104<\/strong>. The study of God’s law gives him the power of discernment to “prove the spirits,” and reject all false teaching and laxity of conduct. Cp. Psa 119:29<\/em><\/span> ; Psa 119:128<\/em><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n Through thy precepts I get understanding – <\/B>A true understanding; a correct view of things; a knowledge of thee, of myself, of the human character, of the destiny of man, of the way of salvation – the best, and the only essential knowledge for man. This knowledge the psalmist obtained from the precepts of God; that is, all that God had communicated by revelation. This passage expresses in few words what had been said more at length in Psa 119:98-100<\/span>.<\/P> Therefore I hate every false way – <\/B>I see that which is right and true, and I pursue it. In proportion as I have a just knowledge of truth and duty, I hate that which is false and evil.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 104<\/span>. Through thy precepts I get understanding<\/B><\/I>] Spiritual knowledge increases while we tread in the path of obedience<\/I>. Obedience is the grand means of growth<\/I> and instruction<\/I>. Obedience trades with the talent of grace, and thus grace becomes multiplied.<\/P> <\/P> ANALYSIS OF LETTER MEM. – <\/B>Thirteenth Division<\/B><\/I><\/P> <\/P> In this division we see, – <\/P> <\/P> I. The affection of the psalmist to the law of God.<\/P> <\/P> II. The great benefits he derived from it.<\/P> <\/P> I. 1. “O how I love thy law.” God alone knows how great that love is which I feel.<\/P> <\/P> 2. As true love always seeks opportunities of conversing with the beloved object, the psalmist shows his in meditation<\/I> on God’s law by day and night.<\/P> <\/P> He gives us several encomiums<\/I> on God’s word: – <\/P> <\/P> 1. The wisdom<\/I> he derived from it. It made him wiser than his<\/I> enemies<\/I>. It taught him how to conduct himself towards them, so as to disappoint many of their plans, and always insure his own peace.<\/P> <\/P> 2. It made him wiser than his teachers<\/I>. Many, even of the Jewish<\/I> teachers<\/I>, took upon them to teach<\/I> that to others which they had never learned<\/I> themselves. He must have been wiser than these. Many in the present day take upon themselves the character of ministers of Jesus Christ<\/I>, who have never felt his Gospel to be the power of God to their salvation. A simple woman, who is converted to God, and feels the witness of his Spirit<\/I> that she is his child, has a thousand<\/I> times more true wisdom than such persons, though they may have learned many languages and many sciences.<\/P> <\/P> 3. It made him wiser than the ancients<\/I> – than any of the Jewish<\/I> elders<\/I>, who had not made that word the subject of their deep study and meditation.<\/P> <\/P> A second enconium<\/I>. God’s word gives power<\/I> over sin: “I have refrained:” and the psalmist was no speculatist<\/I>; he was in every respect a practical<\/I> man.<\/P> <\/P> A third encomium<\/I> is, the more a man resists evil forbidden by that law, and practices righteousness commanded by it, the stronger he grows. The psalmist refrained from every evil way<\/I>, that he might keep God’s word<\/I>.<\/P> <\/P> Lest any one should think that he pretends to have acquired all these excellencies by his own study<\/I> and industry<\/I>, he asserts that he had nothing but what he had received: “I have not departed,” c. “for THOU hast taught me.”<\/P> <\/P> A fourth encomium<\/I> is, that God’s law gives indescribable happiness<\/I> to them who love and obey it: “How sweet are thy words,” c.<\/P> <\/P> II. In the last verse he proves all that he said by the blessed effects of God’s word upon himself.<\/P> <\/P> 1. He got understanding<\/I> by it. He became learned, wise, and prudent.<\/P> <\/P> 2. He was enabled to hate every false way<\/I> – false religion, lying vanities, empty pleasures and every thing that did not tend to and prepare for an eternity of blessedness.<\/P> <\/p>\n Understanding; <\/B>true, and useful and powerful knowledge. <\/P> Therefore; <\/B>because that discovers to me, as the wickedness, so the folly and mischief of such practices. <\/P> Every false way; <\/B>every thing which is contrary to that rule of truth and right, all false doctrine and worship, and all sinful or vicious courses. <\/P> <\/p>\n Through thy precepts I get understanding<\/strong>,…. Of the will of God; of his worship, the nature and manner of it; of his ordinances, their use and importance; and of his doctrines, and the excellency of them;<\/p>\n therefore I hate every false way<\/strong>; of worship; all superstition and will worship, the commandments and inventions of men, and every false doctrine; all lies in hypocrisy, for no lie is of the truth; every thing that is contrary to the word of God, and is not according to truth and godliness. The Targum is,<\/p>\n “I hate every lying man.”<\/p>\n 104 By thy statutes I have acquired understanding The prophet seems here to invert the order he has just now laid down. He observed that he had kept his feet from going astray, that he might observe God’s Law, and now he institutes a contrary order, beginning with the observance of the Law; for he declares that he had been taught by the word of God before he amended his faults. Yet these two things are not inconsistent, — that the faithful should withdraw themselves from their wanderings, in order to frame their life according to the rule of God’s word, and that when they are already advanced a considerable way in a holy life, the fear of God being then more vigorous in them, they should regard all vices with more intense hatred. The beginning of a good life, unquestionably, is when a man endeavors to purge himself from vices; and the more a man has made progress in a good life, he will burn with a, proportionate zeal in his detestation of vices and in shunning them. Moreover, we are taught by the words of the prophet, that the reason why men are so involved in falsehoods, and entangled in perverse errors, is, because they have not learned wisdom from the word of God. As the whole world are given to folly, those who wander astray plead in excuse, that it is difficult for them to guard against the allurements of vice. But the remedy will be near at hand, if we follow the counsel of the prophet; that is to say, if, instead of leaning on our own wisdom, we seek understanding from the word of God, in which he not only shows what is right:. but also fortifies our minds, and puts us on our guard against all the deceits of Satan, and all the impostures of the world. Would to God that, at the present day, this were thoroughly impressed on the minds of all who boast themselves of being Christians; for then they would not be continually driven about, as the greater part of them are, with such inconstancy, according to the conflicting impulses of prevailing opinions. As Satan is so sedulously exerting himself to spread abroad the mists of error, let us apply ourselves with the greater earnestness to the acquisition of this wisdom. <\/p>\n Psa 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.<\/p>\n Ver. 104. Through thy precepts I get understanding<\/strong> ] Those are the statutes of heaven; and as men, by studying the statute book, get worldly wisdom, so they may hereby get heavenly. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Therefore I hate every false way<\/strong> ] Whether in point of opinion or practice. I shall look upon Auxentius as a devil so long as he is an Arian, saith Hilary. And I would shun a heretic as I would do a devil, for he is sent on his errand, saith another.<\/p>\n Through: Psa 119:98, Psa 119:100 <\/p>\n therefore: Psa 119:128, Psa 36:4, Psa 97:10, Psa 101:3, Pro 8:13, Amo 5:15, Rom 12:9 <\/p>\n false way: Psa 119:29, Psa 119:30, Pro 14:12, Mat 7:13 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Neh 8:12 – because Psa 119:24 – my counsellors Psa 119:101 – refrained Pro 2:6 – out Pro 4:7 – get understanding Joh 17:17 – Sanctify Rom 2:18 – being instructed Rom 6:2 – How Rom 7:15 – what I hate Heb 1:9 – hated 1Jo 5:3 – and<\/p>\n Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 104. The study of God’s law gives him the power of discernment to “prove the spirits,” and reject all false teaching and laxity of conduct. Cp. Psa 119:29 ; Psa 119:128. 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