Psalm 119:136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law. I. BECAUSE THEY OFFEND AND SIN AGAINST GOD'S LAW. Before we can experience anything of this jealousy for God and His Word, we must, like David, learn to know Him, not merely on the report of others, but by our own experience; not merely to have heard His Word, or read it, but to have felt it, and partaken of it, and enjoyed it. II. ON ACCOUNT OF THE HAPPINESS AND PEACE SINNERS SACRIFICE BY NOT KEEPING GOD'S LAW. 1. Oh, what an amount of present blessings do men lose by not keeping God's law! What joy in believing, what comfort of the Holy Ghost, what deep, genuine, abiding, solid peace! 2. Such are the present blessings which the believer enjoys; but who can describe those which are laid up for him at God's right hand for evermore? III. ON ACCOUNT OF THE SORROWS AND MISERIES WHICH THEY BRING DOWN UPON THEMSELVES. IV. ON ACCOUNT OF THE AGGRAVATED GUILT UNDER WHICH THEY PERISH. Oh, what reason have we to weep over those whom we daily see putting off Christ for something they like better than Christ! (N. Ashby.) Parallel Verses KJV: Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.WEB: Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI |
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