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Spurgeon PS1839 EXPOSITION. 39,40. It is impossible to be too frequent in the duty of ascribing all our victories to the God of our salvation. It is true that we…

Spurgeon PS1808 EXPOSITION. "_There went up a smoke out of his nostrils_." A violent oriental method of expressing fierce wrath. Since the breath from the nostrils is heated by strong…

Spurgeon PS1824 EXPOSITION. God first gives us holiness, and then rewards us for it. We are his workmanship; vessels made unto honour; and when made, the honour is not withheld…

Spurgeon PS1841 EXPOSITION. "_They cried, but there was none to save them; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not_." Prayer is so notable a weapon that even the…

Spurgeon PS1809 EXPOSITION. Amid the terror of the storm Jehovah the Avenger descended, bending beneath his foot the arch of heaven. "_He bowed the heavens also, and came down_." He…

Spurgeon PS1825 EXPOSITION. The dealings of the Lord in his own case, cause the grateful singer to remember the usual rule of God's moral government; he is just in his…

Spurgeon PS1842 EXPOSITION. The defeat of the nations who fought with King David was so utter and complete that they were like powders pounded in a mortar; their power was…

Spurgeon PS1810 EXPOSITION. There is inimitable grandeur in this verse. Under the Mosaic system the cherubim are frequently represented as the chariot of God; hence Milton, in "Paradise Lost," writes…

Spurgeon PS1826 EXPOSITION. "_With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward_." The sinner's frowardness is sinful and rebellious, and the only…

Spurgeon PS1843 EXPOSITION. "_Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people_." Internal strife is very hard to deal with. A civil war is war in its most miserable…