Still, much of this Psalm cannot be attributed to David.
For instance: "They part My garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture." And: "They pierced My hands and My feet."
Hence,
we have in this Psalm the prophecy of the suffering and death of Christ.
But our text is taken from that part of the Psalm which speaks of Christ's victory over death and the grace.
My text speaks of the paying of His vows when He was in eternal distress.
A vow is a promise.
The Holy Scriptures often speak of the promise, but mostly of the promises or the promise of God to us.
But the Bible also speaks of promises that are made by the saints of God. Especially in the Old Testament. Almost all patriarchs speak of their vows which they made to God. And also the prophets. But also in the New Testament we hear of man's vows to God. Remember how Paul traveled under a vow to Jerusalem.
And, strictly speaking, every Christian makes a vow at his confession of faith before the congregation, and no less, before God and His angels.
And, likewise, every Christian makes a vow when he stands up before the congregation, God and His angels, and holds his child for baptism.
Again, every Christian makes a vow when he marries the woman of his choice.
But, besides these "regular" vows, there are many other vows, which we make to God, especially when we are in distress.
Such vows are ageless.
They were uttered by David and his fellows; they are uttered by us.
Listen to this, and see if you do not find yourselves in it: "I will go unto Thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay Thee my vows, which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble."
Now then, all such special vows are a weak shadow of what Christ experienced when He had His sojourn among us.
The vow is generally a promise to God, a promise to hate His enemies, a promise to serve God, a promise to hate His enemies, a promise to fear and love Him, and a promise to praise Him forever and ever.
My praise!
Praise is to honor and to express the excellency of the object of praise.
Of Thee!
Christ promises to speak and to sing of the living God!
And, oh, how He knew Him!
He would sing of His wisdom, love, everlasting loving-kindness, and His great goodness.
Yes, but also of His righteousness, truth and holiness.
And there is no one in the whole universe who knows those virtues as Christ knows them. He experienced every one of them.
The congregation means a number that are gathered together.
Here: the great congregation, that is, the whole Church of God from Adam to the last saint that shall be drawn into the bosom of God.
That congregation is a great congregation whose number is a multitude comparable to the stars in the heavens and the sand that is on the seashore.
And they are taken, gathered out of all nations, tribes, kindreds and peoples of the world.
They are in reality the new world.
And in particular they are those who fear Him, who seek Him, and the meek.
Those that fear Him.
It is not easy to express to content of this term. Especially since the word "fear" is also used for its very opposite. We all know that some people were rather cautious in drawing near to Jesus "for fear of the Jews."
There is the "fear" of the slave for his master and his whip.
There is the "fear" of God which is pure.
However, when we read the various places where the word "fear" is used in the good sense of the word, we can come to some definite conclusions as to its exact meaning.
First, the fear of the Lord is to love Him.
Second, the fear of the Lord is to know Him.
Third, and this comes closest to the exact meaning, the fear of the Lord is to tremble before Him, motivated by the awe which He inspires in His child.
Those that seek Him.
That follows from the fear of the Lord.
If you fear God, you know Him for what He is. And such knowledge is beyond description. It is described as the "light of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ." It is defined as "eternal life," John 17:3.
At any rate, if you have that knowledge of God, you want more of him. You Want to see Him, to have fellowship with Him, to listen to Him, to sing and to speak of Him all the day.
And so you seek Him.
And the meek.
They are very special people.
That condition of heart and soul and life follows from the fear of God and from the seeking of God.
To be meek is to have a tremendous power to suffer.
If you are meek you are able to absorb all manner of maltreatment.
The meek are those whom Peter describes: "who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered he threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously."
To be meek means that you will pay for those who kick you around.
Now then, it is in the midst of those people that Christ pays His vows. In the midst of those that fear God, that seek Him, and that are meek Christ appears in all the ages.
I am thinking now of that wild, insane man, of whom everyone was afraid. But Christ came and made him meek. They found him sitting at the feet of Jesus. He was very, very meek.
