Word
of God
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 7:9-10
9 Oh let the malice
of the wicked come to an end: but guide thou the just: for the
righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. 10 My defense is in God,
who preserveth the upright in heart.
Brethren:
Continuing in Psalm
7 the psalmist prays and seeks an end to the hatered and lies that
have been said of Him. He places his supplications to our Creator and
pleads his innocence of that of which he had been accused. He says
that God should search his heart (Read Jeremiah 17:10; Romans 8:27;
Revelation 2:23) and as a result shall find that he is a just and
honorable man.
And so we should do
likewise daily. Ask the Lord to search our hearts, and show us what
and where we are going wrong, and to guide us in the path of His
righteousness. Know too that our righteousness is not by our own
hands, but is imputed unto to us through Christ Jesus. - Dr. Riktor
Von Zhades
“The affirmation
of God as "righteous" and as one who "searches"
is no cause for the righteous to be afraid. They have taken "refuge"
in his grace. Their faults are not hidden from his sight.”
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Abridged Ed.)
“ Oh, let the
wickedness of the wicked come to an end: Which will not be till the
measure of it is fully up, and that will not be till the wicked are
no more; for, as long as they are in the world they will be
committing wickedness, and like the troubled sea continually cast up
the mire and dirt of sin; and they will remain to the end of the
world, till the new Jerusalem church state shall take place, when all
the Lord's people will be righteous, and there will not be a
Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts, nor a pricking brier or
grieving thorn in all the land; for, in the new earth will no sinner
be, but righteous persons only; and for this state the psalmist may
be thought to pray; however by this petition and the following he
expresses his hatred of sin and love of righteousness: some choose to
render the words, "let wickedness now consume the wicked";
as in the issue it will, unless the grace of God takes place; some
sins consume the bodies, others the estates of wicked men, and some
both; and all are the means of destroying both body and soul in hell,
if grace prevent not; this may be considered as a declaration of what
will be, being a prophetic petition
But establish the
just: Or righteous one; meaning himself, and every other who is made
righteous, not by his own righteousness, but by the righteousness of
Christ imputed to him; and who needs not to have his righteousness
established, which is in itself stable, firm, and sure, and cannot be
more so; it is an everlasting one, and cannot be abolished, but
abides for ever, and will answer for him in a time to come; but his
faith to be established more and more in its exercise on this
righteousness: nor do the persons of the just need establishing, or
can they be more stable than they are, as considered in Christ, as
they are the objects of God's everlasting love, secured in the
covenant of grace, and built on Christ the foundation; but the graces
of faith, hope, and love, need daily establishing on their proper
object, they being weak, fickle, and inconstant in their acts; and
the saints need more and more establishing in the doctrines of the
Gospel, and in their adherence to the cause of God and Christ and
true religion; and it is God's work to establish them, to whom the
psalmist applies; ( Read 1 Peter 5:10 ) ;
For the righteous
God trieth the hearts and reins; he is righteous himself in his
nature, and in all his works, and he knows who are righteous and who
are wicked; he knows the hearts, thoughts, affections, and inward
principles of all men, and the springs of all their actions; he looks
not at outward appearances, but at the heart; and as he can
distinguish between the one and the other, he is capable of punishing
the wicked and of confirming the righteous, consistent with the truth
of his perfections.” - John Gill 17th Century Theologian
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