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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Then, surely, he will also remove our troubles from us; but if not, as he has removed our transgressions so far away that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Let us all thank God that we are not in hell, and that we are yet on praying ground and on pleading terms with him, and some of us can praise him that we shall never come into perdition, for he hath saved us with an everlasting salvation. Truly, if we did not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath not dealt with us after our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Come: will you not praise him for this? If he had dealt with us according to our sins, we certainly should not have been in the house of prayer. We should have been now in the house of punishment. We should have been driven from his presence, instead of being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; Blessed be his holy name! Psa_103:10. Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For ever adored be his longsuffering and his tender mercy.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Let us thank God we are not in hell; we are yet on praying ground, and on pleading terms with him. Some of us will never go into perdition, for he hath saved us with an everlasting salvation. Truly, if we did not bless him, every timber in this house, and every...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For as the heaven is high above the earth,.... Which is the greatest distance known, or can be conceived of; the space between the heaven and the earth is seemingly almost infinite; and nothing can more illustrate the mercy of God, which reaches to the heavens, and is in heaven; though this is but a faint representation of the largeness and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone. There is a chasm between us and our sins, which will never be bridged. To an infinite distance has the great Scapegoat carried away all the sins of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Such great mercy as this should have the highest praise of which we are capable. This verse speaks of the height of God’s mercy; the next one tells of its breadth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Immeasurable mercy, illimitable grace, blessed be his holy name!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Look up to the blue sky, try to imagine what is beyond the stars, and then say to yourself, “So great is his mercy toward them that fear him;” and try to praise him as he deserves to be praised.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Sing loud, then, and praise him greatly, for his mercy is so great! “Loud as his thunders shout his praise, And sound it lofty as his throne!” What music can be equal to such mercy as this—“as high as the heaven is above the earth”: Surely, the best music...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Therefore praise him. Loud as his thunders shout his praise, And sound it lofty as his throne. If he be such a God as this, you can never overdo his praises, it is impossible to exaggerate in your exaltation of him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Look up into the blue sky, up, up beyond the stars, and say to yourself. “So great is his mercy.” Let us therefore praise him accordingly. “Loud as his thunders shout his praise, And sound it lofty at his throne.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As far as the east is from the west,.... Which Kimchi thinks is mentioned because it contains the length of the habitable world; and therefore it is not said as far as the north is from the south; since a man can go from east to west, but not from north to south, because of the extreme heat and cold. But this distance is not given with respect to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone never to return; it is impossible that they should he imputed against us any more for ever; therefore, praise him to the very utmost.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Here again I cannot tell how much we ought to bless him. It is not merely pardon of a temporary character that is given to us, but our sin is carried right away into a land of forgetfulness, so that it will never come back again to us. “Who shall lay any thing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Let us therefore unstintedly praise him for such boundless lovingkindness and tender mercy.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Oh! what a mercy this is! In the third verse, you see, he gave us the note upon which here, in the twelfth verse, he enlarges: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities.” How doth he forgive them? Why, “as far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone; they are removed to an infinite distance; they will never come back. It is not possible that they should ever again be laid to our charge.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. There is neither latitude nor longitude for praise. God’s grace is boundless; let us therefore unstintedly praise him.