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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. The fixed laws of the universe have their analogy in the fixed rules of revelation. Are not all material things thy servants, and they are kept; thou wilt therefore keep us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. It was God’s word that made the sun, and the moon, and the stars; and it is God’s word that bids creation still exist. And that is the almighty word upon which you and I are resting, if we are truly trusting in the living God. “His very word of grace is strong As that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Unless thy law [had been] my delights,.... Not the law of works, the voice of words, which they that heard entreated they might hear no more; which is terrible, and works wrath in the conscience; is a cursing and damning law to the transgressors of it; and so not delightful, unless as considered in the hands of Christ, the fulfilling end of it:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. We may well keep to that which is our life. If God’s precepts breed life in us and then quicken us, and so renew that life, let us stand to them, be obedient to them, and that at all times.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Notice the love of God’s servant to God’s Word: “Unless thy law had been my delights.” The word is in the plural, for the psalmist not only took a delight in it, but all his delights were there. It was the sea of happiness wherein he bathed his entire soul....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Let us remember how God’s word has kept some of us alive when we had nothing else to live upon. Hope would have quite failed, and we should have been driven to despair, if it had not been for the precious, priceless word of God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will never forget thy precepts,.... Not the precepts of the moral law, though he carefully observed and attended to them, laid them up in his mind, and did not forget to keep them; but the doctrines of the word, of the word which the Lord commanded to a thousand generations; these he endeavoured to remember, and not let them slip from him, since...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. Nothing makes a man remember the Word so well as the fact that it has quickened him. If you owe your spiritual life and the support of it to the Word of God, you will not forget that Word. If you feel that, every time you come into contact with it, it inspires you with fresh...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. Nothing sharpens the memory like having been quickened. If we have been at death’s door, and the word of God has brought us renewed life, we shall never forget it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I [am] thine, save me,.... From all troubles and afflictions; from all enemies, temporal and spiritual; from Satan, and his principalities and powers, from sin, and all the wretched consequences of it; from hell wrath, and damnations: salvation from all which is by Christ. And this is a prayer of faith with respect to him, founded upon his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. “I am thine, save me.” Oh, what a sweet assertion. “I am thine,” — thy creature, thy redeemed one, thy chosen, thine espoused. “I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thine, — That is a grand thing for anyone to be able to say, what a heaven of bliss lies slumbering in these three words, “I am thine,” — Psa_119:94. Save me; — That is a good argument: “‘I am thine’ by redemption, so do not lose me. ‘I am thine’ by a new creation, so let not the enemy steal me away from thee. I am thy servant, so exercise a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. I have seen an end of all perfection: No matter who it is that boasts of being perfect, “I have seen an end of all perfection.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me,.... This is another reason why he desires the Lord would save him; because wicked men, such who feared not God, nor regarded men, sons of Belial; such as Saul's courtiers and the conspirators with Absalom were, had laid wait and were waiting an opportunity, and were hoping and expecting to have one,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: Let them wait. Psa_119:95. But I will consider thy testimonies. I will not consider them, they are not worth it, they would only distract or distress me. I will keep my thoughts fixed upon thy word, and so shall I be at peace and escape from their malice.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: — “They have lain in ambush, they have waited to catch me tripping, to ruin my character if possible, so what shall I do, — Counterplot them? No. Watch them night and day? No. ‘The wicked have waited for me to destroy me:’” — Psa_119:95. But I will consider thy testimonies. There is something that seems...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
gVer. 96. I have seen an end of all perfection,.... An end, limit, or border, to every country, as the Syriac version; as there is to every kingdom and state, and to the whole world; but none to the commandment of God: or an end of all created beings, the finished works of God, the most perfect in their kind. Manythings had already fallen under...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Yes: all perfection in the creature! In very deed it is an attribute of the Creator, and whether it be true or false, whether men have the excellence they boast of, or have it not, there must be an end to it all, either as to its extent or its duration; but thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment — “Ah, there I find perfection: ‘Thy commandment’” — Psa_119:96. Is exceeding broad. It is so broad that there is no limit to it. One of the early fathers used to say, “I delight in the infinity of Scripture,” and well he might, for there is no limit to it. Even one single text might...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thy commandment — There lies the perfection — Psa_119:96. Is exceeding broad. Covering the whole life, covering the thoughts, the intents, the desires of the inner and secret nature.