Reading:
Give
ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my
mouth. I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their
children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his
strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and
appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should
make them known to their children: That
the generation to come might know them, even the children which
should be born; who should arise and declare them to their
children: That they might set their
hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments
Commentary:
The
word "law" is used in the Bible in at least three senses. The broad use of God's law includes His
entire Word, namely all He has said. It
is also sometimes used in reference to the Gospel, for the Gospel is a law in
that God through Christ has declared and judged all men forgiven of sins
through Christ. Usually however we use
the word law in the narrow sense, namely God's commandments or His will in
general for us. In these psalm verses,
God (through Asaph) speaks of how His people are to hear His law (dark sayings
of old), and how we are to show our children (the future generation) the same
law and dark sayings (dark only in the sense that the natural man cannot
receive or believe the Gospel, unless God reveals it to them….that Christ is
our Light). "We will not hide them
from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done." The reason we and future generations can
praise the Lord is because of the Gospel, that God promised and gave us a
Savior, Jesus Christ, who came to save all men from sin. We will therefore not hide Christ from our
children, but reveal Him to them, so they will know their Savior, and His
wonderful works of salvation. "That
they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his
commandments."
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