Our Rock of Salvation

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. A Rock of Salvation. He is the rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are judgment. A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Deuteronomy 32, 4.

Here in the Song of Moses, which God instructed him to write for the children of Israel as they were about to enter the Promised Land, is the first of at least 40 references in the Bible to God as the rock. There are four others just in this song. In verse 15, He is the rock of salvation. In verse 18, He is the rock that begat thee. See also verses 30 and 31.

Note some of the other wonderful metaphors picturing God as our great foundation stone. He is my strong rock in Psalm 31.2 and the rock that is higher than I in Psalm 61 2. In Psalm 62 7, He is the rock of my strength and is the rock of my refuge in Psalm 94.22. Isaiah calls him a great rock and a weary land, and the rock whence ye are hewn. During the wilderness wanderings, the Israelites were supplied with water from a rock, and the Apostle Paul tells us that spiritual rock that followed them was Christ.

And of course, Christ told his disciples that Peter's confession of himself as the Son of the living God was the rock upon which he would build his church. But to unbelievers, he is the stone which the builders rejected, a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word. Therefore, said Jesus, Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded. upon a rock. Matthew seven, twenty four and twenty five.

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