Psalm 68 - overcomer - gifts for God's dwelling

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Praise God in His S">Psalm 150</A>   |   <A HREF="song_of_moses.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Deuteronomy 32 The Song of Moses">Song of Moses</A>   |   <A HREF="hanna_s_song.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hannahs Song 1Samuel 2:110">Hanna's Song</A>  |  </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=349 style="border-right: 1px solid #CCCCCC;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <U>Psalm 68 - overcomer - gifts for God's dwelling</U><U> </U></div> <bR> <div> There are themes that run through this Psalm:</div> <div> 1. God is moving and acting. (vv 1-2, 4-9, 17, 24-25)</div> <div> 2. God gives strength (v9, 28-29, 33-35)</div> <div> 3. Preaching the good news (vv11-14, 30-31)</div> <div> 4. Gifts for God's dwelling (vv6, 11-14, 18-19, 25-31)</div> <bR> <div> The main theme above is Gifts for God's dwelling. All the above themes have to do with God giving people as gifts for His church.</div> <bR> <div> From the Psalm I gather 12 conditions for us to become gifts to mankind for God's dwelling:</div> <div> 1. Pray for God to arise and move. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">vv 1-2</A></div> <div> 2.  Rejoice in God's coming  <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">vv3-4</A></div> <div> 3. Cast up a way for God in the wildernesses v<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">4</A> (goes with conditions #4, #9, #12)</div> <div> 4. Be the means for God to care for the widows, orphans and lonely and prisoners. vv<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">4-5</A> (goes with conditions #3, #9, #12)</div> <div> 5. Abide in a local church <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v12</A></div> <div> 6. Abide between the 2 lips of the Word of God and with the 2 wings of the Spirit. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v13</A></div> <div> 7. Realize you still have a sinful nature.<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> v13</A> (goes with conditions #8, #10)</div> <div> 8. Don't be jealous of others. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v16</A> (goes with condtions #7, #10)</div> <div> 9. Bear the Lord's burdens that He daily puts on us. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v19</A> (goes with #3, #4, #12)</div> <div> 10. Rebuke a living of buying things and running after money <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#30" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v30</A> (goes with #7, #8)</div> <div> 11. Love drawing near to people. That includes being somewhat confrontational at times, like the Lord was. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#30" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v30</A></div> <div> 12. Hasten your hands to service to God.<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#31" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> v31</A> (goes with #3, #4, #9)</div> <bR> <div> This Psalm is generally acknowledged to be the most difficult to understand.</div> <div> "The Psalm is at once surpassingly excellent and difficult. Its darkness in some stanzas is utterly impenetrable. Well does a German critic speak of it as a Titan very hard to master. Our slender scholarship has utterly failed us and we have had to follow a surer Guide. We trust our thoughts may not however prove unprofitable." - C. H. Spurgeon</div> <div> The remarkable character of the Psalm is indicated by the fact that there are no fewer than thirteen words in it which are not found elsewhere. The Pentecostal Gift of Tongues seems needed for its full exposition. - William Kay.</div> <div> Hebrew words are defined by how they are used in the Bible. When a word is used in only once (called a hapax) it is a guess on what it means. Except in the book of Job, hapaxes are rare. I think many of the so-called hapaxes in this Psalm are not hapaxes. They are words used elsewhere in the Bible, but translators did not think that the normal meanings made sense, so they called these words hapaxes and guessed a meaning to fit the context. </div> <bR> <div> It must be confessed that in this Psalm there are as many precipices, and as many labyrinths, as there are verses, or even words. It has not inappropriately been designated the cross of critics, the reproach of interpreters. - Simon de Muis.</div> <bR> <div> Names of God in this Psalm:</div> <div> - <I>Elohim </I>(God) 26x vv1-7, 8x3, 9-10, 15-18, 21, 24, 26, 28x2, 31-32, 34, 35x2</div> <div> - <I>Jah </I>2x vv 4, 18</div> <div> - <I>Adonai </I>(Lord) 6x vv 11, 17, 19, 20, 22, 32</div> <div> - <I>Shadai (</I>Almighty)<I> </I>v14</div> <div> - <I>Jehovah (</I>the LORD)<I> </I>3x vv 16, 20, 26</div> <div> - <I>El </I>(God) 5x - vv19, 20x2, 24, 35</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="1n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v 1</B></A><B> - </B>This is a quote of <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#num10_35" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Numbers 10:35</A>, which Moses spoke when the Ark of the Covenant set forward. Moses spoke of God in the 2nd person, but David speaks of Him here in the 3rd person. David also changed <I>Jehovah </I>to <I>Elohim</I>.</div> <bR> <div> The ark typifies Christ. The tabernacle, in which the ark resides, typifies the church.</div> <bR> <div> I translated the Hebrew word <I>paneh </I>meaning "face" or "presence" as "coming" as is done in the New Testament with the Greek equivalent <I>parousia </I>(<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat24_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mat 24:3, 27</A>).</div> <bR> <div> The ark would have been a poor leader if the Lord had not been present with the symbol. Before we move, we should always desire to see the Lord lead the way. <U>The words suppose the Lord to have been passive for awhile, suffering his enemies to rage, but restraining his power.</U> Israel beseeches him to "arise", as elsewhere to "awake", "gird on his sword", and other similar expressions. We, also, may thus importunately cry unto the Lord, that He would be pleased to make bare His arm, and plead His own cause. ... How fitting a prayer is this for the commencement of a revival! How it suggests the true mode of conducting one:—the Lord leads the way, His people follow, the enemies flee. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="2n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v2</B></A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >lit. Like the driving away of smoke, you will drive them away. Like the melting of wax from the face of fire, wicked will perish from before the face of God.</FONT></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="4n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v4 </B></A>- We preach the gospel with this spirit of rejoicing.</div> <div> What does it mean to cast up a way for Him in the deserts?</div> <div> I think it means to hasten the coming day of God as in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2pe3_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Pet 3:12</A>. It is like John the Baptist prepared the way in the people before the Lord's first coming. I think this refers to the church preparing the way before the Lord's 2nd coming. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa_40_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 40:3; etc</A>).</div> <div> Take the stumbling-blocks out of the way of God's people (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa_57_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 57:14</A>; <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#heb12_13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Heb 12:13</A>). There are many stumbling blocks in the way of God's people growing. </div> <div> Where do we cast up the way for God to move? In the deserts or wildernesses. That is not in the mainstream. The wilderness is where revival begins. There is too much resistance in the mainstream. Cast up a way in the wilderness, and if it is fruitful, that will be a testimony so it can spread to people in the mainstream.</div> <div> The verb "cast up" is not very neat, but kind of quick and dirty, functional and practical.</div> <div> So far, the steps for revival are:</div> <div> 1. Prayer for God to arise and move. vv 1-2</div> <div> 2.  Rejoice in God's coming vv 3-4</div> <div> 3. Cast up a way for God in the wildernesses v4</div> <div>  <A NAME="v5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v5-6</B></A> - We know our God as this in this present age.</div> <div> We present God as this in the gospel that we preach.</div> <div> God does this in and through His holy dwelling, the church. ref. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#jam1_27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">James 1:27</A></div> <div> These are the types of people we meet in the world:</div> <div> - fatherless - God is Father to them</div> <div> - widows - God does justice for them</div> <div> - lonely - God makes them into homes</div> <div> - prisoners - God makes them fit for use</div> <div> - rebels - they dwell in a dry land, but can become gifts in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v18</A></div> <div> This gives another step for revival:</div> <div> 4. Be the means for God to care for the orphans, widows, lonely, prisoners and rebels. vv5-6</div> <div>  <A NAME="n6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>6</B></A><B> </B></FONT>The Hebrew word <I>kosharot, </I>usually translated here as "prosperity", is only used here, and thus is considered to be a hapax. It is spelled as the feminine plural participle of the verb <I>kosher</I>, which means to be fit for use. </div> <div> The preachers of the gospel are considered as women in this Psalm (vv<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">11</A>, <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">12</A>, <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">14</A>, <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">25</A>). Being made fit for use (feminine) is developed further in vv <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">18-19</A>, <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">27-28</A>, <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#30" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">30-31</A>.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="7n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v7</B></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>- Lit. God, when You went forth before Your people in Your stepping through the waste land. Selah</div> <div> This goes back to <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v1</A> and to the Exodus and Mt. Sinai.</div> <bR> <div> It is unusual to have a Selah in the middle of a sentence, and this psalm has 2 of them. Pay special attention to the 1st part of this sentence, which I might otherwise miss: In the past, God went forth before His people in the wilderness. He will do the same today. Think about that.</div> <bR> <div> There are 3-4 <I>Selah</I>'s in this psalm. What precedes each selah, we should pay special attention to:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c899003300.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">here in v7 God went forth before His people in the wilderness waste land</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c899003300.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">v13</A> To divide the spoil we need to lay between the 2 lips of the Word and the Spirit which are the wings of a sharp threshing instrument. (Selah in LXX only)</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c899003300.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">v19</A> The God of our salvation daily puts loads on us</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c899003300.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">v32 </A>Sing psalms of the Lord. (also in the middle of a sentence)</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="8n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v8</B></A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > Lit. The earth trembled, even the heavens dropped at the coming of God, this Sinai, at the coming of God, the God of Israel.</FONT></div> <div> This is quoted from Deborah's song (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#jdg5_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Jdg 5:4-5</A>) after Israel's miraculous victory over Jabin, king of Canaan, who had been oppressing them. Deborah is referring back to how God had fought for Israel at the end of their wilderness journey. God is still the same.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="9n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v9</B></A><B> </B>- This is God blessing Israel in the land of Israel.</div> <div> When we sow the seed of God's gospel, we can do nothing without God providing the rain for the seed to grow. He pours rain plentifully when we sow (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#amo4_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Amos 4:7</A>). This strengthens us when we are weary (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#gal6_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Gal 6:9; etc.</A>).</div> <bR> <div> I asked the Lord, Where is our plentiful rain? He said, I gave it and am giving it. I knew that was true.</div> <bR> <div> Among many great verses in this psalm, this one is my favorite.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v10 </B></A><B>- </B>Most English translations translate it as "Your flock has dwelt therein", but the Hebrew word does not mean "flock". The word can either be a noun meaning "living thing", "animal" or it can be the verb participle "living". LXX & Vulgate  translated it as "creatures", but the word is singular. NET translated it as "You live among them", which I think is much better. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2cor6_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Cor 6:16; etc</A>). God's living as a human being is the Sermon on the Mount.</div> <div> The suffering ones are the 5 kinds of people in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">vv5-6.</A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="11n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v11</B></A><B> </B>- <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3333CC" FACE="Arial" >I want to be part of this great army publishing the glad tidings. The word for "publishers" is feminine. As publishers of the glad tidings, we are like women publishing the news. The Lord already won the victory.</FONT></div> <div> The word that the Lord gives is what He prepared in His goodness for the meek in the previous verse.</div> <div> The ten thousand maids of Israel, like good handmaids of the Lord, aroused the sleepers, called in the wanderers, and bade the valiant men to hasten to the fray. O for the like zeal in the church of today, that, when the gospel is published, both men and women may eagerly spread the glad tidings of great joy. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> The Lord did give his word at His ascension, and there were a multitude of them that published it, and by this means kings of armies were put to flight: they conquered by the word: <U>there is not such another way to rout kings and their armies</U>. - William Strong.</div> <bR> <div> The Hebrew verb for "publishing" means to publish glad tidings (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa52_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 52:7; etc</A>) with "good tidings" built into the word. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >Out of 24 uses of the word, 23 are for good tidings. The only exception is <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1sa4_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Sam 4:17</A>, where it refers to the messenger, who normally brought good news.</FONT></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="12n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v12 </B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">-</A> There are many enemies in the world and heavenlies opposing the gospel. Do not fear them. They will flee when we preach the gospel in the Word which God gave. The kings include world rulers that oppose the gospel, but mainly evil rulers in the heavenlies. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#eph2_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Eph 2:2; etc</A></div> <div> The word flee is repeated twice identically. This is very unusual. </div> <bR> <div> In order to "divide the spoil" of the saved souls, we need to be abiding in a house, a local church so that the saved ones can be taken out of the world and grow. </div> <div> This gives another requirement for revival:</div> <div> 5. Abide in a local church</div> <bR> <div> When the Lord gives success to His gospel, the very best of his saints are made glad and feel themselves partakers in the blessing. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> I have been giving out gospel tract dispensers to businesses around my church. Chain stores will not accept them, but almost every local business that I have asked has said yes. Right now I have them in 10 businesses: 1 Bowling Alley, 2 Health Care, 2 Liquor stores, 1 Hookah lounge, 1 coin laundry, 1 body piercing, 1 Chiropractor, 1 Vietnamese restaurant. But there are also enemies of the gospel. I placed one at a video game store with the manager's permission, but an enemy of the gospel stole it. I put another one there in a different location, but that was stolen again. I pray for the thief to repent and be saved. Also I had placed one in another liquor store, but the owner said that some customers started arguing loudly about it, so he took it away. The kings of enemy armies will flee, they will flee, so long as we go out by faith sharing what the Word really says.