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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remember ye not the former things,.... Just now referred to, the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and the drowning of Pharaoh and his army in it; for though these things were worthy to be remembered with thankfulness and praise, and to the glory of God, and for the encouragement of faith, yet not in comparison of what was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Do not look merely upon what God has done; but look to the future, and remember that be is able to do the same again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember ye not the former thing, neither consider the things of old.. For something better is going to be done in the future than all that God has done in the past. He will eclipse all his previous achievements, and outdo the mightiest of his own miracles.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the thing of old. Behold I will do a new thing; What God has done once, he can do again; but he can also make yet grander and more marvellous displays of his power and grace than he has ever yet given.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Do not imagine that what God has done in the past will never be repeated. It will be excelled: he will do yet greater things. Of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; It is a very profitable thing to remember the things of old; it is greatly beneficial to us to study what God did in years and ages long gone by; yet God intends to do for us something in the future that shall eclipse all the past. Especially was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I will do a new thing,.... A wonderful and unheard of thing, and therefore introduced with a "behold", as a note of admiration; the same with the new thing created in the earth, Jeremiah 31:22, the incarnation of the Son of God; who took flesh of a virgin, appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, and was made sin and a curse for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. O dear child of God, have you got into the wilderness, and have you no comfort there? Are all your wells dried up? God will work a new miracle for you, you shall have a new manifestation of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it. I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, As it slakes its thirst at an unwonted spring, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters, in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. If then, O child of God, thou art in sore distress; if all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls. I have sometimes laid hold of this text, and have been comforted by it concerning the conversion of the very worst of men. Some people say, “What is the good of going...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons, and the owls,.... Which is not to be understood literally of these creatures, who as they had honoured the Lord, when Israel passed through the wilderness, so would again in their way praise the Lord, when they came through the deserts from Babylon, for giving them water to drink in such dry and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The dragons and the owls: Alarmed and startled, as God’s people pass by on their way to the land which God would give them, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; — Have any of you restrained prayer of late? Has your path to the mercy-seat been but little trodden? Then, listen to God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise. However barren may your soul be, and however all your surroundings may seem to be stamped with death, God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. Oh, the wonders of the love of God! Wherever he has a chosen people, there every mercy shall certainly come. If they are in the wilderness, waters shall come to them; if they are in the desert, rivers shall flow to them; but drink they shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This people have I formed for myself,.... The Gentiles, compared to a desert and wilderness, wild and uncultivated, distinguished from Jacob and Israel in the next verse, and the same with the chosen people before mentioned; who being chosen of God, and redeemed by Christ, are formed anew by the Spirit of Christ, made new creatures, regenerated,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. He will not be disappointed in his people. He made them that he might get glory out of them, and he will surely have it; none shall be able to prevent it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. Here is this same note again. Yet mark what kind of people they had been,-a people whom God had greatly loved, but who had backslidden from him. They had wandered very far away from God, yet still his purpose of love did not change: “This people have I formed for myself; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This people — That is, God’s own people: “This people” —