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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity: and in sin did my mother conceive me. It is not merely that I sinned, but I am sin. I am a lump of sin—a heap of iniquity—by nature so. It is not merely in me, but it is me—my very self. It is in my blood, my bones, my marrow. O God, canst thou cleanse me from this?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. David does not say that by way of making an excuse for himself; but rather to aggravate his own guilt. He admits that his guiltiness is really a part of himself. He does not say, “Lord, I was acting contrary to my nature when I committed this sin. Thou knowest that it was not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. David does not hope to wash himself, he does not trust in outward ceremonies: but he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin, did my mother conceive me. The black stream leads him to look at the black fountain. How can we expect from parents who have sinned that there should be born unto them pure and spotless children. No! the tendencies in us all towards evil are there at the very first. He does not at all venture to excuse...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts,.... With delight and pleasure, as the word (d) signifies: meaning either Christ, the truth and the life, formed and dwelling in the hearts of his people; or the Gospel, the word of truth, which has a place there; and particularly that branch of it which proclaims pardon to sensible sinners, and is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. “But, alas! Lord, what thou desirest, is not there. In my inward part, I find falsehood; in my hidden part, I find folly. Lord, what thou desirest thou must also bestow, or else I shall never have it. Oh, hear thy servant’s supplication now!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Ah, friends, that is the troublesome part of the matter! We might be able to rectify the external wrong, and to reform our outward actions; but who can make his heart clean? You can prune the tree, you may cut it to almost any shape you like;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. The outward part is very important, but the inward part is much more so, because the outward springs from the inward, and a man would not be outwardly guilty if he were not first inwardly evil. Hence, David cries for cleansing and truth and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, — Take the bunch of hyssop as the priests did, dip it into the basin filled with sacrificial blood: “Purge me with hyssop.” Apply the precious blood of Jesus to me, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: “Alas, O Lord, it is not there! I have looked there, but have seen only sin. It is not truth, but the reverse of truth, that I find in my inward parts Lord, thou wilt never have what thou desires to see in me unless thou dost put thy hand to the work.” Psa_51:6. And in the hidden part thou shalt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, Here are more wonders. Psa_51:6. Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: — First he wondered when he saw how sinful he was; now he wonders as he sees the purity which God demands: “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts:” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, — “O Lord, thou hast ordained means by which leprous sinners may be cleansed; the outward sign is the bunch of hyssop dipped in sacrificial blood. O Lord, give me in every deed what that sign means! Give me the cleansing influence of the blood of the great sacrifice:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. In that part which is even hidden from myself, where sin might lurk without my knowing it, there wouldst thou spy it out. I pray thee, Lord, eject all sin from me, rid me of the most subtle form of iniquity that may be concealed within me.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. And sin is a lie, and sin is folly. God desires truth and wisdom. Can he give us both of these? Yes, and he will; only let us own the untruthfulness and confess the unwisdom, and put ourselves into his hands for his infinite grace to deal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. As much as to say, “Lord, that which thou desires” to see in me is not there; and though thou hast made me also to desire it, yet I fear that I have not at present gone beyond the desire, for still within me, in my secret soul, there lies a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: He had seen the leper pronounced clean when the hyssop was dipped in blood and sprinkled on him; but then the leper had to be clean beforehand before this could make him ceremonially clean. He is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Purge me with hyssop,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" (f); or "expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on the door posts of the Israelites in Egypt, that the destroying angel might pass over them, Exodus 12:22; and in the cleansing of the leper, Leviticus 14:4; and in the purification of one that was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. This is delightful pleading on David’s part. He had seen the priest take the sprigs of hyssop, and dip them in the blood, and then sprinkle the leper therewith; so his prayer is, “Lord, give me purification through the atonement. ‘Purge me with hyssop, and I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. I do think that this is grand faith, for a man, blinded by his tears, broken-hearted through his sin, to feel that God can make him clean. “Take thou the hyssop, as I have seen my father do on the Passover night, when the lamb was slain, and the blood of it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: “Take the bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood of the lamb, and then purge me with it, and I shall be clean.” What a wonderful faith this is! “I who am so black, I who am black as hell; yet, if thou dost but purge me with the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ, I shall be clean.” Psa_51:7. Wash me, and...