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Psalm 119: Hints to the Village Preacher

| Verses 1-44 | Verses 45-88 | Verses 89-132 | Verses 133-176 |

Preface - Introduction - Notes - Exposition - Works Upon This Psalm
Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings - Hints to the Village Preacher

Verses 45-47. Liberty of walk. Liberty of speech. Liberty of heart.

Verses 45-48. The true freeman enjoys

1. Free walk with God.

2. Free talk about God.

3. Free love unto God.

4. Free exercise, of soul, (a) in holy practice; (b) in heavenly meditation. W. Durban.

Verses 45-48. Five things the Psalmist promises himself here in the strength of God's grace.

1. That he should be free and easy in his duty: "I will walk at liberty."

2. That he should be bold and courageous in his duty: "I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings."

3. That he should be cheerful and pleasant in his duty: "I will delight myself in thy commandments."

4. That he should be diligent and vigorous in his duty: "I will delight myself in thy commandments."

5. That he should be thoughtful and considerate in his duty: "I will meditate in thy statutes." M. Henry.

Verses 46-48. Lips, heart, and hands.

1. Public profession of God's word ("I will speak," Ps 119:46) must be warranted by--

2. Private delight in God's word ("I will delight myself," Ps 119:47), which must result in--

3. Practical obedience to God's word ("I will lift up my hands," Ps 119:48).

Verse 46.

1. The truly earnest must speak.

2. They are at no loss for good subjects: "Thy testimonies." The range is boundless-- the variety endless.

3. They never fear any audience: "before kings." W.W.

Verse 48.

1. Love renewing its activity.
2. Love refreshing itself with spiritual food.

Verse 48.

1. Scripture in the hand for reading. Often in the hand.
2. In the mind for meditation: "I will meditate," etc.
3. In the heart for love: "Which I have loved." G.R.

Verse 48. Religion engaged the whole manhood of David: hands, heart, head.

1. The uplifted hands.

(a) Taking an oath of allegiance to God's word. Ge 14:22 Eze 20:28. To receive its doctrines, obey its precepts, regard its warnings, uphold its honour.

(b) Imploring a blessing upon God's word. Ge 48:14; Le 9:22 Lu 24:50. That its light might spread: "Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel; "that its influence may become universal.

2. The loyal heart.

(a) This accounts for uplifted hands. He had loved the word himself. Religion is inward first, then outward. We must love it before we are anxious to spread it.

(b) But what accounts for the loyal heart? The word had brought him salvation, yielded him sustenance, afforded him guidance. We love the world for its joyous effects upon ourselves.

3. The studious mind.

(a) Devout meditation the best employment.

(b) The Word of God affords a grand field for it.

(c) To meditate in it learn to love it: "have loved," "will meditate." H.W.

Verse 48.

1. God's commandments loved. We love the law when we love the Lawgiver. We love his will only when our hearts are reconciled and renewed. Hence the need of spiritual renewal.

2. God's commandments the subject of prayer:"My hands also will I lift up." Perowne says, "The expression denotes the act of prayer." We may pray for a fuller knowledge, a deeper experience, a readier and more perfect obedience.

3. A theme for meditation. Amidst the hurry of outward activities we must not forget the need of quiet meditation. H.W.

Verse 50. Each man has his own affliction and his own consolation. Quickened piety the best comfort. The word the means of it.

Verse 50.

1. The need of consolation.
2. The consolation needed. G.R.

Verse 51. The proud man's contumely, and the gracious man's constancy.

Verse 51. Fidelity in the face of contempt.

1. The proud deride the believer's subjection to God's law.

2. They ridicule the believer's delight, in God's service.

3. They are met by the believer's resolution to cleave to God. 2Sa 6:20,22. C.A.D.

Verse 52. Comfort derived from a review of the ancient doings of the Lord towards the wicked and his people.

Verse 52.

1. The dead speaking to the living.
2. The living listening to the dead. G.R.

Verse 52. Sweet water from a dark well.

1. God's judgments are calculated to inspire terror.
2. But they prove God's superintending care over the world.
3. They are ever against sin, and for holiness.
4. In all times of judgment God delivers his people. Noah, Lot, etc.
5. Therefore God's judgments are a source of comfort to the believer. G.A.D.

