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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. David felt that there was a multitude of transgressions recorded against him in God’s unerring register, yet he specially realized the guilt of that one sin which Master Trapp calls the devil’s nest-egg, to which so many other sins were added. That first sin was a peculiarly foul...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. “As if the record of it were painted on my eyeballs I cannot look anywhere without seeing it. I seem to taste it in my meat and drink; and when I fall asleep, I dream of it, for thy wrath has come upon me, and now my transgression haunts me wherever I go.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. I tell it to thee because it haunts me. It is always present to my mind. It seems painted on my eyeballs. I cannot but see it, turn whichever way I may.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. It is thrown out on the surface. Health comes back when the disease manifests itself by an outward eruption. It is when you do not acknowledge it—it is when it is not before you—when you cannot perceive it—will not confess your sin—it is then that it is at the heart-strings killing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. “I cannot get away from it and I cannot get rid of it. It stares me in the face, it haunts me in my lying down and my rising up. I am obliged to acknowledge my sin, for it is ever before me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Unless sin is before us, we shall not be likely to spread it before God; but when we have knowledge of it, then we shall make acknowledgment of it to God. “My sin is ever before me.” He was in such a state of heart that the remembrance of sin seemed painted on his eyeballs. Even in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight “I have sinned against others; but this is the foulness of the blot, the venom of the sting, that I have sinned against my God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was sharpen in iniquity and in sin did my not mother conceive me. “’Behold,’ for this is a wonder, and I look at it, and I mourn over it; behold, before I had a shape, I was out of shape. Before I saw anything, still there was sin antecedent to my very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. David’s great iniquity was a sin against many, but he had been brought to learn what few see, that the virus of sin lies in its being against God. Last Sabbath evening, our subject was that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: Oh, what an awful thing, to commit adultery in the sight of God! It is horrible; but what must it be to commit any sin in the sight of God? Will a rebel talk treason in the presence of his king? Most men court the darkness that they may not be seen to do evil; but it is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. David had sinned against a great many others beside God, but the virus, the very poison of the sin, seemed to him to lie in this, that he had sinned against God. The unregenerate usually take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. “The essence, the virus, the climax of my sin consists in its assault upon thee, my God; therefore, O God, if thou condemnest me, thou wilt be just! There is nothing that can be said against...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. This is the sting of sin to a truly penitent man, that he has sinned against God. The carnal mind sees nothing in that. If ever it does repent, it repents of doing wrong to man. It only takes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. He had sinned against his people, setting them an ill-example — sinned against Bath-Sheba and Uriah; but he sees the whole evil concentrating itself, as it were, upon his God. He felt that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. For, in sin, this is the essence of it—that it is sin against God. You cannot get the worldly man to feel that. “I have done no hurt to my neighbour. I have not injured society.” But how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight: “It is true that I have grieved others, and that I have done much injury to others by my sin; but, in all this, I have sinned most against thee. The virus — the essence of my sin is that it has been committed against thee, O my God!” Psa_51:4. That thou mightest be justified...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Whatever God may say to us, however sharp it is, and whatever God may do to us, however terrible it is, we deserve it; and when we are in a penitential frame of mind, we feel that it is so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee only have I sinned. Yet he had sinned against many more; but just now the thought of his sin against God swallowed up all else. All his offenses against his fellow men were trivial compared with the high treason which he had committed against his God. This is the virus of sin, that it is sin against God. Psa_51:4. And done this evil...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. “I am bad from the fountain-head of my being, and wrong all through. It is not only what I do that is wrong, but I myself am wrong; I am a double-dyed traitor, and of a traitress born.” I doubt not that David’s mother was as good as any mother probably she was a true child of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. “If I had not been bad, I should not have acted so badly. The streams betray the fountain. If I had not been wicked at the core, I should not have acted so wickedly; but the evil tree has brought forth evil fruit.” It is well when actual sin leads us to feel the depth of our...