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="13n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v13</B></A> - This is where this Psalm becomes mysterious. It is mysterious because there is so much meaning packed into this verse.</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" >It is a hard passage, a nut for the learned to crack. ... we will let it rest among the unriddled things. - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> I translate this verse: if you (masculine plural) will lay between 2 lips <I>which are</I> wings of a dove, being covered in silver but her pinions in leprous-green, of a sharp threshing instrument.</div> <div>  <A NAME="13heb"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Translation notes:</div> <div> <B>The Hebrew word </B><I><B>shiphataim </B></I><B>means "2 lips"</B> or, by extension, "2 borders", as the lips are the border of the mouth. Most translate it here as "sheepfolds" guessing that this word is a misspelling of <I>mishptaim </I>in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#jdg5_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Jdg 5:16</A>. LXX, Vulgate, YLT and Goldingay translate it as something like "boundaries".</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="leprous"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The adjective, </B><I><B>yirakrak</B></I><B>, which I translated as leprous-green</B> is only used here and in<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#lev13_49" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> Lev 13:49 & 14:37</A> where it refers to leprosy in a garment or house and in Leviticus is translated "greenish".</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="sharpthreshing"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Hebrew word </B><I><B>charootz, </B></I><B>which I translated as sharp threshing instrument </B>has 3 main meanings: gold 6x (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#prov3_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Prov 3:14</A>), diligent 5x (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#prov10_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Prov 10:4</A>), and sharp threshing instrument 4x (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa28_27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 41:15</A>). </div> <div> There are also 3 other one-time translations of the word <I>charootz</I>: maimed (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#lev22_22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Lev 22:22</A>), moat (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#lev22_22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Dan 9:25</A>) & decision (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#lev22_22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Joel 3:14</A>). I think "maimed" and "moat" are extensions of the meaning "sharp threshing instrument" in that they have been cut. I think "decision" is an extension of the meaning of "diligent" since the meaning is to not procrastinate.  I also think the meaning of "diligence" is an extension of the meaning "sharp threshing instrument" because harvesting requires diligence (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#prov10_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Prov 10:5</A>; <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#prov6_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">6:8; etc</A>).</div> <div> One would think, since the word here seems to be used in parallel to "silver" that the meaning would be "gold", as in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#prov3_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Prov 16:16 & Zec 9:3</A>. However, the word <I>charootz </I>is not the usual word for gold. It is always used negatively or as something inferior. It is never used to signify God's divine nature or beauty like the usual word for gold, <I>zahav</I>, does. It is a derogatory word for "gold" meaning "yellow metal" from Akkadian and Aramaic. On the other hand, a sharp threshing instrument goes with the context of publishing God's Word and reaping the spoil.</div> <div> Selah comes from LXX. </div> <bR> <div> <B>if </B> - adds a 2nd condition to the promise in the previous verse to divide the spoil. The first condition was to abide in a house, a local church. This second condition is to lay between 2 lips.</div> <div> <B>you </B>- "she within a house abiding" in the previous verse becomes "you" (masculine plural) in this verse. This makes it clear that the "she within a house abiding" applies to us, the whole church. In publishing the gospel, we are likened to women. In meditating in the Word, we are likened to men.</div> <div>  <A NAME="13lay"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B>will lay </B>- not just "walk", nor even just "abide", but restfully "lay". Meditate in the Lord's word day and night. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps1_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(Ps 1:2</A>). At times in my life I feel I have been laying between the Lord's lips. This has been when I  memorize and sing Psalms and when I am meditating on the portion of the word that we are covering in church or in a Bible Study group. At 68 years old, it is much harder to memorize verses. Psalms are much easier for me to memorize after I make them singable. </div> <div>   <A NAME="2lips"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B>between 2 lips</B> - For us to lay between 2 lips means to abide intimately in God's word night and day. The Lord's word to us should be the "word of Your lips"  (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps17_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Psalm 17:4</A>). They are like the Lord's kiss. It is easy to be related to the Word like the Pharisees who searched the Scriptures yet did not have the Word abiding in them <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#joh5_38" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(</A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#joh5_38" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">John 5:38-40</A>). Abiding in the Lord's Word enables us to pray according to God's mind so that we can bear much fruit (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#joh15_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">John 15:7-8</A>).</div> <div> The word of the Lord's lips restricts our thoughts and conduct, especially from doing unto others as they have done to us (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps17_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Psalm 17:4</A>). The Lord's Word should be to us like 2 lips tenderly restricting us on 2 sides: mercy and truth (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps25_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Ps 25:10; etc</A>), faith and works (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1th1_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Thes 1:3;et</A>c), <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#grace" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">grace</A> and<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#cmd" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> commandment</A>.  We need to share both sides of the truth (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps40_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Ps 40:10</A>), which is what this Psalm and most portions of Scripture do.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ndove"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>wings of a dove</B> - The 2 lips of the Lord's Word are also wings of a dove being covered with silver. The dove is the symbol of:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8bf000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">the Spirit <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#joh1_32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(John 1:32</A>).</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8bf000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">being in love (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#sos1_15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">SoS 1:15;etc</A>)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8bf000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">guileless simplicity <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat10_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(Mat 10:16; Hos 7:11</A>)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8bf000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">mourning <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa38_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(Isa 38:14;etc</A>).</div> <div>  <A NAME="nspword"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> The Spirit and the Word are one (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#eph6_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Eph 6:17;etc</A>). We need the 2 wings, the Word and the Spirit, in order to follow the Lord wherever He goes to preach the gospel <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#joh3_8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(Joh 3:8</A>; etc). We should never think that the Spirit and the Word are rivals. They are 2 wings, without both we will not fly but crash.</div> <bR> <div> The dove is the symbol of being in love with the Lord (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#sos1_15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">SoS 1:15;etc</A>) with our eyes on Him (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat6_22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mat 6.22</A>). We preach the gospel while in love with our Lord. We can have nothing between the Lord and us. See hymn "<A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/372" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/372">Nothing Between</A>".</div> <div>  <A NAME="nguileless"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> I am glad that the dove is the symbol of guileless simplicity (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat10_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mat 10:16</A>). We do not need to be very smart to be fruitful in the gospel, but completely guileless.</div> <div> Charles Colson in his great autobiography, <I>Born Again</I>, (which you can borrow as an audiobook from<A HREF="https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11031215" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/1103"> Hoopla</A>), was being charged with crimes he did not have knowledge of. When speaking at a prayer breakfast in Owosso, MI,  Colson said, "I am not guilty of most of the crimes they accuse me of." Colson was surprised at the words "<B>most </B>of the crimes" that came out of his mouth. Why could he not say that he was not guilty of <B>all</B> the crimes? He did not feel he could say that he was not guilty of <B>all </B>of the crimes. So he changed his plea from "not guilty" to "guilty" because he was guilty of smearing Daniel Ellsberg who had illegally released the Pentagon Papers. Colson admitted guilt so that nothing would inhibit his witness for the gospel. His lawyer was furious with him and thought he was a silly dove.</div> <div> <B>being covered with silver</B> - Our speech needs to be and is being purified as silver as the Lord's word is purified<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps12_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> (</A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps12_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Ps 12:6</A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps12_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">). </A></div> <div> It is easy for the Lord's word among us to become mixed with myths. It is good to ask each other, does the Lord's word really say that? The important truths we believe and stake our life upon must be founded directly upon the Word, not upon the trust in the understanding of a servant of the Lord, no matter how greatly that servant has been used by God. We should appreciate the Lord's servant for helping us see the truth in the Word, but we believe it because the Word says it.</div> <bR> <div> <B>and her pinions in leprous green</B> - We still have a sinful nature, and we still bear the signs of having been a sinner. This attracts people. Do not hide the scars of leprosy. This also keeps us humble. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2cor12_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Cor 12:7-10</A>)</div> <div> We are like one leper telling another where to get healed and fed. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2ki7_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Ki 7:3-9</A>)</div> <div> If I were writing this psalm, I would put leprous green before "being covered with silver", but the Lord put it after to show that the leprous green never leaves us in this age. Many servants of the Lord today seem to have forgotten that they still have the sinful nature, which can destroy us (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1cor9_27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Cor 9:27</A>).</div> <bR> <div> <B>of a sharp threshing instrument</B> - </div> <div> As ones publishing the good news, we are to be the Lord's sharp (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#heb4_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Heb 4:12</A>) threshing instrument for His harvest (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa28_27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 41:5</A>), winged with the Word and the Spirit (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#heb4_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Joh 16:8</A>).</div> <bR> <div> Another requirement to be a gift:</div> <div> 6. Abide between the 2 lips of the Word of God and with the 2 wings of the Spirit.</div> <div> 7. Realize you still have a sinful nature.</div> <div>  <A NAME="14n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v14</B></A><B> </B>- lit. scattered kings in her. The Almighty scatters kings by means of her that is publishing the good news.</div> <div> This goes back to v12 for both "the kings" and the "she". When the Lord causes the rulers of this age to flee, there is revival in the strongest place of darkness. "She" in this verse refers back to "she in a house abiding" in v12. The Lord scatters the kings of this age through her, and we, the women publishing the Word and abiding in a house, cause the revival in the dark mountain (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps51_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Ps 51:7; etc</A>).</div> <div> Whatever may be the precise meaning, it was intended to portray the glory and completeness of the divine triumph over the greatest foes. In this let all believers rejoice. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <I>Tzalmon </I>is the name of a mountain (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#jdg9_48" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Jdg 9:48</A>) and the name of one of David's mighty men (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#jdg9_48" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Sa 23:28</A>). <I>Tzelem </I>means "image". <I>Tzal </I>means shadow. The <I>mon </I>ending is common for proper names (i.e. Simeon, Ammon, Amon, Hesbon, Hermon, Jeshimon, Rimon, Salmon, etc). It could be translated it as "dark mountain".</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="15n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v15</B></A> - </FONT>The Hebrew word <I>gavnoonim </I>was translated by LXX and Vulgate as "curdled". Most modern translations translate it as "many peaked" which is just a guess to fit the context. It seems to be a plural of the word <I>gavon</I>, only used in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#lev21_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Lev 21:20</A> where it is translated "hunchbacked" and disqualifies a person, through no fault of his own, from serving as a priest. I translated it as "hunchbacked".</div> <bR> <div> Zion certainly was not a high hill comparatively; and it is here conceded that Bashan is a greater mount, but not so glorious, for the Lord in choosing Zion had exalted it above the loftier hills. The loftiness of nature is made as nothing before the Lord. He chooses as pleases him, and, according to the counsel of his own will, he selects Zion, and passes by the proud, uplifted peaks of Bashan; thus doth he make the base things of this world, and things that are despised, to become monuments of his grace and sovereignty. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> Mount Bashan is slightly higher than Mount Zion (2600 ft vs 2510 ft). "Bashan" is part of the land given to Israel to the tribe of Manasseh (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#deu3_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Deu 3:13</A>). It is a mount of God because it is part of Israel, but not the mount of God that God chose for His holy temple. The tribe of Manasseh was not chosen to be priests but they were God's chosen people. </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="16n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v16</B></A> - lit. the LORD will dwell there to the end.