True Happiness: Psalms 1 and 107 (Wisdom from the Psalms) [Paperback]

Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Author)

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Series: Wisdom from the Psalms | Publication Date: June 28, 2001

As is true of the entire Bible, the Psalms reflect on our relationship with the Creator and what He has done to save us. Here Martyn Lloyd-Jones takes an in-depth look at two specific Psalms that are sure to cause readers to pause and think about their own lives. In these expository sermons on Psalms 1 and 107, this renowned preacher unveils the secrets of happiness and praise, and once again faithfully brings forth God's Word while speaking directly to the hearts of readers.

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• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Crossway Books (June 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158134287X
• ISBN-13: 978-1581342871
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), minister of Westminster Chapel in London for thirty years, was one of the foremost preachers of his day. His books include Spiritual Depression, Joy Unspeakable, The Cross, The Heart of the Gospel, and his series on John 17.

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If I had any reason to live in 1955, it is to attend the services at Westminster Chapel when Pastor Jones preached these sermons. To the best of my knowledge, nobody preached the gospel from Psalms as stunningly as he did. Psalms 1 and 107 are Biblical human psychology; a true, honest, unashamed, sober view of postlapsarian men, created to find their true happiness in living for and enjoying their Maker, yet plunged themselves into a fatal hopeless state of sin after the Fall; showing its ugly face in four symptoms described in Psalm 107; wandering, hungering, thirsting, fainting in the desert looking for a city of habitation, being bound in affliction and iron, being sick to the point of death, and being hammered mercilessly by the passions of the flesh and the storms of life.

Pastor Jones brilliantly correlates these symptoms to the examples in the life of the so-called modern men by drawing from their gloomy pathetic literary and academic work (e.g., Darwin, Byron, Henley and Russell) to demonstrate they are real. He then magnifies the sweetness of the glorious grace of God in Christ even more brilliantly according to the flow of both Psalms; the essence of the gospel, where God performs the greatest miracle of turning wilderness into standing water, dry ground into water spring representing the event of regeneration, shattering the gates of brass, breaking the bands of iron, sending forth his Word to heal and restore, calming the storm, satisfying and filling with goodness, and thus delivering from distress those who "cried unto the LORD in their trouble."

Don't miss this sober yet glorious and joyful preaching, and then, after you read it, join the chorus of the redeemed praising God, "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Amen."