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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. He feels like a man whose bones are broken, and he asks the Lord, by putting away his sin, to bind up those broken bones till every one of them should sing a song of gratitude to the Divine Healer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: “Sprinkle the blood of atonement upon me, give me a sacrificial cleansing, and then I shall be clean.” Psa_51:7. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. To my mind, this is a wonderful expression of faith, I do not know of any Scripture that seems more full of holy confidence than this is. David had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. I cannot help once more remarking, though I have often before made the same observation, that we have here the evidence of wonderful faith on David’s part. He has a very real consciousness of the blackness of his sin, yet he also has a triumphant conviction that God can put that sin...
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 a grand declaration of faith. I know not of such faith as this anywhere else. The faith of Abraham is more amazing; but, to my mind this faith of poor broken-hearted David, when he saw himself to be black with sin and crimson with grime, and yet could...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. “With hyssop.” Just as the priest took the bunch of herbs, and put it into the basin full of blood, and stirred it round and round till he soaked the hyssop in the crimson and then sprinkled it upon the penitent, oh Lord, apply the blood of Christ to my soul....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: As the priest purges the unclean man by dipping the bunch of hyssop into the blood of the sacrifice, and then sprinkling him with it, so, “purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.” Psa_51:7. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. “That is to say, I shall be clean if thou dost wash me, O Lord! My...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Yet what can be whiter than snow? Snow is not like a whited wall that is but white on the surface: it is white all through. And yet when God washes the believer, he makes him whiter than snow, for the snow soon becomes tainted, soon loses its purity; but we never shall if God shall wash us. There was no...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make me to hear joy and gladness,.... Which he had not heard for some time; sin had sadly broke in upon and interrupted his spiritual peace and joy; for though the love and favour of God cannot be lost, yet his sensible presence, which puts joy and gladness into the heart, may; and though an interest in Christ ever continues, and union to him is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; “Lord, I have heard nothing but groans lately, and I have made no sound but sighs; ‘Make me to hear joy and gladness’ Psa_51:8. That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. When God makes us feel the weight of sin, it is a bone-breaking operation, he seems to strike as though he would kill; and only he that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Beloved, it is a sweet thing when we come to close dealings with God like this. David wants cleansing, but he will not have it except from God; he wants peace and comfort, but he will look only to God for them: “Make me to hear joy and gladness.” If you go out...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. “Do not look at my sins, Lord. Forget them; turn thy back upon them; and blot out all mine iniquities.” David comes back to his first prayer. “End my sins, Lord; blot them out, as when an account stands...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou had broken may rejoice. God has a way of making our sins come home to us like the blows of great bone-breaking hammers. I suppose that no pain can be much worse than that of a broken bone, but God can make the pain of sin in the conscience to be as continuous and as intense as that of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; — How late in the Psalm that prayer comes! He writes seven verses before he dares to pray for joy and gladness; and those seven verses are all either confessions of sin or petitions for deliverance from sin; and, my sinful friend, you must not first seek to get rid of your sorrow; but, rather, be thankful for your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Brothers and sisters in Christ, we cannot sin with impunity. Worldlings may do so as far as this life is concerned; but a child of God will find that, to him, sin and smart, if they do not go together, will follow very closely upon one another’s heels. Ay, and our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Lord, the mischief lies deep. Strike at the root of it. I would not have thee to wash out a spot only, but go to my heart and renew...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. I do not want to hear it unless thou make me to hear it. I would not .be comforted unless thou comfort me. Dread above everything, dear friends, false comfort—false judgments of yourselves—high notions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. If a good man ever goes astray, he may depend upon it that his sin will be very costly to him, and the better a man is, the more expensive will his sin be to him in the long run. God breaks the very bones of his children when he chastens them for their sin. I do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. When God’s Spirit deals with sinners, he does not play with them. A sense of sin is like the breaking of bones; but God, who breaks the bone, can heal it. He that takes away our joy, when we are under a sense of sin, can give us back that joy by a realization of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. The original expression is “bones cracked,” or, as one puts it, smashed. His sense of sin had been so great that he felt as one might feel whose very bones had been smashed by some terrible blow. So he seems to say that, as there may be a delightful pleasure in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hide thy face from my sins,.... In whose sight they were committed, being now ashamed of them himself, and ashamed that any should see them, and especially his God; and being filthy and nauseous, he knew they must be abominable to him, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity; and being breaches of his law, must be offensive to him, and...