Psalm
43:3
O send out thy light and thy truth:
let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
a. NLT: Send out
your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live.
b. NIV: Send me
your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your
holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
c. Young’s Literal
Translation: Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they
bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
d. Amplified
Bible: O send out Your light and Your truth, let them
lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling.
e. Septuagint: Send
forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy
mountain, and to thy tabernacles.
f. Stone Edition
Torah/Writings/Prophets: Dispatch Your light and Your truth, they will guide
me, they will bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwellings.
1. “O send out thy light and thy
truth: let them lead me…”
a. send [7971 * shalach][Strong:
a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of
applications):--X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out),
conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart
(down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send
(away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).]
b. light [216 * ‘owr][Strong:
rom 215; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including
lightning, happiness, etc.):--bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning,
sun.]
c. truth [571 * ‘emeth][Strong:
contracted from 539; stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth,
trustworthiness:--assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true
(-ly, -th), verity.
d. lead [5148 * nachah][Strong:
a primitive root; to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as
colonists):--bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.]
1). God’s light is
His word and His truth.
a). Psalm 119:105 Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
b). Psalm 119:130
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the
simple.
c). Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of
instruction are the way of life:
2). God’s truth is
also His word.
a). John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
b). 1 Kings 17:24
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God,
and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
c). Colossians 1:5
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the
word of the truth of the gospel;
3). The light and
truth of God’s word will lead us, it will direct us.
a). Psalm 119:9
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according
to thy word.
b). Psalm 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
4). We as
Christians must esteem the Bible as God’s word and the final authority in our
lives. If we do not believe the Scriptures are God’s words and the final
authority in our lives, it will not transform us, it will not work within us.
a). 1
Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as
the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually
worketh also in you that believe.
5). Notice in the
following verse what David is really saying.
a). Psalm 119:128
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I
hate every false way.
b). David is not
saying that everything the Scripture says is true, please don’t misunderstand
me. Yes, everything that Scripture says is true is true, and David believed it,
but that is not what he is saying. David is saying he “esteems” everything the
Scriptures say concerning all things to be right. It is a person in Covenant
with God believing everything that God says to be right. God said it, it is
settled in heaven and he believes it.
2. “…let them bring me unto thy holy
hill, and to thy tabernacles.”
a. Obedience to the
light & truth of God’s word will lead us to the presence of God, to his
tabernacles. In contrast to wicked things and wicked works that cleave to us
and cause us to turn aside from Him.
1). Psalm 101:3 I
will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn
aside; it shall not cleave to me.
a). cleave [1692 *
dabaq][Strong: to cling, stick, stay close, cleave, keep close, stick to, stick
with, follow closely, join to, overtake, catch.]
2). Wicked things
and works of them who turn aside from God will cleave to you if you let them.
As Christians we should not set wicked things before our eyes. Many of the
images watched and listened to within popular culture are wicked works and
things that will cleave to us and lead us away from the things of God, they
will increase ungodliness in our lives.
a). 2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more
ungodliness.
c. This Biblical
truth is reoccurring theme in Scripture.
1). 1 Corinthians
15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2). 1 Corinthians
15:33 [Amplified Bible] Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil
companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good
manners and morals and character.
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