GOD IS – THE GOD OF SALVATION!

GOD IS – THE GOD OF SALVATION!

Ps 68:19-20

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

           The Hebrew word translated “issues” in the 20^th verse is towtsa’ah and it means “exit” or deliverance. So, the verse means “to our God belongs escapes from death.” One has put it this way: “God is the exclusive possessor or means for escaping death.”

           Death is a consequence of sin! Therefore, death has both a temporal and an eternal significance. When God established boundaries for the first man, Adam, He warned that the consequence for disobedience was death. Although nothing in Eden had ever died, Adam must have thought in terms of physical death. However, death had a spiritual and eternal significance. Moreover, because Adam was head of the race, his actions procured death for all his children.

1 Cor 15:22

22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Probably the only idea intended here by the psalmist was, that safety or deliverance from death proceeds solely from God. The sentiment, however, is true in a larger sense. All that pertains to deliverance from death, all that prepares for it, all that makes it easy to be borne, all that constitutes a rescue from its pains and horrors, all that follows death in a higher and more blessed world, all that makes death "final," and places us in a condition where death is no more to be dreaded-all this belongs to God. All this is under his control. He only can enable us to bear death; he only can conduct us from a bed of death to a world where we shall never die.

(Barnes' Notes, Electronic Database Copyright © 1997, 2003 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Isa 12:2

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

1 Cor 15:55-57

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ah, Lord God! How often have I been delivered from physical death – even unawares? But I thank Thee that I have been delivered from spiritual and eternal death through your own death on the cross. AMEN