Verse 53. The sensations of godly men at the sight of sinners: horror at their crime, their perseverance in it, their rejection of grace, and their end.

Verse 53. Horror stricken.

1. The guilt and danger of impenitent sinners.
2. The horror and concern of godly spectators.
3. The prayer and labour which such concern should dictate, G.A.D.

Verse 54. Here is--

1. Light in darkness.
2. Companionship in solitude.
3. Activity in rest: "house of pilgrimage." G.R.

Verse 54. The cheerful pilgrim.

1. A good man views his residence in this world as only the house of his pilgrimage.
2. The situation, however disadvantageous, admits of cheerfulness.
3. The sources of his joy are derived from the Scriptures. W. Jay.

Verse 54. See "Spurgeon's Sermons," No. 1652: "The Singing Pilgrim."

Verses 55, 49. "Remember." "I have remembered."

Verse 55. Night memories. Day duties. How they act and react upon each other.

Verse 55. Dark nights. Bright memories. Right results. C.A.D.

Verse 55.

1. Happy though restless night.
2. Happy though busy day. W.D.

Verse 56. The gains of godliness; or, what a man gets through holy living.

Verse 56.

1. The duty: "I kept thy precepts."

2. Its reward: "This I had," etc. Protection: "this I had." Guidance: "this I had." Prosperity: "this I had." Consolation: "this I had." G.R.

Outlines Upon Keywords of the Psalm, By Pastor C. A. Davis.

Verses 57-64. The believer's portion. The Lord is the believer's portion (Ps 119:57); heartily sought (Ps 119:58-60); remaining though all else be taken away (Ps 119:61); causing joy even at midnight (Ps 119:62), and the selection of congenial company (Ps 119:63-64).

Verse 57.

1. The infinite possession: "Thou art my portion, O LORD." Notice--

(a) A clear distinction made by the Psalmist between his portion and that of the ungodly here and hereafter: See Ps 48:2.

(b) positive claim: "Thou art my portion, O LORD." This "portion" is boundless, abiding, appropriate, satisfying, elevating, all of grace.

2. The appropriate resolution: "I have said that I would keep thy words."

(a) Notice the preface: "I have said."

(b) The link between the portion possessed and the resolution made.

(c) The work of keeping God's words. Keep him who is the Word-- Christ Jesus. Keep the word of the gospel--doctrines, precepts, promises (kept in the heart to comfort the believer). This blessed subject suggests a solemn contrast. See the portion of that servant who did not keep his Lord's word: Mt 24:48-51 See "Spurgeon's Sermons," No. 1372: "God our Portion, and his Word our Treasure."

Verse 57 (first clause). The believer's portion.

1. Show the validity of his claim: "my."

(a) A gift by covenant: Heb 8:10-13.
(b) Involved in joint heirship with Christ: Ro 8:17.
(c) Confirmed by the experience of faith.

2. Survey the superlative value of his possession: "The Lord."

(a) Absolutely good.
(b) Infinitely precious.
(c) Inexhaustibly full.
(d) Everlastingly sure.

3. Suggest a method of deriving the greatest present advantage from it.

(a) Meditate much upon God, under the conviction that he is your portion.

(b) Carry all cares to him, and cast every burden on him.

(c) Refer every temptation to the word of his law, and every doubt to the word of his promise.

(d) Draw largely upon his riches to meet every need as it arises. John Field, of Sevenoaks, 1882.

Verses 57-58. The believer's estate, profession, and petition.

Verse 58. The soul's sunshine.

1. God's favour the one thing needful.
2. Wholeheartedness the one mode of entreating it.
3. Covenant mercy the one plea for obtaining it. C.A.D.

Verse 58. We may learn how a seeker may come to enjoy saving favour, by a careful study of--

1. The Profession: "I intreated thy favour with my whole heart."

(a) What he did: "I intreated." Heb. "I painfully sought thy face." Earnest desire. Importunate supplication. Painful sorrow for sin.

(b) How he did it: "With my whole heart." The intellect, affections, will, all engaged and concentrating effort. Otherwise, seeking is solemn trifling. This only worthy of our purpose, pleasing to God, and successful.

