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Psalms 19:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalms 19:13. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;-

If we indulge in secret sins, we may gradually slide down an inclined plane until we come to presumptuous sins, sins committed willfully, sins known to be sins, daring. God-defying sins. Lord, keep me back from such sins as these! If others urge me to advance in this wrong direction, O Lord, do thou keep me back! "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;

Psalms 19:13. Let them not have dominion over me:

For, when a man once sins presumptuously, the tendency is for him to become a slave to that sin, it gets dominion over him. The worst slave-owner in the world is sin; and presumptuous sin is a tyrant with many a cruel whip in its hand.

Psalms 19:13. Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

"That greatest transgression of all, that sin against the Holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven;-if I am kept from presumptuous sin, I shall never fall into that fatal pit."

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