SATURDAY, 9TH DECEMBER, 2023.
Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer
Topic: A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD – Part 3
EXPOSITION
OF PSALM 90
MEMORIZE: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God.” Psalm 90:2
SCRIPTURE
READING: Psalm 90:1-6.
“Lord,
thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest,
Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood;
they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth
up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.”
EXPOSITION:
II. To give God the glory of his eternity (Ps
90:2): Before the mountains were brought forth, before he made the highest part
of the dust of the world (as it is expressed, Proverbs 8:26), before the earth
fell in travail, or, as we may read it, before thou hadst formed the earth and
the world (that is, before the beginning of time) thou hadst a being; even from
everlasting to everlasting thou art God, an eternal God, whose existence has
neither its commencement nor its period with time, nor is measured by the
successions and revolutions of it, but who art the same yesterday, to-day, and
for ever, without beginning of days, or end of life, or change of time. Note, Against all the grievances that arise
from our own mortality, and the mortality of our friends, we may take comfort
from God's immortality. We are dying creatures, and all our comforts in the
world are dying comforts, but God is an ever living God, and those shall find
him so who have him for theirs.
III. To own God's absolute sovereign dominion
over man, and his irresistible incontestable power to dispose of him as he
pleases (Ps 90:3): Thou turnest man to destruction, with a word's speaking,
when thou pleasest, to the destruction of the body, of the earthly house; and
thou sayest, Return, you children of men.
1. When God is, by sickness or
other afflictions, turning men to destruction, he does thereby call men to
return unto him, that is, to repent of their sins and live a new life. This God
speaketh once, yea, twice. "Return unto me, from whom you have
revolted," Jer. 4:1.
2. When God is threatening to
turn men to destruction, to bring them to death, and they have received a
sentence of death within themselves, sometimes he wonderfully restores them,
and says, as the old translation reads it, Again thou sayest, Return to life
and health again. For God kills and makes alive again, brings down to the grave
and brings up.
3. When God turns men to
destruction, it is according to the general sentence passed upon all, which is
this, "Return, you children of men, one, as well as another, return
to your first principles; let the body return to the earth as it was (dust to
dust, Ge 3:19) and let the soul return to God who gave it," Ec 12:7.
4. Though God turns all men to
destruction, yet he will again say, Return, you children of men, at the general
resurrection, when, though a man dies, yet he shall live again; and "then
shalt thou call and I will answer” (Job 14:14-15); “thou shalt
bid me return, and I shall return." The body, the soul, shall both return and
unite again.
PRAYER
POINT: Lord,
by your redeeming power, deliver the world from the power of sins and
wickedness in Jesus name.
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