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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. Nothing makes a man remember the Word so well as the fact that it has quickened him. If you owe your spiritual life and the support of it to the Word of God, you will not forget that Word. If you feel that, every time you come into contact with it, it inspires you with fresh...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. Nothing sharpens the memory like having been quickened. If we have been at death’s door, and the word of God has brought us renewed life, we shall never forget it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. “I am thine, save me.” Oh, what a sweet assertion. “I am thine,” — thy creature, thy redeemed one, thy chosen, thine espoused. “I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thine, — That is a grand thing for anyone to be able to say, what a heaven of bliss lies slumbering in these three words, “I am thine,” — Psa_119:94. Save me; — That is a good argument: “‘I am thine’ by redemption, so do not lose me. ‘I am thine’ by a new creation, so let not the enemy steal me away from thee. I am thy servant, so exercise a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. I have seen an end of all perfection: No matter who it is that boasts of being perfect, “I have seen an end of all perfection.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: Let them wait. Psa_119:95. But I will consider thy testimonies. I will not consider them, they are not worth it, they would only distract or distress me. I will keep my thoughts fixed upon thy word, and so shall I be at peace and escape from their malice.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: — “They have lain in ambush, they have waited to catch me tripping, to ruin my character if possible, so what shall I do, — Counterplot them? No. Watch them night and day? No. ‘The wicked have waited for me to destroy me:’” — Psa_119:95. But I will consider thy testimonies. There is something that seems...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Yes: all perfection in the creature! In very deed it is an attribute of the Creator, and whether it be true or false, whether men have the excellence they boast of, or have it not, there must be an end to it all, either as to its extent or its duration; but thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment — “Ah, there I find perfection: ‘Thy commandment’” — Psa_119:96. Is exceeding broad. It is so broad that there is no limit to it. One of the early fathers used to say, “I delight in the infinity of Scripture,” and well he might, for there is no limit to it. Even one single text might...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thy commandment — There lies the perfection — Psa_119:96. Is exceeding broad. Covering the whole life, covering the thoughts, the intents, the desires of the inner and secret nature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O how love I thy law! The psalmist breaks out into a transport of delight. He does not say how much he loved God’s law, for the simple reason that he could not tell us that; but he says, “O how love I thy law!” Psa_119:97. It is my meditation all the day. That is the best proof of the psalmist’s love of God’s law, for love shows itself by its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. If we have God’s law always with us, we shall be wiser than the most crafty of our enemies; for, after all, there is nothing that puzzles and baffles cunning men like simple honesty. Do that which is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. David knew how well God’s Word had instructed him, and first he declared that he was wiser than his enemies; and, next, that he was wiser than his former instructors: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. The man who rightly meditates upon this wondrous Book is, after all, the truly wise man. His wisdom is that of the heart, received by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and it has a power of understanding in it that will make him wiser than those who are merely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. There is more wisdom in obeying God than in all the ethics of heathen philosophers. It matters not whence they take their precepts and maxims, there is no wisdom like yielding one’s heart to God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. First his enemies, then his teachers, and now his elders, the ancients, —he could excel them all; and he gave the reason for it: “Because I keep thy precepts.” Take this Book away, and give the man all the human learning that he could ever acquire, and how little he would know,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. The Bible is a very sanctifying Book. If we keep its precepts, it holds us back from many things into which we might otherwise have run. “I have refrained my feet from every evil way.” Notice the universality of the obedience of a true saint. He does not say, “I will avoid...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. The man who cannot hate does not love; but he who loves...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Those who are taught of God are always well taught; they never unlearn what they have learned at the feet of Jesus. Those who backslide and apostatize were never truly taught of the Spirit of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Have you a spiritual taste, dear hearer? It is one thing to hear the Word it is another thing to taste it. Hearing the Word is often blessed, but tasting it is a more inward and spiritual thing; it is the enjoyment of the truth in the innermost parts of our being. Oh, that we were all as fond of the Word as...