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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. Brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ did not die in vain. He died to redeem his chosen people, and those whom he redeemed he will certainly have. Even though...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. Observe, there was no communion between Christ and these people, for he knew not them, and they knew not him. It is the Scriptural mode of expressing the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. What joy this gives to you who love him! Jehovah has glorified his Son and given to him the power to call to himself a people that he knew not in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. What joy this gives to you who love him! Jehovah has glorified his Son, and given to him the power to call to himself a people that he knew not in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy one of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. Here God speaks to Jesus, whom he has made a commander, and he tells him that he shall not be without a people, for those who never knew him shall come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. That is, Jehovah has glorified Christ. It is promised that multitudes shall come to him. “Thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not.” He never saw...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. Christ must have a people. He did not die in vain. God will give him a following; he shall not be a Commander without troops; he shall not be a Leader...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found,.... The Lord is to be sought unto at all times, whenever the people of God meet together, especially on sabbath days, and while the external ministry of the word lasts, and life itself; so the Targum, "seek the fear of the Lord, while ye are alive.'' Kimchi compares it with Ecclesiastes 9:10. The Jewish...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Oh, may the Holy Spirit make every word I read to be effectual with you! God himself speaks to you tonight, out of a Book which not only was inspired, but is inspired; and he says tonight, freshly from his own lip to you that have not rest of heart, “Seek ye the LORD while...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found;” that is, now. “Call ye upon him while he is near;” he is near now. Wherever Christ is lifted up, and his gospel is proclaimed, there is he according to his promise, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. There must be conversion,-that is, a turning of the soul, and that must be manifest in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, In these happy gospel times when Christ is set forth on purpose that “he may be found.” Isa_55:6. Call ye upon him while he is near: And he is very near when the gospel is preached with holy unction, when Christians are praying, when hearts are breaking for the conversion of sinners, and when his Spirit is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: In those happy gospel times, when Christ is set forth on purpose that “he may be found,” seek him, call upon him. He is very near when the gospel is preached with holy unction, when Christians are praying, when hearts are breaking for the conversion of sinners, and when his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, And that is tonight; for still the promise of finding is given to every one who seeks. Isa_55:6. Call ye upon him while he is near: And he is near, for in all places where his name is recorded, there he has promised to be. Wheresoever the gospel is preached, we have Christ’s word for it: “Lo, I am with you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:Llet the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Hear the music of the glorious message, “he will have mercy,” “he will abundantly pardon.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: There may come a day when he cannot be found, a time when he will not be near. When the great Judge of all has once said, “Depart,” when once the Master of the house has risen up, and shut to the door, in vain will be all your seeking, and your praying, and your knocking at...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let the wicked forsake his way,.... His evil way, as the Targum paraphrases it, his wicked course of life; and which is his own way, of his own choosing, and in which he delights, and a very dangerous one it is; and yet he is bent upon it, and nothing can turn him from it but efficacious grace; nor will he ever forsake it till he sees the evil,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the wicked forsake his way, Do not let him wait till he has finished this thing, or done the other, or till he has so much to bring in his hand. Let him run away from his old master, and from his old way, and from his old self at once. May God help him so to do! Isa_55:7. And the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. What a grand word that is! “He will abundantly pardon.” However abundant sin may be, God’s pardon is still more abundant. As Paul puts it, “Where sin abounded, grace...