INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 120
"The most dangerous enemies, & those which it is most hard to guard against, are such as carry on their malicious designs under the colour of friendship." "The God of truth is, & will be, the protector of his people from lying lips." "This is the portion of the false tongue; for all that love & make a lie shall have their portion in the lake that burns eternally. Revelation 22:15." "...it is a grief to all that love God to be without the means of grace & of communion with God." "Be not overcome of evil... still try to overcome evil with good." CHAPTER 121 "We must see all our help laid up in God, in his power & goodness, his providence & grace; & from him we must expect it to come: 'My help comes from the Lord...'" "It is here promised that if we put our trust in God, & keep in the way of our duty, we shall be safe under his protection, so that no real evil, no mere evil, shall happen to us, nor any affliction but what God sees good for us & will do us good by." "The Lord is thy keeper." "He is a wakeful watchful keeper." "He is always near to his people for their protection & refreshment, & never at a distance; he is their keeper & shade at their right hand; so that he is never far to seek." "God will provide that his people shall not be tempted above what the are able, shall not fall into sin, though they may be very near it, shall not fall into trouble, though there be many endeavouring to undermine them by fraud or overthrow them by force." "'The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, the evil of sin & the evil of trouble." "Thou shalt be under his protection in all thy journeys & voyages, outward-bound or homeward-bound" "He will prosper thee in all thy affairs at home & abroad, in the beginning & in the conclusion of them. He will keep thee in life & death, thy going out & going on while thou livest & thy coming in, when thou diest" "God will protect his church & his saints always, even to the end of the world. The Spirit, who is their preserver & comforter, shall abide with them for ever." CHAPTER 122 "It is the will of God that we should worship him in concert, that many should join together to wait upon him in public ordinances. We ought to worship God in our own houses, but that is not enough; we must go unto the house of the Lord, to pay our homage to him there, & not forsake the assembling of ourselves together." "...we should thus quicken & sharpen one another to that which is good, as iron sharpens iron." "If God speak to us by his word, we have reason to answer him by our thanksgivings." "Those that can do nothing else for the peace of Jerusalem can pray for it." "...our concern for the public welfare is right when it is the effect of a sincere love to God's institutions & his faithful worshippers." CHAPTER 123 "Our eyes wait on the Lord, the eye of desire & prayer, the begging eye, & the eye of dependence, hope & expectation, the longing eye. Our eyes must wait upon God as the Lord, & our God, until that he have mercy upon us." "Hypocrites have their eye to the world's hand; thence they have their reward (Mat. 6:2); but true Christians have their eye to God as their rewarder." "Whatever the troubles of the church are, God's mercy is a sovereign remedy." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 723 - 731.
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September 2023
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