Spurgeon's Treasury of David - vol 4 of 5 (Psalms 91 - 120) by Spurgeon Charles Haddon

Author:Spurgeon, Charles Haddon [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon]
Format: mobi
Tags: Bible, Spurgeon, Psalms, theology
Publisher: www.spurgeon.org
Published: 2010-07-07T05:00:00+00:00

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HINTS TO THE VILLAGE PREACHER

Verse 1.

1. Praise God for former mercies.

2. Pray for further mercies.

3. Publish his famous mercies.

Verse 1. A series of holy exercises.

"Give thanks"—

"call upon his name"—

"make known"—

"sing"—

"talk"—

"glory"—

"rejoice"—

"seek"—

"remember".

Verse 2.

1. The pleasure of talking to God. "Sing, "etc.; making melody in the heart.

2. The duty of talking of God. "Talk ye, "etc. G.R.

Verse 2. The Christian's table talk.

Verse 3.

1. Those who find: or—"glory ye, "etc.

2. Those who seek: or—"rejoice."

Verse 3 (second clause). Let the seeker rejoice that there is such a God to seek, that he invites us to seek, that he moves us to seek, enables us to seek, and promises to be found of us. The tendency of the seeker is to despond, but there are many grounds of comfort.

Verse 4. How can we seek the Lord's strength?

1. By desiring to be subject to it.

2. By being supported by it.

3. By being equipped with it for service.

4. By seeing its results upon others.

Verse 4. Threefold seeking.

1. The Lord for mercy.

2. His strength for service.

3. His face for happiness. A.G. Brown.

Verse 4 (last clause). Seeking the Lord the perpetual occupation of a believer.

Verse 5. Themes for memory.

1. What God has done.

2. What he has said.

Verse 5. Our memory and God's memory. "Remember." "He hath remembered."

Verse 7. God's relation to his elect and to all mankind.

Verse 9. The making, swearing, and confirming of the covenant. See our comment on these verses with the passages referred to.

Verse 12. Comfort to the few. The typical and spiritual Israel few at first. A few in the ark peopled the world. Small companies have done wonders. Christ's presence is promised to two or three. God saith not by many or by few, etc.

Verse 13.

1. God's people may be often removed.

2. They can never be injured.

3. God's property in them will not be renounced.

Verse 14. Dr. T. Goodwin has an excellent sermon on these verses, entitled "The Interest of England, "in which he condenses the history of the world, to show, that those nations which have persecuted and afflicted the people of God have invariably been broken in pieces. (Goodwin's Works, volume 12 pg 34-60, Nichol's edition).

Verse 15. In what respect Abraham was a prophet, and how far believers are the same.

Verse 16.

1. All things come at the call of God. He called for plenty, and it came, for famine, and it came; for captivity, and it came; for deliverance, and it came.

2. The most unlikely means of accomplishing an end with man is often the direct way with God. He fulfilled the promise of Canaan to Abraham by banishing him from it; of plenty, by sending a famine; of freedom, by bringing into captivity. G.R.

Verse 19. The duration of our troubles, the testing power of the promise, the comfortable issue which is secured to us.

Verse 24 (second clause). In what respects grace can make believers stronger than their enemies.

Verse 25.

1. The natural hatred of the world to the church.

2. God's permitting it to be shown. When? Why?

3. The subtle manner in which this enmity seeks its object.

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