Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name. Sermons
I. THE GROUNDS OF THE PSALMIST'S PRAISE. 1. His position. God's "king," "his anointed," the messiah (Christ) of God. David was literally anointed by Samuel as the future king of Israel, and had been prepared for and brought to the throne in marvellous ways. He recognized, as Saul had failed to do, that he was God's king and representative, ruling God's people in subjection to him. The position was far more honourable than that of any heathen monarch, however much wider his dominion. 2. His experience of the goodness and power of God. Protecting, delivering, giving victory, exalting to the throne, and preserving in it. "Therefore," because of all that I have hem recorded of the Divine favour to me, "I will give thanks," etc. Note the value of experience as a help and incentive to praise. It gives reality to our thoughts of God, and personal knowledge of his power and goodness. It stirs the heart to gratitude, and to a desire that all should know and praise him. It furnishes interesting subjects for praise. 3. The assurance be had of the future kindness of God to himself and his family. This assurance sprang from the promise of God by Nathan (2 Samuel 7:12-16), and which finds its ultimate and complete fulfilment in the exaltation of the Christ, the Son of David, to be King of all men, of all beings and things in heaven as well as earth. It was a great honour conferred on David and his family to be made rulers for many generations of the people in and through whom true religion was preserved, to be at length diffused through all the earth; it was a far greater for HIM to spring from them who should be the Saviour of all men, and the eternal King. For consider: (1) His personal glory. Not only Son of David, but Son of God, filled "with all the fulness of the Godhead" (Colossians 2:9); the incarnate Word. (2) The nature of his rule. Especially his spiritual reign - the reign of Divine truth, holiness, and love in the hearts and lives of men; the reign of peace and joy. (3) Its extent. Far wider than that of David or Solomon. To include at length all nations (Psalm 72:8, 11). (4) Its duration. "Forevermore." David discerned, in the Divine promise to him and his, enough to fill his heart with gladness and thankfulness; if he could have seen even as much as we are permitted to behold, his wonder and gratitude would have known no bounds. II. THE SPHERE OF HIS PRAISE. "Among the nations." 1. The fulness of his gratitude moved him to make known God's goodness as widely as possible. 2. He desired to instruct other nations, and bring them to worship a God so able and willing to bless his worshippers. He may have felt a special obligation to instruct and benefit the peoples who had been brought into subjection to himself. 3. The interest which the nations at large had in what God had done and promised to him. See Romans 15:9, where ver. 50 is quoted by St. Paul in proof that it was the purpose of God that the Gentiles should "glorify God for his mercy." - G.W.
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies. The Sciences as Sources of Illustration. Those meteoric stones, which sometimes fall to the earth, but which much more frequently, at certain seasons of the year, are seen shooting across the midnight sky, may also be fragments of the aforesaid world which has perished. These blocks of meteoric matter are flying through space, and when they get within the range of our atmosphere, there is an opposing medium, they have to drive through it at an enormous rapidity, and so they become burning hot, and thus they become visible. And, in like manner, I believe that there are plenty of good men in the world who are invisible till they get to be opposed, and being opposed, and having the love of God driving them on with tremendous momentum, they become red-hot with holy fervour, they overcome all opposition, and then they become visible to the eye of mankind. For my part, I rather like to pass through an opposing medium. I think that we all want to travel in that kind of atmosphere just to give us the sacred friction that will fully develop the powers with which we have been entrusted. If God has given us force, it is not at all a bad thing for us to be put where there is opposition, because we shall not be stopped by it, but shall by that very process be made to shine all the brighter as lights in the world.(The Sciences as Sources of Illustration.). People David, SaulPlaces GathTopics Confess, Extol, Heathen, Nations, O, Praise, Praises, Psalms, Sing, Song, ThanksOutline 1. David's psalm of thanksgiving for God's deliverance and blessingsDictionary of Bible Themes 2 Samuel 22:50 7511 Gentiles, in OT 8609 prayer, as praise and thanksgiving Library David's Hymn of victory'For Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that, rose up against me hast Thou subdued under me. 41. Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. 42. They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but He answered them not. 43. Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. 44. Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Mosaic Cosmogony. The First Commandment In the Present Crusade against the Bible and the Faith of Christian Men... A Discourse of Mercifulness The Ark among the Flags Christ's Prophetic Office Samuel Links 2 Samuel 22:50 NIV2 Samuel 22:50 NLT 2 Samuel 22:50 ESV 2 Samuel 22:50 NASB 2 Samuel 22:50 KJV 2 Samuel 22:50 Bible Apps 2 Samuel 22:50 Parallel 2 Samuel 22:50 Biblia Paralela 2 Samuel 22:50 Chinese Bible 2 Samuel 22:50 French Bible 2 Samuel 22:50 German Bible 2 Samuel 22:50 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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