{"id":398,"date":"2017-01-16T00:46:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=398"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:05:13","slug":"in-his-grip-psalm-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"In His Grip (Psalm 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1118\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/In-His-Grip-Elder-Matthew-Davis-115171937458.mp3'>In His Grip<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/In-His-Grip-Elder-Matthew-Davis-115171937458.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"In His Grip\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"In His Grip\\\" from Covenant Reformed Church GV by Elder Matthew Davis. 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Genre: Other.\",\"meta\":{\"artist\":\"Elder Matthew Davis\",\"album\":\"Covenant Reformed Church GV\",\"genre\":\"Other\",\"year\":\"2017\",\"length_formatted\":\"39:57\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Completion-Fulfillment-and-Perfection-of-Christ-Elder-Matthew-Davis-2319178144-mp3-image-1.jpg\",\"width\":196,\"height\":242},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Completion-Fulfillment-and-Perfection-of-Christ-Elder-Matthew-Davis-2319178144-mp3-image-1-150x150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Read Also Acts 2:22-39<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>A Michtam of David.<br \/>\n1\u00a0 Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.<br \/>\n2\u00a0 <em>O my soul<\/em>, you have said to the LORD,<br \/>\n\u201cYou are my Lord,<br \/>\nMy goodness is nothing apart from You.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>REFUGE IN YHWH ALONE!<\/h3>\n<p>The Golden Psalm\u2019s of David.\u00a0 The LORD preserves, observes and guards His elect, in calling out to the LORD we recognize the refuge we are afforded by His presence in our lives, the grace which all of Creation points to.\u00a0 David begins from the position of supplication, pleading upward to Almighty God, invoking the Covenant Fathers name, given to Moses to be delivered to His children.\u00a0 YHWH is set above all things.<\/p>\n<p>It is a self-directed plea, and penitential request from the position of humility which recognizes the LORD alone accounts for all goodness, and that apart from Him, His presence, His upholding, His mercy, love and grace, any goodness seen within man is nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The position of supplication is one of gratitude, hope and trust.\u00a0 Our plea to the LORD is for our comfort and His glory.\u00a0 Our goodness is nothing apart from YHWH.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3\u00a0 As for the saints who are on the earth,<br \/>\n\u201cThey are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.\u201d<br \/>\n4\u00a0 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god;<br \/>\nTheir drink offerings of blood I will not offer,<br \/>\nNor take up their names on my lips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>HOLY ONE OVER IDOLATORS<\/h3>\n<p>The immediate contrast of inability to do good apart from God focuses us upon those who are His holy ones, or saints, upon the earth and to the delight of doing good toward them, to literally delight in them as those who follow the same confession of David, recognizing the goodness of the LORD in them, and rejoicing together in His ever-present refuge.<\/p>\n<p>This is then immediately contrasted against those who reject YHWH, and seek other gods, or who barter in serving idols or literally seek to purchase another (god).\u00a0 Their sorrows and distress becomes great, evidenced in the drink offerings of death, signified by the blood, which offer no comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Of such me David rejecting their whole institution, from dumb idol purchased by men, to the offerings of blood in the name of false gods, all is rejected and such names are not to be found upon the lips of the saints.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5\u00a0 O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;<br \/>\nYou maintain my lot.<br \/>\n6\u00a0 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;<br \/>\nYes, I have a good inheritance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>WE ARE IN THE GRASP OF YHWH \/ YHWH IS THE SAINTS INHERITANCE<\/h3>\n<p>The contrast of the Holy is the continued recognition of refuge in YHWH.\u00a0 As the Holy Spirit leads David toward the Messiah, of whom David was as Anointed King, we see the character of the Christian life spelled out in terms of dependence upon YHWH.\u00a0 Even so Christ would have found comfort in repeating these words in His incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>For He looked to return to the former glory which He had with the Father, and sought for us as His joint-heirs to find that comfort with Him.