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The righteous will inherit the land
And dwell in it forever.
Psalms 37:29

To those who are righteous in Christ, keep sight of the goal line. Stay motivated by these promises. We will not be disappointed.


Rev 21:1-5

The following is taken directly from The Treasury of David by Spurgeon.

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EXPOSITION

The righteous shall inherit the land. As heirs with Jesus Christ, the Canaan above, which is the antitype of “the land,” shall be theirs with all covenant blessing.

And dwell therein for ever. Tenures differ, but none can match the holding which believers have of heaven. Paradise is theirs for ever by inheritance, and they shall live for ever to enjoy it. Who would not be a saint on such terms? Who would fret concerning the fleeting treasures of the godless?

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

The righteous shall inherit the land, or the earth. There is clearly an emphasis in the repetition of the same promise in the same terms which ought to have been uniformly rendered throughout Ps 37:9,11,22,29,34. And it cannot be doubted, that there is a reference to the new heavens and the new earth of Isa 56:17 2 Peter 3:13. — W. Wilson.

The righteous shall inherit the land, etc. Compare Matt 5:5. Consider well this Bible truth, of the future exclusive possession of the earth by the righteous. The millennial kingdom furnishes a fuller explanation. — T.C. Barth.

HINTS TO THE VILLAGE PREACHER

Canaan as a type of the righteous man’s inheritance.

Keys To Motivation

For the Lord loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
Psalms 37:28

Our motive for turning from evil to do good (Psalm 37:27) is rooted in God’s love of justice and His loyalty to His people. These two concepts were keys to the motivation to rebuild the Temple after it had been neglected for nearly two decades.


Haggai 2:4-7

The following is taken directly from The Treasury of David by Spurgeon.

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EXPOSITION

For the Lord loveth judgment. The awarding of honour to whom honour is due is God’s delight, especially when the upright man has been traduced by his fellow men. It must be a divine pleasure to right wrongs, and to defeat the machinations of the unjust. The great Arbiter of human destinies is sure to deal out righteous measure both to rich and poor, to good and evil, for such judgment is his delight.

And forsaketh not his saints. This would not be right, and, therefore, shall never be done. God is as faithful to the objects of his love as he is just towards all mankind.

They are preserved for ever. By covenant engagements their security is fixed, and by suretyship fulfilments that safety is accomplished; come what may, the saints are preserved in Christ Jesus, and because he lives, they shall live also. A king will not lose his jewels, nor will Jehovah lose his people. As the manna in the golden pot, which else had melted, was preserved in the ark of the covenant beneath the mercyseat, so shall the faithful be preserved in the covenant by the power of Jesus their propitiation.

But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. Like the house of Jeroboam and Ahab, of which not a dog was left. Honour and wealth ill gotten seldom reach the third generation; the curse grows ripe before many years have passed, and falls upon the evil house. Among the legacies of wicked men the surest entail is a judgment on their family.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

For the Lord…forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever. How? since they die as others do. Mark the antithesis, and that will explain it.

They are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut of. They are preserved in their posterity: children are but the parents multiplied, and the parents continued; it is nodosa aeternitas; when the father’s life is run out to the last, there is a knot tied, and the line is still continued by the child. I confess temporal blessings, such as long life, and the promise of an happy posterity, are more visible in the eye of that dispensation of the covenant; but yet God still taketh care for the children of his people, and many promises run that way that belong to the gospel administration, and still God’s service is the surest way to establish a family, as sin is the ready way to root it out. And if it doth not always fall out accordingly, yet for the most part it doth; and we are no competent judges of God’s dispensations in this kind, because we see providence by pieces, and have not the skill to set them together; but at the day of judgment, when the whole contexture of God’s dealings is laid before us, we shall clearly understand how the children of his servants continue, and their seed is established. Ps 102:28. — Thomas Manton.

HINTS TO THE VILLAGE PREACHER

 

1.    The Lord’s love of right.

2.    His faithfulness to the righteous.

3.    Their sure preservation thus doubly guaranteed.

4.    The doom of the wicked thus certified.

Boycott Evil Buy Good

Depart from evil and do good,
So you will abide forever.
Psalms 37:27


Eph 4:20-24

The following is taken directly from The Treasury of David by Spurgeon.

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EXPOSITION

Ver. 27-29. Here we have the seventh precept, which takes a negative and positive form, and is the quintessence of the entire Psalm

Depart from evil, and do good. We must not envy the doers of evil, but depart altogether from their spirit and example. As Lot left Sodom without casting a look behind, so must we leave sin. No truce or parley is to be held with sin, we must turn away from it without hesitation, and set ourselves practically to work in the opposite direction. He who neglects to do good will soon fall into evil. And dwell for evermore. Obtain an abiding and quiet inheritance. Short lived are the gains and pleasures of evil, but eternal are the rewards of grace.

HINTS TO THE VILLAGE PREACHER

Negative, positive, remunerative.

Generosity

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.
Psalms 37:26

Kind begets kind. Goodness begets goodness. Add that to your motive for living the good life.

The following is taken directly from The Treasury of David by Spurgeon.

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EXPOSITION

He is ever merciful, and lendeth. The righteous are constantly under generous impulses; they do not prosper through parsimony, but through bounty. Like the bounteous giver of all good, of whom they are the beloved sons, they delight in doing good. How stingy covetous professors can hope for salvation is a marvel to those who read such verses as this in the Bible.

And his seed is blessed. God pays back with interest in the next generation. Where the children of the righteous are not godly, there must be some reason for it in parental neglect, or some other guilty cause. The friend of the father is the friend of the family. The God of Abraham is the God of Isaac and of Jacob.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed. He, the good man, is merciful to himself, for mercy, like charity, begins at home; he is not afraid to eat a good meal because he hath children. And he is merciful to others too; for he will lend and do good to whom he can, and then his seed fares the better for it. Mark, that the more he gives and lends in doing works of mercy, the better it is for his children; for those children are ever best provided for whose parents bear this mind — they had rather trust God with their children, than their children with riches; and have made this their hope, that though they die, yet God lives. Did but one of those rich and wretched parents (who pinched and pined himself to make his son a gentleman, forsooth), rise from the dead, and see that proverb of Solomon fulfilled in himself, “He begetteth a son, and in his hand is nothing;” I persuade myself, the rumination of this would afflict him in his soul as much as any one pain of sense, even in hell itself. O consider this, you that now live and see it in others; and remember withal, that if your goods be either ill gotten, or worse kept, it may be your children’s case when you are departed, and feel it, though you see it not. — Matthew Grifith.

HINTS TO THE VILLAGE PREACHER

The righteous man’s merciful disposition, generous action, and rich reward.

The benediction of the good man’s family: what it is, and what it is not.