For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Hallelujah! Sermons
I. It is quite true that we can learn God's faithfulness and considerateness (merciful kindness) in nature, which, if it be a system of law, is a system of varying and opposing laws, whose relative working must be in some restraint and presidency. And in providence, which is the adjustment of nature-workings to meet the needs of individuals, and implies a Divine Director, who knows the individuals, and has power over every thing, and, with infinite kindness can fit the two together. II. But the term "merciful kindness" suggests something better and deeper than this. True, the people of Israel were men, even as we are men. And what God did for them as men illustrates what God can do for us as men, and even assures us what he is doing. But we must never lose sight of this point - God dealt with Israel as sinful men; and the merciful kindness is so impressive because it was pitiful and com passionate dealing with sinful men. But that is precisely what we are, and therefore God's merciful kindness to Israel is so interesting to us. It reveals him who is also our God. When the idea is once in our mind, we can read our lives, individual and national, aright, and speak of his merciful kindness to us also. - R.T.
O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people 1. In God's worship it is not always necessary to be long; few words sometimes say what is sufficient, as this short psalm giveth us to understand.2. The conversion of the Gentiles was foreseen and foretold long before the Jews were rejected, as this exhortation directed unto them, and prophesying of their praising God doth give evidence. 3. Invitation of any to the fellowship of God's worship, and in special unto praise and thanksgiving, is an invitation to them to renounce their sinful course, and to subject themselves unto God in Christ, and to embrace the offer of His grace, that so they may join with the Church in the song of praises. 4. Yea, this invitation to all the nations to praise God, set down in Scripture, is a prophecy which was to take effect in all the elect Gentiles in all nations, for so reasoneth the apostle (Romans 15:11) from this place. 5. Albeit there be matter of praise unto God in Himself, though we should not be partakers of any benefit from Him, yet the Lord doth give His people cause to praise Him for favours to them in their own particular. 6. There is no less reason to praise God for what He hath promised, than for what He hath given already. 7. As God's kindness and truth are the pillars of our salvation, so also are they the matter of our praise, which always go together, and run in the same channel toward the same persons, and do run abundantly and for ever together. 8. All they who hear of God are bound to praise God. (D. Dickson.) 1. All are identical in spiritual condition. They all have a capacity to form a conception of the same God, and the same tendency to reverence and adore. 2. All have identical moral relationships. "In Him all live and move and have their being." 3. All should have identical controlling sympathies. Thus true worship becomes the unifying force of the race. II. ALL PEOPLES ARE TO WORSHIP THE SAME GOD FOR THE SAME REASON. 1. His kindness to all. 2. His faithfulness to all. God is truth, hence He never alters. Error is like the clouds, never shifting; truth, like the sun, continues the same from age to age. (D. Thomas, D.D.) (A. Maclaren, D.D.). People PsalmistPlaces JerusalemTopics 118, Endures, Endureth, Everlasting, Faith, Faithfulness, Forever, Hallelujah, Jah, Kindness, Love, Loving, Lovingkindness, Loving-kindness, Merciful, Mercy, Mighty, Praise, Psalm, Steadfast, Towards, Truth, Unchanging, YahOutline 1. An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truthDictionary of Bible Themes Psalm 117:2 1035 God, faithfulness Library Exhortation to Universal Praise and Thanksgiving. --Ps. cxvii. Exhortation to universal Praise and Thanksgiving.--Ps. cxvii. All ye gentiles, praise the Lord, All ye lands, your voices raise; Heaven and earth, with loud accord, Praise the Lord, for ever praise. For His truth and mercy stand, Past, and present, and to be, Like the years of His right hand, Like His own eternity. Praise Him, ye who know his love, Praise Him from the depths beneath, Praise Him in the heights above; Praise your Maker all that breathe. … James Montgomery—Sacred Poems and Hymns from all that Dwell Below the Skies Epistle vii. To Peter, Domitian, and Elpidius. Of Meditation Upon the Hidden Judgments of God, that we May not be Lifted up Because of Our Well-Doing Sermon on the Mount Continued Its Woes in Strict Agreement with the Creator's Disposition. Many Quotations Out of the Old Testament in Proof of This. Psalms Links Psalm 117:2 NIVPsalm 117:2 NLT Psalm 117:2 ESV Psalm 117:2 NASB Psalm 117:2 KJV Psalm 117:2 Bible Apps Psalm 117:2 Parallel Psalm 117:2 Biblia Paralela Psalm 117:2 Chinese Bible Psalm 117:2 French Bible Psalm 117:2 German Bible Psalm 117:2 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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