And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
The verse belongs to the recorded history of Israel in Psalm 105, which stands together with Psalms 106 and 107, and all who claim to be children of God should read those psalms carefully, for studying that history teaches appreciation of God's goodness and mercy and love. Before the deliverance God judged Egypt and laid low the pride of every household by death and pestilence, because Pharaoh refused to let God's firstborn son go to serve Him. Israel had been held under burdens in Egyptian slavery where they could not serve Him.
God acted because He remembered His holy promise and word to Abraham His servant. He brought forth His people, His chosen, out of Egypt and out of Egyptian slavery with joy and gladness, with singing and rejoicing. That joyful deliverance is recorded together with Psalm 106 as part of a history that provides warnings for God's people in the last days.
In the forty years of wilderness wandering He chastened them as a man chastens his son, to humble them and to prove what was in their heart whether they would keep His commandments. He found them in desert land and waste howling wilderness, led them about and instructed them and kept them as the apple of His eye, and bore them as an eagle bears its young, with the Lord alone leading them and no strange god with them. He rescued them from slavery and brought them toward a good land prepared as a refuge, so they could live under His care and draw near to Him.
He gave them the lands of the heathen and the labor and fruit of other peoples, so that they could serve Him by observing His statutes and keeping His laws. Their deliverance placed them under special obligation to obey God and to worship no other gods, to keep the Sabbath and His laws, to show kindness to the widow and the fatherless, and to make His name known. The account of Israel's experience and joyful deliverance, together with Psalm 106, provides warnings for God's people in the last days and should be studied.
The account of God bringing His people out with joy and gladness is given as a word to trust and apply to individual experience, encouraging faith in God's help and strengthening. It proves that God cares for His oppressed children today just as He cared for Israel then.
The verse belongs to the recorded history of Israel in Psalm 105, which stands together with Psalms 106 and 107, and all who claim to be children of God should read those psalms carefully, for studying that history teaches appreciation of God's goodness and mercy and love. Before the deliverance God judged Egypt and laid low the pride of every household by death and pestilence, because Pharaoh refused to let God's firstborn son go to serve Him. Israel had been held under burdens in Egyptian slavery where they could not serve Him.
God acted because He remembered His holy promise and word to Abraham His servant. He brought forth His people, His chosen, out of Egypt and out of Egyptian slavery with joy and gladness, with singing and rejoicing. That joyful deliverance is recorded together with Psalm 106 as part of a history that provides warnings for God's people in the last days.
In the forty years of wilderness wandering He chastened them as a man chastens his son, to humble them and to prove what was in their heart whether they would keep His commandments. He found them in desert land and waste howling wilderness, led them about and instructed them and kept them as the apple of His eye, and bore them as an eagle bears its young, with the Lord alone leading them and no strange god with them. He rescued them from slavery and brought them toward a good land prepared as a refuge, so they could live under His care and draw near to Him.
He gave them the lands of the heathen and the labor and fruit of other peoples, so that they could serve Him by observing His statutes and keeping His laws. Their deliverance placed them under special obligation to obey God and to worship no other gods, to keep the Sabbath and His laws, to show kindness to the widow and the fatherless, and to make His name known. The account of Israel's experience and joyful deliverance, together with Psalm 106, provides warnings for God's people in the last days and should be studied.
The account of God bringing His people out with joy and gladness is given as a word to trust and apply to individual experience, encouraging faith in God's help and strengthening. It proves that God cares for His oppressed children today just as He cared for Israel then.