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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. “God has not changed. My enemies are not more powerful than they were; and if they should become so, omnipotence will still overmatch them. I will therefore be confident, and calm, what may.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. True and simple faith in God alone always begets courage. It is the man who is trusting in the creature who is the coward; but he who truly trusts in the Creator becomes a hero. Faith is the food upon which God would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. You know that, usually, we do fear just before the battle begins, — when we see the enemy encamped against us. We do not know what they are going to do, and we are sure to imagine the very worst; but such was David’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Let them come on. They fell before: the, will fall again. Let them come on. God was strong enough to meet them and overthrow them once. He will do it again. Therefore, why should we fear? Ah! dear brethren, those that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
One [thing] have I desired of the Lord,.... Not to be returned to Saul's court; nor to his own house and family; nor to have an affluence of worldly riches and honours; but to have constant abode it, the house of the Lord; an opportunity of attending continually on the public worship of God; which is excused and neglected by many, and is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; — It is a grand thing to get your heart so focused that it has but one desire, and then to be aroused to the practical pursuit of that one object. Psa_27:4. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. David wanted to spend his days in the house of his God, and we also may do the same, not only in the place that is used for public worship, but wherever we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, “That, wherever I am, I may be at home with God, — that I may feel, in every place, that I am still in his house, — never away from home, —whether in the wilderness or in the city, still dwelling like a child at home...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: “Will not a father take care of his own children? Does not even the feeble hen cover her chickens with her wings, and will not God cover me with his feathers, and cause me to rest in safety under his wings? Ay, that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; A true Christian is a man of one idea, but that one idea is the noblest that ever possessed the human mind, or influenced the human heart. This idea is one which not only finds a lodging in his brain, but he carries it on in the practice of his daily life: “One thing have I desired of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. Did David refer to any special spot, or to any one sacred shrine? I think not. He meant that he wished to be always at home with God; and that, you know, we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. He only wished to be always like a child at home — live in God’s house —no temporal structure; but wherever he was he wished to feel that he was near to God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion,.... This, with what follows, is given as a reason why the psalmist desired to dwell in the house of the Lord; because he considered it as a pavilion or booth, as the word (h) signifies in which he should be hid by the Lord, in times of trouble and distress, either through the heat of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: If you live in God, it matters little whether you have trouble or delight, for you shall be hidden in his pavilion. Psa_27:5. In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. There is the pavilion of sovereignty; there is the tabernacle of sacrifice;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: “For”-and this is a reason for dismissing all our fear,-“in the time of trouble he shall hide me.” “I am so little that I may easily be hidden away by one so great as God is. ‘He shall hide me in his pavilion,’ in his own royal tent; and beneath the majesty of his sovereignty my soul...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me: That is, in the holy of holies, into which no man might come. “There shall God hide me, — in the tabernacle of sacrifice, — behind the atonement of Christ.” Thus David had the two blessed protections of sovereignty and sacrifice. Psa_27:5. He shall set me up upon a rock. “His lofty power shall lift...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. The pavilion was the many-colored tent of the king, embroidered with needlework, and richly furnished. It was always placed in the center of the encampment, so that, if there were a night attack, the enemy must first break through the ranks of the armed men before reaching the royal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. If I dwell with God, he will hide me away in the pavilion of his sovereignty; and, so long as he is King, — and that will be for ever and ever:, — he will not let me perish. His sword and shield shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. It is a blessed...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now shall mine head be lifted up,.... That is, when brought into the house of the Lord, hid in the secret of his tabernacle, and set upon the rock Christ; by this phrase he means, either that he should be then restored to his former happy and comfortable condition, as it is used in Genesis 40:13; or that he should overcome all his enemies, and...