Psalms 119:159 (KJV) Living Food

Psalms 119:159 (KJV)
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

Psalms 119:154 (KJV)
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. 

Psalms 119:156 (KJV)
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. 

When a man is born again, his spirit, once dead in trespasses and sin, is quickened or made alive. The word quicken means to be alive or made lively. The Old Testament word here translated quicken three times. Has a strong relationship with the concept of reviving. It’s the idea of an empty stomach. When one is provided food, his body is revived. He is made lively again. 

My interest in this is due to my recent understanding that Ezra may have been the penman of this Psalm. Ezra prayed God would give “a little reviving” to the people of God. Here we learn that he believed this reviving to be the result of:

• God’s Word
• God’s judgments and
• God’s lovingkindness 

His Word is our bread and sustenance. 

His judgments give us guidance and instruction. 

His lovingkindness is simply His grace to apply it all to our account. 

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Psalms 119:126 (KJV) It Is Time

Psalms 119:126 (KJV)
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Gill writes, “It was always a notion of the Jews that the time of the Messiah’s coming would be when it was a time of great wickedness in the earth; and which seems to agree with the word of God, and was true in fact”.

There comes a time when all the work men can do is pointless and to little avail. There is nothing that can be done: 

• 
  When the majority reject the Word of God and, even worse, the moral code of Almighty God; when right is relative, 
• When men view themselves as animals, not responsible to the rule of decency, morality or humankind. 
• When the logic of the Word of God is but nothing to them, then it is time for God to work. 

We seem to be in such a time. I have never felt it my place to tell the Lord what I think He should do, but on the basis of this passage, I plead for God to work. 

Gill says, and Barnes Notes agrees, that this work is in the coming of the Lord. I pray frequently, nearly every day, for the coming of Jesus. This verse supports my prayer.

It is time for thee, LORD, to work, for they have made void thy law 

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Psalms 119:112 (KJV) Unto The End

Psalms 119:112 (KJV)
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

It has been a few years now that one of the best men I think I have ever known suddenly and very unexpectedly, past from this life into the next. At his funeral, I focused my message on ending well. I am aware that he was not a perfect man and had, no doubt, made mistakes. Some of them, of which I am aware. Inevitably there were many more of which I am not. I can assume that he was not always in complete agreement with me. He never let that be an issue. 

• He was encouraging. 
• He was supportive. 
• He always smiled. 
• He never missed a single church event, and 
• He was always an encouragement and help at them 

I believe he just wanted to end well. 

Within just the last few days I saw where a pastor remarked, “Ending well is much more difficult than beginning well.” I’m finding that to be truer than I would have dreamed.  Perhaps that is why so many pastors are retiring right now to finish their lives retired and traveling but calling it ministry. Perhaps they knew they could not finish well as a pastor in today’s church culture. 

Here’s what I want to do in my final years. I want to so incline my heart to perform God’s statutes that I perform them unto the end. 

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Psalms 119:92 (KJV) The Word Alone

Psalms 119:92 (KJV)
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

The affliction of the Psalmist must have been extraordinary. It seems like there was nothing else to which he could cling. 

• No friend
• No nest egg
• No authority 

He had one thing alone with the ability to hold him above the flood. It is the law of God, His Word. That alone prevents a man from perishing. But that only works when God’s Word is his delight. 

It is a difficult thing to be stripped of every confidence and assurance. It is a blessed thing when, thus stripped, we discover that God and His Word is all we need. 

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Psalms 119:74 (KJV) When They See Me

Psalms 119:74 (KJV)
They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

I am supposing in this reading of Psalms 119, that the penman is Ezra. He is a scribe, a man devoted to the Word of God, and he is a part of God’s movement of Israel back to their Promise Land. 

• This was the will of God
• This was orchestrated by God and
• This had been supplied by God

But it has not been easy. 

• There were enemies. 
• There were obstacles. 

There were: 

• Gentile people opposed to the work as well as 
• Jewish people who were not enthusiastic about the work. 

In the midst of this, the Psalmist is assured that those who fear the Lord would be glad to see him for this one characteristic, “I have hoped in thy Word”. 

Some people form friendships and loyalties around other things. Those friendships I desire are those around the fear of the Lord and our hope in His Word. 

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Psalms 119:20 (KJV) The Breaking Soul

Psalms 119:20 (KJV)
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

The Psalmist expresses what I think is the heart of many believers in our day.

• He loved the Word of God
• He knew the judgments of God to be right and to be holy
• He understood that the world rejected those judgments

and therefore his soul was broken. 

Have not all believers experienced this same trouble? There is a divide that exists between the believer whose God is the Lord and the unbeliever whose god is 

• Self,
• Sovereigns or 
• Satan.

How our soul breaks for the day when God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven. 

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2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) The Lord Is Not Slack

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

The Lord is not slack … The primary interpretation and application have to do with the return of the Lord, the consummation of all things. Specifically, the passage addresses the mockers who question the promise. When they scoff and challenge our faith, the Word of God answers them, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise”.

I want to recommend to you that we can direct this promise our way. When things get very hard, when we have a difficult time understanding why we suffer so. When you look to God for help, but it seems like none comes, remember that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise. He will come. He will come on time and in time. 

What a day that will be! All of the suffering, heartache, and pain will be ended. We who are Christ’s will live eternally and in eternity with Him.

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2 Peter 2:2 (KJV) A Reviving of Truth

2 Peter 2:2 (KJV)
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The way of truth is evil spoken of whenever a large number of professing believers follow the pernicious ways of false teachers. This is certainly the case today. We have a multitude of false teachers, a growing number of them. They fill their buildings with people who, desiring to be close to God, choose a teacher who tells them what they wish to hear. 

Pernicious means destructive. 
This way is not healthy, not holy, not heavenly and will destroy the testimony of any who believe it is. 

We need a reviving of truth. 
We need a return to simple, honest preaching and teaching of the Word of God. 

Only this will result in the building up of God’s people and the testimony of honor among their peers. 

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