\u00a0 The Cup which carried the weight and burden of sin and death, also secured the destruction of both.\u00a0 Christ asked for the will of YHWH, His Father.\u00a0 So we ask for His will, as He alone maintains our cup, and the outcome of our lives in all forms.\u00a0 He holds us in His Grasp.<\/p>\n<p>Our lot, is the LORD, our cup is the LORD, our inheritance is the LORD.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>7\u00a0 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel;<br \/>\nMy heart also instructs me in the night seasons.<br \/>\n8\u00a0 I have set the LORD always before me;<br \/>\nBecause He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>YHWH OUR GOD OF COMFORT<\/h3>\n<p>To further encourage the hearts of the saints, David continually applies the covenant name of God.\u00a0 He who gives counsel, directs the heart, comforts in the darkness, is a fortress which protects at all times.<\/p>\n<p>As with goodness, strength comes from the LORD.\u00a0 He does not say I shall not be moved because I am strong, but because the LORD is at his right hand.\u00a0 This comfort is echoed throughout God\u2019s word.\u00a0 He maintains our strength, in Him we are not moved.<\/p>\n<p>We return to the opening verses, proclaiming the protection for which we plead as the one constant in our lives.\u00a0 We trust in the LORD, for He never fails.\u00a0 We need to remind ourselves even as Christ did, His will be done.<\/p>\n<p>We are never ashamed of the LORD, we receive His constant care.\u00a0 We are in His hands, and there is not safer place.\u00a0 Through the world take up alters and idols, through they teach every man to do what is right in his own eyes, yet the saints of God, those who are His possession shall never be moved (Psalm 15).<\/p>\n<p>We must place God first, His is the place of preeminence, in our lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>9\u00a0 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;<br \/>\nMy flesh also will rest in hope.<br \/>\n10\u00a0 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,<br \/>\nNor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.<\/p>\n<p>11\u00a0 You will show me the path of life;<br \/>\nIn Your presence is fullness of joy;<br \/>\nAt Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>ABUNDANT IS THE JOY OF YHWH<\/h3>\n<p>It is easy for us to see David\u2019s heart in these words.\u00a0 While we know the Holy Spirit moved him to write of comfort and security in the LORD, yet he spoke of His own comfort, and the comfort of all saints everywhere.\u00a0 But he also was speaking of Christ.\u00a0 Christ was in the grasp of His Father!\u00a0 He knew His Father would not fail Him.\u00a0 While the flesh suffers the temporal adjustments of life and death, frailty and decay, Christ knew these things intimately and did not hesitate to fulfill the Fathers will.\u00a0 Hebrew\u2019s (12:1-11) says Christ for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame.\u00a0 He sat at the right hand of the Father signifying the work was completed.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of every saint is to look to Christ as our elder brother, an example to follow.\u00a0 Yet David wrote of the Christ\u2019s hope before to encourage not only us but Christ to, who came to fulfill all of the Law and the prophets.\u00a0 Such was the comfort of David and is the comfort of all the saints in every age.\u00a0 No matter the circumstances of the world, the failures of the governments, the hardness of human hearts.\u00a0 Those who are Holy in the LORD, in Christ will not see corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Note the contrast of Joy found in v9-10 and repeated, in verse 11.<\/p>\n<p>YHWH will show us the path of life.\u00a0 YHWH\u2019s presence fulfills all joy.\u00a0 Christ, who is at the right hand of the Father and metaphorically is His right hand, assures everlasting abundant life, goodness, pleasant keeping. \u00a0Pleasure has such a carnal sound to it, the literal meaning is clearer and in line with the whole of Scripture.\u00a0 While there is no sinfulness in enjoying the Lord forever, pleasure has a negative connotation in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>The focus is upon the Joy of the LORD.\u00a0 The overwhelming goodness of His presence, the everlasting blessings, and the security of being seated in Christ as the right hand of the Father forever.<\/p>\n<p>Elder Matthew Davis<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Also Acts 2:22-39 A Michtam of David. 1\u00a0 Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust. 2\u00a0 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, \u201cYou are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You.\u201d REFUGE IN YHWH ALONE! 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