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I. A SPIRITUAL CHARACTER. "They which love Thy law."

1. Love lies deep, it is in the heart: it is not a thing of the surface, it is of the man's own self. As a man loveth so is he. To love God's law is to have the very nature and essence of our manhood in a right condition.

2. This inward and spiritual love to God's Word includes many other good things.

(1)  A deep reverence for it.

(2)  This advances to rejoicing in it.

(3)  Further than this, we receive Holy Scripture with emotion.

(4)  Great gratitude to God for His Word is formed in the believing heart.

3. This love is productive of many good things.

(1)  Meditation on it.

(2)  Courage in defence of it.

(3)  Penitence for having sinned against it.

(4)  Patience under suffering.

(5)  Holiness.

4. If in any of us there is a love of the law of the Lord, this is a work of the Holy Spirit.

II. A SPECIAL POSSESSION. When Orientals meet each other their usual salutation is "Shalom" — "Peace be to thee." The word does not mean merely quiet and rest, but happiness or prosperity. Great peace means great prosperity. Those who love God's law have great blessedness in this life as well as in that which is to come. In loving the law of God we have intense enjoyment and real success in life.

1. Great restfulness of the intellect.

2. A pacified conscience.

3. Peace in heart.

4. Peace as to our desires.

5. Peace in resignation to God, acquiescence in His will, and conformity to it.

6. A happy confidence in God as to all things in the past, the present, and the future.

III. A SINGULAR PRESERVATION. "Nothing shall offend them."

1. Intellectual stumbling-blocks are gone.

2. No moral duty shall be a cross to them.

3. They can stand alone. Solitude does not offend them.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

WEB: Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.