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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. For the bodies of the great are fed upon by the worm as readily as the bodies of the paupers. They may embalm the body, if they will, to cheat the worm, or put it into a coffin of lead, but little can they do with it. It is a costly business after all, and is the exception to the rule....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others. Whatever men may have gathered, the wisest cannot find an invention which will enable him to take his treasure with him. He must leave it behind. “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Man is so fond of immortality that, while he foolishly rejects the reality of it he clings to the name of it; and he builds a house which he ties down by entail to his heirs, and his heirs’...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: He passes away. His grace, his lordship, his reverence, must lie in the grave. How ridiculous grand titles seem when once it is said, “Earth to earth; dust to dust; ashes to ashes.” “Vain pomp and glory of the earth,” indeed we may say, in the presence of the shroud and the mattock, and the grave and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This their way is their folly: yet their prosperity approve their sayings. Selah. When men have lived only for this world, and die and pass away, without any future worth the having — without any hope of heaven — yet still they report it in the papers that he died “worth” — so much, as if it were wonderful to have so much to leave. And they speak...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; They lead a worldly life, and die a worldly death-quiet, contented with this world, — no thought of the world to come. Psa_49:14. Death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; That everlasting daybreak shall shed a light on many things; and then the master and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. What a happy confidence! Blessed are those who, by a living faith in a living God, know that their soul shall be received into its Maker’s hands. But woe unto those whose confidence lies in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. They will not know him in the next world to be the squire, the peer, the prince. Death is a dreadful leveller. Envy not the great man of this world. “His glory shall not descend...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. Not “when thou doest good,” mark; for often when you do good, men will criticize and censure; -- and, the better the deaf, the more sure is it to provoke the contempt of many. But “men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself.” A shrewd...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. They are sleeping in the grave. So shall he, and beyond the grave there is nothing but darkness for him whose heart is set on this world.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. Understanding, and the fear of the Lord which is the beginning thereof, and not earthly honour, is our only succor in the day of death.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. The Hebrew hath it, “El Elohim, Jehovah hath spoken” — three names of God — great and mysterious — the strong God, the only God, the self-existent God. He speaks — calls upon the whole earth from the east to the west to listen...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof. Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He came once under the old legal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. There he dwelt. Now in this scene he is represented as shining forth from it. As he had described the earth as being lighted by the sun from the east to the west, so now God himself, who at first speaks and demands a hearing, now shines forth with beams of glory which altogether eclipse the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. The voice was heard saying that God would come, and then the beams of glory which warned men that he was coming; and here his people stand attentive, expecting him to come. “They expect him to speak.” Fire and rushing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Do you catch the thought? There comes the great Judge with the fire burning before him. He rides upon a cherub — yea, rides upon the wings of the wind, and then he calls heaven, with all the angels and glorified spirits, and he calls to earth, with all its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Heaven shall yield up the blessed who are already there, and earth shall give up those that are alive and remain until Christ’s coming, and so the whole company of the redeemed shall stand in the presence of their great Lord and Saviour when Christ shall come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. God has a separated and chosen people. It will be a part of the proceedings at the last great day to gather these together unto God. There will be a day when he will make up his jewels — a time when he will gather his wheat into his garner. But as this Psalm...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. He will not depute this office to another. He knows the details of each case, he knows the motives that have been at the back of every action, he knows the law, and he knows what...