(c) The evidence that we are doing it. Frequent prayer, searching the word, often enquiring. The first and main business-- Giving up for Christ.

2. The Petition: "Be merciful unto me."

(a) God's favour to be expected on the terms of mercy only.
(b) Happily, this is a prayer every sinner can and should use.
(c) Blessedly true it is, that it never fails.

3. The Plea: "According to thy word."

(a) A plea that cannot be gainsaid is a great thing in an entreaty.
(b) The promise of God is just such a plea.
(c) Seek it out, lay hold of it, and urge it. J.F.

Verse 59.

1. Self examination: "I thought on" my private "ways" my social ways-- my sacred ways-- my public ways.

2. Its advantages: "And turned my feet," etc. G.R.

Verse 59.

1. Unthinking and straying.
2. Thinking and turning. C.A.D.

Verse 59.

1. Conviction.
2. Conversion. W. D.

Verse 59. Thinking on our own ways. Enquire,

1. Why so generally neglected?

(a) Want of courage.
(b) Occupied too much.
(c) Unpleasant, and therefore the chief care of many is to banish it.

2. When is it wisely conducted?

(a) When honestly engaged in.
(b) When thoroughly carried out.
(c) When Scripture is made the referee and standard.

4. When Divine help is sought.

3. What end will it serve?

(a) Turn us from our own ways with shame and penitence.

(b) Turn us to God's testimonies with earnestness, reverence, and hopefulness. J.F.

Verse 59.

1. Right thinking: "I thought on my ways."

(a) That this thought upon his ways caused the Psalmist dissatisfaction is evident.

(b) Right thinking upon our ways will suggest a practical change.

(c) The retrospect we take of our life should suggest that any turn we make should be towards God: "Unto thy testimonies."

(d) Right thinking also suggests that such a turning is possible.

2. Right turning. The turn was--

(a) Complete.

(b) Practical.

(c) Spiritual.

(d) Immediate.

(e) It must be a divine work. See "Spurgeon's Sermons," No. 1181: "Thinking and Turning."

Verse 60. The dangers of delay. The reasons for prompt action.

Verse 60. A sermon to loiterers.

1. Reflection. Keeping God's commandments is my duty; is my welfare. Commandments delayed may be never kept. Delay is in itself disobedience. Alacrity is the soul of obedience.

2. Resolve. I will make haste and delay not. C.A.D.

Verse 60.

1. Quick.
2. Sure. W.D.

Verse 60. Procrastination considered in its most important application; that is, to religion.

1. This procrastination is irrational.
2. It is unpleasant, disagreeable, painful.
3. It is disgraceful.
4. It is sinful, and that is the highest degree.
5. It is dangerous. John Angell James.

Verse 61.

1. Spiritual highway robbery.

2. The traveller keeping his road. Or, what enemies can do, and what they cannot do.

Verse 62.

1. The duty of gratitude: "give thanks."
2. The subject for gratitude: "thy righteous judgments."
3. The season for gratitude: at night as well as in the day. G.R.

Verse 62. Up in the night. Singing in the night. Reasons for such singular conduct.

Verse 62. The nightingale.

1. A natural association of thought: "midnight" and "judgments." Exodus 7, etc.

2. An incongruous association of feeling: "thanks" and "judgments."

3. A full justification of this apparent incongruity: "thanks because of thy righteous judgments."

4. A vigorous performance of an incumbent duty: "at midnight I will rise to give thanks." C.A.D.

Verse 63.

1. True religion is friendly.
2. Our friendliness should be catholic.
3. Our friendliness should be discriminating.
4. Such friendliness is most useful.

Verse 63. Of good and bad company. How to avoid the one, and improve the other. See W. Bridge's Sermon, in his works, vol. v. p. 90. Tegg's edition, 1845.

Verse 63. The believer's choice of companions.

1. Ought to be decided by their piety: "Them that fear thee."
2. Is directed by their conduct: "Them that keep thy precepts."
3. Should be extended as far as: possible: "All."
4. Involves reciprocal obligation: "I am a companion." J.F.

