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Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 51:3

Psalms 51:3 I. If there be indeed such places as heaven and hell, if we are in real earnest our very selves to be happy or miserable, both soul and body, for ever, then certainly a light way of regarding our sins must be very dangerous. These sins of ours, which we treat as mere trifles, are the very things which our adversary the devil rejoices to see; for he knows that they provoke God, drive away His Holy Spirit, put us out of His heavenly protection, and lay us open to the craft and malice... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 51:1-3

DISCOURSE: 585TRUE PENITENCE DESCRIBEDPsalms 51:1-3. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions! Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.SIN is, for the most part, thought a light and venial evil, especially amongst the higher ranks of society: as though the restraints of religion were designed only for the... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 51:1

Have This Psalm must ever be, in its successive steps, the mould of the experience of a sinning saint who comes back to full communion and service. The steps are: (1) sin thoroughly judged before God (vs. 1-6); (2) forgiveness and cleansing through the blood (v. 7.f.c.) (3) cleansing (v. 7,1,c, to 10.) Cf John 13:4-10; Ephesians 5:26; 1 John 1:9. (4) Spirit-filled for joy and power (vs. 11,12); (5) service (v. 13); (6) worship (vs 14-17); (7) the restored saint in fellowship with God, not about... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 51:1-19

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 51:1-19 .David is surely one of the most outstanding characters of the Old Testament. He was greatly hated and greatly loved. He had the capacity to inspire tremendous emotions in people, on both ends of the spectrum. He is always talking about his enemies that are trying to do him in. But yet, there was a great number of people who really followed David with a great devotion. David was called a man after God's own heart. And this appellation was given... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 51:1-19

The title of this psalm, supported by the whole weight of rabbinical authority, and by the LXX, refers it to the repentance and recovery of David, “when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.” This application of the psalm has been disputed by some modern critics and commentators, chiefly because they think Psalms 51:4; Psalms 51:18-19, are not applicable to David’s complicated sin, and to the existing state of Jerusalem, whose walls were not then cast down. But... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:1-19

Psalms 51:1-19Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness. The fifty-first psalmA darker guilt you will scarcely find--kingly power abused--worst passions yielded to. Yet this psalm breathes from a spirit touched with the finest sensibilities of spiritual feeling. Two sides of our mysterious twofold being here. Something in us near to hell; something strangely near to God. It is good to observe this, that we rightly estimate: generously of fallen humanity; moderately of highest... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:2

Psalms 51:2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.David’s cry for pardonI. How David thought of his sin. The repetition of these petitions show his earnestness of soul. In like manner he asks for the gifts of God’s Spirit.1. He speaks of transgressions, the individual acts of sin; and then--2. Of the iniquity which is the centre and root of them all. Further, in all the petitions we see that the idea of his own single responsibility for the whole thing is uppermost in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:1

Psalms 51:1 « To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. » Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. A Psalm of David ] Who was not ashamed to do open penance here in a white sheet, as it were; so did Theodosius the emperor, at the reprehension of Ambrose, after the slaughter at Thessalonica; he spent eight months, saith... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:2

Psa 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Ver. 2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity ] Heb. Multiply, wash me; so Isaiah 55:7 . God is said to multiply pardon as much as we multiply sin. David apprehended his sin so exceeding sinful, his stain so inveterate, so engrained, that it would hardly be ever gotten out till the cloth were almost rubbed to pieces; that God himself would have somewhat to do to do it. He had been in a deep ditch, Proverbs 23:27 , and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:3

Psa 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me. Ver. 3. For I acknowledge my transgressions ] And therefore look for pardon, according to thy promise. Homo agnoseit, Deus ignoscit. And my sin ] My twisted sin and sadly accented; mine accumulative sin, voluminous wickedness, that hath so many sins bound up in it, as Cicero saith of parricide. Is ever before me ] To my great grief and regret, my conscience twitteth me with it, and the devil layeth it in my dish.... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 51:3

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 51:1-3

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 51:1

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 51:1-19

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 51:1-19

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:1-19

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:3

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