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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the wicked forsake his way, — It is a bad way, it is a downward way, it is a way that will end in destruction; do not follow it any longer: “Let the wicked forsake his way,”- Isa_55:7. And the unrighteous man his thoughts: “Thoughts!” says one, “we shall not be hanged for our thoughts.” Oh, but you may be damned for your thoughts! No man has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the wicked forsake his way, — It is a bad way, it is a downward way, it is a way that will end in destruction; do not follow it any longer: “Let the wicked forsake his way.” — Isa_55:7. And the unrighteous man his thoughts: “Thoughts!” says one, “we shall not be hanged for our thoughts.” Oh, but you may be damned for your thoughts! No man has...
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. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your...
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. The marginal reading is, “He will multiply to pardon.” We multiply sin, but God’s multiplication table goes farther than ours: “He will multiply to pardon.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,.... In some things there may be a likeness between the thoughts of God and the thoughts of men, as to the nature of them: thoughts are natural and essential to them both; they are within them, are internal acts, and unknown to others, till made known; but then the thoughts of men are finite and limited,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Oh, what a mercy it is to be taught to think God’s thoughts, and to be led in God’s ways! It is the entrance into a new life; it is something infinitely beyond the greatest elevation to which any ordinary life can ever reach by its own unaided power.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. I think, dear friends, that not only may the unconverted pick up many crumbs of comfort as they hear about the abundant provision of divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For — Saith God, as if he would not leave the prophet to speak any longer on his behalf; he himself appears upon the scene, and speaks: “For” — Isa_55:8. My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. No doubt he refers here to the pardon of sin. Our thoughts are narrow; we find it hard to forgive great offenses,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my way, saith the LORD. “Saith the Lord,” as if he would not leave the prophet to speak any longer on his behalf; he himself appears upon the scene, and speaks: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts.” No doubt he refers here to the pardon of sin. Our thoughts are narrow. We find it hard...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, my ways saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Perhaps you are thinking that he cannot forgive you, that he cannot possibly mean that he will blot out your sins; but he does mean it, ay, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and making it bring forth and bud,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For as the heavens, are higher than the earth,.... Than which there cannot be conceived a greater distance: so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts; which may denote the heavenliness of the ways and thoughts of God, the eternity and unsearchableness of them, and their excellency and preciousness; as well as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Think of the biggest thought you ever had concerning God’s forgiveness of sins; try again, let your thoughts rise higher still; ye cannot have reached the utmost height yet, “for as the heavens are higher than the earth,” so are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thought than your thoughts. Think of the biggest thought you ever had concerning God’s forgiveness of sins; try again, let your thoughts rise higher still; ye cannot have reached the utmost height yet, “for as the heavens are higher thou the earth,” so are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither,.... Rain and snow come down from the clouds in the heavens, and do not return again until they have done what they are sent to do, or have produced the following effects; otherwise they may be exhaled into vapours, as they often are, and drawn up again by the sun:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall...