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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. God understands his people’s language, and in very truth he understands everything; but here he uses a Hebraic to show that he did not care for the speech of the Egyptians: “I heard a language that I understood...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I removed his shoulder from the burden: Is not that true of many of you in a spiritual sense? Oh, what a burden of sin we used to carry! How have we got rid of it? Does not the Lord here remind us of how we lost that grievous load? “I removed his shoulder from the burden.” Psa_81:6. His hands were delivered from the pots. We used to be busy enough...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; What a gracious word is this! How it reminds us, in the most loving tones, of our obligations to the Lord!” Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee.” Psa_81:7. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. A very humbling sentence this! God has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. But how sadly did they stand the test! You and I, too, have not only received much mercy at the hand of God, but we also have had our testing-times. We can look back to the waters of strife with deep regret...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; What! Is there any question as to whether God’s people will hearken to him or not? Alas! sometimes our ears grow very heavy, we are so occupied with the cares of the world, so sleepy while passing over the Enchanted Ground, that we do not hear that dear voice...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; there shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. What a wondering verse this is! We have been so accustomed to hear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. It is strange that we should ever wish to do so. Oh, that we might be wholly delivered from everything that looks like idolatry, and be enabled to cleave to the worship of the one living and true God with the serenity and certainty of faith!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. Oh, how plaintive is this lament! Is it not full of sorrow? “Israel would none of me.” Her own God, her own Friend, her own Benefactor, her own Husband has to cry,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own heart lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued the enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the LORD should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I gave them up — Dreadful word! If God gives us up, even for a moment, there is no telling into what sin we may plunge; and if he were to give us up altogether, —ah, me! this were the most direful of sentences: “So I gave them up” — Psa_81:12. Unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. O God, save us from this awful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways: And can we not echo that lament, and say, “Oh, that we had hearkened unto God, and that we had walked in his ways”? What a happy life would the believer enjoy if he always had an ear for God’s commandments and a foot for his ways!” Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him; but their time should have endured for ever. “Their time” — the time of his own people — “should have endured for ever.” They might have been always conquerors, always kings, always favored of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: How sweet would gospel doctrine be if gospel precepts were observed! When you do not enjoy the preaching of the Word, is it not because you are out of health, and your spiritual appetite is impaired: “He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat.” When the soul lives near to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. If the Word of God does not seem to feed us as once it did, it will surely be because we have not hearkened to our Lord, or walked in his ways. May he give us grace to render complete obedience to his holy will! “So shall thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. God’s enemies are making a noise, and the psalmist’s prayer is that the Lord himself will speak and answer them. God’s voice made the heavens and the earth: “He spake, and it was done; he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. Craft goes with power in plotting against God’s people. The seed of the serpent are like him from whom they came, and of him it is said, “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made;” and the seed of the serpent are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. So terrible was the anger of these nations against God’s people that nothing would content them but the destruction of Israel, the blotting out of its very name from the memory of men; and I am sure that, if the world could...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: There were many nations of heathens, and they were agreed in nothing except in their hatred of Israel. There they were agreed, as Herod was the friend of Pilate while Christ was under examination, but not at any other time. The psalmist mentions ten different...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The tabernacles of Edom, These descendants of Esau, Jacob’s twin brother, ought to have been the best friends of Israel, but they were the worst of their enemies. How often does it happen that kinship in blood makes no kinship in grace! “A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Psa_83:6. And the Ishmaelites; These again were near akin to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; All these were hereditary enemies of Israel, Amalek especially so, for God had determined that there should be war with Amalek throughout all generations. Psa_83:7. The Philistines — These were the old enemies of Israel. Remember how Samson fought with them, and what tugs of war David had with them. Psa_83:7. With the...