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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? “There,” he seems to say, “put all men away, I have done with them. If they are all liars, let us say no more about them, but let us turn to God.” When you, dear friends, are disappointed with men, do not sit down and worry; you might have known what to expect before you began with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? “Though men have failed me, the Lord has not. If friends all prove to be false, he still is true.” ‘What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?’
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? That is better, for it is better to praise the Lord than to find fault with men, even if the fault found be really there. It is better for each one of us to be rendering our homage to God than picking holes in the coats of others, so let each one of us ask, “What shall I render unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? That question contains the essence of true religion. This should be the one object of our lives if we have been redeemed by Christ, and are his servants. Whatever we have done for God, we should endeavor to do much more, and to do it much better.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits towards me? Here we see gratitude is springing up in this man’s breast. He lives upon God, and he loves God, and now the question comes, “What shall I do for God?” Service is not first. We make a mistake when we begin with that. No: we begin as he did, with “I love the Lord.” Tell what the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will take the cup of salvation,.... Or "salvations" (n); not the eucharistic cup, or the cup in the Lord's supper, which the apostle calls "the cup of blessing", 1 Corinthians 10:16; though some so think, and that the psalmist represents the saints under the Gospel dispensation; nor the cup of afflictions or martyrdom for the sake of Christ;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. “I ask, ‘What shall I render?’ and I reply, ‘I will take.’” That is what you and I also must say. The best return for one like me, So wretched and so poor, Is from his gifts to draw a plea, And ask him still for more. You have given God all you have when you have given him your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. It matters not where they die, — in the dungeons of the Inquisition, or on the sick-bed of poverty and obscurity, — God is always with them. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. There never was a better time than the present, and there never was better place than this, for some holy resolve concerning consecrated service for the Master.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take- The psalmist asks, “What shall I render?” and he answers, “I will take.” That is a strange way of rendering, is it not? Yes, brethren, but that is the way for us to show our gratitude to the Lord for all his benefits toward us. John Newton was right when he wrote, — “The best return for one like me, So wretched and so poor, Is from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. And I can be spokesman for you, brethren and sisters in Christ, and say that the Lord is good, and that we have proved him to be good to us under peculiarly trying circumstances. He does not fail to help his people,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. This is a curious way of rendering anything, yet you know that John Newton’s hymn says, — “The best return for one like me So wretched and so poor, Is from his gifts to draw a plea, And ask him still for more.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. We do well to notice those deaths, for God notices them. They are among his precious things. And if God thinks so much of dying saints, depend...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will pay my vows unto the Lord now, in the presence of all his people. Make good the resolutions and determinations he made in the strength of divine grace, in the time of his troubles; that should the Lord deliver him out of them, he would give him all the glory, and offer thanksgiving and praise to him; and now being delivered, this he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. If you have made any vows, mind that you keep them. It is often better not to vow; but when the vow is made, let it be diligently paid.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will say my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. It is a great blessing if we are able to say, as David did, that we are born into God’s house. Some of us...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Precious in the sight of the Lord [is] the death of his saints. The Lord has his saints or sanctified ones, who are sanctified or set apart by God the Father from all eternity; who are sanctified in Christ, their head and representative; who are sanctified by his blood, shed for the expiation of their sins; who are sanctified by his Spirit and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. It is very painful for us to witness, but it is precious to God. We think that they have ended their usefulness when they reach that point, but God estimates their very death to be precious. Tread very softly when you go to the bedside of a departing saint; you may brush against an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. They are themselves at all times so precious to the Lord that everything about them is very dear in his esteem, and they are never more precious than in their deaths. We constantly have some of the very choicest of the Lord’s saints going home to their Father; and when the Lord takes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. It is an event for which he makes all necessary arrangements. He does not allow it to happen accidentally, or according to the will of man. As good old John Ryland says, “Not a single shaft can hit Till the God of love thinks fit.”