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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? It is Christ who is speaking here by the mouth of the prophet. When he came, there was “no man.” He could not find in all the nation any faithful one to help him in his great redemptive work. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” He preached...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Christ came to this world at a time when there practically seemed to be none left on the earth who were good for anything. The Pharisees, who were, outwardly, the most religious of men, were proud formalists and base hypocrites, and the whole nation had gone astray...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. This is Christ speaking again. When he came here, though be found no man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. Notice the wonderful contrast between the third verse and the fourth. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. Just as scholars learn from their teacher. It was a wondrous stoop for the Omnipotent to become a learner; but he descended lower than that.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. He had his ear bored, as slaves had when they would not go out free, but meant to remain with their master. Christ had a bored ear, an opened ear. He never rebelled against God’s will. He was obedient to the Father, even unto death. If you want to know how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. That same Divine One was, in due time, veiled in human flesh; and, then, he, who covered the heavens with blackness, gave his back to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. This was another step in the ladder of Christ’s humiliation, but he went lower still. Read the 3rd verse again, and then read the 6th. “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Now let me go back a little, and read again the third verse, “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” “I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair.” It is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded, therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. Even though he had to stoop so low as to endure shame and spitting, he knew...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord GOD will help me; This is Christ still speaking. Though God himself, yet as the God-Man, looking to his Father for help in the dread struggle through which he went to save us, he declared, “The Lord God will help me.” Isa_50:7. Therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Christ is innocent, and therefore he defies all his accusers. Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with, me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Will any now come to battle against Christ, and hope to conquer him? Voltaire used...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? Our Lord Jesus Christ was justified in his resurrection. He took his people’s sin upon him, and therefore he had to die in their place; but his work was so complete that he was himself justified as well as all his people and he challenges anyone to lay anything to his charge.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help me, who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? It is the Saviour...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. The enemies of Christ shall all pass away, they shall be utterly destroyed. Now comes a blessed lesson for us. As Christ persevered in his great work even to the end, so let us do the same.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is among you — Here is a very blessed question. Christ, having passed through all the trouble that could be passed through, and having come out of it triumphant, now looks round on all his followers, on all the children of God, and he says, “Who is among you” — Isa_50:10. That feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. Let not the darkness keep you back any more than it did your Master, still go on, and stay yourselves upon your God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. In darkness or in the light, take heed that ye do this, when everything about you seems contrary to the divine promises, and your spirits are ready to sink, take heed to this good counsel of your Saviour: “Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.”