And let us beware of resting in any form. We are here warned not to rest in these performances. True and righteous are his judgments even sinners' own consciences will be forced to acknowledge the righteousness of God.ħ-15 To obey is better than sacrifice, and to love God and our neighbour better than all burnt-offerings. It is only by sacrifice, by Christ, the great Sacrifice, from whom the sacrifices of the law derived what value they had, that we can be accepted of God. When God rejects the services of those who rest in outside performances, he will graciously accept those who seek him aright. Happy are those who come into the covenant of grace, by faith in the Redeemer's atoning sacrifice, and show the sincerity of their love by fruits of righteousness. In the great day, our God shall come, and make those hear his judgement who would not hearken to his law. All the children of men are concerned to know the right way of worshipping the Lord, in spirit and in truth. It tells of the coming of Christ and the day of judgment, in which God will call men to account and the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of judgement. (16-23)ġ-6 This psalm is a psalm of instruction.
(1-6) Sacrifices to be changed for prayers.
Selah.ħ Hear, O my people, and I will speak O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.Ĩ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.ĩ I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.ġ0 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.ġ1 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.ġ2 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.ġ3 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?ġ4 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most High:ġ5 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.ġ6 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?ġ7 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.ġ8 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.ġ9 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.Ģ0 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother thou slanderest thine own mother's son.Ģ1 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.Ģ2 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.Ģ3 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. 1 (A Psalm of Asaph.) The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.Ģ Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.ģ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.Ĥ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.ĥ Gather my saints together unto me those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.Ħ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself.