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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. The waters were abated as far as the fruit trees; not only the tallest forest trees, but some of the fruit trees were uncovered from the water....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. Noah could read something from that leaf that the dove brought to him, but he learned more when she did not return to him. He knew that she had found a proper resting-place, and that the earth was clear of the flood.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: That was a happy New Year’s day for Noah. He was glad to find himself at rest once more, though not yet at liberty. Gen_8:13. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the second month, Nearly two months Noah waited for the complete drying of the earth. Gen_8:14. On the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. “The face of the ground was dry” in the first month; “the earth was dried,” the second month. Noah might have thought it was dry enough before; but God did not think so, there was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And God spoke unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, Noah must wait till God speaks to him. Oh, that some people would wait for God’s command, but they will not! He shall bless thy going out and thy coming in if thou wilt go forth and come in when he bids thee. “Go forth,” says the Lord, “Go forth of the ark.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Common sense would have said, “Spare them, for you will want every one of them.” But grace said, “Slay them, for they belong to God. Give Jehovah his due.” I have often admired that widow of Sarepta. When she...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offering on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; — A savour of rest, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; Noah’s faith was pleasing to God. It was Noah’s confidence in a bleeding sacrifice that gave him acceptance with the Lord. God thought upon his Son, and that great Sacrifice to be offered long afterwards on the cross, and he “smelled a sweet savour.” Gen_8:21. And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground. And any more for man’s sake, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. They never have ceased. He have this year had a long and dreary winter; it looked as if spring would never come. Only a few days ago, the chestnuts were just beginning to turn green, and then there came the little spikes,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, sayings, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Happy fowls, and happy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. So, when my eye of faith is dim, and I cannot see the covenant sign, I will remember that there is an eye which never can be dim, which always sees the covenant token; and so I shall still be secure notwithstanding the dimness of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. Now let us read what the Lord says, through the prophet Isaiah, concerning this covenant. This exposition consisted of readings from Gen_8:20-22; Gen_9:8-17; and Isa_54:1-10.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: It was God’s intention to keep his truth and his pure worship alive in the world by committing it to the charge of one man, and the nation that should spring from him. In the infinite sovereignty of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. There, you see, was the missionary character of the seed of Abraham, if they had but recognized it. God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. He had already attained a fine old age, but he had another century of life before him, which he could not then foresee, or expect. If, at his age, he had said, “Lord, I am too old to travel, too old to...