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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Even for the man who has committed the most atrocious crimes, there is still acceptance if he brings to God the sacrifice of a broken spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: Bring these sacrifices, dearly beloved, bring them to God now. Bring your broken spirit, bring your troubled conscience, bring your bleeding heart, bring all your trembling on account of sin; bring it all to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Come, poor souls, you that are heavy with guilt, you that lie at death’s dark door, condemned by reason of a whole life of sin, offer to God this sacrifice that he will not despise. The Jews brought their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: This is all sacrifices put into one, and the man who brings a bleeding heart to God is accepted when the one who brings a bleeding bullock is rejected; and he who brings a bleeding Saviour brings the best sacrifice of all.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion -You see that the psalmist loves the chosen people of God. With all his faults, his heart is right towards the kingdom under his charge. He feels that he has helped to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Those delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are as broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. David has to feel that it is better to have one genuine sigh for sin than to make ten thousand bullocks shed their blood upon the sacrificial altar; and if thou art truly broken from thy sin, — if thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. Here we have what God does desire, and what he does not. If you turn to the sixth verse, you will see what he does desire. “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.” Now here he does not desire the mere outward and external worship rendered by sacrifice....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit,.... That is humbled under a sense of sin; has true repentance for it; is smitten, wounded, and broken with it, by the word of God in the hand of the Spirit, which is a hammer to break the rock in pieces; and that not merely in a legal, but in an evangelical way; grieving for sin as committed against a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A broken and a contrite heart, O God thou will not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Now that he feels himself forgiven, be begins to pray for the good estate of the Church of God and the Lord’s people everywhere. We cannot do that when sin is breaking our bones; but when we get peace and rest,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. There must be great sacrifices of joy when great sin...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. When we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. This is a blessed end to David’s mournful Psalm. He felt that his sin had a tendency to do injury to the Church of God, — that he had, in fact, pulled down the towers of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: David seems to say, “Whatever thou doest with me, O God, do bless thy people!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. There are some spices that are never perfect in fragrance till they are pounded with the pestle in the mortar, and so is a broken heart. If it be made to suffer and to smart, yet there is sweet pleasure to the Lord when he perceives in his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion,.... This verse, and Psalms 51:19, are thought, by a Spanish Rabbi mentioned by Aben Ezra, to have been added by one of the holy men that lived in the time of the Babylonish captivity; though rather it is thought, by the latter, to be written by David, under a spirit of prophecy, concerning, times to come;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering, and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. If sin is pardoned, we may offer to God anything that we can, and he will accept it; but first of all we must get...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. “My sin has helped to pull them down, and so has done great mischief; but, O Lord, wilt thou not undo the mischief that I have done, and build again the walls of thy Zion?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon shine altar. Once get your sin forgiven, and then God will accept your sacrifices. Then bring what you will with all your heart, for an accepted sinner makes an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Notice this. David felt that he had done something to pull down the walls of Zion. His bad example would do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. As much as though David said, “I have done great hurt to Zion, I have pulled down the walls of Jerusalem by my sin; now, Lord build them up again; undo the mischief which thy poor foolish servant has wrought by his backslidings.” So may any backsliders amongst us pray to...