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Psalms 73:1-2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. He was a good man, one of the leaders in Israel, yet he had to make this confession, “My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.”

Psalms 73:1

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. It must be so. Whatever argument my son may hold about it, I will set that down, to begin with, as a certainty—“Truly, God is good to Israel.” He cannot be unkind or unfaithful to his own people. It cannot be possible, after all—however things may look—that God is an ill-God and an...

Psalms 73:2-3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. I began to envy those whom God hates, and to think that it would be better for me to have been one of them.

Psalms 73:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh dipped. Am I, then, one of his people or not? I know he is good to them; but how about myself? Perhaps some here will never question themselves in that way, and if they were led to do so, they would think it was of the devil. I do not think so. I think it is rather of the devil to...

Psalms 73:3-4

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For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. Many of them have so stifled conscience that it does not trouble them even in that last dread hour, and they pass into eternity with blinded eyes, self-deluded to the last.

Psalms 73:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. It really looked as if the big rogues did prosper, as if the great infidels were happy, as if, after all, religion brought trouble, and irreligion brought pleasure.

Psalms 73:3

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For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. I know that wicked men are fools. Asaph and David had often said that before. Yet says he, “I was a greater fool, still, that I was envious of these fools—when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.”

Psalms 73:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength was firm. Some of them so stifle conscience that they even die stupefied, with no sense of the dreadful wrath that is coming upon them: “There are no bands in their death.”

Psalms 73:4-5

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For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Many of them keep up a hypocritical profession through a long life, and die in a stupefaction, so that conscience never awakens, and they pass out of the world loaded with guilt, and yet talk about being...

Psalms 73:5

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They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. They are not the children of God, and that is why they escape the rod of God. The rod is not for strangers, but for the children of the family. Yet the psalmist began to envy these people because, said he, “they are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued...

Psalms 73:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

; Psa_73:8. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They justify...

Psalms 73:6-9

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, — As though they would blow them down, as the wind blows the clouds that are full of rain.

Psalms 73:6

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. They do not seem to have the afflictions of God’s people, and certainly they are not plagued with soul-conflict such as Christians have, they seem to make themselves very merry at all times. Psa_73:6. Therefore pride accompanieth them about as a chain; They wear it as...

Psalms 73:6

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; As kings wear chains of gold, so is their pride to them. Psa_73:6. Violence covereth them as a garment, They are not ashamed of it. They get to be so bold in sin that they wear it as an outside cloak.

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