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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Do you notice the missionary spirit here? The Jews looked upon God as the God of Israel, and they had but very faint desires for the conversion of other nations; but the Holy Ghost speaks more by David than David himself may have known: Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands.” We ought to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Serve the LORD with gladness: What a text that is!” Serve the Lord, “obey him, yield to him your homage; but serve him “with gladness.” He wants not slaves to grace his throne, he loves willing worship, happy worship, for he is “the happy God.” “Serve the Lord with gladness.” Psa_100:2. Come before his presence with singing. Singing is delightful,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye that the LORD he is God: One says, “Man, know thyself,” and another says, “The proper study of mankind is man.” Not so; man, know thy God; the proper study of mankind is God. He who knows God knows himself; that is, he knows himself to be nothing. “Know ye that Jehovah, he is God.” There is but one God, it is the same God in the Old...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Gratitude is that oil which makes the wheels of life revolve easily; and if anybody ought to be grateful, surely we are the men and women, for whom the Lord has done so much: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the LORD is good; Should we not praise so good a God? Psa_100:5. His mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. “His truth”, — that is to say, his truthfulness, his faithfulness to his people. This is a blessed Psalm, and it seems to me to reach the highest point of praise when it tells us that “The Lord is good; his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will sing — That is right, David. In the one hundredth Psalm, he had exhorted other people to sing, now, in the hundred and first, he declares what he will himself do: “I will sing” — Psa_101:1. Of mercy and judgment: It is a mingled theme; there are the treble and the bass notes: “mercy and judgment.” There are some dear friends who, if they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. This was a good resolve; but David did not carry it out to the full. There were evil times when he was not wise, and there were sad times when he was not perfect. Still, it is well to make such a resolve as this declaration of David when he came to the throne, especially when you are newly married, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: “I will not look at it, for if I do, I may long for it.” It is the tendency of things that are gazed at to get through the eyes into the mind and the heart, therefore is it wise to say with the psalmist, “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes.” Psa_101:3. I hate the work of them that turn aside;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. “For, if I come to know him, one of these days I may be known myself to be a wicked person.” “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” No man can afford to be the friend of a man who is not a friend of God. If he does not love God, quit his company, for he will do you no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: David was a king, and he meant to study the peace of his people by putting down slander. Oh, what mischief is wrought by backbiting tittle tattle! If we could have a race of men, — and for the matter of that, of women, too, — with no tongues, it might be of advantage, for there are some...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: Oh, that masters had more of an eye to the piety of their servants than they often have! They want “clever fellows.” Whether they are honest or not, is generally a secondary question. So long as they are profitable to their masters, they will not mind what they are to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. He was a king, and he could choose his company, and he meant to select the truthful and upright. Now mark this. If David would not let a man who lies tarry in his sight, you must not expect...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD. What a practical Psalm this is! I have heard of a prince of Saxe Gotha, years ago, who, whenever he thought that one of his ministers or judges was not what he ought to be, used always to send him the hundred and first Psalm to read. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; “For that would make my trouble to be unbearable.” “That were a grief I could not bear Didst thou not hear and answer prayer.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. Sincere suppliants are not content with praying for praying’s sake, they desire really to reach the ear and heart of Jehovah: “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline thine ear unto me: “Stoop down to me; bend over me; listen to the moanings of my darkness, the whispers of my weakness.” Psa_102:2. In the day when I call answer me speedily. “For I am brought so low that, if a delay be not a denial, it will be tantamount to it, for I shall be dead before the answer comes unless it reaches me speedily.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. That is a very pitiful state for anyone to be brought into, in which the sorrow of the mind begins to weaken the strength of the body; the soul itself is so inflamed that a fever is generated...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. By grief, he had brought himself down to such an emaciated state that his bones pierced through his skin.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am like the pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. He had got into such a melancholy state of mind that he shunned human company, sought solitude, and became as mournful a creature as “an owl of the desert.”