4. The Lord’s Proven Deliverance! Psalm 78:12-16

Text: “Marvellous things did He (the Lord God) in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.”

Psalm 78:12.

Good morning, Spiritually aware Christian!  Each morning your eyes open after sleep, you think of, and fully acknowledge, how thoroughly blessed you and I are in Christ Jesus, and His wonderful Eternal Salvation.  Our hearts immediately go up to Him in thanksgiving, worship, and sincere praise. 

“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His Holy Name.  Bless the Lord, O my soul, an forget not all His benefits.”  (Psalm 103:1-2)

Not only has God’s Word instructed us that Christ would save us when we called out to Him in God-given repentance and faith – He has proven His Word to be absolute truth in so very many ways.  We are compelled to confess with all forthrightness that our Father in Heaven is, indeed, ‘…the Father of lights…’ to us, personally.  Glory to His Holy and generous Name!  Let me hear it, dear Reader: HALLELUJAH! Thanks be to the Lord God!

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from Above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness (unchanging), neither shadow of turning.  Of His own will begat He us with the Word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.” (James 1:17-18)

Verse 12. “Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt…”  Not only have you and I a full record of exactly what wonders the Lord God did, in the time of His servant Moses, but the wonders done were all done “…in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt…”!  All saw with their human eyes what wonders the Lord God did! Faith played little part; the Hebrews actually SAW and EXPERIENCED the wonders God did when he set them free from Pharoah’s enslavement and made them a free nation! 

Wow! You and I were necessarily THERE when God saved our immortal souls!  Selah (Think about it!).  Give Him the glory, ‘aware Christian’ Reader!  There is none other Lord God but our great Jehovah Lord.

Verse 13. “He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through: and He made the waters to stand as an heap.  The Hebrew writers actually recorded what their own eyes had physically seen.  An entire nation of God-freed slaves passing through the middle of the Red Sea, with the waters on both sides of them “…standing as an heap…” to let them through!  ALL involved individually experienced this truly ‘marvellous thing’ that the Living Lord God did in order to set them free from Egypt’s enslaving power!  Wow!  Selah: now think on this!  Don’t just read it and move swiftly on!  Think about what the Lord God has done.

Verse 14. “In the daytime also, He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. Never has any person, or Government, or organisation, or so-called charity EVER been able to provide such perfect care and protection for an entire nation of travelling people!  None but an all-providing Lord God Jehovah, could perform such a truly wondrous thing!

“And Abraham called the name of that place JEHOVAH-JIREH: (‘the Lord Who seeth afar off, and provideth’) …” (Genesis 22:8 &14) We serve a Provident Lord God of grace.

Verse 15. “He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great deeps.” Think, just for this moment, of the concept of great thirst!  Our human need of water is well documented; God’s provision, miraculously, of enough cool (“…out of the great depths…’) water to refresh and keep alive an entire nation travelling through a desert waste, is hardly noted today, but taken entirely for granted, or become the butt of gross unbelief and ridicule.  Oh, the depths of stubborn rebellion throughout this 21^st Century British nation!

Verse 16. “He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.” The supply of water was as plenteous in quantity as it was miraculous in origin.  Torrents, not driblets, came from the rocks.  Streams followed the camp; the supply was not for an hour or a day.  This was a marvel of goodness.  If we contemplate the aboundings of Divine grace, we shall be lost in admiration.  Mighty rivers of love have flowed for us in the wilderness.  Alas, great God!  Our return has not been commensurate therewith, but far otherwise.”  (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 333)

Spiritually aware Christians continually stay focused on God’s love for us, and His generous and continual giving to us of all that we need – Spiritual and physical.  Can we not, right now, offer the Lord God a word of sincere thanksgiving, worship, and praise?  I think we can. Thank you, dear Father in Heaven, for all your blessings given, in Christ Jesus.  Amen.

“Thank you, O my Father, for giving us Your Son; and leaving Your Spirit till the work on earth is done.”  (Keith Green – There is a Redeemer – The Ministry Years, Volume 1: 1977-1978) Glory to the Lord God of Heaven!  Thanks be to God for His great grace!

If ever God’s people needed a Divine deliverance from all things worldly and evil, it is right now in this year of 2026.  True Christianity today, in this increasingly apostate 21^st Century of history, is under a most severe Satanic attack.  Anti-Christianity is blooming within the big cities and towns of the State of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom.  The BBC Broadcasting Company, to which Bible-believing Christians pay high licence fees, seems to be always at the forefront of ANY anti-Christian promotion.  It often seems to be that BBC Programme Presenters have to be homosexuals, and that every drama/film written and produced is obliged to blaspheme the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, by using His precious Name as a swear-word, or linking His Name with vile prefixes.  Check it out for yourself – Satan seems to run the main television channels throughout the nation.

