PROFITING FROM THE SCRIPTURES “All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable …” II Timothy 3:16 When you are reading or listening to the Word of God taught or preached what is your objective? Many have varying reasons and for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
DAVID’S SWEET CONSOLATION Psalm 3:5-8 “I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who set themselves against me all around. Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God! For You have...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
CONFIDENCE IN THE LORD I’m reading from Psalm 3 and verse 3 where David uses three relative clauses to describe his Lord. The first one is “But Thou, O LORD, art a shield for me.” The word shield in the Hebrew means more than shield, David...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
TROUBLES IN BUNCHES Family trouble is the worst of troubles, in Psalm 3 David flees from Absalom his son. “And Absalom sent for Ahithophel, (David’s counselor/advisor), while he offered sacrifices, and the conspiracy was strong; for the people...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
MESSIAH THE PRINCE IN PSALM 2 Psalm 2 is prophetic of Messiah the Prince; a Psalm of grace, for it sings of the Lord’s anointed. Verses 1-3, “Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
CONTRAST IN CHARACTER “The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, or sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE FOOTSTEPS OF A GODLY MAN What orders the footsteps of the godly man? The Word! “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105). “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Blessed is the man” in Psalm 1. The blessed, or happy man negatively lives in a world such as ours and with a nature such as ours, no small part of religion consists in avoiding evil. A negative religion is not sufficient, God’s Word is, “Cease...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE BLESSED MAN “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” Psalm 1:1 David, the shepherd of Israel, starts the collection of the Psalms where...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
DISRESPECT TO THE WORD OF GOD DISRESPECT TO THE PREACHER (Terry Worthan, 1938-2022) “Then Elisha went up … to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
