(c) A Cause of National Rejoicing Psalm 79:10-13

Text: “Let the sighing of the prisoner come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy power preserve Thou those that are appointed to die.”

Psalm 79:11.

          “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”

Psalm 51:1-3.

Good morning, progressively sanctified Christian!  Once you and I were lost, now we are found of Christ; once we would sin with impunity, now God the Spirit grieves within us, when we sin, and we probably sin every day in some form – in word, in thought, and in deed. Once our personal sins were being committed and multiplying in guilt, perhaps for many years; now, our sins are ALL under the precious shed and sinless Blood of the Living Lord Jesus Christ.  This is a very real cause for personal rejoicing.  Say, ‘Hallelujah!’ with me?

“If we (born again Christians) say that we have fellowship with Him (Jesus Christ), and walk in darkness, we lie, an do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin…if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.”  (1 John 1:7-10) 

This continual process is theologically defined as the doctrine of Progressive Sanctification. We are progressively sanctified from our naturally committed sins, that we might be enabled, by God’s grace, to fellowship with Him and walk in His light.

National Sin: National sin, on the other hand, is sin committed by an entire nation, in any given territory – but most treacherously in nations that were formed and founded on The Ten Commandments of God, liberated by the Gospel of Jesus Christ; yet have apostatized into open sin and rebellion against the Holiness of the Lord God Almighty.

Governments and politicians within such nations are doubly culpable before our Holy Lord God for blatantly legislating (making national laws) to promote immorality, anti-Christianity; and widespread moral and financial corruption within that nation.

“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the Rock of my refuge. And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”  (Psalm 94:20-23)

God cannot bless a nation that is living in open rebellion to His Holy Commandments; His will, as revealed in His inspired Word; and in league with Satanic influences of evil.

Verse 9. “God of our Salvation. If human reason were to judge of the many and great blows wherewith God so often smote and wasted His people, it would call God, not the Saviour of the people, but the destroyer and oppressor.  But the faith of the Prophet judges far otherwise of God, and sees, even in an angry and pursuing God, the Salvation of His people. The gods of the nations, though they do not afflict even in temporal things, are gods not of the Salvation of their worshippers, but of their perdition. But our God (capital G!), even when He is most severely angry, and smites, is not the God of destruction, but of Salvation.”  (Wolfgang Musculus, 1497-1563)

Bible-believing Christians today, in this year of 2026, are increasingly being forced to live within our nations as ‘prisoners’! Prisoners of corrupt law-makers, who are squeezing the life out of us by looking at us, and increasingly treating sincere faith in God, and Christianity in particular, as ‘weird’, and ridiculing our genuine Bible-beliefs as nonsense practiced by religious idiots, who dare to believe that a great fish swallowed a man called Jonah, took him down to the depths of the sea, then brought him back up and vomited him upon dry land again.  They would put Bible-believing Christians like ourselves into mental institutions if they could!

Street preachers of the Gospel of Christ’s Salvation are currently being arrested, or just forced off the streets by our national police-force; Christian Bible beliefs and practice are being continually denigrated by our national broadcasting company (BBC), who are promoting a ‘politically correct’ message of utter gender confusion and anti-Christian views.

God is not pleased, nor will He be mocked.  Our nation is under His judgement at present.  Many may well die under the righteous justice of God’s Almighty hand.  (Galatians 6:7-9)

Verse 11. “Let the sighing of the prisoner come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy power preserve Thou those that are appointed to die. When the captive gazes through the bars of iron which night and day stand like mute sentinels before the narrow window of his cell and when his eyes fall upon the green fields and groves beyond, he sighs and turns away from the scene with a wish.  He spake not a word, yet he wished.  That sigh was a wish that he could be set free.  And such sighs as these are heard by God.  Your longings, your sorrows, when they are not fulfilled, your sad thoughts – “Oh! When shall I be delivered from the burden of my sin, and from the coldness of my heart!”  All these wishes were your sighs, and they have been heard on High.” (Philip Bennett Power 1862)

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  (John 8:32)

National and personal repentance is a very real cause of profound national and personal joy.  There is nothing like knowing for a certainty that one has confessed one’s sins to our Holy Lord God, and received pardon and cleansing from His infinitely gracious hand. JOY! True joy and rejoicing immediately follows personal and national repentance to God for our sins.

“Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.”  Luke 15:10)

Thought: National repentance brings God’s national defence; and national rejoicing.