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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; and forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through, and he made the waters to stand as an heap. In the daytime also he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. What a marvelous miracle that dividing of the Red Sea was! Did it not make an abiding impression upon them? I will be bound to say that many of them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. It seemed as if there was nothing that the Lord would not do for them; all that they needed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. He had given them food for their necessities, but now they must have meat for their lusts.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. What a fierce fire must sin be that it is even fed by the rivers of God’s goodness, and burns by means of that which ought to have quenched every spark of it. Yet there is such a fire as that raging in our hearts, and even God’s mercies will make us more sinful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Not for their needs, but “for their lust.” It is a dreadful thing when prayer itself is prostituted, and the mercy-seat becomes a place for the expression of sinful desires which ought never to have been in our hearts. It was so, however, with these children of Israel.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? So you see, dear friends, what speaking against God really is; I am afraid that we also have often done that. To question God’s power, is to speak against him. Perhaps you have thought lightly of your unbelieving speeches, but God does not think lightly of them; to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they spake against God; As you read that “they spake against God,” you naturally suppose that they uttered some blasphemy, or some denial of his Deity. Listen and learn: — Psa_78:19. They said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? That is speaking against him, — to speak unbelievingly, — to speak in a questioning way concerning his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? There ought to have been no question as to the Lord’s power; the God who could fetch water out of a rock could, if he pleased, make loaves of bread out of the sand under their feet, or cause the very stars...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? Can he provide flesh for his people? These things, which they lusted after, they also turned into subjects for unbelief; and they even misused the miracle, which they dared not deny.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: He was really angry with his people because they doubted him. He loved them, and because he loved them, it cut him to the quick that they should have questioned his power to bless them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, Unbelief is very hard to kill. God opens the doors and windows of heaven to feed his people; yet, nevertheless, the next time...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israe;. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: This was the provoking sin. The Lord would not endure such wanton and wicked unbelief as this. After he had turned the rocks into rivers, could he not turn the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, and had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. He rained flesh also upon them as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven : and by his power he brought in the south wind. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: and he let it fall in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They were not estranged from their lust. For the more last gets, the more lust wants. It is like the daughter of the horse-leech, that always cries, “Give! Give!” God can satisfy the longing soul, but all the world cannot satisfy the cravings of lust.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But while their meat was yet in their mouths, the wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. They received what they pined for, but they had a curse with it. Affliction with a blessing is far better than prosperity with a curse.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. They were dyed ingrain with unbelief, so that it seemed as if it could not be washed out of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And believed not for his wondrous works. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. Perhaps some of them fought him even while they were dying; and the remnant that survived trembled, and “returned and enquired early after God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. A great part of our trouble is the fruit of our own unbelief. It is like hemlock in the furrows of the field. They who distrust God are making a rod for their own back; and before they have done with it, they will have to rue the day in which they thought themselves wiser...