Having nailed our old nature to the cross, we keep wistfully returning to the scene of its execution. We begin to fondle it, to caress it, to long for its release, even to take it down again from the cross. We need to learn to leave it there. When some jealous, or proud, or malicious, or impure thought invades our mind we must kick it out at once. It is fatal to begin to examine it and consider whether we are going to give in to it or not. We have declared war on it; we are not going to resume negotiations. We have settled the issue for good; we are not going to re-open it. We have crucified the flesh; we are never going to draw the nails.
John Stott

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Spurgeon PS1843

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…

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Spurgeon PS1710

Spurgeon PS1710 EXPOSITION. "_They are inclosed in their own fat_." Luxury and gluttony beget vain-glorious fatness of heart, which shuts up its gates against all compassionate emotions and reasonable judgments.…

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Spurgeon PS1711

Spurgeon PS1711 EXPOSITION. "_They have now compassed us in our steps_." The fury of the ungodly is aimed not at one believer alone, but at all the band; they have…

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Spurgeon PS1712

Spurgeon PS1712 EXPOSITION. Lions are not more greedy, nor their ways more cunning than are Satan and his helpers when engaged against the children of God. The blood of souls…

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Spurgeon PS1713

Spurgeon PS1713 EXPOSITION. "_Arise, O Lord_." The more furious the attack, the more fervent the Psalmist's prayer. His eye rests singly upon the Almighty, and he feels that God has…

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Spurgeon PS1714

Spurgeon PS1714 EXPOSITION. Almost every word of this verse has furnished matter for discussion to scholars, for it is very obscure. We will, therefore, rest content with the common version,…

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Spurgeon PS1715

Spurgeon PS1715 EXPOSITION. "_As for me_." "I neither envy nor covet these men's happiness, but partly have and partly hope for a far better." To behold God's face and to…

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Spurgeon PS1701

Spurgeon PS1701 TITLE AND SUBJECT.--_A Prayer of David_. David would not have been a man after God's own heart, if he had not been a man of prayer. He was…

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Spurgeon PS1702

Spurgeon PS1702 EXPOSITION. "_Let my sentence come forth from thy presence_." The Psalmist has now grown bold by the strengthening influence of prayer, and he now entreats the Judge of…

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Spurgeon PS1703

Spurgeon PS1703 EXPOSITION. "_Thou hast proved mine heart_." Like Peter, David uses the argument, "Thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." It is a most assuring thing…

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