Derek Kidner

There is some debate as to what exactly the name El Shaddai means.

The Bible commentator Derek Kidner claimed it means the God who is sufficient.

Adam Clark said that it means the God who pours out blessings.

H.C. Leopold thought that the sense was to display power.

He tested him, as God would often test his people later on in the wilderness between Egypt and the Promised Land, to do them good, that they might come forth as gold.

And this test, as Derek Kidner says, instead of breaking Abraham, brings him to the summit of his life of faith.

And so verse one, God's tested him.

He said, "Abraham." And he said, "Here I am." He says that three times in the story, "Here I am." It's the only thing he says to God in the story.

And every time a priest offered a sacrifice in Solomon's temple, he could say, "This is the place where the ram was offered in the place of Isaac." The Lord will provide.

In the King James Version, Jehovah-jireh.

And as Derek Kidner says, many have lived by that motto since.

The Lord did provide.

And the commentators refer to this as this reality that difficulties are doubling and the challenges are compounding.

And I like what Derek Kidner says.

He says, the lazy person that the scripture speaks of is no freak.

He is an ordinary man who has made too many excuses, too many refusals, and too many postponements.

You know, you're just going round and round and round again.

And the key to that, or a key strategy, is to turn attention, Derek Kidner says this in his wonderful commentaries on Psalms, you need a new focus.

So, look to Christ more and more.

I often tell people who are struggling with this, I'll tell them, well, do not read my book, Unpacking Forgiveness.

She offers a taste of life, but sells you death.

says Derek Kidner.

So she seeks a satanic reversal of the divine ordinance of marriage.

God gave us marriage to be between one man and one woman.

Everyone and everything should praise God.

Derrick Kidner.

It says, starting with the angelic host and descending through the skies to the various forms and creatures on earth and then summoning the family of man and finally the chosen people, this call to praise unites the whole creation.

One of the great English preachers of our day, a good expositor that I have referred to, his name is Roy Clements, and he has an interesting story.

Yeah, that's a good book.

And then I like Derek Kidner's commentary on Psalms.

It's short, it's pithy, it's got some really... profound, um, theologically true and spiritually edifying things in it.

Uh, so that's a good commentary.

Or what does this reflect? Which is a very scholarly kind of position.

So the general answer is, you know, like Gerard Von Rod, Derek Kidner, for example, they say, aha, this is kind of a belief in what is called maternal impression.

Right.

And maternal impression is, you know, a pregnant mother, what she sees or the emotions that she may have, they become imprinted onto the offspring.

And before you know it, division erupts.

The problem, as Derek Kidner says, the mischief he does is not the random mischief of an ordinary fool, but it's the deeper damage of a debunker.

There is an agenda.

They are there to sow division.