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Psalm Chapter 130
A Song of degrees.
- Psalm 130:1 Out of
the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
- 2 Lord, hear my
voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
- 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Here is one who understands that he is in
desperate need of God's mercy. He is one that recognizes that he has
committed iniquity or sin. He knows where to go for forgiveness. He
looked forward to the future coming of a savior to take away sins.
We look backward. All the same it is joy to think about one coming
to cancel our debt to sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I
believe this person was saved because He looked to God for help and
believed in God's salvation that would save his soul.
More about the one who was to come to bear
the sins of many is in Isaiah 53.
- Isaiah 53:3 He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
- 4 Surely he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- 5 But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed.
- 6 All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- 7 He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he
is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
- 8 He was taken
from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
- 9 And he made
his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death;
because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth.
- 10 Yet it
pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in his hand.
- 11 He shall see
of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall
bear their iniquities.
His sufferings now are over. He did it on our
behalf. The time is coming for us to look for Him and love His
appearing. To those He will appear.
No matter whether we are Jews or Gentiles,
this promise of salvation is to all who will receive this Messiah
which we now know to be Jesus.
The law makes us guilty and worthy of death
physically and eternally in hell but Jesus paid that price, the just
for the unjust, that all who trust in Him can be saved from sin and
have eternal life.
- Psalm 130:5 I wait for the
LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
- 6 My soul waiteth
for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say,
more than they that watch for the morning.
- 7 Let Israel hope
in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is
plenteous redemption.
- 8 And he shall
redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
This was written before Jesus came the first
time, so it sounds
like a prayer for the Messiah to come to save from sins. He did come
to fulfill the first part of prophecy, to make an offering for sins.
He will come again the second time to destroy all enemies of
righteousness and set up His eternal kingdom fulfilling the latter
part of Old Testament Prophecy concerning the Messiah.
You and I do not have to be left out. We can
be part of that coming kingdom by repenting or turning from sin and
turning to Jesus our Christ.
- 1John 1:9 If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Its ours for the asking and receiving. We do
not have to be lost.
- Romans 10:9 That if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
Psalm 131
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