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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. If there were no mercy, there would be no love in any human heart, and there would be an end to religion if there were an end to forgiveness. Here let us observe that the best of men dare not stand before an absolute God, that the holiest of God’s saints need to be accepted on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. See, this is all in the first person. Dear friend, can you use it in the first person? Can you say, “I wait for Jehovah”? Blessed are they that are content to wait his will, but yet with holy eagerness are prepared to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. There is a waiting of expectancy; we believe that he is about to give us the mercy, and hold out the hand for it. There is a waiting of resignation; we know not what God may do, nor when he may appear, but we wait. Aaron held his peace. Tis a great virtue to wait for God when we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all her iniquities. Children of God, plead that precious, promise: “He shall redeem Israel from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. And many a mariner has watched, for the morning with an awful anxiety, for he could not know where his vessel was until the day should break. Many a weary patient, tossed upon the bed of pain, has waited for the morning,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Those on the sick bed, who long for their weary waiting to be over, those afflicted ones who cry in the night of pain, “Would God it were morning! “ Those, too, that stand as sentinels the night before the battle, or after the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. He shall do this in a double and perfect way; he shall redeem us from the effect of all our iniquities through the atoning sacrifice, and from the power of all iniquity by his sanctifying Spirit....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. Enough to buy us back from all our slavery, and to buy back our inheritance as well. Our Redeemer is the redeemer of the inheritance that has been mortgaged, and now is burdened by the enormous debt of sin: “with him is plenteous redemption.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. That is our worst slavery, our in-equities, our want of equity, our having acted unfairly to God and unfairly to man. He will redeem us from all that evil; yea, he has redeemed us by price, and he will redeem us by power. This exposition consisted of readings from PSALMS 129, 130, and 131.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. I commend this verse to some who profess to be Christians, but who are always puzzling their poor brains with intricate questions, who want to solve the mystery of where free will and predestination can meet, how man can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. That is a very blessed thing to be able to do, to quiet yourself when, like a weaned child, you are crying under the afflicting hand of God, when you feel a proud spirit murmuring, or when you want to pierce the darkness that veils...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let Israel hope in the LORD- You will never be weaned from him if you are his; but if you are weaned from the world, so as to have all your hope in the Lord, thrice happy are you. Now, too, you will grow; now you will come to the fullness of the stature of a man in Christ Jesus, which you could never have done if you had not been weaned. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, (or, Jehovah,) remember David, and all his afflictions; We cannot come before God in our own name; so what a mercy it is that we have a good name to plead! You and I do not approach the Lord in the name of any saint or holy man; we plead the name of “great David’s greater Son,” and with the utmost emphasis can we say, “Lord, remember Jesus,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions. God had entered into an everlasting covenant with David, “ ordered in all things and sure,” and in this Psalm either David himself or some of his people or descendants pleaded that covenant in time of affliction and trial: “Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions.” The Lord would not forget...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; Jacob was the great maker of vows; and you will remember also that Jacob, on his dying bed, made mention of “the mighty God of Jacob.” David in this Psalm imitated his forefathers; he made a solemn vow to the Lord that he would build a house for God, even as Jacob did when he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, norgo up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. David remembered that he had built himself a palace, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. He used strong words to signify that his house should be no house to him, and that he would not regard his bed as a place of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood, We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. This is what David did, and you see what trouble he took in the matter; but you know that he was not permitted to build a house for God. Yet he had the same reward as if he had done so, for God built up his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. God is willing to dwell in the woods. Many a time he does so. In many a cottage far removed from the haunts of men, God is found; and to many a backwoodsman God is as near as he is to those who worship him in temple or cathedral. “ We found it in the fields of the wood.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. This Psalm is called “ A Song of degrees.” Notice the steps here described. We heard of it, we found it, we will go into it, we will worship in it. It is a good thing when, in our prayers and praises, we ascend step by step,-not on the stepping-stones of our dead selves, which is a...