The Connie Giordano Show

In the last broadcast, we started our series on Resolutions as found in the Book of Psalms. We began with Psalm 23:4 and studied at length the valley of the shadow of death. We saw that in the face of Evil, David was able to say "I will fear no evil." In this broadcast, we want to look at the source of this bold resolve. God has a message for you in this podcast. He is saying that you have nothing to fear. You can face tomorrow. With a bold resolve, you, too, can say "I will fear no evil: for Jesus is with me."

Here is my New Series entitled - "In The Beginning Was The Word." We are dealing with the theme of "Resolutions" as found in the book of Psalms. (If there was ever a day and an hour when the Church needed to have a made-up mind, it is NOW!) This initial resolution deals with David's resolve - "I will" - as found in Psalm 23:6.

"The first affections of men towards Christ, and holiness, and heaven, are usually lively and warm. God remembered the love of Israel's espousals, when she would follow Him whithersoever He went. These lively affections will abate and cool if great care be not taken, and diligently used, to preserve them in constant exercise. Christ is grieved and displeased with His people when He sees them grow remiss and cold towards Him, and He will one way or other make them sensible that He does not take it well from them." (Matthew Henry)

"Hypocrites are such who seem to and would be thought to be, what they are not; they are outwardly righteous before men, but inwardly very wicked; have a form of godliness, but are destitute of the power of it; pretend to much religion, and to be worshippers of God, when it is only in outward appearances; and not in reality, and sincerity: and such as these have been in the congregations of the righteous, in all ages." (John Gill)

"When God says, 'I will,' His resolution is supported by omnipotence...When God says, 'I will,' it is sealed with immutability. We are always changing...But God never changes. When God says, 'I will,' it will be carried out in faithfulness." (Charles Spurgeon)

"As the temple of God in the midst of a corrupt society, God's people in Corinth were not to participate in the evils prevalent in that society, but were to reject all forms of immorality. God's temple must be holy because God is holy." (Life In The Spirit Study Bible) You are the "temple of God." God dwells in you. And where God dwells, there is His temple. How will this revelation change the way you conduct yourself - the way you live? How will it change the way you worship?

"Man does not stand isolated in this world. If he is not influenced by the Holy Spirit, he is influenced by the spirits of delusion, who are the emissaries of Satan. If we are not possessed by the truth, error will make an easy conquest of us." (The Pulpit Commentary) Are you aware of this? Do you realize this?

"Christ's disciples are often to be blamed for the shallowness of their understandings, and the slipperiness of their memories...We are therefore perplexed with present cares and distrusts, because we do not duly remember our former experiences of divine power and goodness." (Matthew Henry)

"Jonah was a faithful prophet as long as God wanted what Jonah wanted. But when God's marching orders went contrary to Jonah, he would not do what he was told." (The Preacher's Commentary) "Christian, do not play the Jonah, unless you wish to have all the waves and the billows rolling over your head. You will find in the long run that it is far harder to shun the work and will of God than to at once yield yourself to it." (Charles Spurgeon)

"Our conversation is of far more consequence than some men imagine." (Charles Spurgeon) "Whatever I speak to you is for the benefit of mankind - keep nothing from them, declare explicitly the whole counsel of God." (Adam Clarke)