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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first – safety; sanctification gives the second – soundness.
A.H. Strong

But we would do well to think of ourselves in the same way we used to think about the lost people of the mission field. We have become the new heathen. We Americans are the ones now in thrall to primitive superstitions, such as believing in the power of positive thinking and having faith in ourselves. We are the ones held back by a materialistic worldview that has little conception of the supernatural. We are the ones with brutal customs, such as aborting our infants, neglecting our children, and abandoning and sometimes euthanizing our elders. We have simple, pounding music, and we are uneducated about the realities outside of our tribe. With our limited mind-set, we have trouble grasping the truths of Scripture.
Gene Edward Veith

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    Spurgeon PS1843

    EXPOSITION.

    “_Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people_.” Internal strife is very hard to deal with. A civil war is war in its most miserable form; it is a subject for warmest gratitude when concord rules within. Our poet praises Jehovah for the union and peace which smiled in his dominions, and if we have peace in the three kingdoms of our spirit, soul, and body, we are in duty bound to give Jehovah a song. Unity in a church should assuredly excite like gratitude. “_Thou hast made me the head of the heathen; a people whom I have not known shall serve me_.” The neighbouring nations yielded to the sway of Judah’s prince. Oh when shall all lands adore King Jesus, and serve him with holy joy? Surely there is far more of Jesus than of David here. Missionnries may derive rich encouragement from the positive declaration that heathen lands shall own the Headship of the Crucified.

    EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.

    Verses 43,44.–If these words can be explained literally of David, they apply much more naturally to Jesus Christ, who has been delivered from the strivings of the Jewish people; when, after the terrible opposition he met with on their part, to the establishment of the gospel, he was made the head of the Gentiles who were a strange people, and whom he had not formerly acknowledged as his, but who nevertheless obeyed him with astonishing readiness as soon as they heard his voice.–^Louis Isaac le Maistre de Stacy, 1613-1684.

    HINTS TO PREACHERS.

    Verse 43 (last clause).–Our natural and sinful distance from Christ, no bar to grace.

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