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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. The opposite of the fixed and infallible law of God is the wavering, changing opinion of men. David had an utter contempt and abhorrence for this, all his reverence and regard went to the sure word of testimony. In proportion to his love to the law was his hate of man’s inventions. The thoughts of men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. The moralist is quite content to look after his actions, but the Christian is never happy until his thoughts are sanctified. The true believer hates vain thoughts, because they lead to vain words and to vain actions; because vain thoughts nailed his Saviour to the tree; because vain thoughts spoil his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. To his God he ran for shelter from vain thoughts, there he hid himself away from their tormenting intrusions, and in solemn silence of the soul he found God to be his hiding-place. When called into the world, if he could not be alone with God as his hiding-place, he could have the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. For thou wilt be sure to do as thou hast said. Thy promises are not like men’s, they cannot be broken, and when I get one of thy promises, O my God, I hide behind it, I am protected by it, and I am comforted through it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. Here is a hiding-place to escape to from danger, and a shield to protect whilst in danger. A hiding-place is not enough, because that cannot be moved, but the shield can be carried everywhere. It is buckled, on the warrior’s arm; and into every conflict he can take it. So, at even-time,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. “Thou art my protection against every kind of danger.” David had been accustomed to hide in the caves of the mountains, but now he says that he hid himself in his God. When he did not hide, but stood out bravely against the serried ranks of his foes, then God was his shield to cover him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. If we fly to God from vain thoughts, much more shall we avoid vain men. Evildoers make evil counselors. Those who say unto God, “Depart from us,” ought to hear the immediate echo of their words from the mouths of God’s children, “Depart from us. We cannot eat bread with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. Holy men often find that, in order to be holy, they have to be solitary. It sometimes happens that the force of evil companionship is too much for the gracious heart to bear, and the Christian man has to say to the ungodly, “Depart from me.” Now, if even godly David had to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. By which David did not mean that be would not speak with ungodly men. Monkish seclusion would be no advantage to a Christian. We are to be in the world, though not of it, as a ship is in the sea, but the sea is not in the ship, or else soon would she go to the bottom. We are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. If, by your evil example, you would take me off from serving my God, I will make you take yourselves off so that I may neither see nor follow your ill example: “Depart from me, ye evil-doers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.” David puts his foot down firmly, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Uphold me- I thought we should soon come to that petition. We have been reading about David’s resolutions, and we might have thought that he was too bold in speaking so positively, but now he shows us the modesty of his mind: “Uphold me”- Psa_119:116. According unto thy word, that I may live: The Lord upholds us as a nurse holds up a little child,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. You see, he feels his weakness, and he cries to his God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: “Lord, I cannot even live unless thou dost uphold me according to thy promise.” The Christian man is so dependent upon God that he owes his life and the continuance of it to upholding grace. Psa_119:116. And let me not be ashamed of my hope. “If thy promise could fail me, then I should have cause...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hold thou, me up,- One is fond of that short, simple prayer, first it is, “Uphold me,” and then, “Hold me up;” either way it is equally good: “Hold thou me up,”- Psa_119:117. And I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. When God holds us up, there is no fear of our falling down; we have respect unto his statutes when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. The brightest archangel owes all his glory to God, and the perpetuity of that glory depends upon the constant gift of the gracious One. How wise, then, is it of men, conscious of their weakness, to hang constantly upon their God. As the vessel hangs upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. “They are like salt that has lost its savour, which is neither fit for the land nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out, and tread it under their feet; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross:- Perhaps some of you have seen the great heaps of slag lying outside the furnace, that is a picture of the ungodly: “Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross:”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their. deceit is falsehood. Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. You see, the Psalmist’s mind is entirely occupied with this spirit of perseverance. He seems to tremble, and to be filled with awe lest he should by any means prove...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I love thy testimonies. What! does love to the truth, and to the God of truth spring out of this putting away of the wicked? Yes, even the stern justice of God makes his people love him, and love his truth. I am of the same mind as the children of Israel were when Pharaoh and his army were swallowed up in the Red Sea, and the emancipated...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: “As the dross is thrown away when the useful metal has been extracted from it, so, O Lord, when thou hast taken all thy saints out of the world thou will put the wicked of the earth away like dross.” Psa_119:119. Therefore I love thy testimonies. What? Does David love God’s testimonies...