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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin, unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sins. Selah. “And thou forgavest” — blessed “and.” How very simple it was! The floods of divine wrath were swelling; he just pulled up the sluices of confession, the floods ran away, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. You see, as long as he covered his sin, God did not cover it, but when he no longer tried to hide it, but made an open confession of it, then God blotted it out, and covered it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. He made to the Lord a full, childlike confession of his sin, iniquity, and transgressions, evidently putting his heart’s trust in the mercy of God; and, soon, all the burden...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. He must come to confession, full, spontaneous, unreserved: there must be a resolution. “ I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, “ a firm determination to hide...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. All gone, gone for ever, gone at a stroke. Oh! what a mercy this is, that, when once we will take the place of sinners and plead guilty, then it is that we are absolved at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. O blessed termination of a terrible condition of heart! Confession pulled up the flood-gates of his soul, and God caused the black stream to flow away and disappear. Friend,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. He must come to confession, full, spontaneous, unreserved; there must be a resolution. “I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord”; a firm determination to hide...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee,.... Meaning either that the success he had met with, in acknowledging his sin, would encourage others also to take a like step, and make their supplications to the Lord also; or that every godly person should pray to God for the same blessing of pardoning grace likewise. Pardon of sin is to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place; He had talked, in the first verse, of his sin being covered. Now he not only hides his sin beneath the divine covering, but he hides himself beneath the divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. The fact that God hears us at the first and gives us a great deliverance when we, are; under a sense of sin, makes us pray to him as long as ever we live. We shall never forget how God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place: thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. Surely, if God has given us the pardon of our sin, he will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place ; — See where alone a sinner can find a safe shelter, in his God. Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is the appointed Judge of all mankind, yet it is to him that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the flood; of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. For this (because of this), and for this blessing, “ shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found.” The pardoning God must be sought. There is an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. The man that has so prayed as to find complete forgiveness, he is the man that will never leave off praying as long as he lives. The one gain which covers everything, the gain of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: If thou, O Lord, dost hear a sinner cry unto thee, then surely thou wilt hear thy saints when they cry unto thee yet more and more! If seekers become finders, then others will become seekers, too.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. What a blessed experience that is, — to be surrounded with songs, to hear music on the right and music on the left, singing behind me for mercy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh him. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 51, 32.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. A man, who can pray, shall see even the ocean driven back, as Moses did. If you get nigh to God, and keep nigh to him, the floods of great waters shall never get nigh to you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. “For this” (because of this and for this blessing) “shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found.” The pardoning God must be sought. There is an...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou [art] my hiding place,.... In time of trouble; see Psalms 27:5; so Christ is said to be, Isaiah 32:2. "Thou shall preserve me from trouble"; not from having it; for in this world the saints must have tribulation, and through it enter the kingdom, but from being swallowed up with it; the Lord will bring them safe out of it, and of them it...