Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Psalms
Book: Psalms
Chapter: 113
Overview:
An exhortation to fear
God.
- Let us acknowledge
God's power and
Goodness in what he did for
Israel, applying it to that much greater work of wonder, our
Redemption By Christ; and encourage ourselves and others to
trust in
God in the greatest straits. When
Christ comes for the
Salvation of his people, he redeems them from the power of
Sin
and
Satan, separates them from an ungodly world, forms them to
be his people, and becomes their
King. There is
No Sea,
No
Jordan,
So Deep,
So broad, but, when
God's time is come, it
shall be divided and driven back. Apply this to the planting the
Christian Church in the world. What ailed
Satan and his
idolatries, that they trembled as they did? But especially apply
it to the work of
Grace in the
Heart. What turns the stream in a
regenerate soul? What affects the lusts and corruptions, that
they
Fly back; that prejudices are removed, and the whole
Man
becomes new? It is at the presence of
God's
Spirit. At the
presence of the
Lord, not only mountains, but the
Earth itself
may
Well tremble, since it has lain under a
Curse for
Man's
Sin.
As the Israelites were protected,
So they were provided for
By
miracles; such was that
Fountain of waters into which the flinty
Rock was turned, and that
Rock was
Christ. The
Son of God, the
Rock of ages, gave himself to
Death, to open a
Fountain to wash
away sins, and to supply believers with waters of
Life and
consolation; and they need not fear that any blessing is too
great to expect from his
Love. But let sinners fear before their
just and holy
Judge. Let us now prepare to meet our
God, that we
may have boldness before him at his coming.