Street preachers, Gospel-tract offering Christians, and those of us promoting Christ’s offer of Eternal Salvation in general – are all castigated, put out of the Malls, arrested by police for ‘disturbing the peace’!  Conviction of sin should be a disturber of the sinner’s peace!  The Lord God shall not be silenced.  There is a judgement day coming – sinners beware!

Thought: God’s deliverance from all evil/persecution is well noted here in Psalm 78.

3. Rebellious Generations! Psalm 78:8-11

Text: “And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.”  

Psalm 78:8.

Good morning, obedient Christian!  You seek to stay close to your Lord God daily: in close fellowship with Him through the Lord Jesus Christ, and God the Spirit Who lives within you and I and all who are born again in Christ. 

Our fellowship with the Lord God is a Spiritual exercise that other, unregenerate, souls cannot have; and it is a two-way fellowship at all times: we speak to the Lord God in sincere and reverent prayer, and the Lord God speaks to us through the pages of His Holy Word in our Bibles, and by the inner voice of God the Spirit.

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.  Which things also we speak not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing Spiritual things with Spiritual.  BUT the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are Spiritually discerned.”  (1 Corinthians 2:12-14)  

At all times our fellowship with the Living Lord God Jehovah, is a two-way fellowship.  One cannot ever have a one-way relationship, with God or man; it takes two parties.

Sadly, not all men/women are called to such obedience in the Spirit of God, the spirit of this world, Satan, has blinded these folk’s minds, and they have become increasingly more rebellious against the Living Lord God, and His blessed Son, Jesus Christ.

“But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.”  (2 Corinthians 4:3-5)

Apostasy, easy-believism, humanism, coupled with all varieties of false and pagan religions have, over the past number of generations in the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, been permitted to grow and thrive throughout the land without much hindrance. 

‘Multi-faith’ tolerance has grown into, and promoted a stubborn rebellion against the founding religion of our British nation – Bible-based, born-again Christianity.

God’s Word clearly states: “Jesus answered and said unto him (Nicodemus), Verily (truly), verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again (Spiritually regenerated by God), he cannot see the Kingdom of God…That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit (capital S.) is spirit.  Marvel not that I said unto thee, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.”  (John 3:3-7)

Generations now, of our British nation have ignored Christ’s admonition to Nicodemus, and have gone their own way, forsaking the great Bible truths that made Britain to be GREAT Britain.

These rebellious generations have failed, miserably, to teach God’s great truths to their children – and now the nation reaps the harvest of corruption and unbelief.  God is angry with our nation, and our God is a consuming fire of wrath against all vile sin.  Take heed.

“Verse 8. “And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation. There was room for improvement.  Fathers stubborn in their own way, and rebellious against God’s way, are sorry examples for their children; and it is earnestly desired that better instruction may bring forth a better race.  It is common in some regions for men to count their family custom as the very best rule; but disobedience is not to be excused because it is hereditary.  The leprosy was none the less loathsome because it had been long in the family.”  (C.H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, page 333)

Verses 9-11. The Result of Disobedience to God:

Verse 9. “The children of Ephraim…armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.”  Without faith in God, through Jesus Christ’s Atonement Sacrifice for our sins, an army has no courage to do battle with a nation’s foes.  The Spiritual Battle today is for the precious souls of our British nation – rebellion against God’s Ten Commandments is undermining our power to prevail against all sin and the Spiritual decline of our nation.  Oh, for a return of the New Model Army of Cromwell’s Puritan Christian warriors!

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him Who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”  (2 Timothy 2:3-4)

Verse 10. “They kept not the Covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law.  When Israel under Joshua were faithful to the Living Lord God, they were blessed with great victories and as God’s face shone upon them, the very walls of great Jericho fell down.  When they permitted Achan to bring sin into the camp, “…the men of A`-I smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down; wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.” (Joshua 7:1-6)

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”        (Proverbs 14:34)

Verse 11. “And forgat His works, and His wonders that He had shown them. Had the Lord God not delivered Britain from the Spanish armada; the great plagues of early centuries; the planned invasion of Hitler’s Nazi armies –we would not be a free nation today.  It is time to remember God’s faithfulness to us as a nation and as sinful individuals, and seriously repent.

Thought: Rebellion against God and against His Word, brings certain national doom.  Obedience to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and God’s Commandments, exalts nations and precious souls.  Turn, turn now, to the Holy and risen Christ Jesus and be blessed.

