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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. If you think to make yourselves happy in sin, go and do it. If you fancy that your own righteousness will save you, go and try it. Isa_50:11. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,— Listen to this, ye who live without God, yet think yourselves happy; ye who have no hope of the great hereafter, yet are content with the present: “Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,”— Isa_50:11. That compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and, in the sparks that ye have kindled....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, Ye who would fain save yourselves, — Isa_50:11. That compass yourselves about with sparks: Or, firebrands, — Isa_50:11. Walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks — Or, flambeaux — Isa_50:11. That ye have kindled. That will be the end of it. This grand illumination of yours, — all your good works, all your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. This is for your comfort, dear friends. If God could make out of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; Then what will her gardens be in those glorious days? When her very wilderness is like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord, what will her cultivated places be? Oh, what grand...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. God will not always be forgotten;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. What a mercy it is to get a hold of something that will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, — In the first verse of this chapter, there is a message for those who follow after righteousness; here is a word for those who know it: “Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness,” — Isa_51:7. the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. Let them snarl, and let them bite, if they will; they can do no harm to that righteousness which shall be for ever, or to that salvation which is from generation to generation.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. We long for God to come again upon the stage of action, to interpose in the world’s affairs, and to let men see what he can do. Time was when he was to be found by the burning bush, or on the mountain’s brow, or in the cave, or by the well,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon! Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over. Our prayer is that God may do all this over again; and the answer to our prayer is found in the following verse.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion;- Just as they came out of Egypt of old, and with singing and with sound of timbrel, marched through the Red Sea, so shall God bring his people “with singing unto Zion; — Isa_51:11. And everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: Oh, the beauty and blessing of these glorious words! Let me read them again: “I, even I, am he that comforteth you.” Isa_51:12. Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;-- You see the grass, cut down by the mower’s scythe, lying in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? Why! in the hand of God, and he can let it out, or hold it in, according to his infinite...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Nobody ever does believe either prophets or preachers except through the work of God’s Spirit and grace. The Lord’s arm must be revealed, or else the truth proclaimed by his servants will never be accepted. All the prophets speak in these words of Isaiah, as if they all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? All the prophets reported that which had been revealed to them concerning Christ, they testified what they knew with regard to Jesus of Nazareth, the suffering Saviour; yet how few, comparatively, of the Jewish people, —how few, indeed, of any people, compared with the great mass of mankind, accepted their testimony,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? This is a cause for sorrow upon sorrow, — for the prophets to have God’s message to deliver, and yet for men to reject it, — for them to have to tell it, but to tell it in vain. Yet, dear friends, this has been the lot of some of God’s most faithful servants in all ages,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? It is sometimes the lot of God’s most faithful servants to labour unsuccessfully. As old Thomas Fuller quaintly says, “He maketh some to be as the clouds that empty their rain over Arabia the stony while others are pouring down their showers over Arabia the happy.” Yet we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? The prophet seems to speak in the name of all the prophets, lamenting the general unbelief concerning Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The report concerning him is very clear. It comes from God: it is for our salvation. And yet how many disbelieve it! In fact, all do. Until...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed! It is no new thing for gospel ministers to be disappointed. Even Isaiah; the most Evangelical of all the prophets, who might well be placed at the head of the College of Preachers, feels compelled to say, in the name of all that sacred brotherhood, “Who hath believed our...