It is a great blessing if we are able to say, as David did, that we are born into God’s house. What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? Charles Spurgeon. He will help us to the end. Children and the Rod of Correction - Dave Miller, Ph.D. Christian Practice - Evidence of Grace - Edwards, How Should Christians Watch TV? I am always speaking to him, and he is always hearing me, and therefore I love him. Read that: “I am thy servant. The old Greek Bible does this. Oh! He hath inclined his ear. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection? I find the verse might be read, “I love the Lord, because he hears.” He is always hearing. But most Bible students think that Psalm 116 is just one psalm, all by the same *psalmist. I see that David liked company. Psalms 116:10-11. I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. We can defend ourselves even when we grow warmest in love to God and most earnest in prayer. In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 114 and 115 in a slightly different numbering system. Hints to the Village Preacher. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Psalm 116:16. Read the Bible through, and you will scarcely find a long prayer. The work remains in print today in several editions. And if God thinks so much of dying saints, depend upon it he will not forget the living ones. Psalms 116:17-18. I found trouble and … Can you say that, dear friends? There was no getting away. Many superficial readers have imagined that it harps upon one string and abounds in pious repetitions and redundancies. As in hunting, they sometimes surround the stag with dogs as with a cordon, so he says, “the sorrows of death compassed me. Thou knowest that I love thee.” “I love the Lord.” Love is said to be blind, but not love to God. B. Lightfoot, Consummation of the pre-Messianic Age and the Parousia, Destruction of Jerusalem vs. All you who have plied the trade of mendicants at the mercy-seat must have been so enriched by it in your souls that you are determined to stand there as long as you live.” Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.” This is sound reasoning, for even the emotions of believers, when they are most fervent, are based upon solid reasons. It has saved me from many a pressing … Can you go as far as that? As I read these words, they seem as if they were written for me. Sorrows, deadly sorrows, the very sorrows of death. I am thy servant.” That is two blows. Psalms 116:16. There are pinches where the kindest hand cannot succor. He means to get you away from every other confidence, that you may fling yourself upon him. Gender Revolution - What are they teaching your kids? A Protest - Joseph Agar Beet D.D. Old Testament Prophecy Fulfilled in Christ. I did. He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Psalms 116:18-19. Psalms 116:3. The Immortality of the Soul: A Protest - Joseph Agar Beet D.D. He has caught my wandering utterances. Praise ye the LORD. A Protest - Joseph Agar Beet D.D. If you have ever been in trouble, and that Divine friend has listened to your feeble cries, you do love him, and you cannot help loving. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. They were all round me. Parece ser um canto pessoal no qual uma alma crente, lembrada pela Páscoa de sua I. What a sweet thing it is when you have studied a general doctrine to be able to give yourself as a particular instance of it. In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. Come home to him, for you have no other friend like him in earth or heaven; come back to him, my soul, and rest where you have often rested before. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Psalm 116:5 Parallel Commentaries Oh, these blessed personal pronouns, are you laying hold of them as I read them? You have heard much of the freedom of the will. Eternal Torment or Complete Annihilation? The brooks of the earth are dry in summer, and frozen in winter. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. “Our God is merciful.” Sometimes when people cannot read well, they spell the words, and one, I remember, spelt God in this way — “Yea, our God is merciful.” That will do — full of mercy — merciful. Are you speaking them out of your own soul? The psalmist was like a poor worm in a ring of fire: “the sorrows of death compassed me.” The sheriff’s officer seemed to hold him in his grip: “the pains of hell got hold upon me.” As for his inner experience, he found nothing there but “trouble and sorrow.” When the town of Mansoul was besieged, every way of escape was closed except the way upwards, and it was so with the psalmist, and therefore he made use of that way. “Therefore.” You see this was given as a reason, but the Psalmist is so full that what was a reason for love now becomes a reason for something else. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. C.H. Come back. Well does David say it twice over. Sorrows, deadly sorrows, the very sorrows of death. He will rest in him, Psalm 116:7. Some of the most powerful evidence that proves Jesus to be Whom he claimed to be is found in the historical fulfillment of the prophsies He foretold in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 a.d. “He hath inclined his ear” — stooped down, as it were, as you do to a sick person to catch his faintest word. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 116:10-19; Song of Solomon 2:1-7. They were hidden away — these double enemies — hidden away beneath my pleasures, beneath my sins, beneath my self-righteousness. Here we see gratitude is springing up in this man’s breast. Psalms 116:4. They will fail you, either from want of faithfulness, or else from want of power. Psalms 116:5. Happy man who has got right away from everything to his God. He has been bountiful. He will help us. many of you can say this, I trust, and if you cannot I hope you will before long — “I was brought low, and he helped me.”, Can you say that? Use is second nature, and the holy use to which God has put us by his grace shall be our nature for ever. I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. Why I Don't Have a Television - John Piper, Why People Find the Bible Difficult - A. W. Tozer, Your Life is Like the Morning Fog - James P. Shelly, A Challenge to Unscriptural Traditions and Practice - Video, Are Seminaries Legitimate? Then I called on the name of the LORD: “Please, LORD, save me!” How kind the LORD is! ( E) entangled me, the anguish of the grave came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow. 4. . There was no getting away. What a sweet thing it is when you have studied a general doctrine to be able to give yourself as a particular instance of it. - James P. Shelly, Genesis Week - Refuting Evolution - 100 Videos, The Enormity of the Error of Perverting the Gospel. Charles Haddon Spurgeon February 18, 1872 Scripture: Psalms 116:15 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 18 Precious Deaths "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. “He hath inclined his ear” — stooped down, as it were, as you do to a sick person to catch his faintest word. All the Prayers in the Bible - Old and New Testaments. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. I love the LORD, because He has heard my voice: The Can you say that, dear friends? Prayer Answered (Psa 116:1) - C.H. Often the end of yourself is the beginning of your God. Often the end of yourself is the beginning of your God. You will never understand it until you stand at the foot of the cross. Sermons From the Psalms. The psalmist was delivered by an act of grace, yet it was an act of righteousness, for God is not unrighteous to break his own promise, and he has promised to help his people. And if you want to know how this can be, look at Calvary, where Jesus dies that we may live. “Oh! “Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.” I speed so well in prayer that I will keep on in that blessed business. There are times of sorrow when she who is the partner of your bosom cannot find you alleviation. The first engagement is, that he shall out of love have recourse unto God by prayer, Ps 116:1-2; the reasons and motives whereof are set down, because of his former deliverances, Ps 116:3 … Can you put that in your diary? The LORD preserveth the simple: You clever men take heed of this. He shall hear me again. He had known fierce assaults of sin that threatened tearful eyes and falling, stumbling stops, but God had upheld and strengthened. I hope that you and I can say the same. They are among his precious things. Psalms 116:14-16. What a man has done he will do. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. We do well to notice those deaths, for God notices them. “Because.” He harps on that string. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. How good he is! - Curtis Dickinson, Do we have an immortal soul? We have tried the fountain of living waters, why should we go to broken cisterns that can hold no water? I was brought low and he helped me. The flowers in the garden of believers bloom double. Come home to him, for you have no other friend like him in earth or heaven; come back to him, my soul, and rest where you have often rested before. Return unto thy first husband, for it was better with thee than now. Psalms 116:5. Have you undergone this trinity of salvation — your soul from death, your eyes from tears, your feet from falling? (Read all of Psalm 117) Exposition - Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings. This should be the one object of our lives if we have been redeemed by Christ, and are his servants. When it is all over with you, still pray. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: They came inside the circle and they gripped me. The most canonical hour for prayer is the time of our greatest distress. when you have given up all reliance upon the creature, and throw yourself upon the bare arm of the Creator, now you have got at it, man; now you have come to real life. - Bullinger, Rise Of The Theory Of Universal Restoration - Henry Constable, Universal Restoration Substituted for Eternal Torment, Absent From The Body—Present With The Lord, Cross Purposes: Atonement, Death and the Fate of the Wicked. Psalms 116:13. I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. When it was such a broken prayer, such a feeble prayer, that I was afraid I had not prayed, yet he heard me. There is no time too bad to pray in. Ought the Church to Pray for Revival? Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. The psalmist was delivered by an act of grace, yet it was an act of righteousness, for God is not unrighteous to break his own promise, and he has promised to help his people. We make a mistake when we begin with that. I will say my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. - Darryl M. Erkel, Church Leaders and the Use of Honorific Titles, Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats - Charles Spurgeon, House-Churches? Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View. That is the practical outcome of the holy conjunction of grace and righteousness in the atoning sacrifice of Christ. The LORD preserveth the simple: Those that have such a deal of wit may take care of themselves, but “the Lord preserveth the simple,” the straightforward, the plain-minded — those who believe his word without raising questions. “The pains of hell gat hold upon me.”. Oh! Why wander? He did not have to search for a form of prayer, his words were such as came naturally to his mind; and that is the best sort of prayer which arises out of the heart’s sincere desire. "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplication. What a sweet thing to be the servant of God. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Wonderful combination — gracious and yet righteous. He lives upon God, and he loves God, and now the question comes, “What shall I do for God?” Service is not first. The LORD preserveth the simple: You clever men take heed of this. Posted. Psalms 116:13-15. Yea, our God is merciful. The Psalm, seems to us to describe either David or some other man of God who was appointed by the divine choice to a high and honourable office in Israel. Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.”. My soul lives on his bounty again. So often, the psalms are a means of communicating an emotion of the author. ", Counterfeit Cross - Bear or Burn: The Fruit of Obedience in the Parables of Christ - updated, Counterfeit Cross - What is a "Carnal Christian"? I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. Psalm 116 - I love the LORD because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. He had been in deep waters of trial and affliction, but had not been suffered to sink. Gracious isthe LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is{c}merciful. And uncommonly near the truth he came, even though he was in a hurry in saying it, for if you trust in any men, they must be liars to you. The Hallels are Psalms 113-118. Psalms 116:6. The Christian & Politics: Has the Contemporary Church Become Obsessed With Political Solutions? Dale Kuiper, The Christian and the Mosaic Law - Philip Mauro, The Preciousness of Time and the Importance of Redeeming It. Scriptures Relating to the Second Coming, Apocalypse of the Gospels - Milton S. Terry, Commentary on Matthew 24 - J. I will not care to look to men — to their hope, to their help, to their judgment, to their censure, but I will set the Lord always before me. He has been doing it. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD, I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. All the rest is mere play-acting, but this is reality, for God alone is, And all else is but a dream. Then you will have to come to God, and God alone, and you will never find him fail you. The sorrows of death compassed me. When you seem shut up to prayer, what a blessed shutting up it is! Psalms 116:19. He has been doing it. But this arises from the shallowness of the reader's own mind. Some of us had gracious mothers who brought us to the Lord in earnest prayer long ere we knew anything. Very short: very full: a sort of soldier’s prayer. Scriptural Evidence for the Necessity of Obedience in Salvation, The Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church - John H. 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Read the Bible through, and you will scarcely find a long prayer. He is good, gracious, kind, bountiful, loving; yea, God is love. Verse 26. As he recalls all this, he longs to make some return by way of praise, and witness to others. I was brought low, and he helped me. Is Hell eternal torment or eternal death. Then is it free, and not till then. We have read this Psalm many times, let us read it now, not regarding it so much as the language of the psalmist uttered thousands of years ago, as our own language at this moment. He has been bountiful. SermonAudio.com - Psalm 116 Sermons. Yet the Church, for the most part, has allowed it to go unnoticed. They made a circle. The best style of living is walking before God, so living in his sight as to be indifferent to the opinions and judgments of our fellow men and only caring to know that God is looking upon us with approval. If you have ever been in trouble, and that Divine friend has listened to your feeble cries, you do love him, and you cannot help loving. “I love the Lord.”. Purgatory: Purifying Fire or Fatal Fable? The God of heaven. Psalms 116:13-15. He wrote (cited by C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David [Baker], 5:337), This is my psalm, my chosen psalm. They made a circle. Psalms 116:10-11. Psalms 116:1. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. Psalms 116:12. This seven volume "magnum opus", by Charles H. Spurgeon, was first published in weekly installments over a twenty-year span in the London Metropolitan Tabernacle's periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. They have all failed me; some of them could but would not help me, so they were as liars to me; others would but could not, and as I have trusted them, they were as liars to me; but thou, my God, art no liar, thou art the truth itself! I was brought low and he helped me. “The Lord preserveth the simple” — the plain, hearty, honest, sincere, sometimes ridiculed for their want of cunning. Psalms 116:5. Psalms 116:1. The brooks of the earth are dry in summer, and frozen in winter. “Then called I upon the name of the Lord.” His prayer was short, earnest, and full of meaning: —. “Oh! We do well to notice those deaths, for God notices them. He would have been glad to be in the midst of a smiling company of grateful saints, who could all say, “That is true, David. That is the practical outcome of the holy conjunction of grace and righteousness in the atoning sacrifice of Christ. They have all failed me; some of them could but would not help me, so they were as liars to me; others would but could not, and as I have trusted them, they were as liars to me; but thou, my God, art no liar, thou art the truth itself! When you can do nothing else but pray, then is the very best time to pray. Can you put that in your diary? II. He has laid his ear down to my lips. He is a good God. Holy Service. “Thou hast loosed my bonds.” There is no freedom except in perfect subjection to the will of God. 2 TIMOTHY 2:15. “Then,” says he, “I called.” At the worst extremity he prayed. They compassed me. He shall hear me again. Charles H. Spurgeon’s Treasury of David. A curious mixture. I will call on him as long as I live. Then called I upon the name of the LORD, Dark days are good days for praying; when your eyes cannot see, you pray all the better; when there is no earthly prop to lean upon you are all the more ready to lean upon God alone. - Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. Psalms 116:7. I ask those of you who have had a very long and varied experience to look back, and tell me whether you can recollect even once when your God has broken his promise. It is a blessed thing to be able to be God’s every way — to feel in looking back, “I am not only his by redemption and by the new birth, but I seem as if I was bound to be his by a long ancestry of men and women, whom his sovereign grace called to himself.” Grace does not run in the blood, but it is a great mercy when it runs side by side with it; and when the handmaiden of the Lord is mother of a man who is a child of God as well as her child. Psalm 116 is the 116th psalm of the biblical Book of Psalms. Psalms 116:6. Prayer to God has always succeeded, why should we not continue it? Because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Examine Yourselves as to Whether You Are in the Faith - updated, The Christian's Craving for God's Word - MacArthur, Sproul, Piper, Washer, Chan. An eternity of mercies from the Eternal himself. “He hath inclined his ear.” He has heard my prayer, when I could hardly hear it myself. When every thought is brought into captivity to the mind of God, then every thought is free. That question contains the essence of true religion. All my fresh springs are in thee, my God, and there neither frost nor drought can come. If you have, you can join with David and thousands of others in confessing that he is a prayer-hearing God, and therefore you love him. 4 … Psalms 116:17-18. Have you tried him? Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Wonderful combination — gracious and yet righteous. He has caught my wandering utterances. - by Ravi Zacharias, Meditating On The Future Life - John Calvin w/ audio, Others May, You Cannot - by G. D. Watson w/audio, The Bible Doctrine of the Separated Life - by Johannes G. Vos, The Christian and Entertainment - Rev. Oh! 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He would have been happy here, though we meet under conditions not wholly pleasant. We have read this Psalm many times, let us read it now, not regarding it so much as the language of the psalmist uttered thousands of years ago, as our own language at this moment. Now the Psalmist tells about this wonderful instance in which God heard his cry. - Richard A. Wiedenheft, Immortality - The Gift Of God Through Faith In Jesus The Christ, Immortality or Resurrection of the Dead? I was like one that did lie under the lion. This elect champion found himself rejected by his friends and fellow countrymen, and at … OT theology viewed this phrase differently than how we would interpret it. He had been in deep waters of trial and affliction, but had not been suffered to sink. He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Logically defended-"son of thine handmaid." O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds. 5. He inclined his ear, and “therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.” That is, I will never leave off praying, and I will never leave off praising.This is the best gratitude we can show to God. