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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath shewed his people the power of his works, He showed the Israelites what he could do, what force he could throw into what he did, and he has shown to us, Christians, the same thing in another way, by the power of his gracious Spirit, blessing the preaching of his Word to the conversion of sinners, and maintaining the great fight against the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The works of his hands are verity and judgment; He never acts contrary to truth and righteousness. Even when he puts on his most terrible look, and smites his enemies in his wrath, still, “the works of his hands are verity and judgment;”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. Whatever God commands, determines, purposes, you may rest assured that it will be accomplished; but his purposes are always accomplished, not by caprice, but by “truth and uprightness.” God is a Sovereign, doing as he wills; but he never wills...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sent redemption unto his people: He brought them up out of Egypt with a high hand and a stretched out arm, and he has sent redemption to us, first, by price, when he redeemed us from our guilt upon the tree; and then by power, when the Holy Spirit came and broke our bands asunder, and set us free from the dominion of our sins. Psa_111:9. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: It is the A B C of true wisdom. He who has learned to fear God has learned the first part of wisdom. According to some, the word “beginning” here means the chief, the head, the front, just as, often, in Scripture, “beginning” signifies that. “The fear of the Lord” is the chief part of “wisdom,” the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. Three times are you stirred up to this duty of praise. Adore the Sacred Trinity with threefold praise. There is a trinity in you: let spirit, soul, and body praise the Lord. Let the past, the present, and the future make another threefold chord; and for each of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised. “From the rising of the sun until the going down of the same the Lord’s name is to be praised.” In hours of morning light, when the dew is on the grass, and our soul is full of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, The loftiness, the majesty, the sublimity of God are attributes that are terrible in themselves; yet they minister much joy to those who love the Lord. For, you know, we can never make too much of those whom we love; and if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! It enables us to get some faint idea of the greatness of God when we read that he has to humble himself even to look at the things in heaven, perfect and spotless though they be. Dr. Watts truly sings, — “The lowest step around thy seat Rises too high for Gabriel’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. Have you never noticed that, in all these joyous songs to God, there is almost always one of these notes, that God abases the proud, and exalts the humble? This was the basis of Hannah’s song;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. Does your soul feel barren? May the Lord grant unto it an abundant fruitfulness! Looking back upon the past year, perhaps you have had many barren times, or times that you have thought to be barren. If you are a minister of the gospel, I should not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. It was very natural that the heathen should say, “Where is their God?” because they had no outward emblem, no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? They talk about what he did when he brought his people up out of Egypt; but they tauntingly ask, “Where is now their God?” Thou art not dead, O God! Nor art thou even waxing weak; wilt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But our God is in the heavens: Where they cannot see him. But that is just where he should be-in his own royal pavilion, seated upon his own throne,-out of gunshot of all his enemies,-where he can survey the whole world, where he is dependent upon none, but absolutely supreme over all: “Our God is in the heavens. Psa_115:3. He hath done whatsoever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: they have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. It is a grim piece of sarcasm...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. Mere metal,-called precious metal, yet, if made into idols, no better than any other metal. This shows the amount that a man will spend upon making to himself a god that is no god; but what a fool he is to do so! How can a man call that a “god”, which did not make him, but which he himself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They have mouths, but they speak not: I want you to notice how the psalmist seems to have an image before him, and he points first to its head, and mocks at its different parts; and then he points to its hands, and its feet, and he utters scathing sarcasm’s about the whole person of the idol god.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: they have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. “They have mouths.” To carry out their idea of God, the makers of idols have given them mouths; but they cannot speak through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. They are as doltish and as stupid, as blind and as deaf, and as ridiculous as the gods that they make; for no man was ever better than the god he worshipped.