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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Lord, if thou hast taken away the greatest of all troubles, that is, guilt on the conscience, if thou hast really forgiven me, what trouble have I to be afraid of? “Thou shalt preserve me from trouble.” Psa_32:7. Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah, If thou hast pardoned me, there is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. Here is a threefold declaration: “Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.” “Yes,” says God, “I will;” and now he speaks to his servant. When we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt preserve me from trouble: thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. The once heavy heart shall dance for joy. The spirit that was so grievously burdened shall take up the note of glad thanksgiving when the Lord’s free sovereign mercy brings forgiveness to his repenting children.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place; Precious words! “Thou art my hiding place,” not “ thou art a hiding place,” but “ Thou art my hiding place.” A man who is beset by foes does not stand still and say, “Yes, I can see there is a hiding place there,” but he runs to it. Beloved, run to your hiding place this evening, each one of you who can have a claim and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. The world is full of music to the man to whom God has said, “I forgive thee.” Do not rest, dear friend, till you really know that you are forgiven; for if you do, you will rest short of all true happiness. But if you have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place; thou shall preserve me from trouble; thou shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. “Thou art my hiding place” — precious words! “Thou art my hiding place”; not “Thou art a hiding place,” but “Thou art MY hiding place.” A man who is beset by foes does not stand still, and say, “Yes, I can see there is a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will instruct thee,.... Or "cause thee to understand" (q). These are by many thought to be the words of the Lord, who gives to a man an understanding of spiritual things; he instructs by his providence, and even by afflictive dispensations of providence; and by his word, which is written for the learning of men, and is profitable for doctrine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way, which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Here is another blessing. The God who has forgiven the errings of the past, will preserve us from erring again. God’s flowers always bloom double. He gives us justification; but he adds sanctification. He pardons our sins; but he also makes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go “I have led you so far; I have brought you up out of the horrible pit, and out of the miry clay; I will not let you perish now; I will not leave you to your own folly.” Psa_32:8. I will guide thee with mine eye. It is a very gentle way of guidance when a mistress just turns her eye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. The forgiven man is afraid of going wrong again; he is as anxious about his future life as he was about his past sin. So the Lord meets him, and gives him the gracious promise contained in this verse.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. A good servant frequently does not need even a word from her mistress to guide her as to some duty to be performed, or some fault to be avoided; a look is all that is necessary, just a glance of the eye gives the needful guidance. So the Lord says...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Here the Speaker is changed. “ I will instruct thee,” I have forgiven thee. “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go.” I have prayed thee back to the way, now I will “teach thee in the way thou shalt go.” “ I will guide...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. I have not blotted out thy sins to leave thee to wander back into them again — I will be thy teacher, thy folly shalt not be thy ruin, thine ignorance shall not be thy destruction. I will guide thee — look at me! — “I will guide thee with mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. “Therefore, keep your eye on me; notice every movement of my eye, and be ready and obedient, at the slightest sign, to do my will.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. When God forgives, he also sanctifies. When he has brought back the sheep that wandered off into the wrong road, he afterwards leads it in the right track. Notice how the Lord says, “I will guide thee with mine eye.” A look from the Lord ought to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. And here the speaker changes: “I will instruct thee”; I have forgiven thee; “I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go.” I have restored thee back to the way; now I will teach thee in the way thou shalt go. “I will guide...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding,.... The design of this exhortation is to direct men how to behave under the instructions given; not as brutes, which have no rational faculties, but as men; that they should not show themselves thoughtless, stupid, and unteachable, as these animals, or worse than they; nor...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Do you want bits and bridles? If you want them, you shall have them. If you will be a horse or a mule, you shall be treated as horses and mules are. There are some Christians that need to be driven...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Alas! there are some hard-mouthed Christians; they will not take a hint from God. They do not watch God’s eye, and so do not learn by that gentle means; and therefore they require to have a bit and a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Do not be hard-mouthed, be obedient to God’s will, be tender of heart, and willing of spirit. The Lord will make his children go in the right way somehow or other, he will put a bit into their mouths...