</div> <div> I think this verse explains how Mt. Bashan, a mount of God, became a hunchbacked mountain. There are many hunchbacked mountains. What makes them hunchbacked is that they are looking at other Christians, Christian groups, or the Jewish people to condemn them for errors. </div> <div> If you are jealous of other Christian groups then your group becomes a hunchbacked mountain, a deformed expression of Christianity (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#php2_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Phil 2:3</A>).</div> <div> I think this verse is giving a background to verse 18 to come. In the Old Testament, only the descendants of Aaron could serve as priests. Don't be jealous about that. That is what God chose. But after Christ's ascension to come in v18, all God's people can serve as New Testament priests (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1pe2_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Pet 2:5</A>) so no Christians should be jealous of others. </div> <div> <I>Tratzdon </I>is usually translated "look with envy" in this verse, which seems to be a best guess. LXX translated it as "suppose" and Vulgate as "suspect". It is not used anywhere else in the Bible, but is used in the apocryphal book of <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#sir14_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Sirach</A>, where LXX translated it "lie in wait". (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa29_20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 29:21</A>)</div> <bR> <div> Another requirement to be a gift:</div> <div> 8. Don't be jealous of others.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="17n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v17</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>- The Lord had come down to earth at Mt. Sinai. The tabernacle is a prefigure of the incarnation of Christ. The chariots of God are the heavenly armies (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2ki6_15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Ki 6:17; etc</A>).</div> <div> The presence of God is the strength of the church; all power is ours when God is ours. Twenty thousand chariots shall bear the gospel to the ends of the earth; and myriads of agencies shall work for its success. Providence is on our side, and it "has servants everywhere." There is no room for a shade of doubt or discouragement, but every reason for exultation and confidence. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="18n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v18</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>- Through Sinai the Israel people were established. Through them God was literally incarnated and ascended. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#eph4_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Eph 4:8-12</A>. After ascending, Christ set captives free to be captivated by Him. He gave these ones who are captivated by Him to be gifts to men. To be gifts to men we need to be captivated by Christ. We are gifts to man to truly help human beings.</div> <div> The gifts are for the church, the dwelling place of God.</div> <div> The gifts are for the sharing of the gospel and the discipling of those that believe. "Rebellious" goes back to "leprous green" in verse <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">13 </A>and is the same word "rebellious" in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v6</A>. This includes the rebellious in Mt. Bashan and other envious mountains.</div> <bR> <div> Gifts can open doors for the gospel (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#pro18_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Prov 18:16</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="19n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v19</B></A> - God gives us provisions and burdens day by day. Receiving and bearing these daily provisions and burdens enlarges us to experience more of God's salvation to become gifts to the church.</div> <div> God puts burdens on us and we put burdens on ourselves. It is important to discern in prayer  the burdens God has put on me, and carry them out. I got saved reading <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat11_28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mat. 11:28-30</A> in a gospel tract. At the time I was sleeping 14 hrs a day but had no rest for my soul. Rest comes in bearing the Lord's wonderful yoke.</div> <div> Happy nation, to be subdued by a King whose yoke is easy, and who secures his people from all fear of foreign burdens which their foes might try to force upon them. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> "It doesn't make any difference whether the provision is some staff member who works here, or whether it's some material thing like the walls, the wood, or the cement. And the older I get, the more I marvel at it.</div> <div> You see the only thing the dear Lord needed here was somebody who could unload the wagons. He sent the wagons - and still is sending them - and they've been full of what was needed. We've unloaded them and stuck what He provided hither, thither and yon. That's really all that's been necessary. He's sent some wagon loads for certain needs, and He's sent other wagons when there were other needs. </div> <div> And whether it's been people or materials, or whether it's been cash - or the weather - whatever was needed, He has sent it.</div> <div> Paul makes the statement in 1Corinthians 4:7, "What do you have that you didn't receive?" The understood answer is, "Nothing." So he said, "Why do you act, then, like you're so great, and you're doing everything yourself?" That's a rough paraphrase, but it's true.</div> <div> That's really the way I look at this - the grace of God, the hand of God, has somehow, some way, provided in ways that I don't understand and don't see - and I don't think we ever could see or understand.</div> <div> Some folks have the philosophy that you need special people to unload the wagons. you need to hire somebody with special qualifications who can be a cook, an electrician, a plumber or a lifeguard.</div> <div> We've said, "No, you can do it with volunteers." ...</div> <div> But the thing is, people with "credentials" have shown up at the right time! I think that's part of the wonder of it all, that God has so faithfully provided. And it's been the same way with programs and other needs." - Holman Johnson in his book <I>Barakel God's Miracle</I> about how he started the Barakel Christian Youth camp with nothing - chapter 1 "Unloading the Wagons".</div> <bR> <div> Another requirement to be a gift:</div> <div> 9. Bear the Lord's burdens that He daily puts on us.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="20n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v20</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B> </B></A>- The Lord will raise everyone from the dead, good and bad. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#heb9_27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Heb 9:27; etc</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="23n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v21 </B></A>- I don't like to include these kinds of verses, but God always does. After becoming a Christian we must not continue in our sin (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2pe2_20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Pet 2:20-22</A>; etc).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v22</B></A> - Bashan is a mountain east of the Jordan that was ruled by Og, the last of the Rephaim giants (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#deu3_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Deut 3:11</A>). The size of Og's bed is given as an indicator of his size. His bed was 13.5 feet long, so Og was probably 12-13 feet tall. The remaining giants such as the Anakim or Goliath were not this big. Og attacked Israel when they were about to enter the promised land, and Israel took possession of Og's land.</div> <div> From the depth of the sea, I think, refers to the Egyptian army that chased Israel, and was buried in the depths of the Red Sea (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#exo15_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Exo 15; etc</A>).</div> <div> God will bring back the spirit of these enemies to attack Israel again at the final battle of this age using different people (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#rev16_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Rev 16:12-16</A>).</div> <div> In <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">vv15-16</A>, Bashan was mentioned as a mount of God, not chosen for God's dwelling place so they were jealous. It seems jealousy of God's chosen people is the motivation for Armageddon.</div> <div>  <A NAME="v23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v23</B></A></FONT> - To us, except in a spiritual sense, the verse sounds harshly; but read it with an inner sense, and we also desire the utter and crushing defeat of all evil, and that wrong and sin may be the objects of profound contempt. Terrible is the God of Israel when he cometh forth as a man of war, and dreadful is even the Christ of God when he bares his arm to smite his enemies. Contemplate<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#rev_19_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> Revelation 19</A>. - Spurgeon</div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#rom16_20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Rom 16:20</A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="24n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v24</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>- God's goings forth in the sanctuary are His goings forth in the church. The church's and Israel's attackers have seen this (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#phil1_28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Phil 1:28</A>). As the church we need to give people the opportunity to see God's goings forth in the church (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat5_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mat 5.14-16</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="25n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v25</B></A> - The singing goes back to<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> v4</A>. Here are more details. We need to be undefiled by the lust that is in the world like the 1440,000 Christians in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#rev14_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Rev 14</A>. </div> <div> The Hebrew word here for "virgins" is <I>almot</I>, the same word used for Mary, the Lord's mother, in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa7_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 7:14</A>. </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="26n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v26</B></A> - This takes place in the church meetings. This prepares us to be the people in v25.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="27n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v27</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>- How can Benjamin be the leader, since the leadership is promised to Judah? (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#gen49_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Gen 49:10</A>). </div> <div> I think this refers to the NT age. The leader is the Apostle Paul who is of the tribe of Benjamin (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#phil3_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Phili 3:5</A>) and who was the least (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1co15_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Cor 15:8-10</A>) and still speaks from his epistles. He is the most gifted member given for God's dwelling, the church (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v 18</A>; ).</div> <div> The Lord's half-brothers, James and Jude (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1co15_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Cor 15:7</A>), were from the tribe of Judah, as was Jesus.</div> <div> The Hebrew word,<I> rigmatam, </I>may mean "crowd of stones" from the verb <I>rigam </I>which means "to stone". Most of the Jews at the time of Christ were from the tribe of Judah, which is what "Jew" means.</div> <div> The rest of the Lord's apostles were from the area of Zebulun and Naphtali (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mat4_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mat 4:14</A>).</div> <div> The tribe of Levi is also mentioned in the NT, such as Barnabas, and many priests (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#act4_36" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Act 4:36</A>), but none of these wrote the New Testament.</div> <div>  <A NAME="v28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v28</B></A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >lit.... Strengthen, O God, this, You worked for us.</FONT></div> <div>  a prayer for God to strengthen us. This theme started in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v9 </A>and is in the concluding <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#35" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v35.</A> For us to be gifts given for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to the Lord's strength. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#eph3_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Eph 3:16</A>)</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="29n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v29</B></A><B> -</B> The gifts from the kings strengthen God's working through us. Thisis both for material gifts for God's work and for bringing the gospel to all nations.  (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa56_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Isa 56:7; Mark 1:17; 1Kings 8:41-43; Acts 15:15-18</A>)</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="30n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#30" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v30</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#30" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> -</A> God commands strength to us in v28, and we pray for Him to strengthen this, His working for us. A living of buying and chasing silver will dissipate the strength that God gives us. </div> <div> In order to be gifts for God's dwelling, we need to be freed from the love of money. This is especially important for leaders in the church (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1ti3_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Tim 3:2</A>) and especially in the last days (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2ti3_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Tim 3:2</A>) as this will be the dominant characteristic of the culture. </div> <div> Human gifts to the church also need to be able to rebuke based on the word (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#2ti3_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2Tim 3:16</A>). The Lord rebukes worldly living through the persons who are His gifts to the church.</div> <div> The statement to rebuke a living of buying and damaging themselves in chasing money is followed by telling the Lord to send out peoples that love drawing near. The word "drawing near" could be translated as "doing battle". This prayer asks the Lord to send out people that love confronting the real situation with people. Not people that go along with complimenting "the Emperor's new clothes". When we take the risk to draw near to others without a false front, we delight in doing that.</div> <bR> <div> Blessed is that rebuke, which does not break but bend; for subjection to the Lord of hosts is liberty, and tribute to him enriches him that pays it. The taxation of sin is infinitely more exacting than the tribute of religion. The little finger of lust is heavier than the loins of the law. Pieces of silver given to God are replaced with pieces of gold. - Spurgeon</div> <div> The Hebrew word <I>chaya </I>goes back to <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v10 </A>"Your living has dwelt therein." It could also be translated as "creature".</div> <div> The Hebrew word <I>qanah </I>is a very common word that means "buy", and the form here matches the participle form, "buying". It could also be translated "reed".</div> <div> The Hebrew word <I>mitraphas </I>is the reflexive form of <I>raphas</I>, which means to foul by trampling (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#pro25_26" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Prov 25:26</A>). The reflexive form means to make yourself foul by trampling yourself. </div> <div> The Hebrew word <I>ratzi </I>has been translated by some as "pieces", which is just a guess found no where else in the Bible. <I>Ratzi </I>is the construct form of <I>ratzim</I>, which means "running".  It is a very common word. The phase means "trampling themselves in running after silver."</div> <div> The Hebrew word <I>bizar </I>appears only here and in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#dan11_24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Dan 11:24</A>, where it means to distribute wealth. </div> <div> The Hebrew word <I>qrabot </I>is the feminine plural participle of the common word <I>qarab</I>, which means "draw near". When used in the context of war, it means to "confront in battle". It can also mean to have an intimate relationship with, to listen to or to bear responsibility as opposed to being aloof (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#exo36_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Exo 36:2)</A>.</div> <bR> <div> I translate this whole verse literally as:</div> <div> Rebuke a living of buying by leaders </div> <div> among the calves of the peoples, </div> <div> <I>who are</I> trampling upon themselves in running after silver. </div> <div> Send out peoples that delight in drawing near.</div> <bR> <div> To be gifts for the church we need to also</div> <div> 10. not be enslaved to buying things and running after money</div> <div> 11. love drawing near to people. That includes being somewhat confrontational at times, like the Lord was (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#joh4_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Joh 4:7</A>)</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="31n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#31" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v31</B></A> - Right after the prayer for the Lord to send peoples that love drawing near, ambassadors come out of Egypt, and Ethiopia hastens his hands to God. Since these 2 countries are the only ones mentioned, there must be many gifts to the body of Christ that come from these 2 countries <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#isa19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">(Isa 18:7-19:25</A>). Christians from Iraq have told me that the Egypt Christians are very strong Christians and are a help to all the Christians in the middle east. The book <A HREF="https://christianaudio.com/love-casts-out-fear-brother-nathan-david-culross-audiobook-download" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://christianaudio.com/love-casts-ou">Love Casts out Fear </A>by Brother Nathan tells the true story of how Egyptian Christians made amazing sacrifices to serve the Lord, and the Lord is there.</div> <div> I like how Ethiopia will hasten his hands to God. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#1sa10_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1Sam 10:7; etc</A>). This is to carry out the loads that God puts on us in <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v19</A>.</div> <div> Old foes shall be new friends. - Spurgeon</div> <div> The Hebrew word chasmanim, translated "envoys" or "ambassadors" only appears here in the Bible. LXX and Vulgate translated it as Ambassadors. </div> <bR> <div> Another requirement to be a gift:</div> <div> 12. Hasten your hands to service to God.</div> <div>  <A NAME="v32"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v32</B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B> </B></A><B>- </B>This seems to be the millennium because kingdoms sing to God, not just individuals or sojourners. </div> <div> This is another rare instance where Selah comes in the middle of a sentence. See <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v7</A>.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v33"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v33 </B></A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">-</A><A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A></FONT>God has been moving since the days of old. He is still the same, and still moving among men. (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#mic5_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Mic 5:2</A>)</div> <div> Our knowledge reaches but to a small fragment of the life of God, whose "goings forth were of old, even from everlasting."  ...</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >To this hour, the voice of God is power. This gospel, which utters and reveals his word, is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. - Spurgeon </FONT>(<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#rom1_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Rom 1:16</A>)</div> <div> The last phrase literally says "Behold, He gives in His voice a strong voice."</div> <div> This goes back to <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v28</A> and <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v9</A> and continues with the following 2 verses to the end of this psalm. This is one of the themes of this psalm, that God gives us the strength to be gifts to the church and to bear the loads he daily puts on us <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#19" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v19</A>.</div> <div> God gives the church strength through His voice in His word. Whenever I hear His voice in the word I am wonderfully strengthened.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="34n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#34" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v34</B></A><B> </B>- <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >Let us never by our doubts or our daring defiances appear to deny power unto God; on the contrary, by yielding to him and trusting in him, let our hearts acknowledge his might. When we are reconciled to God, his omnipotence is an attribute of which we sing with delight. - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#heb11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">ref. Heb. 11</A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="35n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#34" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>v35</B></A> - God's strength today comes out of His holy dwelling places, His local churches (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#ps110_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">Psalm 110:2-3a</A>). For us to experience God's strength we need to be connected to a local church and to all His people (<A HREF="psalm_68_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">v12</A>).</div> <bR> <div> -copyright Steve Miller 1/6/2023</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 68</B><B> <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B> </B>to the <A HREF="psalms_overcomer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalms practical details of the Godman ">overcome</A>r, through David, a Psalm-Song</div> <bR> <div> <I>(</I><A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/789" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/789"><I>tune </I></A><A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/789" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/789"><I>#</I></A><A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/789" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/789"><I>789 What a Friend we have in Jesus</I></A><I> </I><I>8.7.8.7.D.)</I></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-1058/audio_Songs_Array_Hymn_317-what-a-friend-we-have-in-Jesus.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> music file from <A HREF="https://gospelriver.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://gospelriver.com/">gospel river</A></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >1</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#1n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">1</A> Let God arise, His foes scatter.</div> <div> His haters flee His coming.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#2n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">2</A>  You will drive them away as smoke</div> <div> as wax 'fore fire melting.</div> <div>  <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Wicked perish at God's coming,</div> <div> 3 but the righteous shall rejoice.</div> <div> They shall exult for God's coming,</div> <div> and they shall be glad in joy.</div> <div>  <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >2 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#4n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">4</A>  Singing forth His name unto God.</div> <div> raise a way for Him that rides</div> <div> in the deserts in His name, Jah.</div> <div> Rejoice for His coming <I>nigh</I>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">5</A> A father of the fatherless</div> <div> and a judge for the widows</div> <div> is God in His holy dwelling.</div> <div> <I>Cares of His people He owns.</I></div> <div> <I> <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >3 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">6</A> God makes the lonely into homes,</div> <div> pris'ners to be fit for use,</div> <div> but rebels dwell in a parched land,</div> <div> <I>for His goodness they refuse.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#7n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">7</A> God, when You went forth before Your</div> <div> people through waste land, selah,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#8n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">8 </A>the earth trembled, the heavens dropped, </div> <div> at coming of Israel's God.</div> <div>  <A NAME="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >4 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#9n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">9</A> You, O God, poured plentiful rain </div> <div> upon Your inheritance.</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>When 'twas weary, it You strengthened.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#n10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">10 </A>Your living has dwelt therein.</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> You have prepared in Your goodness, </div> <div> <I>O </I>God, for those suffering.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#11n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">11 </A>The Lord gives the word. Great is the</div> <div> host of women publishing.</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >5 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#12n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">12</A> Kings of armies flee, they do flee.</div> <div> She in a house abiding</div> <div> divides the spo-il <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#13n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">13 </A>if you <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#13lay" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">lay</A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#2lips" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">'tween</A> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#13heb" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">two lips</A><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#13heb" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>like a <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#ndove" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">dove's wings,</A></div> <bR> <div> being covered <I>o'er </I>with silver,</div> <div> but her pinions <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#leprous" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">leprous green</A></div> <div> of a<A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#sharpthreshing" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> sharp threshing instrument</A>, <Selah></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#nspword" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><I>Word and Spirit</I></A><I> convicting. </I></div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >6 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#14n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">14</A> When the Almighty scattered kings,</div> <div> she made it snow in Zalmon.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#15n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">15</A> A mount of God is mount Bashan.</div> <div> Hunchbacked mount is mount Bashan.</div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#16n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">16</A> Why is it you that you lie in wait, </div> <div> hunchbacked mounts at the mountain</div> <div> that God desired for His abode?</div> <div> God will dwell there to the end.</div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >7 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#17n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">17</A> Twenty thousand thousand thousands,</div> <div> chariots of God are many.</div> <div> The Lord's among them in Sinai </div> <div> within the sanctuary.</div> <div>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#18n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">18</A> You have ascended to the height,</div> <div> captivity captive led.</div> <div> <I>From them </I>You've given gifts to man,</div> <div> e'en from the rebellious <I>men  </I></div> <div>  <A NAME="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 8 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >for the dwelling place of Jah God.</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#19n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">19</A> Bless'd be the Lord<I> over all.</I></div> <div> Day by day He puts loads on us,</div> <div> God our salvation. Selah.</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#20n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">20</A> Our God's the God of salvation.</div> <div> Goings forth from death are LORD's.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#20n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">21</A> Those that continue in their sin,</div> <div> God will smite foes' head for sure.</div> <div>  <A NAME="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >9<A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">22</A><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>The Lord said, I will bring again</div> <div> from Bashan, from depth of sea,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">23</A><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>that you may smash your foot in blood</div> <div> your dogs' tongue from enemies'.</div> <div>  <A NAME="24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#24n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">24</A> They have seen, O God, Thy goings</div> <div> goings of My God, my King,</div> <div>  <A NAME="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><I>goings forth</I><I> </I>in sanctuary,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#25n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">25</A> singers before<I> Him </I>going,</div> <bR> <div> 10 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >the players on stringed instruments</FONT></div> <div> among virgins' tambourines.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#26n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">26</A> In assemblies bless ye God, Jah,</div> <div> fountain of Israel's <I>blessing.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#27n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">27</A> There, <I>in assemblies</I>, Benjamin</div> <div> is their leader, <I>though </I>the least, </div> <div> Princes of Judah's many stones,</div> <div> Zebulun's and Naphtali's.</div> <div>  <A NAME="28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >11 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v28" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">28</A> Your God has commanded your strength.</div> <div> Strengthen for us Your working</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#29n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">29</A> from Your temple o'er Jerus'lem.</div> <div> Kings shall bring gifts unto Thee.</div> <div>  <A NAME="30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#30n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">30</A> Rebuke a living of buying,</div> <div> chief ones in an assembly,</div> <div> among the calves of the peoples,</div> <div> for silver themselves trampling.</div> <div>  <A NAME="31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >12 </FONT>Send peoples <I>that </I>love drawing near.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#31n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><I>31</I></A><I> </I>Envoys come out of Egypt.</div> <div> Eth'opia shall hasten his hands </div> <div> to God<I> to reap the harvest.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="32"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v32" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">32</A> Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God.</div> <div> Sing psalms of the Lord<I>,</I> Selah,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v33" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">33</A><A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v33" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>of Him that rides on the heaven</div> <div> of the heavens from of old.</div> <div>  <A NAME="34"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 13 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Behold, He gives strength in His voice.</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#34n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">34</A> Give to God strength <I>excellent</I>,</div> <div> excellency over Israel,</div> <div> and in the clouds is His strength.</div> <div>  <A NAME="35"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#35n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">35</A> Fearsome art Thou, O<I> Lord our</I> God</div> <div> out from Your dwellings holy.</div> <div> He it is that gives strength and might </div> <div> to the people. Bless'd be He!</div> <bR> <div> --------------------------</div> <div>  <A NAME="num10_35"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Numbers 10:35</B></A> And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Jehovah, and let thine enemies be scattered; And let them that hate thee flee before thy face.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jam1_27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#5" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>James 1:27</B></A> Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. </div> <div>  <A NAME="2pe3_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2Peter 3:11 </B></A>All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,</div> <div> 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt? </div> <div>  <A NAME="eph2_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Ephesians 2:2 </B></A>in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: </div> <div> 6:12 because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies. (Eph. 6:12 DBY)</div> <div> Colossians 2:15 having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it. </div> <div>  <A NAME="eph4_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#18" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Ephesians 4:8</B></A> Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men.</div> <div>  9 But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?</div> <div>  10 He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;</div> <div>  11 and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,</div> <div>  12 for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;</div> <div>  13 until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ;</div> <div>  14 in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;</div> <div>  <A NAME="pro18_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#18n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Proverbs 18:16</B></A> A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa_40_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 40:3</B></A><B> </B>The voice of one crying in the wilderness: <B>Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!</B></div> <div>  <B>4 </B>Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa_57_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> <B>5 </B>And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. </div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>57:14</B></A> And it shall be said,<B> Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people</B>.</div> <div> <B> 15</B> For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. </div> <div> <B>62:10</B> Go through, go through the gates;<B> prepare the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples</B>.</div> <div>  <B>11 </B>Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.</div> <div>  <B>12 </B>And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah; and thou shalt be called, The sought out, The city not forsaken.</div> <div> <B>Proverbs 15:19</B> The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, but <B>the path of the upright is raised up</B>. </div> <div> <B>Jeremiah 18:15</B> For My people have forgotten Me: they burn incense to vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in  <A NAME="heb12_13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in<B> by-paths of a way not cast up</B>; </div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Hebrews 12:13</B></A> and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.</div> <div>  <A NAME="amos9_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Amos 9:1</B> I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: "Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.</div> <div>  2 "If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.</div> <div>  3 If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.</div> <div>  4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good." </div> <div>  <A NAME="mic5_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#32" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Micah 5:2</B></A><A HREF="#32" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me who is to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.) </div> <div>  <A NAME="rev14_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#25" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Revelation 14:1</B></A> Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.</div> <div>  2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,</div> <div>  3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.</div> <div>  4 <B>It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins</B>.<B> It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes</B>. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,</div> <div>  5 and in their mouth no guile was found, for they are blameless. </div> <div> <B>2Peter 1:4</B> through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa7_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#25" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 7:14</B></A> Therefore will the Lord Himself give you a sign: Behold, the virgin is pregnant and is bringing forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rev_19_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Revelation 19:11</B></A> Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.</div> <div>  12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.</div> <div>  13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.</div> <div>  ...</div> <div>  17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come, gather for the great supper of God,</div> <div>  18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."</div> <div>  19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.</div> <div>  20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.</div> <div>  21 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.</div> <div> <B>14:19</B> And the angel put his sickle to the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast the bunches into the great wine-press of the fury of God;</div> <div>  20 and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a thousand six hundred stadia.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom1_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#32" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Romans 1:16</B></A><A HREF="#32" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:</div> <div>  17 for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith. (Rom. 1:16-17 DBY)</div> <div>  <A NAME="jdg5_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#7" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Judges 5:4</B></A> Jehovah, when thou went forth from Seir, When thou marched out of the fields of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.</div> <div> <B> 5</B> The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel. </div> <div>  <A NAME="isa52_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 52:7</B></A> How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that <B>announces glad tidings</B>, that publishes peace; that <B>announces glad tidings</B> of good, that publishes salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigns!</div> <div> <B>Nahum 1:15</B> Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that <B>bringeth glad tidings</B>, that publishes peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.</div> <div> <B>Isaiah 40:9</B> O Zion, that<B> brings glad tidings</B>, get thee up into a high mountain; O Jerusalem, that <B>brings glad tidings</B>, lift up thy voice with strength: lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!</div> <div> <B>41:27</B> The first, I said to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that <B>bringeth glad tidings</B>.</div> <div> <B>60:6</B> A multitude of camels shall cover thee, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and<B> they shall publish</B> the praises of Jehovah.</div> <div> <B>61:1</B> The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to <B>announce glad tidings</B> unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;<B>1 Chronicles 16:23</B> Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth;<B> Publish </B>his salvation from day to day. </div> <div> <B>Psalm 40:9</B> I have<B> published </B><B>righteousness</B><B> </B>in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest. </div> <div> <B>96:2</B> Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name;<B> publish </B>his salvation from day to day. </div> <div> <B>Jeremiah 20:15</B> Cursed be the man who<B> brought tidings</B> to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad! </div> <div>  <A NAME="1sa4_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1 Samuel 4:17</B></A> And <B>the messenger</B> answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. </div> <div>  <A NAME="jdg5_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Judges 5:16</B></A> Why abode thou among the <B>sheepfolds</B>, To hear the bleating of the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben there were great deliberations of heart! </div> <div>  <A NAME="ps17_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm 17:</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>4</B></A><I> </I>As for men's works, <B>by the word of Your lips</B>,</div> <div> I'm kept from the paths of the violent. ...</div> <div> <B>8</B><I>  </I>Keep me as the apple, <I>as</I> the daughter,<I> </I>of the eye.</div> <div> Hide me under the shadow of Your wings</div> <div> <B>9</B><I> from</I> wicked who oppress <I>such as I</I>. ...</div> <div> <B>15</B>  As for me, I am beholding Your face, in righteousness.</div> <div> I will be satisfied when I awake having Your likeness.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh5_38"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>John 5:38</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>and<B> ye have not His word abiding in you</B>; for whom He hath sent, Him ye do not believe.</div> <div> <B> 39</B> Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning Me;</div> <div> <B> 40</B> and ye will not come to Me that ye might have life.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh8_31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>...</div> <div> <B>8:31</B> Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed Him,<B> If ye abide in My word</B>, ye are truly My disciples;</div> <div> <B> 32</B> and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh15_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>...</div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>15:7</B></A> If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.</div> <div> <B> 8</B> In this is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become My disciples.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps25_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm 25:10</B></A> All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth for such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.</div> <div> <B>26:3</B> For Your mercy is before my eyes, and I have walked habitually in Your truth.</div> <div> <B>11</B> Withhold not Your tender pity,</div> <div> O LORD, from Me continually.</div> <div> Thy truth and Thy mercy,</div> <div> always cause these to preserve Me</div> <div> <B>61:7</B> He shall abide before God for ever: bestow mercy and truth, that they may preserve him. </div> <div> <B>69:13</B> But as for me, my prayer is unto You, LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of Your mercy answer me, according to the truth of Your salvation: </div> <div> <B>85:</B><B>9</B> Surely His deliv'rance is near</div> <div> to them that Him fear</div> <div> that in our land may dwell glory,</div> <div> <B>10 </B>mercy and truth in harmony.</div> <div> Righteousness <I>here </I>and peace have kissed.</div> <div> <B>11</B><B> </B>Truth from the earth upright springeth,</div> <div> and righteousness from heav'n looked down,</div> <div> <B>12 </B>and the LORD gives what's good <I>to crown,</I></div> <div> <B>89:14</B> Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth go before Your face. </div> <div> <B>Proverbs 3:3</B> Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart: </div> <div> <B>14:22</B> Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth are for those that devise good. </div> <div> <B>16:6</B> By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil. </div> <div> <B>20:28</B> Mercy and truth preserve the king; and he upholds his throne by mercy. </div> <div> <B>Isaiah 16:5</B> And a throne shall be established in mercy: and in the tent of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.</div> <div> <B>Zechariah 7:9</B> Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions one to another,</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps40_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>40:10</B></A>  I have not hid Your righteousness</div> <div>  within My heart. Your faithfulness</div> <div>  and salvation I have declared.</div> <div>  <U>Your mercy and Your truth</U><I> </I>I've unconcealed unto the great congregation.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1th1_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1 Thessalonians 1:3</B></A> remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labor of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; </div> <div> <B>2 Thessalonians 1:11</B> To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, </div> <div> <B>James 2:14</B> What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?</div> <div>  15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,</div> <div>  16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?</div> <div>  17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.</div> <div>  18 But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.</div> <div>  19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe-- and shudder!</div> <div>  20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?</div> <div>  21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?</div> <div>  22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;</div> <div>  23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"-- and he was called a friend of God.</div> <div>  24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.</div> <div>  25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?</div> <div>  26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.</div> <div>  <A NAME="grace"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Acts 15:11</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>But we believe that we shall be<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus</FONT>, in the same manner as they also.</div> <div> <B>Romans 3:24</B> being<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > justified freely by his grace</FONT> through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; </div> <div> <B>4:16</B> Therefore [righteousness] is <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace</FONT>, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,</div> <div> <B>5:</B><B>15 </B>But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass,<B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>11:6</B> But<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > if by grace, no longer of works</FONT>: since otherwise grace is no more grace.</div> <div> <B>Ephesians 1:7</B> In him we have redemption through his blood, the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace</FONT>,</div> <div> <B>2:5</B> even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >by grace you have been saved</FONT>--</div> <div> <B>7 </B>so that in the coming ages <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us</FONT> in Christ Jesus.</div> <div> <B>8 </B>For<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330099" FACE="Arial" > by grace you have been saved through faith</FONT>. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,</div> <div> <B>2 Timothy 1:9</B> who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > because of his own purpose and grace</FONT>, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,</div> <div> <B>Titus 3:7</B> that, having been <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >justified by his grace</FONT>, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 2:9</B> But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>Acts 14:3</B> They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly, confiding in the Lord, who <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >gave witness to the word of his grace</FONT>, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.</div> <div> <B>20:24</B> But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >glad tidings of the grace of God</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>32 </B>And now I commit you to God, and<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > to the word of his grace</FONT>, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified.</div> <div> <B>2Corinthians</B> <B>8:9</B> For you know the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor</FONT>, so that you by his poverty might become rich.</div> <div> <B>Colossians 1:6</B> [The gospel] has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing-- as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330099" FACE="Arial" >understood the grace of God in truth</FONT>,</div> <div> <B>1Peter 1:10</B> Concerning this salvation,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > the prophets who prophesied about the grace</FONT> that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,</div> <div> <B>13</B> Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you</FONT> at the revelation of Jesus Christ.</div> <div> <B>Acts 4:33</B> and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >great grace was upon them all</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>11:23</B> who, having arrived and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >seeing the grace</FONT> of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord; </div> <div> <B>13:43</B> And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > persuaded them to continue in the grace of God</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>14:26</B> and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >commended to the grace of God</FONT> for the work that they had fulfilled. </div> <div> <B>Romans 5:2</B> Through him we have also <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand</FONT>, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.</div> <div> <B>17 </B>For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life</FONT> through the one man Jesus Christ.</div> <div> <B>20 </B>But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but<B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >where sin abounded grace has overabounded</FONT>,</div> <div> <B>21 </B>in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death,<B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >so also grace might reign through righteousness</FONT><B> </B>to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</div> <div> <B>1Corinthians 15:10</B> But <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain</FONT>. On the contrary, <B>I </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >worked harder than any of them</FONT>, though it was <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >not I, but the grace of God</FONT> that is with me. </div> <div> <B>2Corinthians 1:12 </B>For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God</FONT>, and supremely so toward you.</div> <div> <B>9:8</B> And God is able to<B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >make all grace abound to you</FONT>, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >you may abound in every good work</FONT>. </div> <div> <B>12:9</B> And he said to me, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >My grace suffices thee; for my power is perfected in weakness</FONT>. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.</div> <div> <B>Ephesians 4:7</B> But <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>2 Thessalonians 1:12</B> so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace</FONT> of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.</div> <div> <B>2Timothy 2:1</B> Thou therefore, my child,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > be strong in the grace</FONT> which is in Christ Jesus.</div> <div> <B>Titus 2:11 </B>For the<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation </FONT>for all people,</div> <div> <B>12</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >training us to renounce ungodliness</FONT> and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 4:16</B> Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >receive mercy and find grace</FONT> to help in time of need.</div> <div> <B>1Peter 3:7</B> Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are<B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >heirs with you of the grace of life</FONT>, so that your prayers may not be hindered</div> <div> <B>4:10</B> As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >as good stewards of God's varied grace</FONT>:</div> <div> <B>Romans 6:14</B> For sin shall not have dominion over you, for<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B>ye are not under law but under grace</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>2Corinthians </B><B>6:1</B> Working together with him, then, we appeal to you <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >not to receive the grace of God in vain</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>Galatians 2:21</B> I <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness is by law, then Christ has died for nothing</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>5:4 </B>You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B>fallen away from grace</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 12:15</B> Make sure that no one<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > falls short of the grace of God</FONT> and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="cmd"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 5:19</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >these commandments</FONT> and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</div> <div>  20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.</div> <div> <B>14:28</B> And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > command me</FONT> to come to you on the water."</div> <div> <B>15:3</B> He answered them, "And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >why do you break the commandment of God</FONT> for the sake of your tradition?</div> <div>  4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'</div> <div> <B>19:17</B> And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > keep the commandments</FONT>."</div> <div> <B>28:20</B> teaching them to <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >observe all that I have commanded you</FONT>. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."</div> <div> <B>John 13:34</B> A <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >new commandment</FONT> I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.</div> <div> <B>14:15</B> "If you love me, you will<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > keep my commandments</FONT>.</div> <div> 21 Whoever<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me</FONT>. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."</div> <div> <B>15:10</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > If you keep my commandments</FONT>, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.</div> <div>  11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.</div> <div>  12 "<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >This is my commandment</FONT>, that you love one another as I have loved you.</div> <div>  13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.</div> <div>  14 You are my friends<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > if you do what I command you</FONT>.</div> <div> 17 These things<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > I command you</FONT>, so that you will love one another.</div> <div> <B>Acts 10:42</B> And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >he commanded us to preach to the people</FONT> and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.</div> <div> <B>48 </B>And he<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > commanded them to be baptized</FONT> in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.</div> <div> <B>Romans 13:9</B> For <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >the commandments</FONT>, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >and any other commandment</FONT>, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."</div> <div> <B>Ephesians 6:2</B> "Honor your father and mother" (this is the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >first commandment with a promise</FONT>),</div> <div>  3 "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."</div> <div> <B>2Thessalonians 3:4</B> And we have confidence in the Lord about you,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > that you are doing and will do the things that we command</FONT>.</div> <div> 6 Now we<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > command you</FONT>, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.</div> <div> 10 For even when we were with you, we would give you<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > this command</FONT>: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.</div> <div>  11 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.</div> <div>  12 Now such persons <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >we command</FONT> and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.</div> <div> <B>1Timothy 4:11</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Command</FONT> and teach these things.</div> <div> <B>5:7</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >Command these things as well</FONT>, so that they may be without reproach.</div> <div> <B>6:14</B> to <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >keep the commandment</FONT> unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,</div> <div> <B>2Peter 2:21</B> For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >the holy commandment delivered to them</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>3:2</B> that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles</FONT>,</div> <div> <B>1John 2:3</B> And by this we know that we have come to know him,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > if we keep his commandments</FONT>.</div> <div>  4 Whoever says "I know him" but <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >does not keep his commandments is a liar</FONT>, and the truth is not in him,</div> <div>  5 but whoever <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >keeps his word</FONT>, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:</div> <div>  6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.</div> <div>  7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >an old commandment</FONT> that you had from the beginning. The <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >old commandment is the word that you have heard</FONT>.</div> <div>  8 At the same time, it is <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >a new commandment that I am writing to you</FONT>, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.</div> <div> <B>3:22 </B>and whatever we ask we receive from him,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > because we keep his commandments</FONT> and do what pleases him.</div> <div>  23 And<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > this is his commandment</FONT>, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > just as he has commanded us</FONT>.</div> <div>  24 Whoever <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >keeps his commandments</FONT> abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.</div> <div> <B>4:21</B> And<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > this commandment we have from him</FONT>: whoever loves God must also love his brother.</div> <div> <B>5:1</B> Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.</div> <div>  2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >and obey his commandments</FONT>.</div> <div>  3<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome</FONT>.</div> <div> <B>2John 4</B> I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >as we were commanded by the Father</FONT>.</div> <div>  5 And now I ask you, dear lady-- not as though I were writing you a new<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > commandment</FONT>, but the one we have had from the beginning-- that we love one another.</div> <div>  6 And<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.</FONT></div> <div>  7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.</div> <div>  8 Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.</div> <div> <B>Revelation 12:17</B> Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >who keep the commandments of God</FONT> and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.</div> <div> <B>14:12</B> Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >who keep the commandments of God</FONT> and their faith in Jesus.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh1_32"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>John 1:32</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him. </div> <div>  <A NAME="sos1_15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Song of Songs 1:15</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair:<B> thine eyes are doves</B>. </div> <div> <B>2:14 O my dove</B>, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. </div> <div> <B>4:1</B> Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; <B>Thine eyes are doves</B> behind thy veil; Thy hair is as a flock of goats, On the slopes of mount Gilead.</div> <div> <B>5:2</B> I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, <B>my love, my dove</B>, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."</div> <div> <B>12 His eyes are like doves</B> by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;</div> <div> <B>6:9 My dove, my perfect one, </B>is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her. </div> <div> <B>Psalm 74:19 Do not deliver the soul of your dove</B> to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever. </div> <div>  <A NAME="mat10_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 10:16</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and <B>guileless as the doves</B>.</div> <div> <B>Hosea 7:11</B> And Ephraim is become like <B>a silly dove without understanding</B>: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. </div> <div> <B>John 1:47</B> Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, <B>Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile</B>.</div> <div> <B>1 Peter 2:1 Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile</B> and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,</div> <div>  2 as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,</div> <div>  3 if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is good.</div> <div>  4 To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,</div> <div>  5 yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.</div> <div> <B>21</B> For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:</div> <div>  22 who did no sin, <B>neither was guile found in his mouth</B>;</div> <div>  23 who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously;</div> <div> <B>1 Peter 3:10</B> For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and<B> his lips that they speak no guile</B>. </div> <div> <B>Revelation 14:5</B> and<B> in their mouths was no guile found</B>; for they are blameless. </div> <div>  <A NAME="isa38_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 38:14</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;<B> I moan like a dove</B>. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety! </div> <div> <B>59:11</B> We roar all like bears, and <B>mourn grievously like doves</B>: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.</div> <div> <B>Ezekiel 7:16</B> And they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains <B>like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for his iniquity</B>. </div> <div> <B>Nahum 2:7</B> And it is decreed: she (Nineveh) shall be uncovered, she shall be led away, and her maids <B>shall moan as with the voice of doves</B>, drumming upon their breasts.</div> <div>  <A NAME="eph6_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Ephesians 6:17</B></A> and take the helmet of salvation, and <B>the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</B>, </div> <div> <B>1 Thessalonians 1:5</B> because our gospel came to you not <B>only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction</B>. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.</div> <div> 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the jo<B>y of the Holy Spirit</B>,</div> <div> <B>John 3:34</B> "For He whom God has sent <B>speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure</B>.</div> <div> <B>6:63</B> "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. <B>The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life</B>. </div> <div> <B>Acts 4:31</B> And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all <B>filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness</B>.</div> <div> <B>10:44</B> While Peter was <B>yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were hearing the word</B>.</div> <div> <B>1 Corinthians 2:4</B> and<B> my speech and my message</B> were not in plausible words of wisdom, but <B>in demonstration of the Spirit and of power</B>, </div> <div> <B>13 </B>And we impart this in<B> words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit</B>, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.</div> <div> <B>Ephesians 1:13</B> In him you also, <B>when you heard the word of trut</B>h, the gospel of your salvation, and <B>believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit</B>,</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh3_8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>John 3:8</B></A> The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. <B>So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.</B>"</div> <div> <B>Revelation 14:4</B> It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who<B> follow the Lamb wherever he goes</B>. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,</div> <div> <B> 5</B> and<B> in their mouth no lie was found</B>, for they are blameless. </div> <div> <B>Acts 2:38 </B>And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins,<B> and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. </B></div> <div> <B>4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, </B>said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, </div> <div> <B>31 </B>And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, <B>and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness</B>. </div> <div> <B>6:10</B> But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.</div> <div> <B>8:29</B> And<B> the Spirit said to Philip</B>, "Go over and join this chariot."</div> <div>  30<B> </B>So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?" ...</div> <div> <B>35 </B>Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. ...</div> <div> <B>39 </B>And when they came up out of the water,<B> the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away</B>, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.</div> <div>  40<B> </B>But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat6_22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 6:22</B></A> The lamp of the body is the eye;<B> if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body will be ligh</B>t:</div> <div> 23 but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!</div> <div>  24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</div> <div>  25 For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?</div> <div>  26 Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are *ye* not much more excellent than they?</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps1_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm 1:</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2</B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel">  </A>because delights he in the law of the LORD, and on His Law he meditates day and night.</div> <div>  <A NAME="lev13_49"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Leviticus 13:49</B></A> and the sore is<B> greenish</B> or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is the sore of leprosy, and shall be shown unto the priest.</div> <div> <B>14:34</B> When ye come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a leprous plague in a house of the land of your possession,</div> <div> <B>35 </B>then he whose house it is shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me like a plague in the house;</div> <div> <B>36 </B>and the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterwards the priest shall go in to see the house.</div> <div> <B>37</B> And when he looks on the plague, and behold, the plague is in the walls of the house, <B>greenish </B>or reddish hollows, and their look is deeper than the surface of the wall,</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps12_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm 12:6</B></A> Pure words are the words of the LORD,</div> <div> <B>tried as silver is tried</B>,</div> <div> tested in a furnace for earth,</div> <div> seven times purified.</div> <div> <B>Malachi 3:2</B> But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' lye.</div> <div>  <B>3 </B>And he shall sit as a<B> refiner and purifier of silver</B>; and he will purify the children of Levi, and <B>purge them as gold and silver</B>; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in righteousness.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="ps51_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm 51:7</B></A><B> </B>Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</div> <div> <B>Proverbs 25:13</B> As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters.</div> <div> <B>Isaiah 1:18 </B>Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.</div> <div> <B>55:10</B> For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:</div> <div> <B>11 </B>so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall do that which I please, and it shall accomplish that for which I send it.</div> <div> <B>Lamentations 4:7</B> Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their figure was as sapphire.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jdg9_48"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Judges 9:48</B></A><A HREF="#14" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>Then Abimelech went up to<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > mount Zalmon</FONT>, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people that was with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, do as I have done.</div> <div> <B>2Samuel 23:28</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > Zalmon the Ahohit</FONT>e, Maharai the Netophathite,</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom16_20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Romans 16:20</B></A> The God of peace will soon<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" > crush Satan under your feet</FONT>. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</div> <div> <B>Genesis 3:15</B> I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."</div> <div>  <A NAME="lev21_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Leviticus 21:17</B></A> Speak unto Aaron, saying, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >Any of thy seed throughout their generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present the bread of his God</FONT>;</div> <div> 18 for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb longer than the other,</div> <div> 19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,</div> <div> 20 or <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300CC" FACE="Arial" >hump-backed</FONT>, or withered, or that hath a spot in his eye, or hath the itch, or scabs, or his testicles broken.</div> <div> 21 No man of the seed of Aaron the priest <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >that hath defect shall come near to present Jehovah's offerings by fire</FONT>: he hath a defect; he shall not come near to present the bread of his God.</div> <div> 22 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat</FONT>;</div> <div>  23 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >only he shall not come in unto the veil, nor shall he draw near unto the altar</FONT>; for he hath a defect: that he profane not my sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them.</div> <div>  <A NAME="sir14_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#16" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Sirach 14:21</B></A> He that considers her [wisdom's] ways in his heart shall also have understanding in her secrets. 22 Go after her as one that traces, and<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" > lie in wait </FONT>in her ways.</div> <div>  <A NAME="deu6_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Deuteronomy 6:7</B> You shall <B>repeat them over and over</B> to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat24_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 24:3</B></A> As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your <B>coming </B>and of the end of the age?"</div> <div> <B>27</B> For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the <B>coming </B>of the Son of Man.</div> <div>  <A NAME="amo4_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#9" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Amos 4:7</B></A> And I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.</div> <div>  <A NAME="gal6_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#9" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Galatians 6:9</B></A> And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.</div> <div> <B>2 Thessalonians 3:13</B> As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 12:3</B> Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.</div> <div>  <B>4 </B>In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.</div> <div>  <B>5 </B>And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.</div> <div> <B>Revelation 2:3</B> I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2cor6_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#10" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2 Corinthians 6:16</B></A> What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.</div> <div> <B>1 Timothy 3:15</B> if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 10:31</B> It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</div> <div> <B>12:22</B> But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,</div> <div> <B>Deuteronomy 5:26</B> For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we, and has lived?</div> <div> <B>Joshua 3:10</B> And Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living God is in your midst, and that he will without fail dispossess from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.</div> <div> <B>1 Samuel 17:26 </B>And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?</div> <div> <B>Psalm 84:2</B> My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.</div> <div> <B>Hosea 1:10 </B>Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living God.</div> <div> <B>Romans 9:26</B> "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"</div> <div>  <A NAME="2cor12_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2Corinthians 12:7</B></A> So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.</div> <div> 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.</div> <div> 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</div> <div> 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2ki7_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2Kings 7:3</B></A> Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die?</div> <div>  4 If we say, 'Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."</div> <div>  5 So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.</div> <div> ...</div> <div> 8 And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.</div> <div>  9 Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king's household."</div> <div>  <A NAME="lev22_22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Leviticus 22:22</B></A> Blind, or broken, or <B>maimed</B>, or ulcerous, or with itch, or scabbed -- ye shall not present these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Jehovah.</div> <div> <B>Daniel 9:25</B> Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the <B>moat </B>shall be built again, even in troublous times.</div> <div> <B>Joel 3:14</B> Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of <B>decision</B>! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa28_27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah </B></A><A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>41:15</B></A> Behold, I have made of thee a new <B>sharp threshing instrument</B> having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;</div> <div> <B>28:27</B> For the dill is not threshed with a <B>threshing instrument</B>, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.</div> <div> <B>Amos 1:3</B> Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with <B>threshing instruments</B> of iron.</div> <div> <B>Job 41:30</B> His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreads a threshing-sledge upon the mire.</div> <div>  <A NAME="prov3_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Proverbs 3:14</B></A> For the gain thereof is better than the gain of silver, and her revenue than <B>gold</B>.</div> <div> <B>8:10</B> Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than <B>gold</B>:</div> <div> <B>19 </B>My fruit is better than<B> gold</B>, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.</div> <div> <B>16:16</B> How much better is it to get wisdom than <B>gold</B>, and the getting of intelligence to be preferred to silver!</div> <div> <B>Zechariah 9:3</B> And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and <B>gold</B> as the mire of the streets.</div> <div>  <A NAME="prov10_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Proverbs 10:4</B></A> He cometh to want that deals with a slack hand; but the hand of the <B>diligent </B>maketh rich.</div> <div> <B>5</B> He that gathers in summer is a wise son; he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.</div> <div> <B>12:24</B> The hand of the <B>diligent </B>shall bear rule; but the slothful hand shall be under tribute.</div> <div> <B>27 </B>The slothful roasts not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the <B>diligent</B>.</div> <div> <B>13:4</B> A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the <B>diligent </B>shall be made fat.</div> <div> <B>21:5</B> The thoughts of the <B>diligent </B>tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.</div> <div>  <A NAME="prov6_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Proverbs 6:6</B></A> Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:</div> <div>  <B>7 </B>which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,</div> <div>  <B>8 </B>provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.</div> <div>  <B>9 </B>How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</div> <div>  <B>10 </B>A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!</div> <div>  <B>11 </B>So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.</div> <div> <B>20:4</B> The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.</div> <div> <B>25:13</B> As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters.</div> <div>  <A NAME="heb4_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Hebrews 4:12</B></A> For the word of God is living and operative, and <B>sharper</B> than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</div> <div> <B>John 16:8</B> And when He [the Holy Spirit] comes, He will <B>convict</B> the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:</div> <div> <B>1 Thessalonians 1:5</B> because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with <B>full conviction</B>. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1cor9_27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1 Corinthians 9:27</B></A> But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.</div> <div> <B>2Corinthians 12:7</B> So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.</div> <div>  <B>8 </B>Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.</div> <div>  <B>9 </B>But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</div> <div>  <B>10 </B>For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.</div> <div>  <A NAME="deu3_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Deuteronomy 3:11</B></A><A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>For only Og the king of Bashan remained of the residue of giants (Rephaim): behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? its length was nine cubits, and its breadth four cubits, after the cubit of a man.</div> <div> <B>12</B> And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;</div> <div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B> 13</B></A> and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob, even all Bashan, is called a land of giants (Rephaim).</div> <div>  <A NAME="exo15_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Exodus 15:4</B></A> Pharaoh's chariots and his army hath he cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.</div> <div>  <B>5 </B>The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone. ...</div> <div> <B>9 </B>The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.</div> <div>  <B>10 </B>Thou didst blow with thy breath, the sea covered them; They sank as lead in the mighty waters.</div> <div> <B>Nehemiah 9:11</B> And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry ground; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rev16_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Revelation 16:12 </B></A>The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.</div> <div>  <B>13 </B>And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.</div> <div>  <B>14 </B>For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.</div> <div>  <B>15 </B>("Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!")</div> <div>  <B>16 </B>And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1pe2_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#16" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1 Peter 2:5</B></A><A HREF="#16" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.</div> <div> <B>9 </B>But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.</div> <div> <B>Revelation 1:6 </B>and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.</div> <div> <B>5:10 </B>and You have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.</div> <div> <B>20:6</B> Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2ki6_15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#17" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2Kings 6:15</B></A><B> </B>And when the attendant of the man of God rose early and went forth, behold, an army surrounded the city, with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?</div> <div>  <B>16 </B>And he said, Fear not, for they that are with us are more than they that are with them.</div> <div>  <B>17 </B>And Elisha prayed and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 12:22</B> but ye have come to mount Zion; and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,</div> <div>  <B>23 </B>the universal gathering; and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect;</div> <div>  <B>24 </B>and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat11_28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#19" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 11:28 </B></A>Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</div> <div>  29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</div> <div>  30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."</div> <div>  <A NAME="heb9_27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Hebrews 9:27</B></A><A HREF="#20" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;</div> <div> <B>John 5:28</B> Wonder not at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice,</div> <div> <B>29 </B>and shall go forth; those that have practiced good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2pe2_20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2Peter 2:20</B></A> For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.</div> <div>  <B>21 </B>For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.</div> <div>  <B>22 </B>But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud.</div> <div> <B>1John 3:4 </B>Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.</div> <div>  <B>5 </B>You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.</div> <div>  <B>6 </B>No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.</div> <div>  <B>7 </B>Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.</div> <div>  <B>8 </B>Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.