The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Here the gracious man is
described both negatively (verse 1) and
positively (verse 2). He is a man who does
not walk in the counsel of the ungodly. He takes wiser counsel, and walks
in the commandments of the Lord his God. To him the ways of piety are paths of
peace and pleasantness. His footsteps are ordered by the Word of God, and not
by the cunning and wicked devices of carnal men. It is a rich sign of inward
grace when the outward walk is changed, and when ungodliness is put far from
our actions. Note next, he standeth not in the way of sinners. His
company is of a choicer sort than it was. Although a sinner himself, he is now
a blood-washed sinner, quickened by the Holy Spirit, and renewed in heart.
Standing by the rich grace of God in the congregation of the righteous, he
dares not herd with the multitude who do evil. Again it is said, nor sitteth
in the seat of the scornful. He finds no rest in the atheist’s scoffings.
Let others make a mock of sin, of eternity, of hell and heaven, and of the
Eternal God; this man has learnt better philosophy than that of the infidel,
and has too much sense of God’s presence to endure to hear his name blasphemed.
The seat of the scorner may be very lofty, but it is very near to the gate of
hell; let us flee from it, for it will soon be empty, and destruction will
swallow up the man who sits therein. Mark the gradation in the first verse:
He walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly,
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Nor standeth
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in the way of
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sinners,
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Nor sitteth
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in the seat of the
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scornful.
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