Study Number 28 EL ELYON – The LORD who gives us the Victory.

Psa 18:13  The LORD thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.

Psa 18:14  He shot his arrows and scattered them. He flashed streaks of lightning and threw them into confusion.

Psa 18:15  Then the ocean floor could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare at your stern warning, O LORD, at the blast of the breath from your nostrils.

Psa 18:16  He reached down from high above and took hold of me. He pulled me out of the raging water.

Psa 18:17  He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, because they were too strong for me.

Psa 18:18  On the day when I faced disaster, they confronted me, but the LORD came to my defense.

Our Security and our Stability are dependent upon our LORD Most High.

Psa 21:7  Indeed, the king trusts the LORD, and through the mercy of the Most High, he will not be moved.

And through the mercy of the Most High - The favour of Him who is exalted above all; the most exalted Being in the universe. The word “mercy” here is equivalent to “favour.” He had already experienced God’s favor; he looked for a continuance of it; and through that favour he was confident that he would never be shaken in his purposes, and that he would never be disappointed.

 He shall not be moved - He shall be firmly established. Barnes Notes

He accomplishes all things on our behalf.

Psa 57:2  I call to God Most High, to the God who does everything for me.

Psa 57:3  He sends his help from heaven and saves me.

I will cry unto God most high - The idea is - God is exalted above all creatures; all events are “under” him, and he can control them. The appeal was not to man, however exalted; not to an angel, however far he may be above man; it was an appeal made at once to the Supreme Being, the God to whom all worlds and all creatures are subject, and under whose protection, therefore, he must be safe.

Unto God that performs all things for me - The word used here, and rendered “performs” - גמר  gâmar - means properly to bring to an end; to complete; to perfect. The idea here is, that it is the character of God, that he “completes” or “perfects,” or brings to a happy issue all his plans.

The Most High is called the Redeemer.

El Elyon and Jesus are one and the same Person. M.H.

Psa 78:35  And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their Redeemer.

And the high God their Redeemer - The God who is exalted over all; the true and living God. The truth was brought to their recollection that it was He who had delivered them from bondage in Egypt, and who had brought them out into freedom. On the word “Redeemer,” see the notes at Isa_41:14. Compare Isa_43:14; Isa_44:6, Isa_44:24; Isa_47:4; Isa_59:20; Psa_25:22; Job_5:20. Barnes notes

Applications.

1.      God will rescue you and give you the Victory in every circumstance of life. He is El Elyon the Most High God.

2.      He is the one who is the stability of our times. When all the world seems to be falling apart around remember that EL ELYON gives you safety and stability.

3.      He is our Redeemer. The Lord Jesus Christ came to rescue us and Deliver us from the world , the flesh and the devil. He is our Redeemer.