O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. Sermons
I. IT HOLDS ITS OWN PERSONAL MEMORIES OF GOD'S GOODNESS. Not merely has the godly man a general belief in God and God's merciful ways, but he has the assurance that God has been merciful to him. He can see in page after page of his life's story how guidance, restraint, comfort, teaching, and strength have come in precise adaptations to his own conditions and needs. He can speak of the "good hand of his God which has ever been upon him for good." The importance of fixing the memory of God's dealings by pious attention to them at the time, and by frequent review of them afterwards, should be pointed out. A richly stored memory becomes an unfailing well-spring of comfort in later life. To our view all our past should be dotted over with pillars we have raised, on which we have inscribed our "Ebenezer" - "Hitherto the Lord hath helped us;" and at any time we should be able to look back and bid these pillars remind us of the "wonderful works that he hath done." II. IT HOLDS THE RACE-MEMORIALS OF GOD'S GOODNESS. Scripture tells us of God's dealings with men, both before he separated the Jewish people and while he had them under his special leadings. "The God of the whole earth shall he be called." It is characteristic of David's psalms that they are full of large broad thoughts of God's relations to the whole world. And both Scripture and secular history should provide us with stores for the memory, as they reveal God's workings towards his gracious ends of substantial and eternal good. If Israel may say, "He is the Lord our God," it must go on to say, "His judgments are in all the earth." III. IT HOLDS THE COVENANT PEOPLE'S MEMORIALS OF GOD'S GOODNESS. This is the. peculiar treasure of the godly. We have the Bible records of the covenant race - God's peculiar people, whom he had chosen for himself. Show what a large portion of the good man's memory is taken up with the Scripture story of Israel. God's ways with his covenant people are to us the model and example of all his dealings, and upon these we argue what he is and will be in his ways with us. But they are wonderful ways, marvellous works; often mysterious, often severe; ways of judgment as well as mercy. Impress that the use of due occasions for considering the contents of the memory, for refreshing the memory, and for making new grounds of praise and trust, is a most important, but often neglected, part of Christian duty, bearing direct relation to Christian strength and joy. - R.T.
Seek the Lord and His strength There are three reasons for this.I. BECAUSE IT IS AN EVIDENCE OF GRACE. II. BECAUSE THEIR SUCCESS IS SURE. III. BECAUSE, WHEN THEY HAVE FOUND, THEIR AIM AND WISH IN SEEKING ARE FULLY ANSWERED. (W. Jay.) II. III. (A. G. Brown.) People Asaph, Benaiah, David, Eliab, Gibeon, Heman, Hosah, Isaac, Jacob, Jahaziel, Jeduthun, Jehiel, Jeiel, Levites, Mattithiah, Obededom, Shemiramoth, Uzziel, Zadok, ZechariahPlaces Canaan, Gibeon, JerusalemTopics Chosen, Descendants, Jacob, Loved, O, Offspring, Ones, Seed, Servant, SonsOutline 1. David's festival sacrifice4. He orders a choir to sing thanksgiving 7. The psalm of thanksgiving 37. He appoints ministers, porters, priests, and musicians, to attend the ark Dictionary of Bible Themes 1 Chronicles 16:13 5096 Jacob, patriarch 8609 prayer, as praise and thanksgiving Library Man's Chief EndQ-I: WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN? A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. Here are two ends of life specified. 1: The glorifying of God. 2: The enjoying of God. I. The glorifying of God, I Pet 4:4: That God in all things may be glorified.' The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all our actions. I Cor 10:01. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.' Everything works to some end in things natural and artificial; … Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Covenanting a Duty. Chronicles Links 1 Chronicles 16:13 NIV1 Chronicles 16:13 NLT 1 Chronicles 16:13 ESV 1 Chronicles 16:13 NASB 1 Chronicles 16:13 KJV 1 Chronicles 16:13 Bible Apps 1 Chronicles 16:13 Parallel 1 Chronicles 16:13 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 16:13 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 16:13 French Bible 1 Chronicles 16:13 German Bible 1 Chronicles 16:13 Commentaries Bible Hub |