Verse 64. The sum and substance of this verse will be comprised in these five propositions: --

1. That saving knowledge is a benefit that must be asked of God.

2. That this benefit cannot be too often or sufficiently enough asked: it is his continual request.

3. In asking, we are encouraged by the bounty or mercy of God.

4. That God is merciful all his creatures declare.

5. That his goodness to all his creatures should confirm us in: hoping for saving grace or spiritual good things. T. Manton

Verse 64.

1. Observations in the school of nature.
2. Supplications enter the school of grace.

Verse 64. The mercy of God in nature and his mercy as revealed in word.

1. The one excellent; the other super excellent.

2. The one easily given; the other coming through a great sacrifice.

3. The one may enjoyed, and even increase condemnation; the other, if enjoyed, is salvation.

4. The one should lead to repentance; the other is s adapted for the penitent's restoration to holiness. J.F.

Verse 66.

1. Singular faith: "I have believed thy commandments."
2. Special petition based upon it: "Teach me."

Verse 66. The value of a good judgment to sound knowledge.

1. It carefully discriminates between truth and error.

2. It puts each truth in its proper relation to other truths.

3. It holds every truth firmly, but has the greater care for the more important.

4. It rather avoids the curious and the speculative, but really loves the plain and useful.

5. Knowing that truths are rightly held only, when applied, it turns all to practical account.

6. Knowing also, that good food may, under some circumstances, become poisonous, it is careful in its selection and use of truths. J.F.

Verse 67.

1. The dangers of prosperity.
2. The benefits of adversity. G.R.

Verse 67. The restraining power of affliction

Verses 67, 71, 75. Affliction thrice viewed and thrice blessed. I

1. Before affliction: straying.
2. In affliction: learning.
3. After affliction: knowing. C.A.D.

Verse 68. The double plea for a choice blessing. The goodness of God the hope of our ignorance.

Verse 68. Thou art good and doest good. The nature and work of God are manifest in nature, providence, grace, and glory. They are morally good; beneficially good; perfectly good; immeasurably good; immutably good; experimentally good; satisfactorily good. W.J.

Verse 68 (first clause). A sermon on God's goodness.

1. The perfectness of it.
2. The proofs of it.
3. The power it should have over us. J.F.

Verse 69. Wholehearted obedience the best solace under slander; the best answer to it; and the best way of converting the slanderers.

Verse 70.

1. Fatty degeneration of the heart.
2. Thorough regeneration of the heart.

Verse 70. A fatty heart.

1. The diagnosis of the disease.

2. Its symptoms. Pride; no delight in God, nor in his law; dislike to his people; readiness to lie: Ps 119:69.

3. Its fatal character.

4. Its only cure. Ps 101:10 Eze 36:26. C.A.D.

Verse 71.

1. David knew what was good for him.

2. David learned what is good essentially. Active obedience is learned by passive obedience.

Verse 71. Affliction an instructor.

1. Never welcomed: "Have been."
2. Often impatiently endured.
3. Always gratefully remembered: "It is good, "etc.
4. Efficient for a perverse scholar: "That I might learn."
5. Indispensable in the education of all. J.F.

Verse 71. The school of affliction.

1. The reluctant scholar sent to school.
2. The scholar's hard lesson.
3. The scholar's blessed learning.
4. The scholar's sweet reflection. C.A.D.

Verse 72. The advantages of riches far excelled by the blessings of the word.

Verse 72. A valuation.

1. The saints' high estimate of God's law.

2. Show when it was formed: in affliction: Ps 119:71.

3. Vindicate its truth--by illustrating the hollowness of riches, and the satisfaction found in godliness. C.A.D.

Verse 72. The word, better than gold and silver.

1. It gives what gold and silver cannot purchase.

2. Without what it gives, gold and silver may be a curse.

3. Without gold and silver, it may yield its treasure more freely and fully than with them.

4. The word and what it gives shall rejoice the heart when gold and silver shall be useless to their disappointed worshippers. J.F.

Verse 72. The law of thy mouth is better, etc.

1. It is more refining, and makes me a better man.
2. It is more enriching, and makes me a wealthier man.
3. It is more distinguishing, and makes me a greater man.
4. It is more sustaining, and makes me a stronger man.
5. It is more preserving, and makes me a safer man.
6. It is more satisfying, and makes me a happier man.
7. It is more lasting, and better suited to me as an immortal man. W.J.

