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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. You see that the psalmist has many names for sin, for evil, like a great rogue, has many aliases. So it is sometimes sin; sometimes it is transgression, passing over the line of right; and sometimes it is in-equity, or a departure from perfect equity. “Call it by whatever name it may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. It is not, “Let the evil be hushed up, let not my people hear about it,” but, “Hide thy face from my sins.” It is not, “Help me to forget that I have been a criminal.” No; but, “Hide thy face from my sins.” “And, Lord, when thou art blotting out mine iniquities, blot them all cut; those...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clear heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, “Lord, look no more at them. Do not hide thy face from me, but hide it from my sins.” “O thou that hear’st when sinners cry, Though all my crimes before thee lie, Behold them not with angry look, But blot their memory from thy book!” Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. “Do not let them be recorded any longer, O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, “Do not look at them, O Lord! Even take pains to put them out of thy sight.” Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. “Obliterate them; as though they had been written upon tablets of wax, and thou didst, with a hot iron, put the whole record of them away: ‘blot out all mine iniquities.’ “
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sin, David could not bear that God should look upon them. Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. “ Put them right out of sight. Turn thy gaze away from them, and then put them out of everybody’s sight.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, “Lord, do not look at them. Refuse to see them. Hide thy face, not from me, but from my sins.” Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. See how he comes back to that note again and again; he is never long away from it. There are certain tunes in which one note is constantly repeated, so is it here. David prays, “O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. “And when thou hast done that, change my nature, that I may not sin again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, If we set out sins before our own faces, then God will turn his face away from our sins. If we hide our sins from our faces, God will set them before his face, but when they are ever before us they shall be never before him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God: It is a creation: the very word is used which is employed concerning the creation in the first chapter of Genesis. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Create in me a clean heart, O God,.... Which was now defiled with sin, and of which being convinced, he was led more and more to see the impurity of his heart and nature, from which all his evil actions flowed; and being sensible that he could not make his heart clean himself, and that this was the work of God, and a work which required creating...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. “My Creator, I am spoiled; come and make me over again. My heart has grown foul. Thou who didst make me, clean me.” The watchmaker best cleans the watch that he made. “Create in me a clean heart, O my Creator, and renew a right spirit within me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Do you notice how David blends justification with sanctification? His prayer for pardon is always accompanied by a prayer for purity also. He does not want to have his sin blotted out, and then to continue sinful; but he cries “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean, heart, O God; — Yes, we need our Creator to come, and deal with us again. None but God can save us. The omnipotence that made the heavens and the earth must be put forth to make us anew. Psa_51:10. And renew a right spirit within me. Are you praying this prayer, dear friend? Is your heart praying it while we read it?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Here the truly quickened man speaks. It is not salvation from punishment he asks for, but salvation from the power of sin. He wants a new heart. He wants to have removed from him the defiling power of sin over his affections; “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” It will need...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; He feels that he needs his Creator to again perform his great creating work. David knows that he needs a clean heart, but he does not ask the Lord to make his heart clean, he knows better than to present that request. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh,” so David’s cry to God is, “ ‘Create in me a clean...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. “Make me over again; let the image of God in man be renewed in me. Nay, not the image only, but renew the very Spirit of God within me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. For there must not merely be a creation, but a daily renewal, or else what thou hast once created will soon be blotted and marred as thy first natural creation was. Go on from day to day to make and keep my heart pure within.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. These are the groanings of a true child of God. Never has a man, without the Spirit of God within him, prayed to God in this fashion. David, therefore, notwithstanding all his sin, still had the life of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. He might well be afraid that, after so foul a fall, so disgraceful a crime, God would cast him away; but he prays that it may not be so: “Cast me not away from thy presence.”