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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou putteth away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. Eastern kings cannot often say as much as this, but David had been a just king. This was for his comfort when he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. Well may we also tremble when we see how terrible God is out of his holy places. There is a fear which is akin to love. As there is a fear which perfect love casts out, so is there another fear which love dandles on her knee, and such is the fear which David felt. May we too...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. This is the man who truly loves God, and this is the kind of fear that perfect love does not cast out. Though we love God supremely, we become for that very reason God-fearing men, and dread to do anything that would cause him anger or sorrow.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. When a man is conscious of doing right, he has a good ground of appeal to God. If, when it was in your power, you did not oppress others, you may plead with God that he will not let others oppress you. If it has been your habit to act with judgment and justice towards others, you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation,- “I have looked for it so long, I have longed for it so eagerly, that my eyes seem to grow inflamed with watching, a film seems to come over them so that I cannot see out of them: ‘Mine eyes fail for thy salvation.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. As nearly as I remember, this is the only verse which does not mention the law or the Word of God. Here you have a “surety,” and that is something even better. If the law fails us, the surety stands us in good stead. How I like to think of God the surety of his people! When there is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And for the word of thy righteousness. “I look for no salvation except in the way revealed in thy Word, and I do not wish thee to do an unrighteous thing even to save me from my oppressors.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. I have looked until I have looked my eyes out: I am weary with waiting, with watching, with weeping: “Mine eyes fail for thy salvation.” Some do not even look for him. Here is a man who looked until his very eyes gave out.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy,- He dare not ask to be dealt with by God on any other ground than that of mercy. Though he is innocent of that which the ungodly laid to his charge, he is not innocent before God, and therefore he pleads for mercy. He owns that God is his Lord and Master, and that he is God’s servant, and as a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. He is a just man; he can plead that he has done justly; but he does not ask to be dealt with according to justice: “Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy” — as far as any one of us can get. If you have been greatly sanctified, have walked very near to God, I would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thy servant;- This is the third time in four verses that David mentions this relationship; he seems proud of being God’s servant. Though he were but as a menial, yet would he glory in it: “I am thy servant;” — Psa_119:125. Give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. “Lord, do not merely teach me, but give me understanding.” That...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thy servant; He called himself “servant” many times before; and in this wonderful passage this is the third time. He is delighted to be the “servant of God.” He says little about being a king; he says a great deal about being a servant: “I am thy servant.” Psa_119:125. Give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. You know,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. And surely this is an age in which this prayer is very suitable. On all hands we see God’s law ridiculed, or denied, or travestied, or else hidden under tradition or under the dicta of so-called scientific men, or in some way or other “made void.” Oh, that God’s right hand of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. When men begin to exercise a destructive criticism upon the Word of God, it is time for God to work. When God’s law is held in small esteem, when men go their own way, call vice by the name of pleasure, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. “Therefore” — because the wicked tasted God’s law, and made it void, David loved it all the more. It is a live fish that swims against the stream, it is a live man of God who can say, “They have made void thy law, Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right;- “Ungodly men think they are wrong; that is an additional proof to me that they are right.” When a certain old philosopher had been praised by a bad man, he asked, “What have I done amiss that he should speak well of me?” And there are some men’s mouths out of which the praise...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Every true believer admires God’s Word; and, more than that, it amazes him: “Thy testimonies are wonderful.” View them from any point you may select, they are wonderful, wonderful in themselves, wonderful in their operation, wonderful in the way in which they endure all kinds of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and still more marvellous that he should write to us such a book as this Bible is. The Book itself is full of wonders, and one of those wonders is that it reveals him whose name is “Wonderful.” Observe that the psalmist, having...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The entrance of thy words giveth light; The very first principles, the elements of God’s Word, are full of light and no sooner does it come into the heart than there is light directly. How much more light does it give when it penetrates into the secret chambers of our being, and we begin to understand its deeper mysteries! Psa_119:130. It giveth...