Verse 74.

1. The encouraging influence of good men upon others.
2. The instructive influence of others upon them: G.R.

Verse 74. Converse with a tried but steadfast believer is a source of gladness to the children of God.

1. He has a thrilling talc of experience to tell.

2. He has valuable counsels and cautions to give.

3. He is a monument of God's faithfulness, confirming the hope of others.

4. He is an epistle of Christ, written expressly to illustrate the preciousness and the power of the gospel. J.F.

Verse 75. Experimental knowledge: positive, personal, glorifying to God, consoling to the saints.

Verse 76. Comfort.

1. May be a matter of prayer.
2. Is provided for in the Lord.
3. Is promised in the word.
4. Is of great value to the believer.

Verse 76.

1. The need of comfort.
2. The source of comfort: "Thy merciful kindness."
3. The rule of comfort: "According to thy word." G.R.

Verse 77.

1. Visitors invited.
2. Boon expected.
3. Welcome guaranteed: "for thy law," etc.

Verse 77. Divine life it is born, sustained, increased, by God's tender mercies. W.W

Verse 78.

1. A hard thing--to make the proud ashamed.
2. A cruel thing--"they dealt perversely with me," etc.
3. A wise thing--"but I will meditate," etc.

Verse 79. Restoration to church fellowship.

1. Good men may be in such a case as to need to be restored.
2. They should not be ashamed to seek it.
3. They should pray about it.

Verse 79. Select society.

1. Sociableness is an instinct of human nature.
2. Sociableness is helpful to a wholesome Christian life.
3. The choice of society should be a subject of prayer. C.A.D.

Verse 80.

1. David's prayer for sincerity--that his heart might be brought to God's statutes, and that it might be sound in them, not rotten or deceitful.

2. His dread of the consequences of hypocrisy: "that I be not ashamed." Shame is the portion of hypocrites, here or hereafter. M. Henry.

Verse 80.

1. The heart in religion.
2. The necessity of its being sound in it.
3. The result of such sound heartedness.

Verse 81. Text suitable for a missionary sermon.

1. The condition of the heathen world, enough to make the Christian faint for the salvation of God to visit it.

(a) The grossness of its darkness.
(b) Its wide area.
(c) Its long continuance.
(d) The limited character and effect of mission labour.
(e) The opposing influences.

2. This condition, though exceedingly sad, is not hopeless. Because--

(a) Of the intention, adaptation, and universal call of the gospel.

(b) Of Christ's commission to his church.

(c) Of the compassionate character of the spiritually enlightened, produced by their faith in the word.

(d) Of the prophecies and promises. Thus, there is hope in the word.

3. If Christians are fainting for the salvation, but hoping in the word, their interest in mission work will be intense, and will show itself,

(a) In earnest prayer for more labourers, and greater results.
(b) In devoting themselves, if possible, to the work.
(c) In free and generous giving, to help on the work. J.F.

Verse 81. My soul fainteth, etc. Men faint for health, provision, rest, promotion, success, and in some instances for salvation. David fainted.

1. For his own salvation.

(a) From guilt: "Deliver me from all my transgressions;" "from blood guiltiness."

(b) From defilement: "Create in me a clean heart." "Wash me."

(c) From formality: "Let the words of my mouth," etc.

(d) From darkness: "Why hidest thou thyself?" "Lift up," etc. "Say unto my soul," etc.

5. From unhappiness: "Out of the depths," etc.

2. For the salvation of others.

(a) He talked about it: "Time for thee to work, Lord."

(b) He prayed for it: "Oh that the salvation," etc. "Let thy work," etc. "God be merciful unto us:" "Save now, I beseech thee."

(c) He laboured for it: "I will make mention of thy righteousness:" "I will teach transgressors thy ways." W.J.

Verse 81.

