Psalms 138:2 - Homilies By C. Short

The greatness of the Word of God.

"For thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name."

I. GOD 'S WORD IS GREATER THAN HIS MATERIAL WORK . His word of command was the cause of creation. "Let there be light;" "He commanded, and it stood fast:

II. GOD 'S WORD EXPRESSES MORE THAN HIS WORK . God's Word is his uttered thought, and expresses more than the utmost science of nature can utter. Goes beyond all the teachings of chemistry, electricity, etc.

III. GOD 'S WORD CAN REGENERATE HIS WORK . In man and in all intelligent beings, when it has been injured and partly destroyed. Christ, the Word of God's regenerating power.

IV. GOD 'S WORD ABIDES UNCHANGEABLY , WHILE SOME OF HIS WORK ALTERS AND PASSES MANY . "Wax old, as doth a garment; but thou remainest," etc.

V. GOD 'S WORD OF PROMISE IS GREATER THAN ANYTHING HE HAS DONE . That Word furnishes not only the pillars on which the present order of things rests, but is the ground of all the new and future. Of whatever is to come, in the outward and inward universe of man.—S.