The LORD JESUS has Saved His people!
"Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever." -Psalm 28:9 [KJV]
David
in this last verse of this Psalm closes with a sincere and fervent
prayer for the Lord's people. He prays for vital things that we as
sinners desperately and constantly need. Let us make this our prayer!
1).
Save Thy people….Who are these people? They belong to Christ by
electing love (John 6:37; Ephesians 1:3-6). They are His by redeeming
blood (Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:18-20). They are His by
an effectual call of grace (2 Timothy 1:9). What do Christ's people
need? Salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ, for "all we like sheep have
gone astray." Our Lord came to seek out and to save His lost sheep (Luke
19:10).
2). Bless Thine inheritance, those who are the heirs of
salvation, (Romans 8:17). In Christ we have a blessed and eternal
inheritance; "AN INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE, AND UNDEFILED, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you" (1 Peter 1:3). Lord, bless
Thy inheritance; the sheep of Your hand and the people of Thy pasture
(Psalm 95:7). Bless Your people with all spiritual blessings in Christ
(Ephesians 1:3-6). Bless Your people with greater zeal and passion for
the gospel of the free and sovereign grace (Philippians 1:27). Bless
Your people with greater confidence and assurance of complete salvation
in Christ (Philippians 3:3).
3). Feed them…what do the sheep
desire to eat, sheep food? Christ is the Bread of life (John 6:35). The
Scripture is all about Christ, we feed on Him through the Word of life
(John 5:39). God's servants are charged to, "feed the church of God,
that He purchased with His own blood" (Acts 20:28; 2 Timothy 4:1-2;1
Peter 5:1-3).
4). Lift them up for ever…. Lord, lift them up from
the dungeon of sin, lift them up from the curse of the law, lift them
up from the dunghill of works, lift them and make them one with Christ
and lift them up to glory with Christ forever. "Even when we were dead
in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)
and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:5-6).
-preacher Tom Harding
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