Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 32:2
Imputeth — Whom God doth not charge with the guilt of his sins, but graciously pardons and accepts him in Christ. No guile — Who freely confesses all his sins, and turns from sin to God with all his heart.
Imputeth — Whom God doth not charge with the guilt of his sins, but graciously pardons and accepts him in Christ. No guile — Who freely confesses all his sins, and turns from sin to God with all his heart.
BLESSED IS THE MAN UNTO WHOM THE LORD IMPUTETH NOT INIQUITY - Whose sin is not “reckoned” to him, or “charged” on him. The reference here is “to his own sin.” The idea is not, that he is happy on whom...
Psalms 32 Fullest Blessing _ 1. The blessedness of righteousness imputed (Psalms 32:1)_ 2. The blessedness of hiding-place (Psalms 32:6) 3. The blessedness of guidance and preservation ...
XXXII. PARDON OF SIN. Psalms 32:1 f. The joy of Divine pardon. Psalms 32:3. Sin remitted on confession. Psalms 32:6 f. The security of the godly. Read, in time of stress and omit surely....
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. IMPUTETH NOT. Forensic or legal righteousness. The N.T. righteousness is not _negative,_ but _positive,_ for the righteousness of One...
The blessedness of forgiveness. See Romans 4:6 ff. for St Paul's use of these verses. _Blessed_ Or, _Happy_. Cp. Psalms 1:1. The first beatitude of the Psalter is pronounced on an upright life; but si...
DISCOURSE: 547 TRUE BLESSEDNESS DECLARED Psalms 32:1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spi...
Psalms 32, 33 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Felicitations to the Forgiven, and Examples of the Songs that they Sing. ANALYSIS Part I., Psalms 32. Stanza I., Psalms 32:1-4, Happy the Forgiven; yet Divine Discipl...
_BLESSED IS THE MAN UNTO WHOM THE LORD IMPUTETH NOT INIQUITY, AND IN WHOSE SPIRIT THERE IS NO GUILE._ Blessed ... imputeth not iniquity. Compare on the phrase 'impute (i:e., set down to the transgres...
NO GUILE] This may refer to the sincerity of repentance, or, more probably, to the changed character of the forgiven heart. 3, 4. These vv. may be taken as a description either of actual sickness, wh...
The subject of the Ps. is the happiness that follows the confession of sin and the experience of forgiveness. This is generally set forth at the beginning (Psalms 32:1). Then the Psalmist relates his...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
TRANSGRESSION — SIN — INIQUITY. — The same terms used here to express the compass and heinousness of sin are found, though in different order, in Exodus 34:7. For St. Paul’s reading of this passage, s...
אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָ֗ם לֹ֤א יַחְשֹׁ֬ב יְהוָ֣ה לֹ֣ו...
Psalms 32:1 ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new joy of...
THE SONG OF THE FORGIVEN Psalms 32:1 David wrote this psalm, Romans 4:6. _Maschil_ means “to give instruction.” We are deeply instructed as to the working of conscience. Compare with Psalms 51:1. Thi...
This is known as the second of the penitential psalms. It is the song of a man who is rejoicing in the assurance of restoration. Opening with a burst of praise which reveals the experimental knowledge...
_Psaltery. Hebrew nebel, (Haydock) which does not resemble the modern psaltery. (Calmet) --- We must carefully observe mortification, and the decalogue. (Worthington)_...
It is our mercy that we are not left to make our own comment upon this Psalm without a guide. The Holy Ghost, by his servant the apostle Paul, hath done it to our hands. In the fourth chapter of his E...
Psalms 32 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
2._In whose spirit there is no guile. _In this clause the Psalmist distinguishes believers both from hypocrites and from senseless despisers of God, neither of whom care for this happiness, nor can th...
Now (Psalms 32) we have what he wants still more the forgiveness of sins. The pressure of affliction turns him to God's law, but to the consciousness of having broken it. Righteousness in that sense h...
BLESSED [IS] THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD IMPUTETH NOT INIQUITY,.... Or "does not think of it" n; with respect unto men, at least to the harm of them; his thoughts are thoughts of peace, and not of evil;...
Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile. Ver. 2. _Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity_] Let no man think this tr...
_Unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity_ Whom God doth not charge with the guilt of his sins, as he justly might, but pardons and accepts him in Christ. _And in whose spirit there is no guile_ Who f...
OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF A POOR SINNER. A psalm of David, Maschil, a contemplation, written probably after David had been restored to the grace of God, a little more than a year after his great sin wit...
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, does not regard him as having committed the transgression, although sin in every form and manifestation cannot be undone, AND IN WHOSE SPIR...
1,2 Sin is the cause of our misery; but the true believer's transgressions of the Divine law are all forgiven, being covered with the atonement. Christ bare his sins, therefore they are not imputed t...
Whom God doth not charge with the guilt of his sins, as he might justly do, but graciously accepts and pardons him in Christ, and deals with him as if he had not sinned. IN WHOSE SPIRIT THERE IS NO GU...
Psalms 32:2 Blessed H835 man H120 LORD H3068 impute H2803 (H8799) iniquity H5771 spirit H7307 deceit H7423...
HE PRAISES GOD FOR THE FACT THAT HE HAS BEEN FORGIVEN (PSALMS 32:1). Psalms 32:1 ‘Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom YHWH does not impu...
Psalms 32:1 There are here a privilege, a character, and a blessing I. The privilege is that of the "man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works" (Romans 4:6). (1) "Whose transgression is...
Psalms 32 In this Psalm David gives to the world his experience as a sinner. I. He tells us of the blessedness of forgiveness. He is blessed (1) because his sins are taken away; (2) because his sins...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ No man knows the blessedness of pardoned sin but the man who has felt the weight of guilt upon his conscience. If y...
Psalms 32:1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silenc...
«A Psalm of David, Maschil»: that is to say, an instructive psalm: «Maschil.» I suppose that David wrote it after he had been forgiven and restored to divine favor. I think we may read it as a part o...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ That is a wonderful word, almost the same in Hebrew as in English, covered, hidden, concealed, put away, removed, d...
This is a great psalm of grace, a psalm in which a sinner, cleansed by sovereign grace, adores and blesses the mercy of God. Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is...
A Psalm of David. You can see David all through this Psalm; here we have David's sin, David's confession of sin, David's pardon. It is a Psalm of David. Oh, that we might each one make it our own! It...
A Psalm of David, giving instruction. The thirty-second Psalm is a gospel benediction. It belongs not to the law; it is a word which can only come of sovereign grace to the guilty. The very first sent...
«A Psalm of David, Maschil,» that is to say, an instructive Psalm. I suppose that David wrote it after he had been forgiven and restored to divine favour. I think we may read it as a part of our own e...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ The Lord can bless the man who is full of sin only when his sin is covered by the atonement the propitiation which...
In this Psalm we have the gospel of the peace of God as David knew it for himself, and wrote it for the benefit of others. Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is co...
CONTENTS: The blessedness of those whose sin is forgiven. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The only cover that will hide our sins forever away from God's sight is that provided in the atoning dea...
This Psalm, as well as Psalms 51., is generally understood to have been composed after the prophet Nathan had alarmed the conscience of David for the sin against Uriah. It is a psalm of praise for par...
_In whose spirit there is no guile._ SIGNS OF A SINCERE AND GUILELESS HEART 1. Observe thy actions. (1) In their nature. If they be single and pure, so is thy heart. As is the fountain and the root...
_Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS Since the time of Origen, seven of the psalms have borne the name of Penitential; namely, Psalms 6:1; Psa...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:1. This is usually classified as a thanksgiving hymn. Worshipers thank God for the joy of having their sins forgiven. Since the psalm is about confession and forgiveness...
INTRODUCTION “This is the second of the seven penitential psalms, as they are called, which, says Selnecker, ‘St. Augustine used often to read with weeping heart and eyes, and which before his death h...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been selected by the Church for one of the "seven penitential psalms." It forms a part of the service of the synagogue on the great Day of Atonement. Yet it is almost as much...
Now this next psalm is thought to have been written at the time of David's sin with Bathsheba. After the prophet of God, Nathan, had come to him and spoken to him of that sin. We will get another psal...
1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 2:2; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 5:19;...