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psalms 116:4. They will fail you either from want of faithfulness, or else from want of power. Do you recollect answers to prayer, when you cried to God with your voice, or when your voice failed you, but supplication rose to God from your heart? Oh, these blessed personal pronouns, are you laying hold of them as I read them? There are times of sorrow when she who is the partner of your bosom cannot find you alleviation. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. - F. F. Bruce. There is no time too bad to pray in. Are you speaking them out of your own soul? That is to say, as he has dealt so well with me, I will always deal well with him. Psalms 116:5-6. Praise him, magnify him, bless his name, “in the presence of all his people.” It is inspiring to be with your brethren and sisters in Christ. I could not find a break. A curious mixture. All my fresh springs are in thee, my God, and there neither frost nor drought can come. Psalm 116 is the only place it appears in the OT. It is not by the length but by the weight. JOSEPH A ALEXANDER Psalms Commentary (1864) Spurgeon had high praise for Alexander's work writing that it "Occupies a first place among expositions. Psalms 116:2. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. "—Psalm 116:15 Psalms 116:19. (Spurgeon, C. H. Lectures to my Students: Commenting and Commentaries)Rosscup adds: This is one of the more thorough older … They have all failed me; some of them could but would not help me, so they were as liars to me; others would but could not, and as I have trusted them, they were as liars to me; but thou, my God, art no liar, thou art the truth itself! D, The Duration And Nature Of Future Punishment - Henry Constable. Grace and righteousness both guarantee answers to believing prayers, and mercy comes in to make assurance doubly sure: “Yea, our God is merciful.”. This should be the one object of our lives if we have been redeemed by Christ, and are his servants. My sin had pushed his ear away, but he has brought his head back again, and inclined his ear unto me. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath! “The pains of hell gat hold upon me.” Did you ever know that? Psalms 116:9. “But I was brought low, and he helped me.” That is an emphatic proof. God takes care of them. Well does David say it twice over. HELL: That is a vow which we may well make, and hope for grace to keep it. The whole Psalm is one of joyous thanksgiving because of God’s mercy to the singer. They say that there is no hell. And as long as we live we shall find out the best way of living — to live from hand to mouth — from God’s hand to our mouth — by continual prayer. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. God takes care of them. O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. The most canonical hour for prayer is the time of our greatest distress. My sin had pushed his ear away, but he has brought his head back again, and inclined his ear unto me. Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial. I am the son of thy handmaid.” Oh! Oh! Beloved, it is one of the best days work a man ever does, when he turns clean away from everything but God. Well does he delight to look upon himself as a slave that was born in his Master’s house. Psalms 116:6. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Can you go as far as that? We do not know when the *psalmist wrote Psalm 116. Love to God can see, and it can give a reason for its own existence, and a good substantial reason too. “Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.” I speed so well in prayer that I will keep on in that blessed business. Psalms 116:3. When it is all over with you, still pray. I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Oh! People say that love is blind, but love to God uses her eyes, and can justify herself: “I love the Lord, because” —. They will fail you, either from want of faithfulness, or else from want of power. “Because.” He harps on that string. << Psalm 116 | Psalm 117 | Psalm 118 >>. Praise him, magnify him, bless his name, “in the presence of all his people.” It is inspiring to be with your brethren and sisters in Christ. He felt as if he had been hunted. Do you recollect answers to prayer, when you cried to God with your voice, or when your voice failed you, but supplication rose to God from your heart? Surely there is not a man, whose prayers have been answered, who does not love God. We meet it nowhere else in the Psalms; but we meet it in 2Ch 36:23 Ezr 1:2 5:11-12 6:9 7:12,23 Ne 1:4 2:4 Da 2:18-19,44 Jon 1:9. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. Come back. The kind of praise inculcated in the Psalm, viz., that of joy and gladness, is most fitly urged upon us by an argument from the goodness of God. " It is twice found in the Apocalypse, Re 11:13 16:11. What Is The Evidence For/Against The Existence Of God? Emphatically avowed. What does the phrase "gnashing of teeth" mean? 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