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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, “Thy works in creation, in providence, and in redemption,” — Psa_40:5. And thy thoughts which are to us-ward: God is always thinking of his people, and his thoughts are wise, and kind, and practical, for, when he thinks of doing anything for us, he speedily performs it. Psa_40:5....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. The child of God, reviewing the Lord’s great goodness, feels that he can never count the mercies of God to him; and, as to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire,.... These were desired, willed, and appointed by God, and that very early, even from the times of our first parents; and, when performed aright, were acceptable to God, quite down to the times of the Messiah: indeed, when offered without faith in Christ, and with a wicked mind, to merit any thing at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said, I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Now we get the words of Christ undoubtedly. Our Lord said these words and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; The blood of all the bullocks, rams, and lambs offered in sacrifice, had possessed no real efficacy in putting away sin. They had no virtue except as types, and symbols, and prophecies of the one great sacrifice that was to come. Psa_40:6. Mine ears hast thou opened: Probably alluding to the ceremony...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. He was the perfect One, coming to do God’s will for us, and offering himself as the truest sacrifice that could ever be presented to God. So we may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Spoke I not truly when I said that the Christ of God is here? To whom is this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said I,.... As in the council and covenant of peace, when and where he declared his willingness to come into the world, and make satisfaction for the sins of his people; so when the fulness of time was come for his appearance in human nature he repeated the same; for of the time of his coming into the world are these words interpreted,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I delight to do thy will, O my God,.... This he came down from heaven to do, and this he did do, by preaching the Gospel, and working miracles; and above all by obtaining eternal redemption for his people, which he effected by fulfilling the law, becoming a sacrifice, and suffering and dying in their room; all which were the will of God, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation,.... Not the righteousness which the law requires men to do; but the righteousness which Christ himself wrought out, for the justification of them that believe; this he was a preacher, as well as the author of, and is part of the glad tidings he was anointed to preach, Isaiah 61:1; and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. What a preacher Christ was! How he told out what he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. With what indefatigable earnestness, with what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. This is what Jesus can say. He was the Prince of open-air preachers, the Great Itinerant, the President of the College of all preachers of the gospel; and I trust that many of us here can also say that, according to our ability and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have not not hid thy righteousness within my heart,.... Meaning not the essential righteousness of God, though that was abundantly declared in the wounds, sufferings, and death of Christ; and which was the end indeed of his being a propitiation for sin, Romans 3:25; but his own righteousness, as before, which he wrought out, and brought in; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. If any of you have done so, if there has been a sinful reticence about the things of God, if called to preach, you yet have not preached the full gospel of God’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord,.... this is a petition of Christ to his Father, when in the midst of his sorrows and sufferings, before related; and particularly when he hid his face from him, and withheld the discoveries of his tender and affectionate love; let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me; as he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. If you have dealt honestly with God’s word you may expect that God will deal graciously with you. Surely he would not send us to proclaim a message of mercy and then deny mercy to us. That cannot be. But brethren when we have done...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: Was it not so with Christ? The evils of sinners seemed to compass him about, and, like wild beasts, to hunt him to the death; and the saints of God, in their measure, may often use...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord; let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. Depend upon it, God will take care of us, if we take care of his truth. If we, from cowardly reasons, keep back any part of the gospel, God may leave us to defend ourselves; but if we conceal nothing that he has revealed to us, if we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For innumerable evils have compassed me about,.... Like floods of water all around him; see Psalms 18:4; these are the evils of punishment inflicted on him, as the surety and Saviour of his people; such as the sorrows and griefs he bore all his days; the cruel mockings and scourges he endured; his being buffeted and spit upon; his head crowned...