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Excerpt: Psalm 40- It is a wonderful thing to see Christ coming to the cross, and saying, "mine iniquities." Christ made Himself one with me, taking all my debts upon Him; my surety, He has gone down into the depths. " Mine iniquities! "-any one of the remnant might say that. There is the remnant's voice in it; but there is Christ's first. He has taken them. They suffer FROM them, never FOR them. If they suffered for them, it would be eternal condemnation. " But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities." " For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God."
God brings in the principle of living righteousness, and therefore gives the consciousness of sins. " For thy name's sake pardon mine iniquity; for it is great," Psa. 25 This is strange reasoning according to man's thought-" for it is great." Men plead that it is a little sin; but when taught of God, we see how great sin is. Another thing is, truth is in the man, because he feels the sin great, he has given up any thought of justifying himself. My iniquity is great: if Thou dost not forgive me for Thine own glory's sake, Thou canst not do it at all. And not one spot of sin will He leave, for the comfort of my own heart or the glory of His name. In Isa. 43:22, etc., Israel are made to rest in absolute sovereign mercy. Grace is perfect in the getting rid of our sin in Christ.
Thus Psalm 40, " I waited patiently," etc., gives the reason why the remnant should trust Jehovah. MESSIAH has been delivered from the horrible pit and the miry clay by the path of resurrection. Then there is the great central truth" Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire," etc. The Levitical system vanishes as inefficacious. "Mine ears hast thou digged." It is not here the same as Isaiah 50, where " he awakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God hath opened mine ear," etc. This has a peculiar character. It is His offering Himself before He came. So in Phil. 2 we read He becomes a man, taking the form of a servant, having ears, doing nothing but what He was told, listening to every word that came out of God's mouth. " By every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man live." He had ears to receive it. Christ had no desire to do anything different from God's will: this was His motive. Never to stir but as another-God-will guide you, is perfectness as a man. Do you say, What! am I never to do what I like? Oh! I answer, you want to have your own will, which is sin.
Christ waited for the expression of His Father's will before doing anything. Christ on earth was in the form of a servant. How did He get there? By putting off all the glory of having a will of His own-offering Himself before He came to do God's will. His delight was to come; His love brought Him. " Lo, I come to do thy will, O God."
Table of Contents
1. 1 Kings 17-20: A Few Words on Elijah
2. 1 Chronicles, Brief Thoughts on
3. 1 Chronicles 13-17, Notes on
4. 2 Chronicles 18-20, Notes on
5. Ezra 3: The Work of the House of God and the Workmen Therein
6. Job, Especially Chapter 9, On the Book of
7. Job, How the Lord Accepted: Job 42
8. Psalms, The
9. Psalm 4
10. Psalm 8
11. Psalm 16: Christ's Association of Himself With His People on Earth
12. Psalm 16, Thoughts on
13. Psalm 25
14. Psalm 40
15. Psalm 42-72
16. Psalm 63
17. Psalm 72
18. Psalm 84
19. Psalms 91 and 102, Thoughts on
20. Psalm 93
21. Psalm 94: God's Comforts the Stay of the Soul
22. Psalms, Especially 110, On the: Psalms 90-102
23. Psalms, Heads of
24. Proverbs, Practical Reflections on the
25. Song of Solomon
26. Isaiah; Minor Prophets; Matt. 24; 2 Thess. 2: General Remarks on the Prophetic Word
27. Isaiah the Prophet, Thoughts on
28. Jeremiah - Malachi: Remarks on the Prophetic Word
29. Matthew, Notes on the Gospel of
30. Revelation, Thoughts on the