Soon on wings, on wings of love, My transported soul shall rise, Like the home-returning dove, Vanishing through boundless skies; Then, where death shall be no more, Sin nor suffering e'er molest, All, The Lord the Good Shepherd.--Ps. Please open your Bible for the last time in this series at Psalm 23. So I have an enemy in the, My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year. He said, "I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. It has been frequently supposed, that the being born of God was all one with the being justified; that the new birth and justification were only different expressions, denoting the same thing: It being certain, on the one hand, that whoever is justified is also born of God; and, on the other, that whoever is born of God is also justified; yea, that both these gifts of God are given to every believer in one and the same moment. John Crow Skip to main content Spotify for Podcasters And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of Gods grace.[3]. Furthermore, when Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, was ministering on earth, he said of himself, I am the good shepherd. Listen to how Jesus put it in John 10: 1 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. And the Discourse which followed, ere He once more left Jerusalem, is of the same character. A Table Among Enemies: W. C. E. Newbolt, M. A. Psalm 23:5: A Table Prepared: W. Forsyth : Psalm 23:5: Bounty Should Lead to Charity: O. Sedgwick, B. D. . God often uses material things to speak to us about spiritual things. 2. In 1970, W. Phillip Keller wrote a book titled, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23. Goodness or Goriness, an element of God's nature. "Shall follow me." When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant, To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads, Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. Intro: The Lord could have compared His people to anything in the world.He could have said, "My people are like bears, they are strong!" He could have said, "My people are like lions, they are courage, fearless and brave!" He could have said, "My people are like foxes because they are so shrewd and wise." He could have even said, "My people are like . Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. The Lord is my Shepherd, nor want shall I know; I feed in green pastures, safe-folded I rest; He leadeth my soul where the still waters flow, Restores me when wandering, redeems when opprest. My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death has fallen upon me.--Ps. The man's physician had suggested that he see his minister. Worship In The Wilderness. 4-6. And when he looks beyond the days of his life in this world he sees what comes after: The joy of eternity in the immediate presence of the Lord. Psalm 23:6b. 25. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity," etc. [3] Jerry Bridges, Who Am I? p. 92 [4] Human Nature in its Fourfold State, p. 302 [5] Monthly record of the Free Church of Scotland, 1990 p. 125. He reigns. "There is none good but One," said Jesus, "that is God." "Surely," etc. 3. He who spake thus out of the bush to Moses was the same who in the fullness of time appeared upon the earth in the form of man. It is a great thing to be one of Christ's flock, ever under the Shepherd's tender care. --Psalm xxiii. And the last thought is, that the best way to be able to end life with an utterance like this is to begin it well. When the Lord is your shepherd, His love surrounds you now and forever. "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin." He will guide you to springs of living water (Rev 7:17). [8] From the hymn, The King of Love My Shepherd Is, Henry Williams Baker, (1821-77). Click here to return to the Sermons page.. Psalm 23:1-3. One of the jobs of a shepherd is to lead his sheep. xxiii. Let this prospect reconcile us in the midst of all affliction, if we be Christians, and let us prepare for that dwelling in the house of the Lord forever. The Good Shepherd has come to seek and to save the lost. If we turn to the fourth Gospel in which the Holy, He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. God chases after us with mercy. EXODUS XV. And Samuel said, How can I go? 13. They talked for awhile, and then Allen took a pad of . 1-21. All shall be well. Wherever He may guide me, No want shall turn me back; My Shepherd is beside me, And nothing can I lack. xxiii. So when wandering sinners John NewtonMessiah Vol. And when the sheep are gathered, the shepherd will lead them, and the dogs will bring up the rear. The Good Shepherd will always be leading you into something new. Whatever happens in your work, your family, with your health or with your money, whatever happens in our country, if the Lord is your Shepherd, you will always be able to say, Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; And in Gods house for evermore my dwelling-place shall be.[7], And so, through all the length of days Thy goodness faileth never Good Shepherd, may I sing Thy praise Within Thy house forever.