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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Wonderful combination — gracious and yet righteous. And if you want to know how this can be, look at Calvary, where Jesus dies that we may live. “Oh! the sweet wonders of that cross, where God the Saviour loved and died” — where there was the justice of God to the full, and the mercy of God without bound....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, our God is merciful. The LORD preserveth the simple: Those that have such a deal of wit may take care of themselves, but “the Lord preserveth the simple,” the straightforward, the plain-minded — those who believe his word without raising questions. “The Lord preserveth the simple.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; A curious mixture. You will never understand it until you stand at the foot of the cross. Psa_116:5. Yea, our God is merciful. That is the practical outcome of the holy conjunction of grace and righteousness in the atoning sacrifice of Christ. “Our God is merciful.” Sometimes when people cannot read well, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;— That is a strange combination which the ungodly cannot understand. It is a riddle never to be read except at the cross: “Gracious is the Lord, and righteous.” That is what every troubled conscience wants to know,— how God can be just and yet can pardon sin; but we who have believed in Jesus do know that, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. All who have ever tried him have proved him to be so, — merciful to forgive our sin, — merciful to help us in the time of trouble, - merciful to strengthen us in the performance of our duty: “Our God is merciful.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. Listen to that blessed little sentence, those of you who are full of sin, and who are therefore afraid that God will cast you away for ever: “Out God is merciful.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Poor simpletons, who cannot help themselves, but who are, nevertheless, free from deceit and craft, and take God’s Word as they find it,-sincere simple souls, who trust in the Lord, he will take care of them, but he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. The psalmist was delivered by an act of grace, yet it was an act of righteousness, for God is not unrighteous to break his own promise, and he has promised to help his people. Grace and righteousness both guarantee answers to believing prayers, and mercy comes in to make assurance...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was brought low and he helped me. Oh! many of you can say this, I trust, and if you cannot I hope you will before long — “I was brought low, and he helped me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: You clever men take heed of this. “The Lord preserveth the simple” — the plain, hearty, honest, sincere, sometimes ridiculed for their want of cunning. God takes care of them. Psa_116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me. What a sweet thing it is when you have studied a general doctrine to be able to give yourself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: The sincere,— sometimes, the ignorant, those who do not pretend to know; or, the simple, those from whose heart the Lord has driven out all guile, making them to be simple-minded. They are such fools (as the world calls them) as to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is to perform the highest act of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: Those who are of a single mind, — who have no double meanings and concealed motives, — those who know their own ignorance and weakness, and who, therefore, dare not trust in themselves. Psa_116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me. David could speak for himself, and he did so without the slightest hesitation. Can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. There is here, first, a general doctrine; and, then, there is a particular proof and application of it. It is true, in a general sense, that the Lord preserveth the simple-hearted ones who have learned to trust in him; but, in particular, you or I, if saved by his grace, can say,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: Straightforward men, those who cannot play a double part, those simpletons whom others take in and laugh at because they are honest, true, genuine, — the Lord preserveth such people. Psa_116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me. Oh, these blessed personal pronouns, are you laying hold of them as I read them? Are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Come back. He is a good God. Why wander? Return unto thy first husband, for it was better with thee than now. He has been bountiful. My soul lives on his bounty again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Poor dove! thou art dropping into the water; thy wings can scarcely sustain thee; come back to Noah: “Return unto thy Noah, O my soul!” That is the Old Testament reading of it, and the New Testament rendering is, “Return unto thy Jesus, O my soul, for he is thy true...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Man’s soul is like the dove that Noah sent out from the ark. It flew over the wide waste of waters, seeking rest, but finding none, so, at last, with weary wing, it made its way back to the ark; and, soul, thou wilt never rest till thou comest back to thy Creator and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Cannot we also, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, speak well of our God tonight? If any of us have been wandering at all from his presence, and so have lost the conscious sense of his love, let us come back to him at once. We cannot be happy anywhere else. God has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. If we have enjoyed this trinity of deliverances, let us praise the Three One God for ever and ever. Praise him, O my soul, if thou art saved! Praise God, O mine eyes! Be filled...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Come home to him, for you have no other friend like him in earth or heaven; come back to him, my soul, and rest where you have often rested before.