I will rejoice in your salvation
by William Nicholson 1862 I will rejoice in your salvation Psalm
9 verse 14 The minds of the wicked find
joy from the most trivial causes, causes which the Spirit of God
has taught the Christian to estimate as mere vanity and vexation of
spirit. To the enlightened mind, the
pursuits of this world and the possessions of the most wealthy
dwindle into insignificance when compared with the value of the
soul and its great salvation. If a sinner finds cause for joy
in his career of iniquity, the end of which is damnation, then
surely the believer has an unfailing source of joy and consolation
in God's salvation. No one can rejoice in salvation
unless he understands it. There will be a knowledge of
the necessity of salvation, arising from the conviction of one's
fallen, guilty, and condemned state before God, of the accomplishment
of salvation by the atoning death, resurrection, and intercession
of Jesus Christ, 1 Timothy 1, verse 15. that when received,
salvation will grant pardon to the guilty, justification to
the condemned, liberty to the spiritual captive, health to
the spiritually sick, sight to the spiritually blind, and in
short, all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. No one can ever rejoice in salvation
unless he has felt his need of it. The Spirit has opened the
eyes of his understanding and revealed to him his great guilt
and need of the Saviour. He now knows the plague of his
own heart. He now feels his utter helplessness. and perceives the adaption of
the Saviour to his state as a perishing sinner. True salvation always
produces joy and rejoicing. I will rejoice in your salvation. The sick person rejoices when
his disease departs, when the bloom of health again mantles
his cheek, etc. The debtor rejoices when his
debts are discharged, etc. The culprit rejoices when reprieved,
when he hears the opening of the doors of his prison-house. And shall not the penitent and
believing sinner rejoice? He is saved. saved from the guilt
of sin, the condemnation of sin, the dominion of sin, the power
of death, the dominion of the grave, and the vengeance of everlasting
fire. This joy springs from the realization
of divine mercy through the sin-atoning death of Christ. This rejoicing
is over an infinite soul, redeemed by an infinite price, from an
infinite damnation to infinite joys, realized first here and
then to be realized fully in an infinite heaven. What a possession! What a prospect! I will rejoice
in your salvation. 1. The believer rejoices in the
origin of salvation. It is the result of distinguishing
grace, the sovereign goodness and unmerited compassion and
favour of God. Man did not deserve it, had no
equitable title to it, never solicited it, God beheld him
as an outcast, pitied him, and condescended to save him. 2. The believer rejoices in the
procuring of salvation, when he sees his Redeemer in the garden,
and on the cross he weeps, but they are tears of joy, when he
sees Christ's astonishing love, there he sees Him bearing his
sins, and dying in His stead, etc. The believer rejoices in the
glorious properties of salvation, the freeness of it, requiring
no qualifications nor conditions, the purity of it, unto holiness,
the power of it, saving him from the guilt, dominion, and pollution
of sin, the extensiveness of it, investing him with every
spiritual blessing, the certainty of it, assuring the soul, I give
them eternal life, and they will never perish, ever. no one will
snatch them out of my hand. John chapter 10, verse 28. Four, the believer rejoices in
the prospective consummation of salvation in heaven. He anticipates
with joy the full harvest, the fruition of hope, and the vision
of glory in which faith shall be lost. You will fill me with
joy in your presence with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16 verse 11. you