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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Psalms 18:23

Kept From Iniquity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 2432) Intended for Reading on Lord's-day Morning, September 29th, 1895, Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, On Thursday Evening, September 22nd, 1887. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I kept myself from mine iniquity" Psalms 18:23 . IN our reading we had a very wonderful description of God's... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 18:1-50

Psalms 18:1-50 The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said,I will love thee, O LORD, my strength ( Psalms 18:1 ).So that is all an introduction to the psalm, which is written in the Hebrew, just the introduction to the psalm. This evidently is the time when he was... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 18:1-50

David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his consecration and with the Messiah in his view, he rises to the sublime of song, and joins his sorrows and his joys to those of Christ. The title is taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. Psalms 18:1-2 . I will love thee, oh Lord, possessed of all perfections, moral and divine, the infinite, unchangeable... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:1-3

Psalms 18:1-3I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.The tale of a lifeIn this magnificent hymn the royal poet sketches, in a few grand outlines, the tale of his life--the record of his marvellous deliverances, and of the victories which Jehovah had given him--the record, too, of his own heart, the truth of its affection towards God, and the integrity of purpose by which it had ever been influenced. Throughout that singularly chequered life, hunted as he had been by Saul before he came to the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:3

Psalms 18:3I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. The object, nature, and effect of prayerFew men have known more of the variegated scenes of human life than David.I. David’s purpose. “I will call upon the Lord.” Here we have what he declares concerning the Lord--that He is “worthy to be praised.” By considering why we praise men we may be furnished with reasons why God is worthy to be praised.1. We praise men for the beauty of their persons.2. For the largeness of their minds.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:4-6

Psalms 18:4-6The sorrows of death compassed me. Estimating our sorrowsNo attempt is here made to diminish the severity of the crisis. Often when a great agony is overpast, the sufferer himself forgets its intensity and is inclined to think that it might have been cured by less ostentatious menus than had been adopted for its pacification. We are seldom critically correct in the recollection of our sorrows. We either unduly magnify them, or we so far modify their intensity as to make any... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:7

Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. Earthquakes, their moral suggestionsIt is not for us to speculate concerning the physical causes of earthquakes. With the Bible in our hands we are privileged to regard the mightiest and the most destructive forces of nature as the ministers of His will “who is wise in counsel, benevolent in purpose, and almighty in power.”I. The perilous condition of our earthly existence. Deep is the sense of insecurity which the earthquake strikes to our inward... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:11

Psalms 18:11His pavilions round about Him were . . . thick clouds of the skies.The ministry of the cloudHis pavilions are thick clouds! Then the cloud is not a destructive libertine, some stray, haphazard, lawless force, the grim parent of shadow and chill and tempest. “His pavilions are thick clouds.” The clouds are the dwelling places of God. He lives in them; He moves through them; He pervades them with the gentle ministries of grace and love. “The clouds drop down their dew.” Then the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:13

Psalms 18:13The Lord also thundered in the heavens.The terrors of an Eastern thunderstormThere is said to be something peculiarly terrific in an Oriental thunderstorm. Its vivid lightning and intense darkness, succeeding each other with startling rapidity, are appalling. This is indicated in the words, “at the brightness that was before Him, His thick clouds passed”; that is, passed away. So intense is the light of the lightning’s flash that the whole mass of dark clouds seems to pass away, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:16

Psalms 18:16He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters.Divine interpositionsWe are not as those who believe in two co-existent forces, each supreme, one of whom shall create disasters, and the other distribute blessings. The prince of evil is, according to our faith, subordinate to the great Lord of all. Everywhere is God, and in all things His hand is present; in the things which seem to us evil, as well as in the events which appear to us good, God is at work. We freely... read more

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