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Psalms 111:9

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalms 111:9. He sent redemption unto his people:

He brought them up out of Egypt with a high hand and a stretched out arm, and he has sent redemption to us, first, by price, when he redeemed us from our guilt upon the tree; and then by power, when the Holy Spirit came and broke our bands asunder, and set us free from the dominion of our sins.

Psalms 111:9. He hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.

His whole character commands our reverence because it is superlatively holy, and his name is to us a word of awe never to be mentioned flippantly, and never to be quoted without earnest thought and prostration of heart before him. I fear that there are some professors who use the name of God far too freely. They do not recollect that "holy and reverend is his name." I can hardly think that any man can be "reverend." There are some who choose to be called by that title; I suppose they mean something less than the word means here: "Holy and reverend is his name," not mine, certainly.

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