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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: “He has talked with me, checked me, rebuked me, instructed me, encouraged me: ‘I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel.’” That does not, at first sight, look as if it were one of the choicest of blessings, yet the psalmist mentions it immediately after he has declared that the lines have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I have set the LORD always before me? “In my acts by day, and my thoughts by night,”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have set the Lord always before me, Not his fear only, or the book of the law, as Jarchi interprets it, but the Lord himself; or, "I foresaw the Lord always before my face", Acts 2:26; as Christ is set before men in the Gospel, to look unto as the object of faith and hope, to trust in and depend upon for life and salvation; so Jehovah the Father...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Brother, have you always acted on the straight? Have you so conducted your business that you need not be ashamed for God himself to look at it? Then do not be afraid of anything that may happen to you, for you will come out all right at the last. There may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Now across the sacred page there comes the wondrous revelation of a glorious One who speaks in the very words that are recorded here. Though, possibly, we have not recognized him, these words that follow apply specially to Jesus Christ our Lord.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore my heart is glad,.... Because he had the Lord always in view; he was at his right hand, for his support and assistance, as well as because of what is expressed in the next verses: this is the same with rejoicing in spirit, Lu 10:21; it denotes an inward joy, and fulness of it, because of the Lord's presence with him; see Acts 2:28; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. Every good thing belongs to the man who belongs to God. He need not be afraid even of the grave, for he can adopt the language which is here prophetically used for Christ himself. He is not afraid to die, for he can say:—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore my heart is glad, Because, in the night watches, he had sought his Father, and found help in him, he could say, “Therefore my heart is glad.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Or, rather, Hades, the abode of the dead.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,.... Meaning, not in the place of the damned, where Christ never went, nor was; for at his death his soul was committed to his Father, and was the same day in paradise: but rather, "sheol" here, as "hades" in the Near Testament, signifies the state of the dead, the separate state of souls after death, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; “Sheol”—the place of the departed, the intermediate state into which the soul passes at death. Psa_16:10. Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. In the fullest sense, this verse belongs to Christ alone; but, still, what belongs to the Head is also the portion of the members of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Now David was gathered to his fathers, and his body saw corruption, as the apostle Peter rightly observed, so it is clear that he is not speaking of himself here, not in the first place, at any rate, but of “great David’s greater Son,” our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: “Neither wilt thou...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou wilt show me the path of life,.... Not the way of life and salvation for lost sinners, which is Christ himself; but the resurrection of the dead, which is a passing from death to life; and was shown to Christ, not doctrinally, or by illuminating his mind, and leading him into the doctrine of it, for so he himself has brought it to light by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. This exposition consisted of readings from PSALMS 16, and 63. And this is the portion of every believer. “Here little, but hereafter much,” says Bunyan; but I will venture to alter it, and say, “Here much, but hereafter more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hands there are pleasures for evermore.