By T.M. Anderson
By Tony Marshall Anderson DEDICATED
To
The Whole Family of God on Earth
After hearing Brother Anderson preach on the ninety-first Psalm, I requested him to publish it. My reason was that my soul was fed, my faith invigorated, my spiritual life enriched. We greatly need spiritual riches these days when there is so much to dampen and deaden us in our Christian lives.
I welcome with high appreciation such helps as you will find here. The opening of this Psalm is a fine example of true exposition as well as a source of spiritual quickening. May God richly bless it as it goes forth bearing its helpful message to the saints.
I have followed the custom of reading some book of this type with much profit in connection with my daily devotional Bible study. I commend both this book and this method to all.
C. W. Butler
FOREWORD
It has been our conviction for some time that the people of God should be assisted in every way to a better understanding in the things which are freely given them of God. This little volume we have prepared with this end in view. If those who read it can be enabled to see the gracious privileges accorded the saints and derive spiritual value from it we shall have been compensated fully for our labor of love.
Some have thought that this psalm is not a present heritage of the holy people; but that it points to their future happiness in the Millennium. We have not seen fit to so interpret it. To our heart it offers present consolation. In it we see the inheritance of all who are sanctified by faith. It pictures the blessed state of all who dwell by faith in a conscious experience of holiness before God.
The psalm is a conversation between three persons: God speaks in the closing verses, and reveals His will concerning the man who sets his love upon Him. Perhaps David and Solomon are the other speakers. David gives his testimony in the opening words. In this he describes the state of grace of which the holy place in the temple was a type. Solomon speaks in verse two, and reveals the manner of faith which is essential to enter into this holy place.
The scope of the promises contained in the will of God made to His holy people covers every thing in the plan of God for them from preservation to final salvation in heaven. It confirms the fact that He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto Him.
We trust that God shall use this little book to establish His people in faith, and hope and love.
T. M. Anderson
THE SCRIPTURE LESSON
Psalms 91 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
