For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
The Shepherd
Jesus answered…,”My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one
can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them
to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my
Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
John 10:25-30
When Persecution Threatens
Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth,
for I have put my hope in your laws.
Psalm 119:43
It is well known that men do, when persecution
threatens, either altogether deny the truth, or
weakly and lukewarmly confess it; but lest this
should happen to him,
David therefore prays here,
” O Lord, take not the word of truth utterly out
of my mouth,” i.e., make me, with an intrepid
spirit, always to confess the avowed truth boldly
and manfully.
Solomon Gesner (1559-1665)
from studylight.org commentaries
Life of the Soul
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise renews my life.
Psalm 119: 50
“Thy word hath quickened me.”
It is a reviving comfort which quickeneth the soul.
Many times we seem to be dead to all spiritual operations,
our affections are damped and discouraged; but the word of
God puts life into the dead, and relieveth us in our greatest distresses.
Sorrow worketh death, but joy is the life of the
soul. Now, when dead in all sense and feeling, ” the just shall
live by faith” (Hab.ii:4), and the hope wrought in us by the
Scriptures is “a lively hope” (1Peter.i:3). Other things skin
the wound, but our sore breaketh out again, and runneth;
faith penetrateth into the inwards of a man,
doth good for the heart; and the soul reviveth
by waiting upon God, and gets life and strength.
-Thomas Manton (1620-1677)
The Treasury of David Classic Reflections of the Wisdom of the Psalms
by Charles H. Spurgeon p.245
They Shall Reign With Him
… you see the sinless Son of God bearing the sin, and,
by consequence, the condemnation of his people. And
in that wondrous spectacle, you see brought to the
bar of Infinite Justice – tried, sentenced, and condemned,
in the person of their surety – all those who are in
Christ Jesus.
In Christ they were chosen – to Christ
they were betrothed – with Christ they were united –
by Christ they are saved, – and, sitting with Christ
on his throne, they shall reign with him for ever and
ever.
From No condemnation In Christ Jesus by Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)
p 8,9 First Banner of Truth edition 1991