[8]. He became the Lamb: The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, (John1:29). Who is the Lord? In verse 5, the metaphor has changed. It is a fearful doctrine, but clearly stated in Scripture with regard to many individuals of the human race, that, so far from "goodness and mercy following them all the days of their life," everything that He gives them seems only the more to estrange them from God and goodness. INTRODUCTION: We are starting a brief three-week series Psalm 23 today, and I am so excited. III. Goodness to creatures; mercy to sinful creatures. they smothered him with flowers and killed him with fame and it came to this! Mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve. David tells us ho God sustained him in the verse we are looking at today. INTRODUCTION: We are in the middle of a three week series on this Psalm, and we are looking at what it means to have the Lord as your shepherd. This is just a statement of a fact; and if such persons believe that the dispensations of God's providence with reference to them are intended to cause "goodness and mercy to follow them all the days of their life," or that they will in fact do so, they are labouring under a fatal delusion. The days are coming when God Himself will measure the temple, His house, to see who are His, and who shall dwell in His tabernacle. "Shall follow me." Psalms 23:1-6 , the prayer of David, or a psalm of David, rather. There are places in Scripture that are powerful, so deep, that to recite them is to experience them. "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. This is another reason why Jesus told . The Lord restores me. II. C omparisons, in the Scripture, are frequently to be understood with great limitation: perhaps, out of many circumstances, only one is justly applicable to the case. Old battles will be over, old wounds will be healed. If Saul hear it, he will kill me. Plenty for Today (23:5) David writes, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Firm faith. Going a little deeper into the subject, we found a pure heart to be an undivided heart.iii Later in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus used the metaphor of the eye to teach this necessity. But St. John says there is no temple in heaven. Observe the beautifulness and the blessedness of a Christian old age. The best is to come. Beware of sinking into the vortex of selfishness, and burying your mercies in the grave of forgetfulness. He leads me into rest and He leads me into righteousness. Note the number of psalms in Books 1 and 2. It is remarkable how much, connected not only with the Ministry of Jesus, but with His innermost Life, gathers around that little fishing town. And David is in no doubt about this. 4-6. "Good" and "God" in Anglo-Saxon are the same word. David was of course referring to Jehovah, the supreme, sovereign, almighty, all-powerful, omniscient, creator God of Israel. [1] Douglas MacMillan, The Lord Our Shepherd, p. 82. But apart from these considerations, let us come to the revelation of the Bible. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever" (Psalm 23:6). Read the Scripture: Psalm 23:5-6. 1-21. Pardoning mercy. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh, The Shepherd-King'And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt them mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel! But we are prone to look on the dark side of His providence, and to ask, with the murmuring Israelites, "Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 1050God, goodness of4016life, human5340house5478property, houses8441goals, 4019life, believers' experience7125elect, the, 1220God, as shepherd8446hospitality, duty of, December the Thirty-First the Rear-Guard"Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. Cecil Frances Alexander, (1818-95). "And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The storm may roar without me, My heart may low be laid, Bnt God is round about me, And can I be dismayed? "I will dwell in the house of the Lord." Jonathan Edwards points out that the joys of heaven will accumulate. Joy is setting the soul upon the top of a pinnacle - it is the cream of the sincere milk of the word. He says Surely goodness and mercy will follow me . When you belong to the Good Shepherd, you can be sure about this: God chases after you, not in judgment and condemnation, but in goodness and mercy. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me. Poor man! Today we "walk through the valley of the shadow of death" (Psalm 23). The original is 'lead gently.' There is the difference! Surely, "Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." As we all know, a "shepherd" looks after sheep. iii:14). So, think about what that will be like when you have been in heaven for a million, million agesTo put what he says, simply, the more you know of God the more you will see of His beauty, and the more you see His beauty, the more you will love Him. When the Lord is your shepherd, you are surrounded on all sides by the goodness and mercy of God. --Psalm xxiii. We hope you have enjoyed the journey through some . They were originally used as songs in the Jewish Temple Worship. Not only the Creator but the Creation too will be an object of wonder to the redeemed. A shepherds dogs are always with him. [924] (Epistle 341.) 6. This is a famous psalm that is read at funerals. 3. The joys you experience in life remain with you. 2. Read Psalms 23:1. As David looked back over his very difficult and tumultuous life, while facing a current crisis, he wrote the words of Psalm 23. The greatest blessing you can know in life is to be wholly owned by the Son of God. All the topics of the former Discourses are now resumed and applied. It is an abiding place, a mansion. iv. The Good Shepherd has two sheepdogs; one is called Goodness. The other is called Mercy.. What will become of us after we die? His life was plagued with trouble. Heaven will not be a world in which you meet Jesus and then go off to pursue your own thing. They are divided into five books, each closing with a benediction, evidently added to mark the end of the book. C omparisons, in the Scripture, are frequently to be understood with great limitation: perhaps, out of many circumstances, only one is justly applicable to the case. xxiii. 4-6. 8. Now I must prove to my readers' perfect satisfaction that to discard all the dignities and privileges of a high priest and become a lowly worker for Christ, it is not a mere accident nor is it an act of necessity as far as temporal necessities are concerned; Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker, "I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." Evil will be overthrown. It seems, as if Jesus could not part from the City in holy anger, but ever, and only, with tears. This language implies the assurance, on his part, of the existence of a state of future blessedness. "For ever with the Lord!Amen, so let it be;Life from the dead is in that word,'Tis immortality." Why not "go before"? 1 John 3:9. By just giving a little turn to the, last expression of the text I see three things 1. Sheepdogs are beautiful, highly trained, hardworking and intelligent creatures. When the Lord is your Shepherd, you are able to say, He leads, me, He restores me, He guards me and He sustains me. I. I. GOODNESS. Scripture: Psalm 23:1-6. You will see Christ in His glory. We thank the Lord for another beautiful Sunday morning that He has given us. To the venerable lord and most blessed father, Malachy, by the grace of God archbishop of the Irish, legate of the Apostolic See, Brother Bernard called to be abbot of Clairvaux, [desiring] to find grace with the Lord. These are just the two things into which God's beneficence, generally considered, naturally divides itself. Gospel: Mark 7:14-23. (Thomas Binney. 3 He restores my soul. Now today, we are looking at the last verse of this Psalm. Amid the manifold anxieties and cares of my heart,[925] by the multitude of which my soul is sore vexed,[926] the brothers coming from a far country[927] that they may serve the Lord,[928] thy letter, and thy staff, they comfort H. In the wilderness unwatered, In the lonely land, This the feast of God made ready By His mighty Hand; Thither came I, spent and weary, Hungry and athirst, From the wastes of thorn and thistle Of the land accursed, Frances BevanHymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others, Christian Standing and Christian ProgressPHILIPPIANS iii. Enlarge it towards the sunny south; take in many a piece of ground which is now covered by worldly occupations, business, or pleasure. All the topics of the former Discourses are now resumed and applied. "Shall follow me." What a grand triumphal ode! Location: Boise, ID Date: February 22, 2023 Scripture Lessons: Joel 2:1-17; Psalm 103:8-14; 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Sermon: Rev. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. The superscription of Psalm 23 says that it is "A Psalm of David." Many think that David wrote this psalm as a young teenager, when he was a shepherd. The "I Am. To the venerable lord and most blessed father, Malachy, by the grace of God archbishop of the Irish, legate of the Apostolic See, Brother Bernard called to be abbot of Clairvaux, [desiring] to find grace with the Lord. That is good news, because if God chased after us in justice we would all be in trouble. 12-16 Christian exultation--Christian confidence--"Not in the flesh"--"In Jesus Christ"--The prize in view--No finality in the progress--"Not already perfect"--The recompense of reward--What the prize will be In a certain sense we have completed our study of the first section of the third chapter of the Epistle. In verses 5 and 6 David changes the metaphor a . When the Lord is your shepherd, he provides everything that you need. Man is never satisfied here. Because it is the temple of His worship. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. A Good Man's Thoughts in His Old Age: Thomas Binney. He does not say, "The Lord is the shepherd of the . Mercies remembered and anticipated.--Ps. iii:14). He already said, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. As the mother's eye and hand follow her little one as he makes his first wobbling attempt to toddle alone; as the needle follows the lodestone; as the water out of the rock followed the Israelites through the desert; as the pillar of glory went with them by night and by day: so goodness and mercy shall follow the faithful, in the closet, in the family, in the church, in the world. They can stab me in the back! [7] The Lords My Shepherd Ill Not Want, Scottish Psalter (1630). Old Testament prophecies were full of declarations that false shepherds would arise to. 5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. So whatever you might think about in your last moments, look to Jesus. Its sins are ever at my heels. 1141. "Shall follow me." I. It brings to mind all that is true of you in Christ. The poem supposes the man who speaks to have spiritual life in him, and the good man thus utters his confidence in the protection and in the care of that God under whose loving fatherhood he has been brought on his way. I have walked through some dark valleys and more lie ahead of me. It has been frequently supposed, that the being born of God was all one with the being justified; that the new birth and justification were only different expressions, denoting the same thing: It being certain, on the one hand, that whoever is justified is also born of God; and, on the other, that whoever is born of God is also justified; yea, that both these gifts of God are given to every believer in one and the same moment. xxiii. As fires consume the forest, as the flame sets the mountain ablaze (Psalm 83:14). 8 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 9 But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go . 2. It is a delightful passion. However, it is far more likely that David wrote this psalm late in his life, possibly during the rebellion of his son Absalom (2 Samuel 13-19). (Psalm 23:1-6) Introduction. The extent of the Psalmist's assurance. In one of his books you may find a review of his life. There may be loss of health, of property, of friends; there may be unknown trials. Denomination: He has bound Himself by His own promise to be merciful and forgiving. These are just the two things into which God's beneficence, generally considered, naturally divides itself. You spread a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me; you have anointed my head with oil, and my cup is running over. Psalm 23 6 Commentary: Heaven. He only sojourned in it here. Trusted colleagues betray me. This phrase is based on a system of law that does not hold . 4. 25. Having trouble logging into your account? Old Testament prophecies were full of declarations that false shepherds would arise to J. The querulous old man puts together all that he had gone through, finds it dark and disappointing, and concludes by saying, "I am this day so and so, and I wish that I had never been born." The Lord the Good Shepherd.--Ps. Thus, when our Lord says, Behold, I come as a thief (Revelation 16:15) , --common sense will fix the resemblance to a single point, that He will come suddenly, and unexpectedly. Sin has brought its devastating effects into the world, and things are not as they should be in our world, our country, our work, our churches, our homes or in our own hearts. ", 2. 8. One of the joys of farming life where I come from, are the dogs that chase after the sheep. Heaven will come to earth and God will dwell with His people in a world of love where He will make everything new. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, (Psalm 23:6). STRENGTH FOR LIFE'S WORK. When you belong to the Good Shepherd, this will always be true of you. In the wilderness unwatered, In the lonely land, This the feast of God made ready By His mighty Hand; Thither came I, spent and weary, Hungry and athirst, From the wastes of thorn and thistle Of the land accursed. In Matthew 6:22 he said, "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" (KJV). Age is a thing that may be very beautiful. In Psalm 23, the crisis is described as "the darkest valley" and "a table in the presence of my enemies.". Cf. By daily habits of devotion, by the culture of a child-like faith, by holy familiarity with Divine things, I will seem to myself to be constantly engaged in God's service.3. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Part of the power of Psalm 23 is the . 1. goodness. Click here for more messages from the Psalm 23 Series. Today the familiarity, poetry, and beauty of the 23rd psalm have a different tone. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. "The house of the Lord.". Pastor Colin Smith preached the comforting sermon "He Loves Me" on Psalm 23:6, explaining the meaning of "I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Li. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. But suddenly in verse 5, the picture changes, and we no longer have the image of a shepherd, but rather that of a host in his home. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, (Psa 103 1-2). Voltaire does just the same thing as to the review, but with a totally different result. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 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