July 30th, 2015
Personal: Have not left much, if any, time for study tonight. I got a
late start. Listened to a message by John
Piper on Psalm 69, which is an imprecatory prayer.
Scripture: Psalms 22:1-5
He was abandoned by the Lord (vv. 1-5). The opening words of the psalm immediately transport us to Calvary, for Jesus quoted them at the close of a three-hour period of darkness (vv. 1-2; Matt 27:45-46; Mark 15:34). "I am not alone," Jesus had told His disciples, "because the Father is with me" (John 16:32), and yet He cried out that the Lord had forsaken Him. When He spoke these words, He had been engaged in a mysterious transaction with the Father, dying for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2; 4:14). On the cross, Jesus was "made sin" (2 Cor 5:21) and made "a curse" (Gal 3:13) for us. In some inexplicable way He experienced what condemned lost sinners experience "away from the presence of the Lord" (2 Thess 1:9, NASB; see Matt 25:41). However, note that both David and Jesus called Him "my God," making it clear that they still knew and trusted the Father.(from The Bible Exposition Commentary: Old Testament © 2001-2004 by Warren W. Wiersbe. All rights reserved.)
July 31, 2015
Worship: Jesus
Shall Reign Where’er the Sun, The Sands of Time Are Sinking (Immanuel’s Land)
Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun
Jesus shall
reign where’er the sun
Does its
successive journeys run
His kingdom
stretch from shore to shore
Till sun shall
rise and set no more
Blessings
abound where’er He reigns
The pris’ner
leaps to lose his chains
The weary find
eternal rest
And all the
sons of want are blessed
CHORUS:
To our King be
highest praise
Rising through
eternal days
Just and
faithful He shall reign:
Jesus shall
reign!
People and
realms of every tongue
Dwell on His
love with sweetest song
And infant
voices shall proclaim
Their early
blessings on His name
CHORUS
Let every
creature rise and bring
Blessing and
honor to our King
Angels descend
with songs again
And earth
repeat the loud amen!
CHORUS
Song Writers:
John Hatton, Isaac Watts, Keith Getty
The Sands of Time Are Sinking (Immanuel’s Land)
The sands of
time are sinking,
The dawn of
Heaven breaks;
The summer
morn I've sighed for,
The fair,
sweet morn awakes;
Dark, dark hath
been the midnight,
But dayspring
is at hand,
And glory,
glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's
land.
The King there
in His beauty,
Without a veil
is seen;
It were a well
spent journey,
Though sev'n
deaths lay between;
The Lamb with
His fair army
Doth on Mount
Zion stand,
And glory,
glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's
land.
O Christ, He
is the fountain,
The deep, deep
well of love;
The streams on
earth I've tasted,
More deep I'll
drink above;
There to an
ocean fullness
His mercy doth
expand,
And glory,
glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's
land.
With mercy and
with judgment
My web of time
He wove;
And always
dews of sorrow
Were lustered
with His love;
I'll bless the
hand that guided,
I'll bless the
heart that planned,
When throned
where glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's
land.
Oh! I am my
Beloved's
And my
Beloved's mine!
He brings a
poor, vile sinner
Into His
"house of wine;"
I stand upon
His merit,
I know no
other stand,
Not e'en where
glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's
land.
The bride eyes
not her garments,
But her dear
Bridegroom's face;
I will not
gaze at glory
But on my King
of grace;
Not at the
crown He giveth,
But on His
pierced hand;
The Lamb is
all the glory
Of Immanuel's
land.
Original words by Anne Ross Cousin (1857),
based on the letters of Samuel Rutherford. Music by Constance Dever. © 2014
Praise Factory Music (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace
Video: https://youtu.be/B0b88PWOXWM
Personal: Once again time constrains me. Nothing really went on today. I had a pleasant daily chat with my oldest daughter. I spoke to my younger daughter about some issues. My wife has said nothing. I spoke to a friend on the phone and he
prayed for me. Made a Prayer request spreadsheet.
Word: Psalm 22:1-2
Though the psalmist and our Lord felt forsaken, they both expressed a
personal relationship to God by the phrase “My God”. Yet they felt He was far
away, and with reference to their cries He seemed silent, though they “groaned”
or “roared” incessantly. Verse 2 seems
to speak of a long time of suffering. Yet we know our Lord was on the cross for
less than a day. How does this fit here? As I see it, and some commentators as
well, our Lord was a “man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3).
One must also remember our Lord in the Garden:
“…and he
became anguished and distressed. He told them,
"My
soul is crushed with grief to the point of death.
Stay here
and keep watch with me." Matt 26:37b-38 NLT
Remember, too, that while our Lord hung on the cross, it became as
night, as it were because it became dark from the sixth hour to the ninth. So
we can say that this perfectly fits both occasions.
I finish this journal entry with a quote from Matthew Henry’s Concise
Commentary:
The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, clearly and fully, the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. We have a sorrowful complaint of God's withdrawings. This may be applied to any child of God, pressed down, overwhelmed with grief and terror. Spiritual desertions are the saints' sorest afflictions; but even their complaint of these burdens is a sign of spiritual life, and spiritual senses exercised. To cry our, “My God, why am I sick? why am I poor?” savours of discontent and worldliness. But, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" is the language of a heart binding up its happiness in God's favour. This must be applied to Christ. In the first words of this complaint, he poured out his soul before God when he was upon the cross, Matt 27:46. Being truly man, Christ felt a natural unwillingness to pass through such great sorrows, yet his zeal and love prevailed. Christ declared the holiness of God, his heavenly Father, in his sharpest sufferings; nay, declared them to be a proof of it, for which he would be continually praised by his Israel, more than for all other deliverances they received. Never any that hoped in thee, were made ashamed of their hope; never any that sought thee, sought thee in vain. Here is a complaint of the contempt and reproach of men. The Saviour here spoke of the abject state to which he was reduced. The history of Christ's sufferings, and of his birth, explains this prophecy.
(from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database. Copyright © 2000, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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