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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; Then who would not hear — who would not give the attention — if by that attention life immortal may be received? Isa_55:3. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Will God enter into covenant with sinful men — with thirsty men — with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Says someone, “I can understand God making a covenant with David; but will He make a covenant with me?” Yes, and after the same sure tenor, too: “I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” God will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; Salvation does not come to men through the eye, but through the ear. Not what you see in the finery of the priest or the altar. That can do you no good. But listen to the gospel. It is by ear-gate that God’s mercy comes triumphant into the soul of man. “Incline your ear and come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, Hold it near the mouth of the gracious Speaker. Be willing to hear what God has to say. Take out that wool of prejudice that has prevented you from hearkening to God’s voice: “Incline your ear.” Isa_55:3. And come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; — It seems a very little thing to do, does it not? Simply to hear, — to incline the ear; yet that is the way of salvation: “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Alas! nowadays, the mass of men will not hear God’s message of mercy; they pass it by as if it were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, and your soul shall live; Do not cavil, but hear. Do not come to find fault with the Word; but “Come unto me,” saith the Lord; “hear, and your soul shall live.” Isa_55:3. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. What a surprising promise this is for God to make to men who are so poverty-stricken that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me; This is the gate by which salvation enters into man, — Ear gate, by hearing and believing: “Incline your ear,” bend it forward as if you would catch every word; “and come unto me: — “ Isa_55:3. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me; — This is the gate by which salvation enters into man, — Ear gate, — by hearing and believing. “Incline your ear,” bend it forward as if you would catch every word; “and come unto me;” — Isa_55:3. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; Then who would not hear — who would not give attention — if by that attention life immortal may be received? