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Study Resources :: Text Commentaries :: F.E. Marsh :: Readings 301-350 (Peace - Service)
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F.E. Marsh :: 302. People of God

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BALAAM’S words about God’s people (Numbers 24:5-9, 17-19; Deut. 33:29), illustrate what God does for them.

  1. God’s people are a goodly people (Num. 24:5). Goodly because partakers of the goodness of God. The valleys, with their fruitfulness and flowers, are an illustration of the goodly fruits and fragrance that are produced in the lives of those who are possessed by, and are under the power of Him.
  2. God’s people are a supplied people (Num. 24:7). Water poured out of buckets is but a simile of His continual supply and His all-sufficient grace to meet our every need.
  3. God’s people are an exalted people. “His people shall be higher than Agag” (Num. 24:7). Our King is Christ; He is exalted to the right hand of God (Phil. 2:9), and we are exalted with Him (Ephesians 2:6).
  4. God’s people are a delivered people. We are delivered from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10); from the second death (2 Cor. 1:10); from our enemies (Luke 1:74); and from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4).
  5. God’s people are an honoured people (Num. 24:17-19). Israel was honoured because Christ came from them, and was of them.
  6. God’s people are a happy people (Deut. 33:29). Happy because their sins are forgiven (Psalm 32:1, 2); because chosen by Him (Psalm 33:12); because trusting in Him (Psalm 34:8). because occupied with Him (Psalm 40:4); because ministering to others for Him (Psalm 41:1); because abiding in Him (Psalm 65:4; 84:4); because strengthened by Him (Psalm 84:5). The word “blessed” in the Psalms is the same word that is rendered “happy” in Deuteronomy 33:29.
  7. God’s people are a saved people. Saved by the death of Christ as to the means of salvation (John 10:9-11); saved by the Holy Spirit as to the effectual cause of salvation (Titus 3:5); saved by faith as to the reception ot salvation (Luke 7:50); saved by the Gospel as to the knowledge of salvation (1 Cor. 15:2); saved by the risen living Christ as to being kept from sinning (Rom. 5:10); and saved by hope as to the completeness of our salvation (Rom. 8:24).
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