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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he is our God,.... God over all, blessed for ever, truly and properly God, and therefore to be worshipped: "our God"; in whom we have interest, who became our head and surety in covenant; took upon him our nature, is our "Immanuel", God with as, which increases the obligation to worship him; these are the words of New Testament saints: and we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, It is a tender heart that hears God’s voice, and the heart that hears his voice is sure to be made tender. These two things act and re-act the one upon the other.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. He is the shepherd, leading, feeding, protecting, guarding us every day.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation. Was not that enough? Is there any need to grieve him again. Think with sympathy of what God endured from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Harden not your hearts,.... Against Christ, against his Gospel, against all the light and evidence of it. There is a natural hardness of the heart, owing to the corruption of nature; and an habitual hardness, acquired by a constant continuance and long custom in sinning; and there is a judicial hardness, which God gives men up unto. There is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. They...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When your fathers tempted me,.... Or, "where" (i); that is, in the wilderness, particularly at Meribah and Massah; it was Christ they tempted, as appears from 1 Corinthians 10:9 proved me: had proof of his power, goodness, and mercy, in providing for them, and in the preservation of them: or "tried" (k) him, his patience, longsuffering, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,.... The generation of the wilderness, as the Jews commonly call them; and which was a stubborn and a rebellious one, whose heart and spirit were not right with God, Psalms 78:8, wherefore, speaking after the manner of men, God was grieved with them, as he was with the old world, Genesis 6:6, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, Not merely through ignorance, but “in their heart.” They were not alone with their feet and their tongue, but in their hearts. Psa_95:10. And they have not known my ways: They have seen them but not understood them. He says, “They saw my work,” but you may see and yet not know, for what is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Unto whom I sware in my wrath,.... Being angry with them, he sware for the confirmation of what he said; the form of the oath was, "as truly as I live"; he sware by himself, for he could swear by no greater; see Numbers 14:21 that they should not enter into my rest; the land of Canaan, or Israel, as Kimchi; which the Lord provided, promised, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. Ah me!