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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. As if they were worthless things to be thrown away — as if they were obnoxious things to be thrown behind thy back where thou couldest not see them. “Dost thou talk about worshipping me, whilst thou art neglecting my words?” Now it is a very solemn thing when a man boasts about the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. “When thou sawest a thief thou consentedst with him,” and some professors do this. If they do not themselves rob, there are some who will employ their clerks to tell lies in writing. They consent in the bad trade of others. They become accomplices,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. How many do this, and yet think they are the children of God? They ruin other characters most remorselessly; they will spread false reports, if not actually invent them, and yet think themselves the people of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. When a tongue has once learned the habit of calumny, it will spare none. The nearest relative and the dearest will become victims to the habit —first of gossip and afterwards of actual detraction and lying. Oh! the misery, the pain, that is caused in the world...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, -- “Consider this,” you who are full of heartless religiousness, you who are so particular in your observance of the outward forms of religion, and yet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; A wonderful thing is that silence of God, that longsuffering with sinners and another wonderful thing is the impudent interpretation which the sinner gives to that silence. Psa_50:21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; God, in his long-suffering, bears with these sinners. “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.” These men came at last to say, “Pooh! the prophets make too much fuss about holiness. You can serve God, and yet, after all, live as we do. So long as we give God a tithe, it matters...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. What a terrible God is this Jehovah whom we serve! If our hearts are not right towards him, if we dare to mock him with solemn sounds uttered by false tongues, this verse warns us as to how he will deal with us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. How blessed, then, is it to praise the Lord both with the lip and with the life!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. What solemn words! What dreadful words? God never plays at threatening; and his ministers, when they speak of wrath to come, are not to speak with velvet mouths and soft words, for “Oh! the wrath to come,” as George Whitefield used to say with uplifted...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. So that what God really desires is living, loving hearts; and holy gracious lives; and, therefore, if we do not give him our hearts and our lives, our sacrifices and oblations are all in vain, they are an abomination in his sight.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: More than he that offers bullocks. Psa_50:23. And to him that ordereth his conversation aright. The man that strives in the sight of God to walk a holy life: this is the man to whom: Psa_50:23. Will I show the salvation of God. If he wants saving, let him order his conversation as he may, he will owe all to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness He used to talk about being God’s servant; but he says nothing about that now. He used to speak of God’s great love to him; but he cannot realize that now. Yet he appeals to God for mercy: “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness.” Psa_51:1. According unto the multitude...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, “I cannot do without mercy, though I am thy child; and thou must give me great mercy, or it will be no mercy to me, for little mercy will not serve my turn. ‘ Have mercy upon me, O God,’ without stint, and without end. Psa_51:1. According to thy lovingkindness: “If I must set thee a measure, let thine own nature be the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, — “Nothing but mercy will meet my case. Thy justice frowns upon me; thine anger frightens me. ‘Have mercy upon me,’ — great mercy, unmeasured mercy, undeserved mercy, — ‘Have mercy upon me, O God,’” — Psa_51:1. According to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindess: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. This is not a Psalm to be sung to the joyous music of the harp and the viol, but rather to the minor music of sighs, and groans, and tears. You must have the picture of weeping David before your mind’s eye if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, — He breaks the silence at last, and he does so by crying to God for mercy. Ere he says anything else, he appeals to this attribute of mercy, which is so glorious a trait in the character of Jehovah; and he casts himself, all guilty as he is, upon the absolute mercy of God: “Have mercy upon me, O God,” — Psa_51:1....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Here is a man of God, a man of God deeply conscious of his sin, crying for mercy, vying with all his heart and soul, and yet with his tear-dimmed eyes looking up to God, and spying out the gracious attributes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. What delicious words those are! “Thy loving-kindness.” I have sometimes felt glad to be a Saxon, that I should speak a language that had such delightful words in it. “Loving-kindness,” “tender mercy.” Now, the...