My God and My Country

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But he replied and said, "It is written, 'It is not by bread alone that a man lives, except by every word that issues from the mouth of God

The Gospel According to Matthew 4:4

The Book of Psalm 4:2

All commentary is prefaced/edited by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades

O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame, loving vanity, and seeking lies? Selah.

Brethren:

How long indeed will man reject the wisdom that comes from above? When will we return to our Creator, and seek His face, and his benevolent hand? The Prophet Hosea wrote (Read Hosea 11:7) that mankind is bent towards rebellion, towards deceit. They speak lies and when they call upon Him it is more like paying lip service, than praise and glorifying the name of God.

Likewise the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy that in the latter days men will be lovers of themselves, and not each other, nor God. (Read 2 Timothy 3:2).

So as wrote Solomon; “there is nothing new under the sun” (Read Ecclesiastes 1:9)

Doktor Riktor Von Zhades - Humble servant of Christ

“God, by the psalmist, here reasons with sinners to bring them to repentance. “You that go on in the neglect of God and his worship, and in contempt of the kingdom of Christ and his government, consider what you do. You debase yourselves, for you are sons of men” (the word signifies man as a noble creature); consider the dignity of your nature, and the excellency of those powers of reason with which you are endued, and do not act thus irrationally and unbecoming yourselves. Let the sons of men consider and show themselves men.

You dishonour your Maker, and turn his glory into shame. They may well be taken as God’s own words, charging sinners with the wrong they do him in his honour: or, if David’s words, the term glory may be understood of God, whom he called his glory, (Read Psalm 3:3). Idolaters are charged with changing the glory of God into shame, (Read Romans 1:23). All willful sinners do so by disobeying the commands of his law, despising the offers of his grace, and giving the affection and service to the creature which are due to God only. Those that profane God’s holy name, that ridicule his word and ordinances, and, while they profess to know him, in works deny him, do what in them lies to turn his glory into shame.

You put a cheat upon yourselves: You love vanity, and seek after leasing, or lying, or that which is a lie. You are yourselves vain and lying, and you love to be so. Or, You set your hearts upon that which will prove, at last, but vanity and a lie.” Those that love the world, and seek the things that are beneath, love vanity, and seek lies; as those also do that please themselves with the delights of sense, and portion themselves with the wealth of this world; for these will deceive them, and so ruin them. “How long will you do this? Will you never be wise for yourselves, never consider your duty and interest? When shall it once be?” (Read Jeremiah 13:27). The God of heaven thinks the time long that sinners persist in dishonoring him and in deceiving and ruining themselves.”

Matthew Henry - 17^th Century Theologian