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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My zeal hath consumed me, The psalmist had such zeal for God’s Word that he seemed like a sacrifice consumed with the fire upon the Lord’s altar. Psa_119:139. Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. First, they despised them, then, they neglected them, at last, they got as far as even to forget them. Forgetfulness of God’s Word is a very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. It is pure in the sense of being unadulterated, and it is pure in the sense of being holy. There is nothing in the Scripture that would lead us to sin, nor excuse it. It is a wonderful condemner of sin: “Thy word is very pure.” Notice the psalmist’s use of the word “very.” In the one hundred...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thy servant loveth it. It is only a pure heart that loves the pure Word of the Lord; so, if you love the Word of God because of its purity, it is an argument that your heart has been renewed by grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. To love God’s Word for its purity, is an index of a pure heart. Some love it for its poetry, some love it for its doctrine, some love it for its mercy; but he is an advanced man in the kingdom of grace who loves it for its purity.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. He was poor but pious, little but loving, despised but devoted. It was the man who had but one talent who went and digged in the earth, and hid his Lord’s money. David was not of that kind; he was small, but he knew he was not too small to sin; he was despised, but he did not on that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. In verse 139, the psalmist complained that his enemies had forgotten God’s words, and he does not complain of the fault in others, and then fall into it himself; but he says, “Yet do not I forget thy percepts.” There are some people who seem to think that it does not much matter what they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. Others may, but I am not following their example. It is well when a Christian man is a contrast to other men. When they call him a mere nobody, he adopts their words, and says, “Yes, I am nothing, ‘I am small and despised,’ yet I do not forget the Lord’s precepts.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, God’s Word does not change, it is everlasting; and the righteousness which it reveals and which it proclaims to us is everlasting. Psa_119:142. And thy law is the truth. God’s Word is not only true, but it is “the truth.” The truth is God’s law, and God’s law is the truth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, — What a wonderful sentence! Just now, the psalmist said, “Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteousness.” (See the marginal reading of verse 138.) Now he advances another step, and says, “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.” Psa_119:142. And thy law is the truth. That...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Pilate asked, “What is truth?” Here is the best possible answer: “Thy law is the truth.” Not only does it contain the truth, but it is the truth. The Word of God is not only true, that is its quality; but it is the truth, that is its essence. It is the cream of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: Just now he said that he was despised, and now he says he is unhappy. Trouble without, and anguish within, seemed to grip him as in a vice. Psa_119:143. Yet thy commandments are my delights. A man of the world cannot understand how a Christian can be in trouble and yet be full of delight; but it is true....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delight. What a curious mixture this verse describes! Here is a man full of trouble and anguish, and yet full of delight at the same time. Little do they understand human nature, and especially gracious human nature, who cannot comprehend this paradox. There are many seeming...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. “Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:” like two fierce dogs they had fixed their teeth in him; yet even then he could say, “yet thy commandments are my delights.” What a riddle is the man who knows God! He has great trouble and is full of anguish, yet he is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, That is a great prayer, not only, “give me to understand,” but “give me understanding.” It is one thing to tell a man the truth, but quite another thing to make him understand it; and if you make him understand that particular truth, he may not understand another, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. Now let us read what the Lord Jesus said to those who professed to reverence the Scripture, but who really made it void by their traditions. This exposition consisted of readings from Psa_119:129-144; and Mat_15:1-13.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. As if he could not live without it, he did not call it true living except as he understood and enjoyed the precepts of his God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. Here we have both a prayer and a resolve; but the resolution grew out of the prayer, and was connected with it. The psalmist prays to God to help him to keep his statutes. Are any of you hard put to it just now by strong temptation? I commend this verse to you: “Hear me, O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is no small work of divine grace to enable us to throw the whole heart into prayer; and when we get that we may be quite sure that our prayer will succeed. The God who gives...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. “I cried with my whole heart.” And sometimes it should be accompanied with a resolve to profit by the affliction. “I will keep thy statutes.” As the child under the rod prays to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee; It is good when you can cry. The living child cries, and it is the man of God whose prayer is a cry of almost inarticulate utterance and grief: “I cried,” “I cried.” What did he cry? Psa_119:146. Save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. David had no notion of salvation without obedience; so he prays, “Save me, and I shall keep...