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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. You see, the psalmist multiplies the expressions he uses because he sees the indelible character of sin apart from a miracle of mercy. “Wash me, O Lord! Water must be used; but if that will not cleanse me, then use fire; use anything; only do cleanse me. First, blot my sin out of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For he loathes it, it is abominable in his sight, his whole spirit seems sickened at the very recollection of it. He not merely prays, “Wash me,” but “’Wash me thoroughly.” Wash me thoroughly, not only from sin, but from the inequity of it, the wrongdoing of it, that wherein it was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, The forgiveness of sin is not enough for the true penitent; he wants the defilement, which he has incurred through sin, also to be removed. If washing will not suffice, he asks the Lord to try any other method that will accomplish the desired end. Psa_51:2. And cleanse me from my sin. “If fire is needed to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. “If washing will not remove it, burn it out, O Lord, but do cleanse me from it; not only from the guilt of it and the consequent punishment, but from the sin itself. Make me clean through and through. ‘ Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”’
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Take out this plague spot. I cannot bear it longer. Oh! cleanse me from every trace of it, my God, I beseech thee.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. It is not the punishment. The child of God has got away from the legal fear that dreads the punishment. The sin—the sin—is that which he loathes and hates. “Lord, get rid of it. I seem to want double cleansing. Wash me; wash me thoroughly; and when thou hast done that, cleanse me,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is, ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. “Wash me through and through, O Lord; wash me thoroughly!” A hypocrite is satisfied with the washing of his garments, but the true penitent cries, “Wash me. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. It is almost the only thing that I can really call my own, and it is most sadly mine, O Lord, wash mine iniquity...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Nothing about the punishment observe — he does not mention that. The true penitent, though he dreads punishment, much more dreads sin. It is sinfulness — sin that he would be delivered from. “Wash me.” Thou must do it; no other washing will suffice. Wash me thoroughly, till I am...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I acknowledge my transgressions,.... Before God and man. Acknowledgment of sin is what the Lord requires, and promises forgiveness upon, and therefore is used here as a plea for it; and moreover the psalmist had done so before, and had succeeded in this way, which must encourage him to take the same course again; see Psalms 32:5; and my sin...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my, transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. “Lord, do help me. There is my sin; I cannot shut my eyes to it. I dare not deny it, or excuse it; I make a clean breast of it. I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. It is a great mercy when it is so with us; for when our sins are before our face, God will put them behind his back. When we do not see our sin, then God sees it; but when we see it aright, then God will not see it, for he will put it away forever. As for you who think yourselves...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: That is the great point; there can be no cleansing, no washing, no blotting out of our guilt till there is a fair and square acknowledgment of it. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Psa_51:3. And my sin is ever before me....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. He had tried to forget it, but he could not, for it haunted him wherever he went. He had put it behind his back, but now it had got in front of his eyes. It seemed as if it were painted on his eyeballs, and he could not see without seeing through his sin. This is how God makes men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. David felt that there was a multitude of transgressions recorded against him in God’s unerring register, yet he specially realized the guilt of that one sin which Master Trapp calls the devil’s nest-egg, to which so many other sins were added. That first sin was a peculiarly foul...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. “As if the record of it were painted on my eyeballs I cannot look anywhere without seeing it. I seem to taste it in my meat and drink; and when I fall asleep, I dream of it, for thy wrath has come upon me, and now my transgression haunts me wherever I go.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. I tell it to thee because it haunts me. It is always present to my mind. It seems painted on my eyeballs. I cannot but see it, turn whichever way I may.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. It is thrown out on the surface. Health comes back when the disease manifests itself by an outward eruption. It is when you do not acknowledge it—it is when it is not before you—when you cannot perceive it—will not confess your sin—it is then that it is at the heart-strings killing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. “I cannot get away from it and I cannot get rid of it. It stares me in the face, it haunts me in my lying down and my rising up. I am obliged to acknowledge my sin, for it is ever before me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Unless sin is before us, we shall not be likely to spread it before God; but when we have knowledge of it, then we shall make acknowledgment of it to God. “My sin is ever before me.” He was in such a state of heart that the remembrance of sin seemed painted on his eyeballs. Even in...