One of the many distinguishing, non-replicable, infallible truths about the gospel is its fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. According to the Scriptures, Christ died for our sins and was raised the third day (1st Corinthians 15:3-4). The gospel of God was promised beforehand…
The setting of Psalm 12 is David’s observation of the cessation of godliness in his fellow citizens; the faithful have disappeared from David’s view (v. 1). Rather than despairing in such bleak circumstances, David’s focuses upon Jehovah, the God of hope. Because…
Dark and difficult days are a fact of life. Paul spoke to Timothy of “perilous days” (2nd Timothy 3:1). About a thousand years prior, David cried: “Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men”…
Few situations sound as bleak and desperately lonely as the one described in Psalm 102—”my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. Because…
