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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. So far, the Psalm is a prayer. Now the psalmist seems to stop, and wait for the answer to his supplication. Beloved, always do that when you pray. When you have spoken to God, wait for him to speak to you. Do not let it appear that your prayer needs no answer; but really expect a reply to it,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: “I will be silent. I have spoken to him; now I will hear what his answer is. I will hold my ear attentive to listen to his voice.” O my dear hearers, when you are willing to hear God, there are good times coming to you! Psa_85:8. For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: There is peace,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. For, if they do, their darkness will return, and they will again have to mourn their Lord’s absence. Peradventure, the rod will fall more heavily upon them, and their souls will sink into a deeper despondency....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; When you honour him, reverence him, worship him, his salvation cannot be far away from you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; At the cross is their meeting-place. There, you shall see God’s mercy and God’s truth embracing each other over the great sacrifice of Christ. Mercy and truth seem set at variance in the sinner’s case till they are reconciled by the blood of Jesus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. O beloved brethren and sisters, lay hold on that salvation which is nigh unto you, and exalt in it; and, even now, let your spirits feel the glow of his glory shining in your soul!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. It seemed impossible that God should be righteous and yet be at peace with sinners; but Christ has taken both parties by the hand, and at Calvary they kiss each other. God is as righteous as if he were not gracious, and as gracious as if he were not just. Yea, his justice and his peace are each of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mercy and truth are met together; But only at one place,—the cross of Calvary, where Jesus died; there, “mercy and truth are met together;” Psa_85:10. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Through Christ’s death, sin has been punished, sinners are saved, God’s law is vindicated, and the depths of his mercy are displayed: “Righteousness...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Carpeted with truth, and canopied with righteousness; what a wonderful scene is before us! Truth is coming out of the ground, as though it had been a dead thing, which begins to live, and leaves its tomb; and righteousness is throwing up the windows of heaven, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truth shall spring out of the earth;-- Promises, which lay hidden in God’s Word, like seeds buried in the earth, shall spring up before our eyes, like flowers carpeting the earth with beauty: “Truth shall spring out of the earth;”— Psa_85:11. And righteousness shall look down from heaven. As if so pleased with the state of things brought about by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. It is all well when it is well with us in our relation to God. When we are reconciled to him, then all things are reconciled by that fact.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. May God thus revive us, by his Holy Spirit, for Christ’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in. the way of his steps. Lord, hear the prayer of this Psalm, and answer it to us, for Jesus sake! Amen. This exposition consisted of readings from Isa_43:22-28; Isa_44:1-8; and Psalms 85
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: It was only a cry, a cry as of an animal in pain, or at best the cry as of a child that has lost its mother: “I have cried day and night before thee.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let my prayer come before thee: “Give me an audience, O Lord. Do not shut the door in my face. My prayer has been knocking, knocking, knocking, at thy gate; open to it. ‘Let my prayer come before thee.’” Psa_88:2. Incline thine ear unto my cry; “Stoop down to me out of heaven, O Lord. Bow that ear of thine to hear even my feeble and unworthy cry....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my soul is full of troubles: “Full of troubles, brimming over with grief, and every drop of it is as bitter as gall.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: “They put me down as a dead man. They that see the lines of fierce despair upon my face reckon that I cannot live long: ‘I am counted with them that go down into the pit.’” These were his pleas in crying unto God,-“ Distresses round me thicken, My life draws...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am as a man that hath no strength: Here is one, in the time of manhood when he should be strongest, who yet says, “I am as a man that hath no strength.” This subject may not interest some of you, just now; but it is here, so we must mention it; and it may be wanted even by you one of these days. Bright eyes are not always bright, and the earthly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Free among the dead,- A freeman of the sepulcher, at home at death’s dark door: “Free among the dead,” Psa_88:5. Like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. This is perhaps the most awful depth of the whole Psalm. The writer bemoaned that be was not remembered even by God any more, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah, Very properly here comes a “Selah.” Such a strain upon the harp-strings had put them all out of tune; so the players had notice to retune their harps, and the singers were bidden to lift up the strain...