Psalms 51-100 Front Matter 5

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This commentary is the fruit of God’s grace in the lives of many brothers and sisters. I am grateful to God for David Burnette’s diligent and wise editing in taking these sermons that I have preached and turning them into chapters for this commentary. I am also grateful for Chris Hunsberger and the entire Radical team, who are serving the church in so many ways around the world with God’s Word. I am continually grateful to God for Heather as well as Caleb, Joshua, Mara Ruth, and Isaiah; I am blessed beyond measure with the family he has entrusted to me. I am deeply grateful to God for The Church at Brook Hills, a church family I love deeply composed of brothers and sisters who heard me preach many of these sermons. Further, I thank God for McLean Bible Church, the church family I now have the joy and privilege of shepherding with God’s Word. What a joy it is for us to have God’s Word! And to know, enjoy, worship, and walk with him according to it! As the overflow of God’s grace in many people, I pray that this commentary serves as an instrument in God’s hands for the spread of his glory among all peoples, particularly among those who don’t yet have his Word. In the words of Psalm 67:3, “Let the peoples praise you, God; let all the peoples praise you!”

—David Platt

Thank you, David Platt and Matt Mason, for allowing me the privilege of co-laboring with you in the preaching of God‘s Word. Thank you, Keith Myatt and Forrest Moss, for keeping me from hurting myself by carefully editing my work in this study. Thank you, faith families of The Church at Brook Hills and the First Baptist Church of Charlotte, North Carolina, for eagerly receiving these messages from God’s Word and applying them to your lives.

— Jim Shaddix

First of all, I would not be contributing to this volume were it not for David Platt and Jim Shaddix. You’ve been chief encouragers and dear friends. Thank you for making room for me in ministry. Thanks to Jenny Riddle for helping tidy up early manuscripts. To my faith family—the Church at Brook Hills. What a joy it is to sing to the Lord and declare his glory among the nations with you! Thanks, Dennis Blythe—my close companion in ministry whose prayers and encouragement have often kept my head above water. I thank God for my parents, through whom the Spirit principally worked to fill up my heart with love for Jesus. And finally, my greatest earthly joys: Paula, my wife, and our three children, Hunter, Will, and Ellie. May the Lord be our portion all our days until, together, we know pleasures evermore!

—Matt Mason