DISCOURSE: 557 AWFUL STATE OF UNGODLY MEN Psalms 36:1. _The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes._ WHEN we speak of the wickedness of mankind, that command of our Lord is frequently cast in our teeth, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” But... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 558 THE SELF-FLATTERING DELUSIONS OF SINNERS EXPOSED Psalms 36:2. _He flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful._ IT may well astonish us to see how careless and indifferent men are about the favour of God. But the Psalmist assigns the true reason for... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 559 SIN TO BE ABHORRED Psalms 36:4. _He abhorreth not evil._ THE standard of morals in the Christian world is far below that which is established in the Sacred Records: and hence arises that self-justifying spirit which prevails in every place. Gross iniquities, which affect the welfare... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 560 GOD’S WORD AND WORKS MYSTERIOUS Psalms 36:6. _Thy judgments are a great deep._ WE little think how highly privileged the meanest Christian is above all the sages of antiquity. The greatest philosophers of Greece and Rome were un able to account for the existence of moral evil upon ea... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 561 THE LOVING-KINDNESS OF GOD Psalms 36:7. _How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy plea... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 562 CHRIST THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE AND LIGHT Psalms 36:9._ With thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light._ BY a sober consideration of Scripture metaphors we obtain a more full and comprehensive knowledge of divine truth, than could easily be obtained from the most labo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 563 GOD’S CONTINUED CARE IMPLORED Psalms 36:10._ O continue thou thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart!_ DAVID, in all his troubles, “encouraged himself in the Lord his God.” He was in great trouble at the time he wrote this psalm; bu... [ Continue Reading ]