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A god who has eyes and cannot see is a blind deity. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill.

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But it is in the Hebrew a distinct psalm.

. Wherever there is right fear of God there may be. We are in their place and wish to magnify thy name for thou hast dealt bountifully with usBut grant us those farther blessings before we die which we so much need. He must be very blind who worships a blind god.

It is the covenant name for God. - Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give glory. Thus as the foregoing verse declared that.

- Depart from me ye evildoersThere is no fellowship between light and darkness between righteousness and unrighteousness 2 Corinthians 1016Good men must separate. Psalms 1151 is a confession of their own unworthiness that no glory was due to them. Psalms 115 COMMENTARY Pulpit for thy truths sake.

He shall increase you more and more. Our God In The Heavens Cornerstone Fellowship Church Often we live as if we are lost stumbling. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier.

The Lord hath been mindful of us. The one is his throne and the other is his footstool. 1159-18 It is folly to trust in dead images but it is wisdom to trust in the living God for he is a help and a shield to those that trust in him.

This is unfortunate since his. Wherever there is right fear of. God is prayed to help Israel but not for their sakes not to.

The occasion is one of danger Psalms. And we will praise thee as living monuments of thy. After this confession of Israel there now arises a voice that addresses itself to Israel.

Psalm 115 is another psalm of praise portions of which appear in Psalm 135. In verse 1 LORD is a special name for God. Neither any that go into silence Into the place of silence the grave.

So that as long as you live you shall be still increasing till you come to perfection. But we will bless the Lord Our fathers who received so much from thy bounty are dead their tongues are silent in the grave. Psalms 115 Coffmans Commentaries on the Bible One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available this commentary by the leading authority in the Church of Christ presents a verse.

Commentary on Psalm 1159-18. It is promised that this shall be 1 A constant continual increase. Glory to be ascribed to God.

Not unto us O Lord not unto us By the repetition of these words the psalmist humbly expresses his sense of the unworthiness of the Jews to receive the signal blessings. The nations trust in useless idols Israel should trust in the true Lord. We are stirred up to praise God by the psalmists example who concludes the psalm with a.

He will bless them that fear the LORD both small and great Psalms. He is the Maker and Possessor of heaven and earth. A LITURGICAL psalm in which a divided choir together with a leadera priest or precentortake separate parts.

9-18 Verses 1-8 Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. He preached in the same church as C. He that made heaven and earth can doubtless make those happy that trust in him and will do it.

It is folly to trust in dead images but it is wisdom to trust in the living God for he is a help and a shield to those that trust in him. What Psalm 115 means. We pity a blind man it is.

But we will bless the Lord But we hope for. He will bless the house of Israel. 1-8 by trusting in him and praising him.

He will bless us. He dwells in the highest heaven and overlooks all persons and things on earth and. The dead praise not the Lord See note on Psalm 65.

Many ancient translations join this psalm to that which goes next before it the Septuagint particularly and the vulgar Latin. As stated earlier Psalm 115. Here the covenant is with.

A covenant is when two people or groups of people agree. He will bless the house of Aaron. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament.

But the earth Or and the earth. And blindness is a calamity and not an attribute of godhead. He hath given to the children of men For their habitation possession and use.

Commentary on Psalm 1159-18. 17 GIMELDeal bountifully with. The heavens are the Lords Namely in a peculiar manner where he dwelleth in that light and glory to which no man can approach and whence he beholdeth and disposeth of all persons and things upon earth.

I want to sit on this section for just a. It is promised that this shall be 1 A constant continual increase.

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