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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? “Though men have failed me, the Lord has not. If friends all prove to be false, he still is true.” ‘What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?’
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? That is better, for it is better to praise the Lord than to find fault with men, even if the fault found be really there. It is better for each one of us to be rendering our homage to God than picking holes in the coats of others, so let each one of us ask, “What shall I render unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? That question contains the essence of true religion. This should be the one object of our lives if we have been redeemed by Christ, and are his servants. Whatever we have done for God, we should endeavor to do much more, and to do it much better.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits towards me? Here we see gratitude is springing up in this man’s breast. He lives upon God, and he loves God, and now the question comes, “What shall I do for God?” Service is not first. We make a mistake when we begin with that. No: we begin as he did, with “I love the Lord.” Tell what the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. “I ask, ‘What shall I render?’ and I reply, ‘I will take.’” That is what you and I also must say. The best return for one like me, So wretched and so poor, Is from his gifts to draw a plea, And ask him still for more. You have given God all you have when you have given him your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. It matters not where they die, — in the dungeons of the Inquisition, or on the sick-bed of poverty and obscurity, — God is always with them. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. There never was a better time than the present, and there never was better place than this, for some holy resolve concerning consecrated service for the Master.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take- The psalmist asks, “What shall I render?” and he answers, “I will take.” That is a strange way of rendering, is it not? Yes, brethren, but that is the way for us to show our gratitude to the Lord for all his benefits toward us. John Newton was right when he wrote, — “The best return for one like me, So wretched and so poor, Is from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. And I can be spokesman for you, brethren and sisters in Christ, and say that the Lord is good, and that we have proved him to be good to us under peculiarly trying circumstances. He does not fail to help his people,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. This is a curious way of rendering anything, yet you know that John Newton’s hymn says, — “The best return for one like me So wretched and so poor, Is from his gifts to draw a plea, And ask him still for more.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. We do well to notice those deaths, for God notices them. They are among his precious things. And if God thinks so much of dying saints, depend...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. If you have made any vows, mind that you keep them. It is often better not to vow; but when the vow is made, let it be diligently paid.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will say my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. It is a great blessing if we are able to say, as David did, that we are born into God’s house. Some of us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. It is very painful for us to witness, but it is precious to God. We think that they have ended their usefulness when they reach that point, but God estimates their very death to be precious. Tread very softly when you go to the bedside of a departing saint; you may brush against an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. They are themselves at all times so precious to the Lord that everything about them is very dear in his esteem, and they are never more precious than in their deaths. We constantly have some of the very choicest of the Lord’s saints going home to their Father; and when the Lord takes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. It is an event for which he makes all necessary arrangements. He does not allow it to happen accidentally, or according to the will of man. As good old John Ryland says, “Not a single shaft can hit Till the God of love thinks fit.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid:— “Born in thine own house, of one who belonged to thee,— a home-born slave, and glad to glory in that fact. Born in thy house, and bought with thy money, and yielding up myself joyfully to thee: ‘I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid:’ — Psa_116:16. Thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. How pleased David was to be God’s servant! Yet he says, “Thou hast loosed my bonds.” To serve God, is to be free; we are never truly free until we bow our willing necks to the yoke of the Most High. Then we break every chain, and snap every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. Still read this Psalm very personally, — you especially who have had godly mothers. Say, “I am a born slave, — born of one who was thy slave, for I delight to use even such a hard name as that. I am God’s servant, born of one of God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. The palmist said that he was a home-born slave, because his mother was a servant of God, and he was born, as it were, a servant of his mother’s Lord. How delightful it is to be a Christian, and the Son of a Christian! Let us rejoice and be...