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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, Other kingdoms come and go; they last during their little day, and then they vanish away. Look, for instance, at the kingdom of Alexander the Great, who only reigned for about twelve years, and when he died left no successor. We talk of great earthly monarchies; they are but monarchies of an hour compared...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord upholdeth all that fall,.... Not all that fell in Adam, as all mankind did; nor all that fall into sin, as every man does; and therefore not those that fall into hell: but this is to be understood of the subjects of Christ's kingdom, of which the psalmist is speaking; who does that which no mortal king can do, as Aben Ezra observes:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. This is his glory; this is the majesty of the King of kings, that he takes notice of the poor and weak. The compassion of God is to a great extent the glory of God. That he has such tender mercies toward the unworthy, is the subject of the loudest of our songs: “Jehovah...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. Does not this seem to be a singular change in the strain? The Lord is a King, and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; yet what is he doing? Why, he is upholding, propping up those that are ready to fall, and lifting up those that are crushed and oppressed. Earthly...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The eyes of all wait upon thee,.... Not of all creatures, the beasts of the field, the fishes of the sea, and fowls of the air, as in Psalms 104:27; but of all the Lord's people, who are subject to fall and be depressed: these, as they look unto him for deliverance and salvation, and wait upon him for it, and expect it from him; so their eyes are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of all wait upon thee; What a King is this, who must needs feed all his subjects, and who must have all his subjects depend upon himself alone! “The eyes of all wait upon thee;”— Psa_145:15. And thou givest them their meat in due season. It is an act of grace, not of debt: “Thou givest them their meat.” Did you ever think of the vast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfied the desire of every living thing. What a glorious God we have! How easily can he supply the needs of his people! He has but to open his hand, and it is done! We need not be afraid to come to him, as though our needs would be too...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou openest thine hand,.... Not of providence, but of grace, in which all things are, and from whence they come; and which the Lord opens liberally and bountifully, and gives out all things richly to enjoy; all things pertaining to life and godliness; grace here, with all the supplies of it, and glory hereafter: and satisfiest the desire of every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. As men feed doves in their courtyard, carrying down to them their little handful of food, and opening the hand to pour it out, so does God feed all living creatures readily and easily enough by the simple opening of his hand. But he does it. He satisfies the desire of every...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord [is] righteous in all his ways,.... Christ is righteous in all the ways of providence, in which he is jointly concerned with his Father: there are some of the ways of providence, which are now intricate and perplexed, are unsearchable and past finding out, and cannot be easily reconciled to the justice and faithfulness of God, respecting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his work. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. As the omnipresent Deity, the Lord is not far from any one of us; but there is a peculiar nearness of God to his people,—a nearness of knowledge, a nearness of affection, a nearness of heart by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. This is a thing for which many modern divines do not praise God. The attribute of righteousness in the character of God is expelled from a good deal of modern theology. But he, who loves God aright, loves the righteousness of God. I would not care to have even salvation if it were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him,.... He is not only nigh unto them in relation, being their near kinsman, brother, father, husband, and head, but with respect to place and presence; not in a general way, as he is the omnipresent God, and so nigh to all, and from whose presence there is no fleeing; but in a special way, he is so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. If you read this Psalm through carefully, you will notice the great number of “alls” with which the latter part of the Psalm is studded; and this is appropriate, for God is All-in-all, he is the One, the All, so let him have all praise from all.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him,.... That have the true fear of God put into their hearts; that fear him not with a servile, but godly fear; that fear the Lord and his goodness, and are true worshippers of him in a spiritual and evangelic manner; for the fear of God includes the whole worship of him, private and public: and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: “He will fulfill”—he will fill full—“the desire of them that fear him.” If you fear him, you need not fear any lack; indeed, you have nothing at all that you need to fear.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He also will hear their cry, and will save them. The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. These two things always go together; as surely as the Lord does the one, he will do the other. While he preserves his saints, he will certainly destroy the wicked.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. When you have respect to God’s will, God will have respect to your will. When you fear him, you will have no one else to fear, and when you make his service your delight, he will make your wants his care.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord preserveth all them that love him,.... All do not love Christ, none but those that are born again, and believe in him: love to Christ is a fruit of the Spirit, and accompanies faith in him; it flows from the love of Christ shed into the heart, and from a view of his loveliness, and a sense of his benefits; and, where it is true and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. As in a state of sanitary perfection, everything that breeds miasma and disease is banished, so must it be in God’s great universe, when he has completed his works “all the wicked will he destroy.”