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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 31 January 2016
Psalms 136:15
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
136:15. But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea. Here comes the thunder-clap. Though we hear them sounding peal upon peal, yet the judgments of the Lord were only loud-mouthed mercies speaking confusion to the foe, that the chosen might tremble before him no longer. The king and his warriors were alike overwhelmed; broken was the power and conquered was the pride of Egypt. Jehovah had vanquished the enemy. None are too great for the Lord to subdue, none are too high for the Lord to abase. The enemy in his fury drove after Israel into the sea, but there his wrath found a terrible recompense beneath the waves.
For his mercy endureth for ever. Mercy continued to protect its children, and therefore called in the aid of justice to fulfill the capital sentence on their foes. Taken red-handed, in the very act of rebellion against their sovereign Lord, the audacious adversaries met the fate which they had themselves invited. Sin is self-damnation. The finally impenitent, however terrible their doom, will not be witnesses against mercy; but rather this shall aggravate their misery, that they went on in defiance of mercy, and would not yield themselves to him whose mercy endureth forever.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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