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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. “I will not praise myself; if I am enabled to be holy, that holiness is thy work, and I will praise thee for it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. Not “I will praise myself.” Not “I will take credit to myself for my clean walking;” but “When thou hast taught me, and I learn thy ways, then all the praise shall be rendered unto thee.” This is the fruit of evangelical obedience. Legal obedience,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will keep thy statutes,.... This is a resolution taken up in the strength of divine grace, to answer the end of learning the judgments of God; which he did, not merely to have a notional knowledge of them, but to put them in practice; and not that he thought he could perfectly keep them, but was desirous of observing them in the best manner he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Whenever you make a resolve, accompany it with a prayer. Let this be your declaration, “I will keep thy statutes:” but pray, “O forsake me not utterly,” for, otherwise, your resolution will come to nought. Now begins the second octave of the Psalm
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Strong resolution, but a deep consciousness of weakness and unworthiness. “I will,” but oh’.. how can I do it? “Oh! for this no strength have I My strength is at thy feet to lie. Oh! forsake me not utterly.” Now, in the next eight verses it seems to me that the subject is some what different. We...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
b, BETH.--The Second Part. Ver. 9. BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way?.... Some think David means himself, and that he was a young man when he wrote this psalm; and which they think is confirmed by Psalms 119:100; but neither of them seem conclusive; rather any young man is meant, and who is particularly mentioned, because young men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? The psalmist has spoken about the holy way; now he would speak about young men running in it. One of the most intense desires of every godly man is that there may be a succession of godly men. Oh, that our young men might be good men, so that, when the old men pass away, the generation following them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? His passions are strong: his experience little. His tempers are many: his friends cannot always be at his side. “Wherewithal shall he cleanse his way?” It is very apt to become miry. The answer is: — - Psa_119:9. By taking heed thereto according to thy word. The word will keep him in the cleanly path...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” A vital and solemn question. His way is full of temptations, and he himself has strong passions. How shall he make his way clean, and keep it so? “By taking heed thereto according to thy word.” Without heed...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
With my whole heart have I sought thee,.... Not himself, his own honour and applause, as formal worshippers and self-righteous persons do; but the Lord and his glory, his face, his presence, and communion with him, his grace, and fresh supplies of it, to help in time of need; his doctrine, as the Targum; and to know more of it, and of him, and of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my whole heart have I sought thee: Can you each one say that, “With my whole heart have I sought thee”? Psa_119:10. O let me not wander from thy commandments. “For, though I have sought thee with my whole heart, yet my heart may in the future go astray. Do not permit it, Lord; do not permit it.” It is a very sorrowful thought to me, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. There is the young man’s fear; and it may be the old man’s fear, too. “I have sought thee sincerely and earnestly, but do not permit my weaker passions to get the mastery over me — do not suffer me in some unguarded hour to be carried captive by my lusts. Oh! let me...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandment. There might be thought in this confession to be some commendation of himself, and therefore he salts it with this prayer: “I have sought thee, Lord, sincerely, but still, notwithstanding that, I am very apt to stray away, and I shall sadly wander unless thou keep me....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy word have I hid in mine heart,.... Not only heard and read it, but received it into his affections; mixed it with faith, laid it up in his mind and memory for future use; preserved it in his heart as a choice treasure, where it might dwell richly, and be of service to him on many occasions; and particularly be of the following use: that I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. An old preacher, in a sermon on this text, divided it thus: “The best thing: ‘thy word.’ In the best place: ‘have I hid in my heart.’ For the best of purposes: ‘that I might not sin against thee.’” He thus gave in a few words the very gist of the text.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. There is the dread, you see — the dread of sinning — the dread of defiling his way; so he says that he has adopted this divine remedy. A good division of this text, if anyone would preach from it, is the best thing, “Thy word;” in the best place — “have I hid in my heart“; for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. The best thing put into the best place for the best of all purposes. There is no antidote against sin like the possession of the Word of God in the soul.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed [art] thou, O Lord,.... In himself, in his nature, persons, and perfections; the fountain of all happiness to angels and men, in time and to eternity; to whom all blessing, honour, and glory, are to be given. The psalmist takes this method of praising and ascribing blessing to God, for what he had received from him; particularly for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. There is a mixture, you see, of prayer and praise. That is the best devotion, which contains a happy combination of these two things, prayer and praise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. As if he said, “Teach me thy statutes that I may be blessed, too. Thou art a happy God. Teach me thy way that I may be happy, too. Blessed are the undefiled. Teach me to be so, that as thou art blessed, so I may be.”