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Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:10

DISCOURSE: 637PRAYER EFFECTUAL, TO ANY EXTENTPsalms 81:10. I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.ACCESS to God, and a certainty of acceptance with him, have been amongst the most distinguished privileges of the Lord’s people in all ages. To his ancient people the Jews, God said, “What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?” To us, under the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:11-12

DISCOURSE: 638GOD GIVING UP OBSTINATE TRANSGRESSORSPsalms 81:11-12. My people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up.THE history of the Jews is not a mere record of times and persons far distant from us, but a display of the Divine procedure towards others, as a pledge of a similar procedure towards us. The Jews were intended as examples to the Church of God in all ages: their prosperity whilst serving God, and their adversity when they had departed from... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 81:12

So I gave See, Acts 7:42; Acts 14:16; Romans 1:24; Romans 1:26. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16 .On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which, because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first of April, it usually coincides somewhere around the first of October on our calendar. There is a blowing of the trumpets. It's called the Feast of the Trumpets to announce the most holy month of the year, the seventh month. And so the first day of the seventh month the Feast of Trumpets, the blowing of the trumpets to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 81:1-16

This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tisri, or the new month, for the full band of music to be heard in all places. Numbers 10:10; Numbers 29:1. It might be sung after the storm in the preseding psalm had subsided. Psalms 81:5 . A testimony. Joseph is named here as leading the Hebrews into Egypt, where they heard a language which they could not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:1-16Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.A revelation of three great subjectsI. True worship (verses1-5)1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consists in--(1) Right activity. Worthy of our nature. In harmony with all our faculties.(2) The highest love.(3) The sublimest hope.2. True worship is a Divine ordinance, binding on all moral intelligences.(1) Right in itself.(2) Essential to their happiness.II. Divine kindness (Psalms 81:6-10).... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:7

Psalms 81:7I answered thee in the secret place of thunder.Answers to prayer often come mysteriouslyGod has a thousand “secret” ways of granting our requests.I. He may do it by a wave of air. A man is the subject of a painful disease, that seems progressing to the utter extinction of his life; for the sake of others depending on him, he implores his Maker to restore him. A fresh breeze from heaven is let into his chamber, it not only sweeps his foul room, but heaves his lungs with a new force,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:8

Psalms 81:8Blow up the trumpet in the new moon.New-year resolutionsThe savage and the child of civilization are alike in this, that they both draw their notions of time, and measure its lapse, by the movements of the heavenly bodies, thus fulfilling the primaeval prophecy that the sun, moon and stars should be for ever the means of marking time. The easiest of measures, and the one which would make the deepest impression on man’s mind, would be the circle of the moon’s changes--the thin... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:10

Psalms 81:10Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.The more morally hungry, the better fedI. Good men are the subjects of moral hunger--a craving for the chief good, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. This implies--1. Health. The body without appetite for food is diseased; the intellect without appetite for truth is diseased; and the soul without appetite for righteousness is diseased.2. Provision. The existence of any native desire, physical, intellectual, or moral, implies a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:11-12

Psalms 81:11-12My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up.Danger of presuming on God’s mercyIt is matter of painful observation, that very often when people enter on wrong courses, they think they shall be able to stop when they please. They don’t pretend to be very good, and they don’t mean to be very bad. Something between both contents them; and this they think is as much as can be expected of them, especially when vice and wickedness prevail in... read more

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:10

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:11-12

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 81:12

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 81:1-16

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:1-16

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:7

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:8

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:10

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:11-12

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