</div> <div>  <B>9 </B>No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.</div> <div>  <B>10 </B>By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.</div> <div>  <A NAME="phil1_28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#24" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Philippians 1:28</B></A> and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat5_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#24" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 5:14</B></A> "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.</div> <div>  15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.</div> <div>  16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.</div> <div>  <A NAME="acts17_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Acts 17:5</B> But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="php2_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="#16" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Philippians 2:3</B></A> Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.</div> <div> <B>1Corinthians 4:6 </B>I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.</div> <div> <B>13:4</B> Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant</div> <div> <B>2Corinthians 12:20</B> For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;</div> <div> <B>Galatians 5:19</B> Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,</div> <div>  <B>20 </B>idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,</div> <div>  <B>21 </B>envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa29_20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#16" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 29:20</B></A><B> </B>For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off,</div> <div>  21 that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility.</div> <div>  22 Therefore thus saith Jehovah who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now be pale;</div> <div>  23 for when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall hallow my name, and hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.</div> <div>  24 And they that are of erring spirit shall know understanding, and the disobedient shall learn doctrine.</div> <div>  <A NAME="gen49_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#27" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Genesis 49:10</B></A><A HREF="#27" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B> </B></A>The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.</div> <div>  <A NAME="phil3_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#27" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Philippians 3:5</B></A> as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;</div> <div> 1Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.</div> <div> 10 But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have labored more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1co15_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#27n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1Corinthians 15:7</B></A> Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.</div> <div>  8 <U>Last of all,</U> as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.</div> <div>  9 For I am<U> the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God</U>.</div> <div>  10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#27n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Ephesians 3:8</B></A> To me, though I am the <U>very least of all the saints</U>, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,</div> <div>  9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,</div> <div>  10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.</div> <div> <B>1Timothy 1:15</B> The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, <U>of whom I am the foremost</U>.</div> <div> 16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, <U>as the foremost</U>, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1co15_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#27" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1Corinthians 15:5</B></A> and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.</div> <div> 6 Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.</div> <div> 7 Then He appeared to James; then to all the apostles;</div> <div> Matthew 13:55 Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?</div> <div> Acts 1:14 These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with several women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.</div> <div> 12:17 And having made a sign to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison; and he said, Report these things to James and to the brethren. And he went out and went to another place.</div> <div> 15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me:</div> <div> 21:18 And on the morrow Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders came there.</div> <div> Galatians 1:19 but I saw none other of the apostles, but James the brother of the Lord.</div> <div> 2:9 and recognizing the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that *we* should go to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;</div> <div> James 1:1 James, bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting.</div> <div> Jude 1:1 Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ:</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat4_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#27" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Matthew 4:14</B></A><B> </B>that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,</div> <div>  15 Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:</div> <div>  16 -- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.</div> <div>  <A NAME="act4_36"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#27" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Acts 4:36</B></A> And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth,</div> <div> 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.</div> <div>  <A NAME="eph3_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#28" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Ephesians 3:16</B></A> that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,</div> <div> 6:10 For the rest, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the might of his strength.</div> <div> Philippians 4:13 I have strength for all things in him that gives me</div> <div> Colossians 1:11 strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;</div> <div> Hebrews 11:11 By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.</div> <div> 1 Peter 4:11 If any one speak -- as oracles of God; if any one minister -- as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.</div> <div> 5:10 But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, establish, strengthen, ground:</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa56_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_68_l.htm#v28" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 56:6</B></A> Also the sons of the alien, that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast to my covenant;</div> <div>  7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.</div> <div>  8 The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith: Yet will I gather others to him, with those of his that are gathered.</div> <div> <B>Mark 11:17</B> And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."</div> <div> <B>1Kings 8:41</B> "Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake</div> <div>  42 (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,</div> <div>  43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.</div> <div> <B>Acts 15:14</B> Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.</div> <div>  15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</div> <div>  16 "'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it,</div> <div>  17 that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things</div> <div>  18 known from of old.'</div> <div>  <A NAME="1ti3_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1 Timothy 3:1</B></A> The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.</div> <div>  2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,</div> <div>  3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. ...</div> <div> 8 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. ...</div> <div> 6:5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.</div> <div>  6 But godliness with contentment is great gain,</div> <div>  7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.</div> <div>  8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.</div> <div>  9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.</div> <div>  10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.</div> <div>  11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. ...</div> <div> 17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.</div> <div>  18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,</div> <div>  19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.</div> <div> 2Timothy 3:4:10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.</div> <div> Titus 1:11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.</div> <div> Matthew 13:22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2ti3_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2 Timothy 3:1</B></A> But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.</div> <div>  2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,</div> <div> <B>Luke 17:26</B> Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.</div> <div>  27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.</div> <div>  28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot-- they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,</div> <div>  29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all--</div> <div>  30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.</div> <div>  31 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.</div> <div>  32 Remember Lot's wife.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2ti3_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Titus 2:14</B></A> who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.</div> <div>  15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.</div> <div> <B>1 Timothy 5:1</B> Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,</div> <div>  2 elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.</div> <div> <B>2Timothy 3:15</B> and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.</div> <div>  16 Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;</div> <div>  17 that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.</div> <div> 4:2 proclaim the word; be urgent in season and out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.</div> <div>  3 For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;</div> <div>  4 and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.</div> <div>  5 But you, be sober in all things, bear evils, do the work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.</div> <div> Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.</div> <div>  4 And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.</div> <div>  <A NAME="pro25_26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Proverbs 25:26</B></A> A <B>muddied </B>fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.</div> <div> 6:3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go,<B> trample on thyself</B>, and plead urgently with thy friend,</div> <div> Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast like a young lion among the nations, and thou wast as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth in thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and<B> fouledst </B>their rivers.</div> <div> 34:18 Is it too small a thing unto you to have eaten up the good pastures, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures; and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must<B> foul</B> the rest with your feet?</div> <div>  <A NAME="dan11_24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Daniel 11:24</B></A><A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>In time of peace shall he enter even into the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall <B>distribute </B>among them prey, and spoil, and substance, and he shall plan his devices against the fortified places, even for a time.</div> <div>  <A NAME="exo36_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Exodus 36:2</B></A> And Moses calleth unto Bezaleel, and unto Aholiab, and unto every wise-hearted man in whose heart Jehovah hath given wisdom, every one whom his heart lifted up, to come near unto the work to do it.</div> <div> 1 Kings 2:7 'And to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite thou dost do kindness, and they have been among those eating at thy table, for so they drew near unto me in my fleeing from the face of Absalom thy brother.</div> <div> Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh4_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>John 4:7</B></A><A HREF="#30" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"> </A>A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink. ...</div> <div> 16 Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.</div> <div>  17 The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;</div> <div>  18 for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.</div> <div> Colossians 4:6 Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#31" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Isaiah 18:7</B></A> In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, -- and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, ...to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.</div> <div> <B>19:19</B> In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah:</div> <div> 20 and it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a savior and many, who shall deliver them.</div> <div> 21 And Jehovah shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and shall serve with sacrifice and oblation; and they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and perform it.</div> <div>  22 And Jehovah will smite Egypt; he will smite and heal: and they shall return to Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.</div> <div>  23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria; and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and Egypt shall serve Assyria.</div> <div>  24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;</div> <div>  25 whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance!</div> <div>  <A NAME="1sa10_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#31" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>1 Samuel 10:7</B></A> And it shall be, when these signs shall come to thee,<U> thou shalt do as thy hand shall find;</U> for God is with thee.</div> <div> 2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.</div> <div> Romans 12:11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.</div> <div> Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,</div> <div> Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. </div> <div> Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great reward. (ref Rev 3:8) </div> <div> 12:11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.</div> <div>  12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,</div> <div>  13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.</div> <div>  14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.</div> <div> Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people that know their God shall be strong and shall take action.</div> <div> Revelation 3:8 "'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</div> <div> Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.</div> <div>  8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.</div> <div>  9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.</div> <div>  10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.</div> <div>  <A NAME="heb11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#34" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Hebrews 11:6 </B></A>But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.</div> <div> 11 By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.</div> <div>  12 Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.</div> <div> 27 By faith [Moses] left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible.</div> <div> 33 who by faith overcame kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped lions' mouths,</div> <div>  34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, became strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, made the armies of strangers give way.</div> <div> Romans 4:18 who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:</div> <div>  19 and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,</div> <div>  20 and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;</div> <div>  21 and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;</div> <div>  22 wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps110_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#35" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>Psalm 110:</B></A><A HREF="#35" TITLE="Psalm 68 overcomer gifts for Gods dwel"><B>2</B></A> The LORD sends forth out from Zion</div> <div>         the staff of Your strength, <I>O King</I>.</div> <div>      Rule <I>while </I>in the midst of Your foes,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_110_n3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ps 110 The LORD said to My Lord">3</A><I>      over </I>Your people willing,</div> <bR> <div> -copyright Steve Miller 1/6/2023</div> </td> </tr></table></body>