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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. God cares little for the mere outward forms of worship; Ritualistic observances are nothing to him: “Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord open thou my lips: and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. How wonderfully a true sense of sin puts a man on the track of Evangelical doctrine, David could see that sin was too grievous a thing for the blood of sheep and bullocks to wash it away,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; — In the eighth verse, he had prayed, “Make me to hear;” and now he does as good as say, “Make me to speak.” Sin puts all the organs of the human body out of order, and grace is needed to put them all right again: “O Lord, open thou my lips;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; — The offering of bullocks, and lambs, and rams amid the pomp of priestly ritual: “Thou desirest not sacrifice;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips He is afraid to open them himself lest he should say something amiss. Pardoned sinners are always afraid lest they should err again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest no sacrifice; else would I give it: “ Whatever share is in the whole world that thou desirest, I would gladly give it to thee, my God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. What a sweet verse that is! Have you got a broken heart tonight, dear friend, and do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; — He felt as if he could not be trusted to open his own lips; and, certainly, he was not to be trusted to open his own eyes, for when he had aforetime opened them, he had looked on that which led him into sin. So now he would have God to keep his very lips, that he shall never speak again except as he shall be guided...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Very naturally, David’s mind began to think of the multitudes of bullocks, and lambs, and rams, that were burnt upon Jehovah’s altar. There is nothing that makes a man so spiritual, and so Evangelical, as a deep sense of sin. You cannot be a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Are you bringing this sacrifice to the Lord? Are there some in this house of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. You know the leper when he was unclean — what did he do? He covered his lips, as much as to confess that he was not fit to speak. So here the unclean David, with the covering over his lips, will not venture to speak until the Lord has taken away his sin, and opened his mouth for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it David remembered that, under the law, there was no sacrifice appointed for the expiation of adultery. There were some sins that were left out of the catalogue, and this was one of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Even for the man who has committed the most atrocious crimes, there is still acceptance if he brings to God the sacrifice of a broken spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: Bring these sacrifices, dearly beloved, bring them to God now. Bring your broken spirit, bring your troubled conscience, bring your bleeding heart, bring all your trembling on account of sin; bring it all to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Come, poor souls, you that are heavy with guilt, you that lie at death’s dark door, condemned by reason of a whole life of sin, offer to God this sacrifice that he will not despise. The Jews brought their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: This is all sacrifices put into one, and the man who brings a bleeding heart to God is accepted when the one who brings a bleeding bullock is rejected; and he who brings a bleeding Saviour brings the best sacrifice of all.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion -You see that the psalmist loves the chosen people of God. With all his faults, his heart is right towards the kingdom under his charge. He feels that he has helped to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Those delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are as broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. David has to feel that it is better to have one genuine sigh for sin than to make ten thousand bullocks shed their blood upon the sacrificial altar; and if thou art truly broken from thy sin, — if thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. Here we have what God does desire, and what he does not. If you turn to the sixth verse, you will see what he does desire. “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.” Now here he does not desire the mere outward and external worship rendered by sacrifice....