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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Notice that verse, young man! There is much-needed teaching there for you. There are many “paths of the destroyer” in this wicked city of London, and all over the world; and it is only by taking heed to our ways, according to God’s Word, that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. “I know that I am in thy way; but, O Lord, hold me up! I am like a horse that needs a careful driver, else I shall trip and fall, in rough places or in smooth, ‘Hold up my goings in thy paths,’ for I may fall even there. There are the sins of my holy things, so ‘hold up my goings in thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, from the wicked that oppress...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: from men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. As for me,— “What...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. That is our portion. God grant that we may prize it more and more! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. “I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, Notice that, though David was a king, he does not say so, but he prefers the higher title, “The servant of Jehovah.” He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. What a blessed “I will”: “I will love thee”! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he must do so, for the Lord has been his strength. There are many aspects under which the love of our heart is most justly and fitly given to God, and this is one of them. If the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I shall call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. At first he says, “I will love thee” then, “I will trust...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. Note how David delights to heap up poetic imagery to describe his God. They who glory in the Lord would fain speak worthily of him; and because there is no one object in nature that can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; “My rock in which I hide; my fortress in which I am secure; my deliverer who in a thousand ways brings me out of every peril.” What a text those two words would make! I would like to preach from them: “My deliverer.” Why, that is a name that runs through the whole story of redemption, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. How David heaps up the epithets! When the believer once begins to praise the Lord, there is no end to it. He can never even satisfy himself; much less can he hope to rise to the height of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. Prayer brings salvation. Prayer must, however, be mingled with praise, for prayer and praise make up the breath of the Christian life. Have I not often reminded you that we breathe in the air of heaven by prayer, and then breathe it out again in grateful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: David first said, “I will love,” now he says, “I will call.” The “I wills” of the Psalms have furnished various writers with an admirable subject; and they may supply you with a profitable line of meditation: “I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.” “I will mix praise with my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. Calling upon him in prayer, and rendering praise to him, “so shall I be saved from mine enemies. You remember how the army of Jehoshaphat marched forth into the valley of Berachah, singing and praising the Lord; and they had no need to strike a blow, for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. “They were before me, behind me, all around my path whichever way I turned.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. Death had tied him round with the ropes of pain; they compassed him about. He seemed like one who was shipwrecked, struggling for his life; or he stood like a hunted stag in the midst of a pack of hounds.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. That is, “went before me,” “lay in my pathway.” Did you ever have a window opened in your heart, so that you could see all the ruin of your nature,-all the possibilities of evil that lay asleep...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. He could not stir a step without falling into a trap of some sort or other. What an awful picture this is! I can hardly imagine that the case could be painted in much blacker colors. None but God could help him, it is evident; for his sorrows were the sorrows of death. The...