2. Spiritual Listeners Become Spiritual Teachers Psalm 78:2-7

Text: “All Scripture (66 Canonical Books of KJV Bible) is given by inspiration (God-breathed truth) of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man/woman of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17.

Good morning, Christian Bible Students/now Bible Teachers.  Sound Bible Students are raised up by God to become sound Bible Teachers – they are taught that, what treasure God gives us, must be willingly and militantly shared with others whom the Lord God has brought under the sound of the glorious Gospel.  We have only ONE MESSAGE: Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified for sinners; and arose again the third day according to the Scriptures.  Praise His Holy Name!

The Gospel: “Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are SAVED, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures: and that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that, He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present (when Paul was writing his epistle), but some have fallen asleep (died).”  (1 Corinthians 15:1-6)

 When we ‘Spiritually listening, Christians’ read our KJV Bibles, or sit under a sound Bible preacher/teacher to hear a message from God’s inspired Word: we listen with Spiritual ears on our hearts, ever desiring to see Christ in whatever sermon we sit under. 

Reading and studying Gods’ Word in our Bibles, we seek to see Jesus on every page – all the types and symbolic and prophetic images of Him in the Old Testament, and every literal or symbolical Holy teaching in the New.  We listen and read with Spiritually granted ears and eyes, and we “…grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  To Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”  (2 Peter 3:18)

Verse 2. “I will open My mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old.  Can we not clearly see Christ Jesus speaking here from an Old Testament Psalm?  Of course, we can!  No one taught like this God-man using the medium of parables and quotations from the Old Testament pages – most of them revealing in prophetic form His own Holy Person, the promise of His incarnation (God in bodily form); His first coming as the promised Messiah, to teach, to heal, to walk among us for thirty-three years in pure Holiness; His going to the Cross as a lamb to the slaughter for to bear away, like the Scapegoat, the sins of ‘His people’; His victorious rising again to justify us, ‘His people’ and give us an Eternal Standing before our Holy Father in Heaven.  Hallelujah!  We praise Thee, King Jesus Christ our Redeemer Lord!  Amen.

Verse 2. “I will utter dark sayings of old. The letter of this song is precious, but the inner sense is beyond all price. Whereas the first verse called for attention, the second justifies the demand by hinting that the outer sense conceals an inner and hidden meaning, which only the thoughtful will be able to perceive.”  (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 332)

Spiritual-tuned listeners/readers are ever seeking Christ’s face in what we read/hear.

Verse 4-7. “We will not hide them (parables of Spiritual truth) from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.

Having been gifted with the glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus and Him Crucified for the sins of ‘His people’ – how can we not but pass this wonderful Eternal life giving knowledge to our children, and their children – and unto all those with whom we come in contact daily?

We have, by God’s good and Sovereign grace, discovered a vast TREASURE of Spiritual riches.  Only a doomed miser would ever dream of not sharing this Eternal Treasure with other sinners!  “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”  (Romans 10:17)

Verse 4. showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.  The cloth that is dyed in the wool will keep colour best.  Disciples in youth will prove angels in age.  Use and experience strengthen and confirm in any art or science. The longer thy child hath been brought up in Christ’s school, the more able he/she will be to find out Satan’s wiles and fallacies and to avoid them.  The longer he/she has been at the trade the more skill and delight will he/she have in worshipping and enjoying the blessed God.  The tree when it is old stands strongly against the wind just as it was set when it was young.”  (George Swinnock1627-1673

It is a shame and a blight on the church of the Lord Jesus Christ -international and universal – that our children are not being disciplined in the school of Holy Scriptures as were generations of British/American children that carried the torch for the risen Christ and kept our nations focused on God’s Ten Commandments.  How low our societies have fallen from goodness and grace!  How deceitful our governments and politicians, and merchants have become, so steeped in lies, corruption, and sharp practice.  Children are being slaughtered by evilly influenced gunmen in schools.  Babies are being murdered wholesale by heartless abortionists daily – and our politicians are rushing headlong to champion such practice!

Verse 7. “That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His Commandments. We dare not follow the vain and vicious traditions of the apostate church of Rome, neither would we compare the fallible record of the best human memories with the infallible written Word, yet would we fain see oral tradition practiced by every Christian in his family, and children taught cheerfully by word of mouth by their own mothers and fathers, as well as by the printed pages of what they too often regard as dull, dry task books…”  (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 332) (Proverbs 22:6)

Thought: Oh that our generations might now turn to Christ and have hope once more!