Plenteous Redemption in Christ JESUS the LORD!

"Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption." -Psalm 130:7 [KJV]


"Let Israel hope in the LORD." Has she ceased to hope in the creature? Does she despair of salvation from any other source or quarter but the blood of the Lamb? Is she crying, sighing, longing, panting, and begging of the Lord to appear in her soul? "Let Israel," then, "hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy." He will not spurn His waiting Israel from His feet; He will not smite her with the lightnings of His wrath; He will shew mercy to the poor, guilty sinner that comes with dust upon his head, clothed with sackcloth and ashes, mourning and lamenting his vileness before the Lord.


There is no wrath in the bosom of the Lord against him; there is mercy, pardoning mercy in the bosom of Jehovah for Israel; therefore "let Israel hope in the LORD." If Israel look to herself, she cannot have one grain of hope; if she look to the law, she cannot have one ray of expectation; or if she look to an arm of flesh, none can do her good.

But if Israel look "to the hills from whence cometh her help"—to God the Father, in His electing love—to God the Son, in His redeeming blood—to God the Spirit, in His sanctifying work; if Israel is thus enabled to anchor within the veil, thus to "hope in the Lord," her hope shall not be cut off, shall not be disappointed; it shall not be as "the hope of the hypocrite," a spider's web, that the first gust of eternal displeasure shall for ever sweep away.


-preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)

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