1. Eagerness of expectation.
2. Energy of hope.
3. Establishment of promise: "In thy word."

Verse 81. Salvation, in Scripture, hath divers acceptations: it is put--

1. For that temporal deliverance which God giveth, or hath promised to give to his people: so it is taken. Ex 14:13.

2. For the exhibition of Christ in the flesh. Ps 98:2-3 Lu 2:29-30.

3. For the benefits which we have by Christ on this side of heaven; as the pardon of sin, and the renovation of our natures. Mt 1:21; Tit 3:5 Ps 51:12.

4. For everlasting life: "Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls" (1Pe 1:9); meaning thereby our final reward. T. Manton.

Verse 81.

1. Faint.
2. Pursuing. W.D.

Verse 82. Answer to the enquiry-- When wilt thou comfort me?

1. When your grief has answered its purpose.
2. When you believe.
3. When you leave sin.
4. When you obey.
5. When you submit to my will.
6. When you seek my glory.

Verse 82.

1. How longingly the believer turns to God for comfort in his affliction: "When wilt thou comfort me?"

2. How intently he gazes upon the Divine promises: "My eyes fail for thy word."

3. How the weariness of waiting cannot wear out his patience, while hope increases his importunity: "When wilt thou?" J.F.

Verse 82. The pleading of the eyes.

1. How the eyes speak. By "expression" of the moods of the soul, as-- longing, Isa 8:17; faith, Isa 45:22 Heb 12:2; expectation, Ps 5:3 Php 3:20 Tit 2:13; love, 2Co 3:18 Joh 1:14.

2. What the eyes say. "When wilt thou comfort me? Brushing aside all other comforters, thou art my sun: my life: my love: my all."

3. How the pleading eyes shall meet the responsive Eye of the Lord: Heb 9:18. In the look of the recognition of grief, Ex 2:25; in the look of pardon, Lu 22:61; of strength giving, Jud 6:14; of complacent love, Isa 66:2. C.A.D.

Verse 83.

1. The outward man in ill case.
2. Character blackened.
3. Constantly exposed to discomfort.
4. Contents maturing.

Verse 83. A bottle in the smoke.

1. God's people have their trials.

(a) From the poverty of their condition.

(b) Our trials frequently result from our comforts.

(c) The ministry hath much smoke with it.

(d) The poor bottle in the smoke keeps there for a long time, until it gets black.

2. Christian men feel their troubles; they are like "bottles" in the smoke.

(a) The trial that we do not feel is no trial at all.

(b) Trials which are not felt are unprofitable trials. A bottle in the smoke gets very black, becomes very useless, in an empty bottle.

3. Christians do not, in their troubles, forget God's statutes-- the statutes of command, the statutes of promise. Why was it that David still held fast by God's statutes?

(a) He was not a bottle in the fire, or he would have forgotten them.

(b) Jesus Christ was in the smoke with him, and the statutes were in the smoke with him, too.

(c) The statutes were in the soul, where the smoke does not enter. From "Spurgeon's Sermons." No. 71.

Verse 84. A solemn question pointing to the shortness of life, the severity of sorrow, the necessity of industry, the nearness of the reward.

Verse 85. Pits; or, the secret schemes of wicked men against the godly.

Verse 86 (last clause). A prayer for all occasions. See the many cases in which it is used in Scripture.

Verse 87.

1. What the good man loses by gaining.
2. What he gains by losing. G.R.

Verse 87.

1. "Almost," but not altogether.
2. The saving clause: "I forsook not thy precepts."

Verse 87. Passing through fires, and the asbestos covering.

Verse 88.

1. New life is the cause of new obedience.

2. New obedience is the effect of new life. G.R.

Verse 88. Quickening.

1. Our greatest need.
2. God's most gracious boon.
3. The guarantee of our steadfastness; and so,
4. The promoter of God's glory.

Verse 88.

1. He closes with a frequent petition: "Quicken thou me-- make me alive." All true religion consists in the LIFE of God in the SOUL of man.

2. The manner in which he wishes to be quickened: "After thy lovingkindness." He wishes not to be raised from the death of sin by God's thunder, but by the loving voice of a tender Father.

3. The effect it should have upon him: "So shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth." Whatever thou speakest I will hear, receive, love, and obey. Adam Clarke.

| Verses 1-44 | Verses 45-88 | Verses 89-132 | Verses 133-176 |

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