There Christ is teaching the great congregation how we should behave before the great white Throne.
There Christ praises God, in order that we may sing along with Him.
Christ paying His vows in the midst of those that fear God, that seek Him, and that are meek, what is it but true religion and undefiled?
When you go to church on the Sabbath, you hear Christ paying His vows to God.
And that is better than life.
It is a beginning of the heavenly life.
Because heaven is nothing else but the everlasting paying of Christ's vows which He made when He was in the burning tornado of God's wrath.
Think of that when you sing Psalter number 47, stanza 1, "My God, My God, I cry to Thee; O why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
And also stanza 11: "I live and will declare Thy fame where brethren gather in Thy name; where all Thy faithful people meet, I will Thy worthy praise repeat."
I will tell you.
They eat and they are satisfied.
That is more than the whole world can offer you. There you also eat, but as you eat, you die. You die by inches. You may take good, wholesome food; you may watch your diet; you make take all manner of correct vitamin pills: it will not avail. You grow old, that is, you are dying.
Neither do the things of the world give you satisfaction.
You are left destitute, hungry, unhappy, empty.
But the praises of God leave you satisfied, full to the brim, and very, very happy.
In church, at home, by the way, you eat of the heavenly manna, and that is Christ. You drink of the water of life, and that is Christ.
It is all comprised in two things.
First, the Word of Life. And that is the Bible, the written record of the hidden manna, and the water of life.
That is why we love to go to church.
Second, the Spirit of grace.
Without that Spirit of grace the Bible will not profit in the least. In fact, it were better if you never had read the Bible than to hear it without the Spirit of grace.
But when that Spirit enters your heart, all is well, for then you take heed to the Word of God, even as Lydia, the seller of purple.
Then you begin to praise God, even as Jesus does.
And finally, their heart shall live forever.
Well, you cannot do deeper than your heart. Your heart is you. Yes, and then it is you such as no one can see it except you and God. It is the very depth of you.
If you see Jesus paying His vows to God, your heart will sing, being eternally alive to God. And that state shall continue forever and ever!
My Most Beloved,
If you look for God with your whole heart you will find Him and He
will remove that affliction out of your life, family, marriage and business.
God is great and also the wisest personage in the
universe. Your decision to look for Him today as the solution to the problems
that have weighed you down in this life is the only key to the problem.
You might be among those who are searching for God but
not with your whole heart. You might also be searching for God and at the same
time going to the places you know from your heart that is not pleasing to God
Almighty.
God is everywhere you go though not accessible from all
places you have fixed your heart for the solution to your needs.
So many people have looked for this God through many
gods of various religions and yet they are still confused of life and why they
even came into existence.
Others have believed that joining different kinds of
Self Realization organizations is the key to actualize and realize what they
are looking for.
I have seen others who are tired of other gods of other
people but now they have decided to create their own gods to worship. Can a man
create God?
Yet many men have created gods and deceived you to
worship them.
Many are calling upon the names of other gods they do
not know about simply because they want to try a certain kind of worship and
see how it can be with them. Some others
are busy looking for a place to discover another strange god which is not yet
discovered by any other man. If we move
a little into the Bible book we will discover the exact message of God
concerning searching and developing gods in any other scientific method which
the Bible rightly stipulated, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me;
And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,
and keep my commandments.” – EXODUS 20: 3-6.
God is warning you from this portion of the scripture
to stop developing any form of worship that will
entice you to worship other gods.
God is also warning you in particular to remove and
throw away those gods you kept in secret places which men do not know you are
worshipping.
Stars and other things in the skies are not made to be
worshipped by The Almighty Father and the Creator of universe. God commanded
you also never to worship gods of woods, silvers, gold and iron.
God
spoke to us through Moses and said. “And
the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye
might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Take
ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on
the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Lest
ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any
figure, the likeness of male or female,
The
likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl
that flieth in the air,
The
likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the waters beneath the earth:
And
lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the
moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to
worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations
under the whole heaven. - Deuteronomy 4:14-19
God is angry with you as you are bowing down to them
and this is the source of those problems that refuses to go out of your life.
