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Text Of the Lesson, Pa to3-Memory
Verses, s-f0-ooIden Text. Pc. 1o3:2
Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. N.
stearns.

This Is part of the fourth book Of
Psalms, ending with the one hundred
and sixth. and corresponds IN some
measure to the book Of Numbers,
which tells Of the forty years In the
wilderness with the many vicissitudes
It begins with Ps. 90. the prayer Of
Moses as he saw the thousands falling
around him day by day; but In the
last one, as the wilderness story Is
reviewed. II Is written that God saved
them for his names sake and many
times delivered them. although they
believed not his word and hearkened
not to his voice FPS. 100 1924, 25-43).
The sustaining truth In all the dark
ness is the final coming Of the king
dom, when the Lord shall come to
judge and reign and build up Jerusa-
lem, never to be thrown down again
(96 ID; 98 30; 102 1870.
Our present lesson begins with the
forgiveness of sins and ends with the
story Of the angels who do his pleas
ure. David is called the sweet psalm
list Of Israel, and he tells US In his
last words that the Spirit of the Lord
spake by him and gave him his mes
sages II Sam. 23:1, 2). This is
truly a psalm of thanksgiving in which
he calls upon his soul and all that Is
within him to magnify the Lord.
heard the late George Muller once say
concerning Lam. 3:24, THE Lord Is
my portion, saith my soul" 1t is my
soul that says 1t, not merely my lips,
and unless our souls utter the words
they may count for nothing in his
sight. The forgiveness of sins is the
beginning of all true happiness, and
through the finished work of Christ as
our substitute, our sin offering, this
great proclamation should be made to
every creature duke "a AT, As; Acts
ID :3S, 800. Our iniquities and trans
gressions are by him forgiven, put as
far away from us as the east is from
the west, cast behind his back, cast
into the depths Of the sea, blotted out
and shall not be remembered oversees
2,12; Mic. 7:19; lisa. 80 II; 43 :25).
How many figures he uses to assure
US that they are gone and can never
be foundi And If this does not fill us
with JOY and peace (Rom. 10 :13) 1t
must be because we do not believe 1t.
AS to healing all our diseases, God said
to Israel, 81 am the Lord that healeth
thee" and, II will take sickness away
from the midst of thee" eek. 10 :26;
% :25). We know that all whose sins
are forgiven will surely have redeemed
bodies in the resurrection of the just,
which shall never know sickness (Phil.
3 30, 21), and even now he may give
us wonderful foretastes. A life re-
deemed from destruction makes US
think of l Thess. 1 10, "Who hath de-
livered us from the wrath TO come"
The loving kindness and tender mer-
cies and good things of w. and 8
are all included in the with him, free
ly all things of Rom. s 80. The re-
newing Of youth takes us TO lisa. 40 81,
and onward to the time when we shall
be like him Il John 3 Il, p, which sug-
gests that as he was not over thirty
four when He died and rose again the
Oldest of us shall be about that age In
the resurrection. Righteousness and
peace shall then be fully manifest In
his kingdom ". g, lisa. 80 40.