SNT 0346 Behold: Psalms 34:1-5
Behold: Psalms 34:1-5 April 21, 1968 Becoming what you look at in reference to believers beholding the Christ in them rather than their human shortcomings; also word study on Greek word for ‘behold’. SNT – 346 Psa 34:1-5; Eph 1:3 Col 1:10, 12-15; (Heb 12:2) 2Co 3:18; Joh 1:14; Act 1:11 Act 1:11; 1Jo 1:1; Joh 17:24; 2Pe1:16; 1Pe 2:12; 3:2; Psa 34:1-3, 5 Behold: Psalms 34:1-5 Victor Paul Wierwille – Sunday Night Teaching 0346 Transcript – Take your Bible tonight and turn to Psalm 34. The Book of Psalms, and Psalm number 34. I want to take you into the Word of God tonight and to show you what the Word of God declares to be the secret of a holy life. I'd like to read the first five verses of this 34 th psalm. Psalms 34:1-5: . . . I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [ shall be continually] in my [what?] mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof , and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. Verse 5 once again, Psalms 34:5a: They looked unto him, and were [what?] lightened: . . . There is the secret of a holy life. They looked unto Him and were lightened. The only life we have comes from Him. This is the secret of peace and happiness and of real progress in Christian living; to look unto Him and to be lightened. All of men's looking elsewhere, as we look at ourselves, as we look at others, is always defeating and frustrating; and it never enables us to really live a holy life. I'm sure you have never done this, but I know some people who have through the years. For instance, in a church service they would sort of watch what that fella put in the offering so that they could at least put the same amount in, or a little more. You've never done anything like this! On the individual member canvases, some of us have learned through the years that a man i
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The glass, the mirrors of the times. And these mirrors were not made out of glass. I thought of this particular verse of scripture one night when I was teaching in Columbus, Ohio. The greatest piece of art in that whole YW hangs on that wall in the vestibule. And nobody hardly ever looks at it because they think it's something that has tarnished and rusted out. You know what it is? It's a mirror. It's a very, very exclusive mirror. It's made out of metals like this is talking about. And when you look at it… Look at it. I'm sure you will now, you people from Columbus, you’ll really take a look at it. It’s a mirror that looks real dull, real faded out. You’ve seen it? That thing is fabulous. The person who gave it to the Y . . . I'd accepted it if they gave it to Way ministry because then I would have an illustration here tonight. I'd bring the mirror up, show it to you. They were made out