The Almighty Father does not want you to worship the gods of your land.
Some people do carry the gods of their lands in wooden
form to another country for worshipping purposes but The Almighty Father cannot
be carried in a wooden form because He is accessible from any place and any
condition you can call Him in truth and in Spirit wholeheartedly.
There is no good gods in seas and oceans. There is no
marine good gods that is capable to do what Almighty God cannot do for you.
He warned you never to bow down to any of them. Your
destiny is purely in the hand of The Almighty Father. None of your blessings
comes as a result of worshipping idols.
God is jealous and will not be happy if you are giving
the glories that are due to His Most Holy Name, Jehovah to other gods of
nations and other gods who have ears but cannot hear.
If you believe me today, and decide to drop those gods
you are serving and to come to The Almighty Jehovah through His Son, Jesus
Christ.
The
Bible warned, “As
many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock:
if any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches. The Revelation of Saint John 3:19-22.
Why not decide right now as you are reading this
message and give your entire life to your Creator so it shall be well with you,
your family and all your businesses?
Will you continue to serve the gods that demands for
the blood of your children for ritual purposes and sacrifices so as to bless
and protect you?
Will you serve the gods that takes away your fertility
in other to give you unrealistic financial blessings and fame?
Reason well before you go.
God is telling me that some group of people is trying
to initiate you into a cult, an occult group, a satanic system of worship.
Please beware and run away for your dear life so you
will not regret the final outcome of it.
There is nothing absolutely good in Satan. He is a liar
and father of all liars.
If you believe this message is for you in particular
and you wants to be saved before it is too late. Why not call my attention for
my direction to establish your faith in Jesus Christ?
Accept and Confess the name of Jesus Christ so He shall
come into your life and be your God as you have totally dropped all form of
other gods with sincere heart.
Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.- JOHN 14:6-7
Am available to assist you to develop your faith in God
and also to pray with you for instant divine solution to those problems that
has taken you far and wide without hope for solution.
“And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy
father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the
LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him,
he will cast thee off for ever. - I CHRONICLES 28:9.
God bless you for giving a listening ear to this
message of God that is specially made for you today for your upliftment.
If you are moved by the Spirit of God to
support this work. Please don’t hesitate to tell us of how you are led by God
to assist. Or you can send us your Check to our office below for our mission to
Africa and building of schools for Orphans and Orphanage .
We need an offering and a monetary donation
motivated by the Spirit of God for the poor and less privileged because God
loves a cheerful giver.
Please
kindly send us Check of the amount placed in your heart by the Spirit of Most
High GOD JEHOVAH to- Bishop Uchenna Celestine Okonkwor
472 Amherst St
Suite 732225
Nashua, NH 03063
U.S.A.
Tel:
781-569-0201.
Alternatively, I will also suggest that you
forward your donation to us for the poor through Our Payoneer Bank Account
details below to make the deposit…
Bank Account Holder: Uchenna
Celestine Okonkwor
Bank Name: Bank Of America
Account #: 00003503352939167
ABA (Bank Routing) #: 061000052
Account Type: CHECKING.
Bank Name: Bank Of America
Account #: 00003503352939167
ABA (Bank Routing) #: 061000052
Account Type: CHECKING.
You may as well send your financial
donation in support of this missionary work through our paypal account at
zionagency@yahoo.com.
You can visit our outreach and ministerial sites below
for perusal to enable you understand our mission practically well. We need up to $2,ooo,000 to facilitate the
schools building project for the poor and less privileged. This will have
primary, secondary and University educational system. We are pleading that you
give us your financial contribution and support as you are capable and also led
by The Spirit of The Almighty God.
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God bless you.
Bishop Uchenna C. Okonkwor
472 Amherst St
Suite 732225
Nashua, NH 03063
Suite 732225
Nashua, NH 03063
781-569-0201.
U.S.A.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE LORD.
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