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v8-19 Vinyard in Disrepair


Psalm 80:8-19 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.  Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.  The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.  She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.  Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?  The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.  Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;  And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.  It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.  So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

The vinyard produces no fruit.  This is the result, 100% of the time, with righteousness that originates in the self.  Our righteousness must flow from the throne of God or this will always happen.  Notice verses 17-19 and the promise that they contain:

17-19 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.  So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

The vinyard will be saved by the Man of God's right hand.  This passage looks forward to the New Covenant and to Jesus Christ Who now sits at the right hand of God, interceding for the believers who have set themselves apart from the world.

 


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