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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Salvation is near to any man who seeks it, but the ungodly, as they will not have God’s Word, so shall they not have God’s saving grace They are far from it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far form the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Oh! how the saints want quickening. They know they do. They feel that they get dull, and they cannot endure it. They are not happy unless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Here again, you see, he puts judgment and mercy together — the justice and the tenderness of God, and he leans on both. It is a mark of an instructed Christian when he is able to derive comfort, not merely from the love of God, but also from the holiness and the justice...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. It is enough to make any man grieve that the Word of God, which is so right, so just, so good, should be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. O child of God, whenever you look upon the transgressors, your heart should bleed that they should transgress so good a law — that they should grieve so gracious a God — that they should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies: yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. The very sight of them gave me sorrow. Even though they tried to be mirthful, I was not amused by them, and beheld them and was grieved, “Because they kept not thy word.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. And here is the very sweetness of the gospel — that it is not a thing of today, which will lose its efficiency tomorrow. It endureth for ever. You that have got it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. It is a fair argument; as a friend may say to another, “Consider how I love you;” as a child might say to his angry father when he is about to chasten him, “My father, I love you, although I have transgressed; look at my heart, and see how I love you,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. My heart is right, I do love thee; but I feel dull and heavy. Lord, come and quicken me, not according to my love to thee, but according to thy lovingkindness, come and quicken me. “Thy word is true from the beginning” — from the first page of the book of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. “Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of” — them? No, but “of thy Word.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is true from the beginning: and everyone of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. “Princes have persecuted me without a cause.” David was a prince and a man expects to be fairly dealt with by his peers; but it was not so in this case.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. Not in awe of their word, but in awe of thy word. The fear of God is the best cure for the fear of men. No man who is devout is cowardly. If thou fearest God with all thy heart, thou wilt defy all the devils in hell, and fear none.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. When we are in awe of God’s word, we shall not be in awe of princes. The fear of God is the best cure for the fear of men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor lying; but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. Whatever happens, they shall suffer no ill from it. “There shall no evil befall such, neither shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments, Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Present duty, future expectation. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. He had more joy in reading the Scriptures than in winning a great battle, or in being surprised at the finding of a great treasure.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. Now the Orientals did not hate lying; they generally tried to be proficient at it. The only fault about lying with them is to be found out. Then they think they must have been very unskillful. David, therefore, was far ahead of his time — far ahead of his fellow-countrymen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. He could not have enough of praise; he did it often, he did it perfectly —seven times a day — and if he praised God seven times a day because of his righteous judgments how much more ought we to do it because of his abounding grace! Ah! there is a special cause for thanks.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments, Two good things to put together — hope in God’s mercy, and obedience to God’s will.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Now, cannot some of you feeble people say that? You that cannot talk of full assurance, and are half afraid that you are none of the Lord’s people at all, yet you can say, “Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments;” and, if so, you have done that which proves...