Category: Study on Book one of Psalms
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Considering The Poor (Psalm 41)
We have already noticed that the book of Psalms is divided into five separate books. We come now to consider the last of this particular collection. We noticed that the first book of the Psalms is linked very intimately with the first book of the Pentateuch. It has to do…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Psalm Of The Burnt Offering (Psalm 40)
The death of our Lord Jesus Christ is presented in different ways in Scripture. God, in type and shadow, has set it forth most marvelously in the first seven chapters of the book of Leviticus. There we read of five offerings: the burnt offering, the meal offering, the peace offering,…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Man’s Failure And God’s Grace (Psalms 38 And 39)
Psalm 38 might be designated “The Penitent’s Plea.” It is the cry of a man who is distressed and broken-hearted because of his sin, and who comes to God acknowledging his guilt and looking to Him for forgiveness. Over the first four verses we might write the word “Conviction.” We have…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Fellowship With The Holy One (Psalms 35, 36, And 37)
In this series of Psalms the holiness of God in grace and in judgment is specially emphasized. That is something I think we should all understand clearly. Everything that God does or everything that He permits is in accordance with His own holy nature. God will not allow anything either…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Radiant Life (Psalm 34)
The last Psalm of this second series of five is the 34th, and again we find that it links with the one that went before. This previous Psalm has been calling people to worship, to praise Him, and the last two verses say, “For our heart shall rejoice in Him,…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. A Call To Worship (Psalm 33)
In the thirty-second Psalm David celebrates the blessedness of the man whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is atoningly covered. We have now in the thirty-third Psalm that which should always follow the knowledge of redemption—the heart going out to God in worship and adoration. You remember what the…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Blessed Man (Psalm 32)
In the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans when the Apostle Paul is establishing the great doctrine of justification by faith alone, he cites two Old Testament scriptures as proof that in all dispensations every one who was ever saved was saved by grace through faith, altogether apart…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Prayers And Praises (Psalms 28 To 31)
In the 28th Psalm we have God’s remnant people celebrating known deliverance. They had been in difficulty, in trial, and God had intervened, and now they are praising Him for it and crying to Him that nothing might arise to hide His face, to make them insensible to His voice,…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Basis Of Confidence (Psalms 25, 26, And 27)
We have been noticing in studying this book how very frequently a number of Psalms are intimately linked together. Beginning with Psalm 25 and going on through Psalm 39 we have a little group of fifteen Psalms all of which deal with the same general subject, that is, the spiritual exercises of…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Shepherd Psalms (Psalms 22, 23, And 24)
It has been pointed out often that our blessed Lord is referred to in the New Testament as the Shepherd under three different aspects. In John 10 He says, “I am the good Shepherd.” In Hebrews 13 He is called “the great Shepherd” as “brought again from the dead” and in 1…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Psalms Of The Kingdom (Psalms 20 And 21)
Thus far in our attempt to expound this portion of the Word of God I have not called attention to the beauties of some of these headings. For instance, Psalms 19, 20, and 21 are all headed alike, “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.” Psalm 22 is also dedicated…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Testimony Of Creation And The Word Of God (Psalm 19)
In this nineteenth Psalm the spirit of God celebrates two things, draws our attention to two testimonies. First, in verses 1 to 6 we have the testimony to the majesty and power of God in creation. Then from verses 7 to 11 we have the testimony of the Word of…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Power Of His Resurrection (Psalm 18)
This is another of the Psalms of David which undoubtedly sets before us in a very wonderful way some personal experiences which he passed through during those dark and difficult years when he was hunted by King Saul like a partridge on the mountains, when at times he despaired of…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Interceding With God (Psalm 17)
We have noticed that in the early part of this book a great many of these Psalms have to do primarily with David’s personal experiences. This particular Psalm evidently was written either during the time that he was fleeing from King Saul and his army or when he was hiding…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Man Christ Jesus (Psalm 16)
It is in the last chapter of the Gospel of Luke that we read of our blessed Lord overtaking those two disciples on the way from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and He entered into their conversation as they were speaking together of Him, without at first giving them to know who…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Cry Of God’s People (Psalms 13 To 15)
In Psalm 13 we have the tried believer crying to God for deliverance and yet trusting in His overruling providence in spite of all the difficult circumstances of the way. Four times in the first two verses we get the cry, “How long?” “How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord?…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Man Of The Earth (Psalms 9 To 12)
We come now to another group of Psalms that are all intimately linked together, and this time instead of an octave we have a septenary series. In the oldest Hebrew text there would be only six, for originally Psalms 9 and 10 were one. We do not know just when they…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. Through Trial To Glory (Psalms 6 To 8)
In the sixth Psalm David deals particularly with the judgments of God and the need of mercy upon the part of the individual saint, for strange as it may seem, paradoxical as it may appear to say it, saints are sinners. What I mean by that is that though every…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Suffering People Of God (Psalms 3, 4, and 5)
The first eight psalms constitute an octave in which all are intimately connected. We have already looked at Psalms 1 and 2, but now we want to link them with the six that follow. In this octave we have our Lord Jesus Christ presented to us as the Second Man, the…
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Study on Book one of Psalms, by H A Ironside. The Second Psalm
The book of Psalms has a very wonderful prophetic character. It sets forth in a most marvelous way the counsels of God in relation to the earth, and the efforts of Satan to thwart those counsels. In the first book, Psalms 1 to 41, we see the conflict raging between God…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 