The Ohio Independent Baptist, January 1971

salm attll nem By Ralph T. Nordlund (Read Psalm XXXIII in Your Bible first) Rejoice, ye righteou in the Lord; for prai e I fitting for the upright all their day . Intone new ongs to p altry, harp and 1 1 1 re· Play killfully and other live in pire. God' Word i right, Hi ~'Ork are truth and fill The earth \\'ith goodne at His loving will; He breathed and tar came forth in number va t; He spoke and earth emerged and there stood fa t. Let all earth's people tand in awe of Him Whose counsel stands, while their plan fade and dim. Jehovah's wor hippers alone are ble t - A nation cho en for His promised re t. Yet God look down from heaven on the earth, Considers all of every tribe and birth. o king nor mighty man him elf can save: Only the Lord deliver from the grave. We wait upon the Lor{:) our He]p and Shield, And trust the Name emblazoned on it fie]d. We pray, "O Lord thy mercy, may it be Forever with u , a we hope in Thee.' ' The Thirty-third P alm i one of the ten mo t popular alm , and rightly o because of it fre hoes in handling n o]d call to sing prai e to our Maker. It call upon us ) sing a new song, and we understand it to mean that we are to treat old theme with the an1e fre hoe and vigor it u e . It i omething like John' new commandment, that i only new in it different way of aying we hould love one another. Thi p alm urge the old, old duty of prai e, but does it in a univer a], rather than per onal 1nanner. We do not know it human author but are ure it wa not David for D avid i alway per onal in hi prai e or hi complaint . Thi p al m Iif t u above our own experience and a k u to join with all wor hipper of Jehovah in prai ing Him for Hi creative power and hi providential care. We could preach a whole serie of ermon fron1 thi psaln1 on the duty and bles ing of acred mu ic, on the power and goodne of God on the origin of the uni– ver se by fiat creation and not by evolution, on God' cho en nation I rael and on Hi elect people of today, and on the titter inability of man to plan and manage o a to save the nation . In tead, we h ave put the t\venty– two ver es into twenty line and have had to only hint at orne of the truth . In our pro e comment we ,,vould only add a little to our four hort line on creation. We have dared to join the P a1mi t in teaching a fiat creation. "Fiat' means. ' Let there be." In a fiat creation God a)' , "Let there be," and light and al l thing one by one appear. We are not a bit frightened by the neer of modern cholar . Why hould thi be coffed at? When a puny man ay ' Let there be," ,:ve may indeed deride, but not \\ 1 hen the Aln1ighty peak for He peak with po\ver. ... ... . . ..... . .. . . . ·. ,-,.:;.. .. -_ ... . ri OHIO IND P ND NT BAPTIST What Are YOUDoing .. . About The Labor Shortage*? World Population Doubled Since 1930 . Millions Unreached for Christ-CONDEMNED for Eternity! To he Ip meet the desperate need for laborers in the wh ite ned harvest , B. B. S. continues to step up its efforts to train as many men and women as possible . At the same time we will not sacrifice quality training for • • • quantity tra1n1ng . Did you know that Y O U ca n joi n our present stude nt body as ea r I) oc; January 197 1 (IF you hurry)? DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS BAPTI ~~ T BIBLE SEMINARY 538 V NARD ROAD • CL.ARKS SUMMIT, PENNSYLVANIA 18411 JANUARY, 1971 9