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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. He who sincerely loves the true God cannot have any regard for his rivals; he will have no communion with false gods in any shape or form.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. We must be faithful to God, to the God revealed to us in the Book of God, the God of the Old Testament of the New Testament, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. We must keep to him, not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: That is the believer’s portion,—his God. The Levites, as a tribe, had no inheritance in the land of Canaan; but God was their portion, and who shall dare to say that they had not the best of it? Now, child of God, if you could have your choice, what would you choose,—goods or God? Earthly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. One of the great houses of nobility has for its motto the words, “I will maintain it.” But David’s is a better one: “Thou maintainest my lot.” God is the best Defender that his people can ever have.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. The Jewish rulers stretched the measuring or dividing lines over the plots of land that fell to the different members of the family; but here the man of God declares that, since God was his portion, the lines had fallen to him in pleasant places. There is no choice of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The lines are fallen into me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. Many of us have proved this to be true in our experience. May we continue gratefully contented and more than contented, delighted with whatever God appoints for us!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: “He has talked with me, checked me, rebuked me, instructed me, encouraged me: ‘I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel.’” That does not, at first sight, look as if it were one of the choicest of blessings, yet the psalmist mentions it immediately after he has declared that the lines have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I have set the LORD always before me? “In my acts by day, and my thoughts by night,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Brother, have you always acted on the straight? Have you so conducted your business that you need not be ashamed for God himself to look at it? Then do not be afraid of anything that may happen to you, for you will come out all right at the last. There may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Now across the sacred page there comes the wondrous revelation of a glorious One who speaks in the very words that are recorded here. Though, possibly, we have not recognized him, these words that follow apply specially to Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. Every good thing belongs to the man who belongs to God. He need not be afraid even of the grave, for he can adopt the language which is here prophetically used for Christ himself. He is not afraid to die, for he can say:—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore my heart is glad, Because, in the night watches, he had sought his Father, and found help in him, he could say, “Therefore my heart is glad.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Or, rather, Hades, the abode of the dead.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; “Sheol”—the place of the departed, the intermediate state into which the soul passes at death. Psa_16:10. Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. In the fullest sense, this verse belongs to Christ alone; but, still, what belongs to the Head is also the portion of the members of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Now David was gathered to his fathers, and his body saw corruption, as the apostle Peter rightly observed, so it is clear that he is not speaking of himself here, not in the first place, at any rate, but of “great David’s greater Son,” our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: “Neither wilt thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. This exposition consisted of readings from PSALMS 16, and 63. And this is the portion of every believer. “Here little, but hereafter much,” says Bunyan; but I will venture to alter it, and say, “Here much, but hereafter more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hands there are pleasures for evermore.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first verse of this Psalm will well fit their lips: “Hear the right, O Lord.” And, at all times, it is a great blessing when a supplicant can say to God, “Give ear unto my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. It is the appeal of a slandered man to the highest court; he takes his case into the Court of King’s Bench, and asks God himself to give the verdict concerning what he had done. It is a good case that will bear to be so investigated.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Happy is the man who is not afraid for God to come to him suddenly in the night, or to pounce upon him, as it were, at any hour of the day, for, whenever he comes, he will find his servant so...