infinite power and glory, are watching me eagerly from heaven, filled with love, always attentive to my needs. You love me more---and infinitely more wisely---than I love myself. Help me to rejoice and rest in that enough not to worry. Amen.”

HYMN

Jesus loves me! He will stay

Close beside me all the way;

Thou hast bled and died for me,

I will henceforth live for Thee.

Yes, Jesus loves me!

Yes, Jesus loves me!

Yes, Jesus loves me!

The Bible tells me so.

Anna Bartlett Warner (1820—1915)

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ Our Risen LORD, Pastor Jason