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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. Not “I will praise myself.” Not “I will take credit to myself for my clean walking;” but “When thou hast taught me, and I learn thy ways, then all the praise shall be rendered unto thee.” This is the fruit of evangelical obedience. Legal obedience,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Whenever you make a resolve, accompany it with a prayer. Let this be your declaration, “I will keep thy statutes:” but pray, “O forsake me not utterly,” for, otherwise, your resolution will come to nought. Now begins the second octave of the Psalm
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Strong resolution, but a deep consciousness of weakness and unworthiness. “I will,” but oh’.. how can I do it? “Oh! for this no strength have I My strength is at thy feet to lie. Oh! forsake me not utterly.” Now, in the next eight verses it seems to me that the subject is some what different. We...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? The psalmist has spoken about the holy way; now he would speak about young men running in it. One of the most intense desires of every godly man is that there may be a succession of godly men. Oh, that our young men might be good men, so that, when the old men pass away, the generation following them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? His passions are strong: his experience little. His tempers are many: his friends cannot always be at his side. “Wherewithal shall he cleanse his way?” It is very apt to become miry. The answer is: — - Psa_119:9. By taking heed thereto according to thy word. The word will keep him in the cleanly path...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” A vital and solemn question. His way is full of temptations, and he himself has strong passions. How shall he make his way clean, and keep it so? “By taking heed thereto according to thy word.” Without heed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my whole heart have I sought thee: Can you each one say that, “With my whole heart have I sought thee”? Psa_119:10. O let me not wander from thy commandments. “For, though I have sought thee with my whole heart, yet my heart may in the future go astray. Do not permit it, Lord; do not permit it.” It is a very sorrowful thought to me, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. There is the young man’s fear; and it may be the old man’s fear, too. “I have sought thee sincerely and earnestly, but do not permit my weaker passions to get the mastery over me — do not suffer me in some unguarded hour to be carried captive by my lusts. Oh! let me...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandment. There might be thought in this confession to be some commendation of himself, and therefore he salts it with this prayer: “I have sought thee, Lord, sincerely, but still, notwithstanding that, I am very apt to stray away, and I shall sadly wander unless thou keep me....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. An old preacher, in a sermon on this text, divided it thus: “The best thing: ‘thy word.’ In the best place: ‘have I hid in my heart.’ For the best of purposes: ‘that I might not sin against thee.’” He thus gave in a few words the very gist of the text.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. There is the dread, you see — the dread of sinning — the dread of defiling his way; so he says that he has adopted this divine remedy. A good division of this text, if anyone would preach from it, is the best thing, “Thy word;” in the best place — “have I hid in my heart“; for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. The best thing put into the best place for the best of all purposes. There is no antidote against sin like the possession of the Word of God in the soul.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. There is a mixture, you see, of prayer and praise. That is the best devotion, which contains a happy combination of these two things, prayer and praise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. As if he said, “Teach me thy statutes that I may be blessed, too. Thou art a happy God. Teach me thy way that I may be happy, too. Blessed are the undefiled. Teach me to be so, that as thou art blessed, so I may be.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. Thou art blessed, make me blessed. Thou art the happy God, instruct me in the way of happiness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I must take leave to claim a special property in this text, and there are some among us here, following that same holy craft of preaching the divine Word, who can, each one, lay his hand upon his heart, and say to God, “With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.” This...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. A man’s walking will be right when his delight is of this kind, for where the heart goes, the life will go. To some people religion is a task. It will never have much power over them. But when it becomes a delight,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I am a learner, but I have tried to be a teacher too. I have not kept the Word of God to myself as though it were only a personal treasure for me, but what I have heard in the secret-chamber of fellowship, that have I spoken on the housetops. Have you published abroad what you know? Then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. Not only as much as in riches, but as in all riches. David had gathered together a vast sum of money for the building of the house of the Lord; but whatever joy he had in those accumulations (and I daresay he had great gladness when he thought of the purpose to which all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. If all sorts of riches were put together, I have found them all, and more than them all, in thy testimonies. I am rich in all respects when I have thee.