Hints to Preachers

Verse 1.—The confidence of faith. I. The circumstances were distressing. 1. David was misjudged. 2. David exiled. 3. A bad man in power. 4. God’s priests slain. II. The consolation was abiding. 1. There is a God. 2. He is good. 3. His goodness continues. 4. Good will, therefore, overcome. III. The rejoinder was triumphant, “Why boastest thou?” 1. The mischief did not touch the main point. 2. It would be overruled. 3. It would recoil. 4. It would expose the perpetrators to scorn.

Verse 3.—In what cases men clearly love evil more than good.

Verses 7, 8.—The worldling like an uprooted tree, the believer a vigorous, well-planted olive.

Verse 8.—The believer’s character, position, confidence, and continuance.

Verse 9.—The double duty, and the double reason: the single heart and its single object.

Verse 9.—What God has done, what we will do, and why.