Vere. 16-23.-0ontrasts in the character and experience of the righteous and the wicked. I. CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. 1. His life is a continued exercise of prayer and faith. Calls upon God, evening, morning, and at noon. Canies all his anxieties and fears to God; casts upon him his burden (ver. 22). And be does all this with an assured faith (vers. 16, 17). "And he shall hear my voice." "The Lord shall save me." 2. He has been already delivered from great dangers. (Ver. 18.) "Many were against him." Every good man has a past full of such experiences. 3. He has confident assurance of future protection and guidance. "He shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." God is good and righteous. and this is the foundation of his assurance. II. CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE OF THE WICKED. L Generally, they have no fear of God. Without God in the world; living, therefore, without restraint. 2. They are traitors to former vows of/ru:rulship. They violate without compunction former oaths and covenants. 3. They are guilty of the most cruel deceit. (Ver. 21.) Bloody and deceitful men. 4. God shall afftict and humble them. (Vor, 19.) 6. They shall die a premature death, (Ver. 23.)-S, HOMILETICAL INDEX TO
THE BOOK OF PSALMS .
VOLUME L . PSALM I. THEMB P..&.011 TB"F.lf'R PAGE The Supreme Quest of Lire 26 The Godly Man ... 2 An Evening Song in Perilous Times, " He shall be like n Tree," eto. 3 showing us the Secret of Happiness 26 The Title: The Book of Psalms: the Quieting Thoughts for e. Time of Psalms-their Variety and Vuluo .. , 4 Trouble 28 The Ilappy l\Inn ... 6 Three Great Things 28 The Blessedness of the True 7 A Cry for Delivcrnnce 20 Character 8 The Dcliever's Ground of Con6J.cnco 29 Greatness, Happiness, Prosperity 8 Dlessedness 9 PSALM V. A Contrnst 9 Pro.ycr ... True Bksscclncss .. , 10 I God's Ho.tred of Sin I The Joy of F,\ith ... 32 32 33 PSALM II .. , A Morning Pmyer : for Snnctunry Tho Kingdom nncl Glory of Christ 12 • Sfrvioe: in Evil Times ... 33 The Kiss of H omngo 13 A Morning Pmyer 35 The l{ing in Zion: a. Messianic Psalm 13 Pra.yrr for Dclivero.nco from Wicked The Heathen in Three Aspects 15 Men ... 36 'l'ho Falso ancl the True in Kingship 16 The Righteousness of God ... 36 The Divine King .. , 16 PSALM VI. PSALM III. -Tho School of Adversity ,., 38 God the Believer's Glory ... 18 The l\loa.n of CL Saint, CLncl tho Morey A Morning Song in Perilous Times .. , l!) of his Goel 39 Dright llloming nftor e. Dark Night ... 20 A Cry to God, and its Ro9ponse 40 The Truth about Numbers .. , 21 Night nml l\Iorning in the Soul 41 DCLvid's Dcpendcnco on Goel 22 Grcnt Affiictions, Greater Consohtion 41 Deliverance from Soro Trouble 41 PSALM IV. PSALM VII. God's Co.re for tho Righteous 2-l: God's Righteous Di9plcasuro l\ga.inst Feo.r of Sin 21 Sin is nn Abi<l:ng ltc,\lity H Ii INDEX.
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The Slnndered Saint nppealing to his Ho.rd Times 78 God ... 45 Christian Growth .. . 80 Pmity of Hee.rt ... 47 Lamentation over the Growing Cor- God the True Refuge of the Soul 47 ruption of the No.tion 80 Trust in God 48 PSALM XIII. PSALM VIII. Despo.ir turned to Thankfulness 81 Mnn's Littleness and bis Greatness... 50 Sorrow o.nd Trust ; Sighing o.nd Song 82 Mnn-Nature-God 50 From Despondency to Peace 84 "Lord. who.t is Man? " 51 God's Averted Face 84 God the Glorious Creator . . . 53 The Agony of Desertion 85 God glorified in Little Children 54 The Greatness of God in Redemption 55 PSALM XIV. God's Glory revealed 55 The Fool's Creed, and its Conse- quences 86 PSALM IX. The Depravity of 11, Godless World, An Appeal to Experience, and its viewed by God .. . 88 Record 58 Right Views of God's Government ... 90 An Appeal to God 59 Conflict between God o.nd the Wicked 90 Praise for the Destroyer's Destruction 60 "The Gates of Death" and "the Gates PSALM XV. of Zion" 62 A Standard of Integrity 92 A Song of Thanksgiving for Salvation 62 The Mo.n in Undistmbed Rest 93 Thanksgiving 63 A Life without Reproach ... 95 The Cause of Gratitude 63 The Essentials of o. Spiritual Religion 95 A Righteous God... 63 Pro.yer to God 64 PSALM XVI. PSALM X. The Antidote to Death 98 •• The Po.th of Life" 99 The Protest of Faith against Bin 67 Why? or, Hard Facts and Puzzling "Fulness of Joy "... 99 " Once thine, ever thine : '' the Song Questions 68 of a Saint, the Vision of o. Seer l 00 Times of Darkness and Fear 69 Lifelong Convictions 102 Man's Though ta .. . 70 The Future State... 101 Trial in Three Aspects 70 Grounds of the Prayer for P1·eser- The Righteous God 70 vo.tion... 103 The Confidence of the Psalmist's Faith PSALM XI. in the Futme .. . 104 The Question of Fear and the Answer The Supreme Choice of the Soul 105 of Faith 72 The Victory of Faith: or, Rest amid PSALM XVII. Storm... 78 True Satiefo.otion ... 107 A Battle in the 8oul 74 The 80.int's Appeal from the Wrongs "'The Righteous Lord loveth Right- of Earth to the Righteous One on eousneBB" 75 the Throne 109 Faith's Antidote to Fear ... 75 The Righteousness of God's Dealing Ill The Visits of God in the Night ,., 112 PSALM XIL Three Awakinge ... 118 Unbridled Speech 77 The Prayer of the Righteous 113 The PreoiousneSB of the Word 78 Oonfl.denoe in God ... 114 INDEX. Hi