Bless The Lord

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Bless The LordAnd Forget Not All Of His
Benefits! (Ps 103)

• Pastor Timothy Hinkle
• June 24, 2012

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Psalm 103

• 1 Bless the Lord, O my soulAnd all that is
  within me, bless His holy name!2 Bless the Lord,
  O my soul,And forget not all His benefits3 Who
  forgives all your iniquities,Who heals all your
  diseases,4 Who redeems your life from
  destruction,Who crowns you with lovingkindness
  and tender mercies,

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• 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,So
  that your youth is renewed like the eagles.
• 6 The Lord executes righteousnessAnd justice for
  all who are oppressed.7 He made known His ways
  to Moses,His acts to the children of
  Israel.8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,Slow
  to anger, and abounding in mercy.9 He will not
  always strive with us,Nor will He keep His
  anger forever.

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• 10 He has not dealt with us according to our
  sins,Nor punished us according to our
  iniquities.
• 11 For as the heavens are high above the
  earth,So great is His mercy toward those who
  fear Him12 As far as the east is from the
  west,So far has He removed our transgressions
  from us.13 As a father pities his children,So th
  e Lord pities those who fear Him.

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• 14 For He knows our frameHe remembers that
  we are dust.
• 15 As for man, his days are like grassAs a
  flower of the field, so he flourishes.16 For the
  wind passes over it, and it is gone,And its
  place remembers it no more.a17 But the mercy
  of the Lord is from everlasting to everlastingOn
  those who fear Him,And His righteousness to
  childrens children,18 To such as keep His
  covenant,And to those who remember His
  commandments to do them.

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• 19 The Lord has established His throne in
  heaven,And His kingdom rules over all.
• 20 Bless the Lord, you His angels,Who excel in
  strength, who do His word,Heeding the voice of
  His word.21 Bless the Lord, all you His
  hosts,You ministers of His, who do His
  pleasure.22 Bless the Lord, all His works,In
  all places of His dominion.
• Bless the Lord, O my soul!

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Bless the Lord, O my soulAnd all that is within
me, bless His holy name!

• We were created to BLESS THE LORD! And we MUST
  bless Him from withinwith our entire being, and
  with the most important part of our beingthat
  which is eternalour SOUL!
• ALL that we are, must bless the Lord, Body, Soul,
  Spirit

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Bless the Lord, O my soulAnd all that is within
me, bless His holy name!

• ALL that we are, must bless the Lord, Body, Soul,
  Spirit
• Body Our actions--What we do with our bodies.
  Look at Romans 613 And do not present your
  members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,
  but present yourselves to God as being alive from
  the dead, and your members as instruments of
  righteousness to God.

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Bless the Lord, O my soulAnd all that is within
me, bless His holy name!

• ALL that we are, must bless the Lord, Body, Soul,
  Spirit
• Spirit Intellect or Mind Lets look at Luke
  1027  So he answered and said,  You shall
  love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
  all your soul, with all your strength, and with
  all your mind,a and your neighbor as
  yourself.

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2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,And forget not all
His benefits

• We should not forget what the Lord has done for
  us! Also, the Lord Himself wants us to remember
  that He has given us so many promises in His
  Word.
• The Psalmist knows that remembering the benefits
  of serving the Lord also encourages us to
  continue in the spirit of a servant, and to
  remember to crucify the flesh daily.
• The Psalmist is going to list the most important
  benefits to stir himself (and us) up in the Lord
  (as Paul instructed Timothy to dostir up the
  gifts)

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3 Who forgives all your iniquities,

• He has forgiven, and does forgive, all thy
  iniquities. This is mentioned first because by
  the pardon of sin that is taken away which kept
  good things from us, and we are restored to the
  favour of God, which bestows good things on us.
  Think what the provocation was it was iniquity,
  and yet pardoned how many the provocations were,
  and yet all pardoned. He has forgiven all our
  trespasses. It is a continued act he is still
  forgiving, as we are still sinning and repenting.
  (from
  Matthew Henrys Commentary)

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3 Who forgives all your iniquities,Who heals all
your diseases,

• We notice here that healing is coupled with
  forgiveness
• We see this same example in James 514-15
• 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for
  the elders of the church, and let them pray over
  him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
  Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the
  sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he
  has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

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3 Who forgives all your iniquities,Who heals all
your diseases,

• I believe that this (the pairing of the
  twoforgiveness/healing) done to encourage us.
• It reminds us that we are forgiven and since we
  are forgiven we are worthy of healing for
  healing is the childrens bread (Matthew 15 and
  Mark 7)

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3 Who forgives all your iniquities,Who heals all
your diseases,

• The corruption of nature is the sickness of the
  soul it is its disorder, and threatens its
  death. This is cured in sanctification when sin
  is mortified, the disease is healed though
  complicated, it is all healed. Our crimes were
  capital, but God saves our lives by pardoning
  them our diseases were mortal, but God saves our
  lives by healing them.

