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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. If it runs away from you, run after it. Never run into or after a quarrel, but always run after peace: “Seek peace, and pursue it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto heir cry. God is all eye and all ear, and all his eye and all his ear are for his people. Are you distressed in heart? God sees your distress. Are you crying in secret in the bitterness of your soul? God hears your cry. You are not alone. O lonely spirit, broken spirit, be not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, He does not merely give a glance at them now and then, but his eyes rest on them, he is always watching them. Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry. The translators put in the words “are open,” but they were not needed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. He gives them his eyes and his ears, and this means that he gives them himself, and that he is ever ready to perceive their needs, and to hear their cries.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, He watches them. He loves them too well to let them ever be out of his sight. He views them with complacency. He regards them with affection. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry. Ready to hear their feeblest prayer — the cry of their pain — their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The Lord is always watching them, and he is always listening that he may hear everything they say, especially when they cry unto him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. You know what we say sometimes. “I set my face against such a thing as that.” Now God sets his face against them that do evil. You will come to an end, my friend. Your happiness, like a bubble painted with rainbow colors, may be the object of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,- You know what we mean when we say, “I set my face against it.” So God sets his face against the wicked. Note how near both the righteous and the wicked are to an observing God. In the first case, his eyes are upon the righteous; in the second, his face “is against them that do evil,” — Psa_34:16....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, He sets his face against them, and this means that he is himself eternally opposed to all their wicked ways.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Not only out of some of them, but out of all of them. It is often a very long “all.” The list of their troubles is often difficult to read through but in due time there comes a “finis” to it written by the hand...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, Sets his face against them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Here is an explanation of the experience of the believer — first, prayer; then God’s bearing, and then deliverance. Who would not pray who has found prayer to be so effectual with God
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. He will not only destroy the wicked, but he will blot out the very memory of them. They may become great and famous in their wickedness, but they shall not be kept in memory, as the righteous are. As Solomon says, “The name of the wicked shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. That is how we live, if you want to know. God makes us righteous, and then we cry. We often praise him. We desire to have our mouth full of it. But we cry as well, and whenever we cry God hears, and our troubles are removed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. That is something to teach the children, teach them from your own experience, that God does hear and answer prayer; teach them to pray to God always, and to believe that prayer has real and beneficial results: “The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Men do not care for broken hearts, but God does. “Give me a sound heart and a brave heart,” says man. “Give me a broken and a contrite heart,” says the Lord. If...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Are you here tonight, poor weeping Mary? Are you here, brokenhearted, troubled sinner? Are you here? Are you seeking the Lord? Do not seek him any longer. You have got him. Read the text, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” He is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. We often hear of people who die of a broken heart; but here we read about people who live with a broken heart, and it is the best way of living too, with a heart that is broken for sin, and broken from sin, a heart that in every portion of it feels...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Not your proud spirits, not your hectoring ones; but your lowly, penitent souls are the ones that are dear unto the heart of God, he is nigh unto them, and saveth them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. The first line seemed to have something terrible in it: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”, but there is a blessed “but” that comes in —thrown like the...