If the LORD Had Not Been on Our Side: Deliverance and Help. Psalm 124 is a testimony of deliverance, calling
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Jesus Christ.
John 1:17
Sandor Viczian
If the LORD Had Not Been on Our Side: Deliverance and Help.
Psalm 124 is a testimony of deliverance, calling God’s people to confess that survival was not their own doing: “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side.” The psalm looks back on overwhelming danger—like a flood, like a beast ready to swallow—showing how quickly the righteous could have been destroyed if God had not intervened. It teaches that enemies and circumstances may be stronger than us, but they are not stronger than the LORD who rules over them. The chapter also reminds believers to read their history honestly: not as self-congratulation, but as humble gratitude for rescue. Its aim is to strengthen faith by anchoring confidence in God’s faithful help, the One who breaks traps and sets His people free.
Psalms 124:1 – 124:8
1 A Song of degrees of David. If [it had not been] the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If [it had not been] the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed [be] the Lord, who hath not given us [as] a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help [is] in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We Believe…
In one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
In the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death for all through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead;
In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;
In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their infallibility, entire trustworthiness, and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
That all people are sinners and cannot save themselves. Salvation is received as a free gift of God’s grace, apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;
In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost;
In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are thus members of His Body, the Church, whose work is the worship of God, perfecting the saints, and evangelization of the world.
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