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3 Who forgives all your iniquities,Who heals all
your diseases,

• These two go together for, as for God, his work
  is perfect and not done by halves if God take
  away the guilt of sin by pardoning mercy, he will
  break the power of it by renewing grace. Where
  Christ is made righteousness to any soul he is
  made sanctification, (From Matthew Henrys
  Commentary)

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4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who
crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

• A man may be in peril of life, not only by his
  crimes, or his diseases, but by the power of his
  enemies and therefore here also we experience
  the goodness of God. He (God) has redeemed us
  from the destroyer, from hell  from the second
  death. 
• Job 3324 Then He is gracious to him, and says,
  Deliver him from going down to the Pit I have
  found a ransom

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4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who
crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

• Not only has God delivered us from destruction,
  but He has extended to each one of us varous
  crowns among them, the crown of lovingkindness
  and the crown of tender mercies.
• A crown is an outward symbol for all to see that
  one is ENTITLED to certain pleasantries. He is
  telling us that because of His grace upon us, we
  are ENTITLED to lovingkindness and tender
  mercies! Hallelujah! He is also telling all
  creation, This one is MINE!

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The Reaper (by Pastor Troy Hinkle)

• He came riding a horse of darkness
• A cycle at his side it did lie
• A hood covered all of his features
• He came looking for someone to die
• A rider named, FEAR went before him
• Many were they that he found

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The Reaper (by Pastor Troy Hinkle)

• So frightened to see him approaching
• Theyd scream and fall on the ground
• He carried a grave that was open
• Upon looking in I could see HELL
• The flames, they brought terrible torment
• To sinners who in them had fell

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The Reaper (by Pastor Troy Hinkle)

• But this time hed come for a CHRISTIAN
• A CHRISTIAN who he couldnt find
• In asking someone what had happened
• It was JESUS who said, THIS ONES MINE
• You know that I cant let you scare him
• And I NEVER will leave him alone
• Im going to keep walking beside him
• Til hes sitting with Me on the throne

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The Reaper (by Pastor Troy Hinkle)

• For Ive never broken a promise
• The Words that I speak they are true
• In a twinkling of an eye I am coming
• GO BACK, I HAVE NO NEED OF YOU!

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Inspired by

• 1 Corinthians 1555  O Death, where is your
  sting?O Hades, where is your victory?
• 1 John 418 There is no fear in love but
  perfect love casts out fear, because fear
  involves torment. But he who fears has not been
  made perfect in love.
• Luke 1623 And being in torments in Hades, he
  lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and
  Lazarus in his bosom.

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5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,So
that your youth is renewed like the eagles.

• He has given thee true pleasure  it is only
  the favour and grace of God that can give
  satisfaction to a soul, can suit its capacities,
  supply its needs, and answer to its desires.
  Nothing but divine wisdom can undertake to fill
  its treasures (Prov. 821) other things will
  surfeit, but not satiate, Eccl. 67 Isa. 552
• Proverbs 821 That I may cause those who love me
  to inherit wealth,That I may fill their
  treasuries.

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5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,So
that your youth is renewed like the eagles.

• Ecclesiastes 67 All the labor of man is for his
  mouth,And yet the soul is not satisfied.
• Isaiah 55 Why do you spend money for what
  is not bread,And your wages for what does not
  satisfy?Listen carefully to Me, and eat what
  is good,And let your soul delight itself in
  abundance

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5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,So
that your youth is renewed like the eagles.

• He has given thee true pleasure He satisfies
  thy mouth with good things (Ps. 1035) it is
  only the favour and grace of God that can give
  satisfaction to a soul, can suit its capacities,
  supply its needs, and answer to its desires.
  Nothing but divine wisdom can undertake to fill
  its treasures (Prov. 821) other things will
  surfeit, but not satiate, Eccl. 67 Isa. 552.
  (3.) He has given thee a prospect and pledge of
  long life Thy youth is renewed like the
  eagles. The eagle is long-lived, and, as
  naturalists say, when she is nearly 100 years
  old, casts all her feathers (as indeed she
  changes them in a great measure every year at
  moulting time), and fresh ones come, so that she
  becomes young again. When God, by the graces and
  comforts of his Spirit, recovers his people from
  their decays, and fills them with new life and
  joy, which is to them an earnest of eternal life
  and joy, then they may be said to return to the
  days of their youth, Job 3323.

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LIFE APPLICATION

• 1 Bless the Lord, O my soulAnd all that is
  within me, bless His holy name!2 Bless the Lord,
  O my soul,And forget not all His benefits