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AMEN DEAREST ELECT SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!

Psalms 26:1
A Psalm of David. Vindicate me, O LORD, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the LORD; I shall not slip.

Psalms 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart.

Psalms 26:3
For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.

Psalms 26:4
I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, Nor will I go in with hypocrites.

Psalms 26:5
I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.

Psalms 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,

Psalms 26:7
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, And tell of all Your wondrous works.

Psalms 26:8
LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, And the place where Your glory dwells.

Psalms 26:9
Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

Psalms 26:10
In whose hands is a sinister scheme, And whose right hand is full of bribes.

Psalms 26:11
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be merciful to me.

Psalms 26:12
My foot stands in an even place; In the congregations I will bless the LORD.
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“Gather not my soul with sinners.”
- Psalm 26:9

Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, “Perhaps, after all,
thou mayst be gathered with the wicked.” That fear, although marred by
unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the
recollection of past sin. Even the pardoned man will enquire, “What if at
the end my sins should be remembered, and I should be left out of the
catalogue of the saved?” He recollects his present unfruitfulness-so
little grace, so little love, so little holiness, and looking forward to
the future, he considers his weakness and the many temptations which beset
him, and he fears that he may fall, and become a prey to the enemy. A
sense of sin and present evil, and his prevailing corruptions, compel him
to pray, in fear and trembling, “Gather not my soul with sinners.” Reader,
if you have prayed this prayer, and if your character be rightly described
in the Psalm from which it is taken, you need not be afraid that you shall
be gathered with sinners. Have you the two virtues which David had-the
outward walking in integrity, and the inward trusting in the Lord? Are you
resting upon Christ’s sacrifice, and can you compass the altar of God with
humble hope? If so, rest assured, with the wicked you never shall be
gathered, for that calamity is impossible. The gathering at the judgment
is like to like. “Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in
bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” If, then, thou
art like God’s people, thou shalt be with God’s people. You cannot be
gathered with the wicked, for you are too dearly bought.
Redeemed by the blood of Christ, you are his for ever, and where he is,
there must his people be.
You are loved too much to be cast away with reprobates.
Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible! Hell cannot hold thee!
Heaven claims thee! Trust in thy Surety and fear not!

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!