Psalms 44:6

“In God We Boast”

Psalms 44:6-8 says, “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all the day long, and praise Thy name for ever. Selah.” Psalms 44 is a Psalms which reminds us of how Christ gave the Promised Land to Israel. When God makes a promise He keeps it. Not only does God keep His promises but God wants us to remember that God keeps His promises so that we will trust in Him. One way of remembering the faithfulness of God is to remember the great and mighty works that God has done throughout human history.

The greatest work that God has done is in sending His only begotten son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. For this to have come to pass there was another great work God did, He gave the Promised Land to Israel. King David remembered this. As a king it helped him to trust in the power of the one true living God rather than his own physical strength and military might.

Most men make the mistake of trusting in themselves instead of Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:9 says, “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead.” Jesus is the only one with power over life and death. Jesus rose from the grave. Trust in Jesus not in your own strength or ability.

Psalms 44:6-8 says, “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.” Salvation is the great theme of Bible. All men need to be saved from their sins and the chains of darkness that they are lost in. Sometimes in life men also need salvation from their physical circumstances. The books of the Old Testament are filled with examples of how Christ can deliver any man or any nation from its enemies.

Notice that being saved from your enemies is closely connected to the enemies being put to shame. What does it mean when God puts someone to shame? It means that God reveals the truth and reveals who has done right and who has done wrong and then God brings the justice of destruction upon those who have opposed the Bible. The word shame used here is the word used in the book of Genesis in reference to the righteousness of Adam and Eve in marriage.

Genesis 2:25 says, “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” There is nothing shameful about a man and a woman in marriage. There is also nothing shameful for us about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins, defeating death and rising from the grave. Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 says, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

Psalms 44:6-8 says, “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all the day long, and praise Thy name for ever. Selah.” Those that hate do so because they hate Jesus and the gospel. Those in the world who have hate do so because they are unrepentant of their sins. The Bible is all about salvation. I do not fear my enemies because I trust in the one true living God, Jesus Christ. Those who oppose Jesus and the gospel of Christ will always be brought to shame. Without righteousness there can be only shame, the shame of sin. The righteousness and purity of marriage between a man and woman is a beautiful illustration of the spiritual righteousness that exists between a man and God through Jesus Christ. There is no shame in righteousness. There is only victory.

Those who turn away and attack the gospel of Jesus Christ, Christ will bring to shame, the shame of their sins and the shame of their destruction. This why Psalms 44:8 praises God when it says, “In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name forever.” To boast in God means to give glory to Christ. When you give Christ the glory for the things that He has helped you to do then you always are victorious over your enemies especially the greatest enemy of all the devil.

In a certain type of way you fall into 1 of 2 categories: a person who makes his boast in God and the promises of God or a person who uses the name of God in vain. This is one of the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:7, “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.” A country that is characterized by taking God’s name in vain is a country that is falling into every kind of slavery known to man. This is why the rest of Psalms 44, the next 18 verses, talks about slavery and the consequences of failing to make your boast in God.

Psalms 44:9-16 says, “But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a by word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.”

God is a jealous God. One of His names in the Old Testament is Jealous. God is a God who is gracious and merciful and ready to pardon. However at some point, when the opportunity for the mercy and grace of God is full, God must bring judgment on sin both for individuals and for nations. Israel and the repetitive failures of it as a nation should serve as a warning to the United States. Israel as a nation has a promise from God that the United States does not. What happened to Israel when they turned away from law? What is happening in America now as America is turning away from law and grace? These verses in Psalms 44 describe in great detail what God does to that nation which fails to make its boast in Christ Jesus and the light of the Gospel of Christ.

Notice the phrases, “They which hate us spoil for themselves.” Also notice the phrase, “Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.” This happened in Israel and it has been happening in the United States. In the past 30 years this has been increasing dramatically. The nations of this world that oppose the gospel of Jesus Christ and the basic freedoms given in the constitution of the United States take advantage of this country. They bleed it dry of its wealth and of its children and women. This slavery in the United States is increasing and has begun to increase dramatically since 2008.

There is no pleasure in slavery only suffering and death. Hollywood is feeding America lie about slavery and sex. There is no pleasure in slavery. Listen to these verses in Jeremiah chapter 20 describing what happens when a country falls into slavery. Jeremiah 20:4-5, “For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. Moroever I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.”

God loves the way of an eagle in the air. What do we hear people in the country of the United States saying? Do they make their boast in Christ and His promises or do they take God’s name in vain?

A haughty spirit comes before a fall and pride before destruction. Psalms 44:8 says, “In God we boast all the day long, and praise Thy name for ever. Selah.” Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 says, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

The solution to the slavery problem which is increasing in America and the solution to the leeching of America and America’s children from sea to shining sea and its amber waves of grain is to turn from your sins and to turn to Jesus Christ. The preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness. To those that trust in Christ Jesus of the Jews, the message of the gospel is the way of an eagle in the air.

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