Yet He Saved Them For His Name’s Sake

     What is imported in this “Yet,” in God’s saving notwithstanding?  The text is speaking of impediments on the sinner’s part. God saved Israel here, notwithstanding dreadful sins. God can save you with an everlasting salvation, notwithstanding the most grievous provocations that you have been guilty of and the greatest impediments that you have laid in the way.
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by Minister Ralph Erskine
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Yet he saved them for his name’s sake.
—Psalm 106:8​

1. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding grievous guilt and heinous transgressions. Thus his name is declared to be a God forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin. You see mercy courting you, notwithstanding this very objection.
2. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding long continuance in sin. Mercy follows you with many a “how long, how long”: “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me?” (Num. 14:11).
3. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding many apostasies and backslidings. “Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon” (Isa. 55:7).
4. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding enormous neglect and contempt of God until now. See Isaiah 43:25,
5. “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.”
6. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding grievous, rebellious hardness and contrariness.
7. “He kept on in his willful ways. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him” (Isa. 57:17–18).
8. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding outward afflictions and poor circumstances in the world. Though you are an outcast and nobody cares for you, he may save you for his name’s sake, for he “gathers the exiles of Israel” (Isa. 56:8).
9. He can save for his name’s sake, notwithstanding degradation, unworthiness, and pollution, for there is a fountain opened.

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity” (Zech. 13:1).

—Minister Ralph Erskine