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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth: He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. The chastisement of sickness and the flagellation of pain whip the sinner back to him who alone can save him. These are the black dogs of the Great Shepherd wherewith he brings back wandering sheep till they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom. May the Lord graciously apply to all our hearts this instructive portion of Old Testament Scripture! There is a message in it to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. I wish that verse was always true, especially concerning those who hear what purports to be the gospel; I only wish they would test and try what they hear, just as, with their mouth,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. Yes, Job had said something like that, yet not quite that. He had denied the charges of gross sin which his friends brought against him, and he had, in that sense, declared that he was righteous, and so he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Should I lie against my right ? my wound is incurable without transgression. What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walked with wicked men. For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. He did not mean that Job did really go into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding : far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. That was well spoken. Let us never, even for a moment, imagine that God can do anything that is unrighteous or unjust. God is a sovereign, and therefore he may do as he wills with his own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Wilt thou, poor puny mortal, arraign the Most High, and dare to condemn him who is most just?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands. This is the same kind of argument as Paul used in writing to the Romans: “Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. An invisible power takes away the strength of which they boasted, and then, what does the prince become, with all his glory, or the warrior, with all his victories? What, but so much corruption that must be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. How gloriously is this great truth put! This Elihu was a man of real eloquence; what a weighty sentence is this! How worthy to be treasured up in the memory! “There is no darkness, nor...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God. For, if man were ill treated, and more were laid upon him than ought to be, he would have cause to enter into judgment with his Maker. But God will never compromise his own eternal holiness after such a fashion as this. He will not lay upon man more than is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: so that they cause the cry of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? This is a most comforting question; for, if God gives quietness to the spirit, nobody can really trouble you. When Christ has once spoken peace to our heart, and given us a holy calm, then are we glad because we be quiet, and who is he that can raise a storm in our soul again? “The peace of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: that the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. God has ways of dealing with his children by which he weeds out hypocrites, lays them low, and does not suffer them to have rule over his people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That is the spirit of the true-born child of God: “Father, I know that what I have suffered is a chastisement from thy hand, and I accept it as such. ‘I will not offend any more,’ I quit the sin that grieved thee.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That which I see not teach thou me: “Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. Point out to me the evil which thou wouldest have me put away.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I have done iniquity, I will do no more. Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. This man is...