Psa 107:1-8 “Praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men” – Part One

Part One (Psa 107:1-8) “praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men”
Part Two (Psa 107:9-15) “praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men”
Part Three (Psa 107:16-21) “praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men”
Part Four (Psa 107:22-31) “praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men”
Part Five (Psa 107:32-43) “praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men”

The last verse of this Psalm reads “Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD”, and this reminds us of Revelation 1:3, which says, “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”

The time is at hand for God’s elect to be sent forth and having done all to stand against all the wiles of the devil as a people who are sent forth “as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves” who understand “the lovingkindness of the Lord” working in the lives of all those who are being dragged to Christ.

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Mat 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Mat 10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Mat 10:18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Mat 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

The Lord has woven throughout this Psalm 107 a series of difficult events that will lead us back to the point of “praise[ing] the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! “

We can see in each section of this Psalm prior to that cry that we are brought to make out to the Lord the means to the end which God has ordained for each of the elect in the earth to be able to grow and mature through this life via our Creator who delivers us from all our troubles and gives the spiritual increase to Christ’s body, which fills us with thanks and praise for His wonderful works being done to us. It is through the troubles, through the storms which God raises, that we learn of His great might and power that deliver us and fill us with thanks and praise for His love toward us.

Heb 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

The progressive pattern in this Psalm which leads to our praising the Lord for His goodness cannot be understood unless we see His goodness as a work of repentance that does bring us to a point of praising Him for the safe haven that brings us to be quiet in our souls. This Psalm reveals a progressive pattern that God is working in our lives so that we can become more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Rom 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Isa 30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Part one (Psa 107:1-8) speaks of the redeemed, or those who are being redeemed from the enemy who we wrestle against in our heavens and how our lives are directed and guided by Christ “in the wilderness in a solitary way” which is a shadow of how we all first come to hear the voice of the true shepherd telling us to come out her my people, “her” being the wilderness of sin, Babylon within each of us, of whom we come out in order to be redeemed from the earth.

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Psa 107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Psa 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psa 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psa 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psa 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psa 107:8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

As I mentioned, there is a progression of deliverance for which the Lord has purposed for us, a little by little driving out of all the beasts in the land, and clearly this represents what Christ is doing within the temple which we are.

Exo 23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Joh 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
Joh 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.

Ecc 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

We give thanks upon every remembrance of our threefold cord (Php 1:3-6), Who we need as one healthy body to drive out the beast within the temple, and to cleanse His house so that it can remain a house of praise and worship of our great Creator (Joh 4:23).

Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed^H1350 of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed^H1350 from the hand of the enemy;

The word ‘redeemed’ is very significant in this verse as it is tied unto the idea that the redeemed are those who have a redeemer, and without Christ as our redeemer and mediator there would be no possibility for redemption to occur.

Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Joh 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

The following words which are connected to the word redeemed reveal the means and ways by which our Father will fulfill his promise to deliver us “from the hand of the enemy”. Christ is our kinsman redeemer Who has gone before us to make a way where there seems to be none in the sea of our flesh, a strong deliverer, a very present help in trouble is our Lord.

1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Isa 43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Deu 31:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Psa 46:1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Redeemed H1350

1. to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer, avenge, revenge, ransom, do the part of a kinsman

a. (Qal)

1. to act as kinsman, do the part of next of kin, act as kinsman-redeemer 1a

b. by marrying brother’s widow to beget a child for him, to redeem from slavery, to redeem land, to exact vengeance

1. to redeem (by payment)
2. to redeem (with God as subject) 1a

c. individuals from death 1a
d. Israel from Egyptian bondage 1a
e. Israel from exile
f. (Niphal)

1. to redeem oneself

2. to be redeemed

Psa 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

This following verse explains what the Lord is redeeming us from as we are gathered out of the lands [within us-the self-will part which can’t yet acknowledge that God is sovereign and works all things according to the counsel of his own will but will, in time, as the man of perdition is destroyed by the brightness of his coming little by little, “from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south”.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Judgment is upon the house of God, and we know that judgment comes from the north, and so we are left to conclude that if we are being judged in this age, then we are in fact being shepherded of the Lord who is sovereign over our eastern directions, our western direction, our southern direction, all our directions, as we grow in our ability to be easily led of the spirit of God bringing every thought captive unto Him.

