Redeemer Church of Waterford

How does Jesus preach in the great congregation? What is the message that He is declaring? And who is included in the great congregation?

My innumerable sins require God's innumerable thoughts toward me in devising the plan to rescue me from a pit of horror.

The first person singular in Psalm 40 ("I", "me", "my") is in reality the voice of Jesus. Every word spoken in this Psalm is spoken by and is in reference to the person of Jesus Christ in his own going down into death and being lifted up out of the horrible pit of hell and the grave. When he says in verses 3: "many shall see and fear and shall trust in the Lord," what are they seeing, what are they fearing, and what are they trusting? John 9 and Isaiah 6 hold the answers.

God is not unaware of your plight in times of despair. Nor is God deaf to your cries to Him, even as you wait anxiously for His response.

James tells us that the "tongue is a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell." In 1 John 1:1-2:3, the Apostle John reveals the progression of sin's deceitfulness: from hypocrisy, to duplicity, to apostasy. This progression is on display as our tongues reveal our hearts in what we say.