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“love not the Lord Jesus Christ.” David loved

the LORD, and he was not ashamed to let it

be known.

David begins Psalm 18 by giving all the glory

to God for deliverance from the hand of all

his enemies. David was utterly helpless to

save himself, and in his distress, he called

upon the LORD and cried unto his God.

David’s helplessness to physically save

himself is a picture of mankind’s total

inability to save himself from the eternal

consequences for sin (Hell). Without God’s

intervention of grace and mercy through the

blood sacrifice of His Son, humanity would

have no escape from the penalty for our

sins.

In verses 7 through 16, it’s hard to know

whether God gave David a vision of these

events or whether David actually witnessed

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