Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Give ear, O my people, is a call for God's people to give earnest, attentive ear to His law, instruction, teaching, and the words of His mouth. This listening happens as God speaks through His appointed agencies, especially in the setting of gathered worship. The psalm was composed as a song for Israel to sing while marching in the wilderness so they could keep time and step together on the journey.
Giving ear means God's people must unite, harmonize, come into line, and speak the same things, giving the world no testimony of division. This requires the medical work to be in harmony with ministers of the gospel and ministers to be in harmony with the medical work. Honoring God by giving ear to His law brings glory to God. Leaning on the arm of the law and consulting lawyers instead of coming into harmony with the church displeases God, gives a wrong example, and is like going to the god of Ekron to inquire.
The psalm recounts the rich blessings God bestowed on His people and their poor return for all His benefits. It shows the children of Israel constantly working against a good God. Through disobedience they brought upon themselves the sure result of their own course of action, repenting under rebuke and chastisement and then falling again under temptation, self-indulgence, and self-gratification.
It gives instructive lessons in reproof, in warning, in encouragement, and in rich promises. It was written for admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. The call to listen includes passing on God's testimony, commandments, praise, strength, and wonderful works to each new generation by recounting His past works. This is so that they may set their hope in God, remember His works, keep His commandments, and avoid the stubbornness and unfaithfulness of their ancestors. Parents therefore have a binding duty to instruct their children in God's ways and pass these things on to later generations.
The psalm is worthy of earnest and careful study. It is meat in due season for the youth and a proper object of study in schools. It calls God's people to advance far beyond where they stand and seek a deeper understanding of eternal realities. This means learning the simplicity of faith and heeding Christ's simple yet essential teachings while being taught of God.
It lays the duty to explain the truths of the Word to those who do not know them and to teach others how to share the saving truth for this time and arouse them as fishers of men. It requires earnest, self-sacrificing effort for those perishing in sins, with gospel power resting on those who bear witness to the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. Those who sow the seeds of truth will reap a rich harvest of good no human mind can estimate.
Give ear, O my people, is a call for God's people to give earnest, attentive ear to His law, instruction, teaching, and the words of His mouth. This listening happens as God speaks through His appointed agencies, especially in the setting of gathered worship. The psalm was composed as a song for Israel to sing while marching in the wilderness so they could keep time and step together on the journey.
Giving ear means God's people must unite, harmonize, come into line, and speak the same things, giving the world no testimony of division. This requires the medical work to be in harmony with ministers of the gospel and ministers to be in harmony with the medical work. Honoring God by giving ear to His law brings glory to God. Leaning on the arm of the law and consulting lawyers instead of coming into harmony with the church displeases God, gives a wrong example, and is like going to the god of Ekron to inquire.
The psalm recounts the rich blessings God bestowed on His people and their poor return for all His benefits. It shows the children of Israel constantly working against a good God. Through disobedience they brought upon themselves the sure result of their own course of action, repenting under rebuke and chastisement and then falling again under temptation, self-indulgence, and self-gratification.
It gives instructive lessons in reproof, in warning, in encouragement, and in rich promises. It was written for admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. The call to listen includes passing on God's testimony, commandments, praise, strength, and wonderful works to each new generation by recounting His past works. This is so that they may set their hope in God, remember His works, keep His commandments, and avoid the stubbornness and unfaithfulness of their ancestors. Parents therefore have a binding duty to instruct their children in God's ways and pass these things on to later generations.
The psalm is worthy of earnest and careful study. It is meat in due season for the youth and a proper object of study in schools. It calls God's people to advance far beyond where they stand and seek a deeper understanding of eternal realities. This means learning the simplicity of faith and heeding Christ's simple yet essential teachings while being taught of God.
It lays the duty to explain the truths of the Word to those who do not know them and to teach others how to share the saving truth for this time and arouse them as fishers of men. It requires earnest, self-sacrificing effort for those perishing in sins, with gospel power resting on those who bear witness to the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. Those who sow the seeds of truth will reap a rich harvest of good no human mind can estimate.