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 Psalms 9:4, 7

Edited & Prefaced by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades.

4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne, and judgest right

7 But the Lord shall sit forever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment

Brethren:

Today’s commentary is from Matthew Henry’s study on the entire Bible

“He gives to God the glory of his righteousness, in his appearing on his behalf: “Thou hast maintained my right and my cause, that is, my righteous cause; when that came on, thou satest in the throne, judging right.” Observe, God sits in the throne of judgment. To Him it belongs to decide controversies, to determine appeals, to avenge the injured, and to punish the injurious; for he has said, Vengeance is mine. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth and that with him there is no unrighteousness. Far be it from God that he should pervert justice. If there seem to us to be some irregularity in the present decisions of Providence, yet these, instead of shaking our belief of God’s justice, may serve to strengthen our belief of the judgment to come, which will set all to-rights. Whoever disown and desert a just and injured cause, we may be sure that the righteous God will maintain it and plead it with jealousy, and will never suffer it to be run down.

He comforts himself and others in God, and pleases himself with the thoughts of Him. With the thoughts of his eternity. On this earth we see nothing durable, even strong cities are buried in rubbish and forgotten; but the Lord shall endure for ever. There is no change of his being; his felicity, power, and perfection, are out of the reach of all the combined forces of hell and earth; they may put an end to our liberties, our privileges, our lives, but our God is still the same(Read Hebrews 13:8), and sits even upon the floods, unshaken, undisturbed, (Read Psalm 29:10; 93:2). With the thoughts of his sovereignty both in government and judgment: He has prepared his throne, has fixed it by his infinite wisdom, has fixed it by his immutable counsel. It is the great support and comfort of good people, when the power of the church’s enemies is threatening and the posture of its affairs melancholy and perplexed, that God now rules the world and will shortly judge the world.” - Matthew Henry 17^th Century Theologian