1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Jer 1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

Pro 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Pro 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Pro 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Pro 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pro 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Pro 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge^G1556 all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Revenge G1556

– Original: εu787 κu948 ιu954 εu769 ωpar – Transliteration: Ekdikeo
– Phonetic: ek-dik-eh’-o
– Definition:
1. to vindicate one’s right, do one justice

a. to protect, defend, one person from another

2. to avenge a thing

a. to punish a person for a thing

– Origin: from G1558
– TDNT entry: 09:22,2
– Part(s) of speech: Verb

– Strong’s: From G1558; to vindicate retaliate punish: – a (re) venge.
Total KJV Occurrences: 4
•avenge, 2
Rom_12:19; Rev_6:10

•avenged, 1
Rev_19:2

•revenge, 1
2Co_10:6

Redeemed H1350

•revenger, 6
Num_35:19 [2Co_10:6 , Luk_2:35 , Num_25:7-8]; Num_35:21; Num_35:24; Num_35:25; Num_35:27

Without judgment from the north, every way east, west and south will seem right to a man but it will lead to death (Jer 10:23, Pro 14:12, Pro 16:33 the lot is cast into the lap the North-South-East and West).

When we are fulfilling God’s will, we are overcoming the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life for that very reason. Even when we are directed by the judgment of God from the north we pray that we don’t despise that correction but learn that we are being received through it.

1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Pro 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

When we are led of the spirit (Rom 8:14-15) we will find liberty in Christ (2Co 3:17), even if we are not going in the direction that our flesh does not want to go (1Jn 2:15-17, Joh 21:18).

Psa 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

When we forget God’s law and don’t keep his commandments, we are in fact still among those who “wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way”. Christ is our refuge and our high towered city in which we dwell being raised together in heavenly places.

Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Heb 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Heb 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

So there is an “is, was and will be” relevance to this verse as there is with every section of scripture. God has been merciful toward us as His kind of first fruits to be able to be convicted that we are not of this world but rather the manchild who is blessed beyond words to be able to say that we know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent into our lives to finish this great work of grace and faith within each of us (Joh 6:29, Joh 17:3).

Joh 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Psa 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

As was mentioned at the start of this study, this first section of Psalm 107 is very focused on the starting point of our calling when we see clearly that we are the prodical son in need of deliverance from the bondage of sin which is represented as being “Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.”

Luk 15:17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Luk 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Luk 15:19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Luk 17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

These verses are very important to be seen as being parallel to each other (Luk 15:19, Luk 17:10) and demonstrate the mindset that God is accomplishing within us through the fiery trials that humble us and remind us that we are but dust.

Psa 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Jas 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Jas 4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Jas 4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Jas 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psa 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

This is the definitive moment in our life when we cry “unto the LORD in their trouble” and we experience his deliverance from all our distresses.

This is not a small thing, this is a huge event, because most of the world cannot see their need for deliverance and do not see their blindness and are not being dragged to Christ to go where they do not want to go.

Luk 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Luk 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 21:18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

It is only those who are being led of the spirit and dragged to Christ and His body who are going to experience a day of trouble and distress from which He has promised to deliver us. It is that trouble and distress that God uses to form the new man within us and destroy the old man at the same time.

Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Luk 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luk 6:21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
Luk 6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Joh 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

As we look further into this Psalm, we will see how God has complete dominion over the breaking points of our heavens and what it takes to bring us to no longer trust in our flesh so that we can be blessed to drink the cup which He gives us.

2Co 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Mat 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Mat 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

Psa 107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

1 John 4:17 explains how it is possible to be led “forth by the right way” through judgment. Christ is that “right way” being our mediator with our Father, having broken down the middle wall of partition so that we may reside together in peace in “a city of habitation” called new Jerusalem above which is the mother of us all (Gal 4:26).

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Psa 107:8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Saying “Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men” has been written because it is what is going to happen. These words are retorical because they declare what will happen, not maybe, it will happen, we will “praise the LORD for his goodness” and “his wonderful works to the children of men” once we go through the trials and test that are accompanied with the promise that he will always make a way for us to endure through all those necessary trials that God uses to perfect our praise of Him.

Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1Co 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1Co 10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. [the context is overcoming sin and it is through communion that we do this as we read on….(Heb 10:25, Mal 3:16)]
1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

1 Corinthians10:15 Hearkens back to the first part of our study where I wrote…

“The last verse of this Psalm reads “Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD” and this reminds us of Revelation 1:3 which says “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand”.”

And so the time is at hand for us to realize as wise children of God who have gained our wisdom from the Lord (Jas 1:5) that the cup of blessing that we bless, is “the communion of the blood of Christ”, and the bread we break is “the communion of the body of Christ”.

Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isa 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Next week, Lord willing, we will look at Part Two of Psalm 107:9-15, entitled “praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men” where we will look at the progression of trials which God has predestinated for us and written in this symbolic language of Psalm 107 which shows that we must through much tribulation progressively enter into the kingdom of God.

Act 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Psa 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psa 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psa 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psa 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Psa 107:13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psa 107:15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!