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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely — There are no ifs, no doubts, no fears about the matter: “Surely” — Psa_23:6. Goodness and mercy shall follow me — “These two holy angels shall watch over my footsteps and track me wherever I go; — ‘goodness’ to preserve me and ‘mercy’ to pardon me! — ‘goodness’ to supply my needs, and ‘mercy’ to blot out my sins.” And these angels shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely — This is another of the psalmist’s inferences, and a very sure one. He does not say, “Peradventure,” but, “Surely” Psa_23:6. Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: Here is a prince of the blood royal of heaven attended by two body guards, — goodness and mercy, — which keep close behind him. These are the grooms that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The earth is the LORD’S, and the fullness thereof, And therefore it is also the believer’s. The real fullness of the earth belongs to the Christian. “The meek shall inherit the earth.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The world, and they that dwell there in. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. So, child of God, you are in your Father’s house even while you are down here on earth. Still, that question in the next verse is very suggestive. Albeit that the earth is the Lord’s, yet we do not want to stop in it for ever.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? This is the portion of the Lord’s people to ascend the hill of the Zion that is above, to enter the New Jerusalem, and to stand in the immediate presence of God. But who shall ever be able to do that?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully; he shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the blood of his salvation. The man who will go to heaven is the clean man, the man who has been washed from his sins in the blood of the Lamb; and he is clean just...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is the generation of them that seek him, that see thy face, O Jacob. Selah. It is a wonderful thing that Jesus Christ should take his people’s name but he does. He gives his Church his own name in that remarkable passage in Jer_33:16, “This is the name wherewith she shall be called The Lord our righteousness;” and now, to make the union...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. It is down; and I would fain lift it up; yet I am powerless to do so if I am left to myself. When the soul cleaves to the earth, who but God can lift it up? Yet it must be our desire and object to seek to lift up our soul unto God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. Whatever happens to me, I trust in thee. Down goes the anchor; that ship will never drift far out to sea. “O my God, I trust in thee.” Can you say that, dear friends? Then, if you are in the dark, you are as safe as if you were in the light, for still this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. When good men are in earnest on their own account, they soon begin to pray for others; and the evil which they dread for themselves, they are sure to dread for their brethren. David first prayed, “Let me not be ashamed;” and then he added, “Let none...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. That is the prayer of one who is tight of the Spirit, for, by nature, our desire is to have our own way; and if we can have our own way, we are satisfied. But when the Lord has taught us better, our prayer is, “Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. We need not only to have the path shown to us, but to be led into it, for we are like babes just learning to walk, we must have a finger that we may hold, or a hand that we may lean upon: “Lead me in thy truth, and teach me.” That is the second...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Thy saints knew them before I was born, and I have known them since I have been born again. By the constancy of thy kindness to me hitherto, continue still to bless me, for art thou not an unchanging God?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD. In this verse and the preceding one, there are three “remembers”— erst, that God would remember his tender mercies and his lovingkindnesses; next, that he would not remember our sins and our transgressions; and, then,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. If good men endeavor to make others good, much more will the good God do so. A good man will seek to lead sinners in the right way; and. much more will our good Saviour, and God, and Helper do so. Only let us be willing to be taught, and come to him confessing our ignorance,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. Not the proud man, but the meek,— the learners,— the teachable ones; those who, like little children, are willing to believe what they are told upon true authority. Oh, that we all may be among the meek! The tender-mouthed horse is easy to drive; but some people are so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. Do you believe that, you who have been sorely tried? If you are resting in covenant love, and find your hope in covenant blood and covenant promises, you must believe that everything God does to you is done in mercy and truth. Ay, though he strikes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. Those who are not taught of God pray very differently from that, for their prayer is, “O Lord, pardon mine iniquity, for it is little;” but he who is graciously instructed confesses the greatness of his guilt, and out of that he draws a plea for mercy, for is not God a great God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. True reverence for God, a holy fear of him, is a quality that God delights to see; and wherever he finds it, there he gives further instruction.