Text: “Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast declared Thy strength among the people. Thou hast with Thine arm redeemed Thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph”
Psalm 77:14-15.
Our chosen text from Psalm 77: proceeds from an affirmation of Whom we are referring to at all times: The Lord God Almighty, Jehovah, Creator of all things in Christ Jesus.
Verse 14. “Thou art the God that doest wonders.”: The Lord God Almighty, Jehovah, is the Lord God that ‘…doest wonders…’, there is no other Lord God but Him. His own Word declares this fact to all whom He, in His Divine Sovereignty, has chosen to have ears to hear, and to receive it into our hearts.
“And God spake all these words, saying, I am the thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods (small g.) before Me.” (Exodus 20:1-3)
It was the Lord God that quickened our dead spirits by His Holy Spiritual power, breathed life into our sin-sick souls; and granted us His gift of faith to believe and receive Christ Jesus as our Saviour and our blessed Lord. The Lord God wrought the wonder of His quickening power, when He brought us from sin’s death, to Spiritual life in Christ.
“And you hath He quickened (made Spiritually alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins…Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” (Ephesians 2:1;5)
There is no greater ‘wonder’ than to see a sinner, even a ‘chief among sinners’ like me, being transformed by the wonder of God’s miraculous grace in Christ Jesus. All praise and honour and glory unto the Lord God Who alone doeth wonders to the children of men! Hallelujah!
Verse 14. “Thou hast declared Thy strength among the people. When the Lord God called Moses to go into Egypt and confront the mighty Pharoah and demand that Pharoah let God’s people go free – Moses was filled with fear and unbelief at his own abilities to even contemplate such a confrontation. However, the Lord God showed him clearly, that he would not go alone among the Hebrew slaves, or into the courts of the powerful and cruel Pharoah. God’s wonders and strength would go with him.
“And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.” (Read Exodus 4:1-17)
The Lord God, “…declared His strength among the people…”, and worked His wonderous works through His servants, Moses and Aaron, just like He works His wonderous works of Eternal Salvation through the preaching/teaching of His latter-day servants – thee and me.
“How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace (between sinful man and a Holy Lord God), and bring glad tidings of good things!” (Romans 10:14-15)
God declares His strength in the preaching of His Word, His wonders in the quickening of sinful dead spirits; His power in regenerating His elect souls through trusting in the Cross of Christ Jesus and the full Atonement He made there for us, ‘His people’. Glory to the Lamb!
Faith is the gift of this Sovereign Lord God, Jehovah, and it is imparted by the ‘foolishness’ of preaching/teaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as both Saviour and Lord. We receive faith in one way only – it comes as the Lord God grants His gift of faith to us, ‘His people’, elected from before the foundation of the world to receive it in Christ.
“So then, faith cometh by hearing (reading), and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17) The Lord God declares His strength wondrously in His miracle of each sinner’s Salvation.
Verse 15. “Thou hast with Thine arm redeemed Thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph.” The Bible doctrine of Redemption, as featured on my website/blog www.ulsterchristians.org (Redemption: a change of Master - God Himself. (Joshua 24:14-24) (Luke 16:13), clearly reveals the power of God’s arm in the provision of His Lamb, His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, being incarnated as a man, yet at all times remaining God; living an absolutely Holy life for thirty-three and a half years on earth; and going as a lamb to the slaughter on a Cross, to shed His Holy and sinless Blood as a Redemption for your sins and for mine.
Wow! The miracle of Redemption puts all scoffers to silence, as they contemplate, even for a moment, the profound depths of God’s love that would sacrifice His only begotten and Eternal Son on such a cruel Cross to pay the price to ransom sinners!
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar (the Cross of Christ) to make an Atonement (at-one-ment between a Holy God and sinful men/women) for the soul.” (Leviticus 17:11)
“For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things…but with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.” (1 Peter 1:18-19)
Thought: God’s
attributes confirms our faith in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Redeemer.
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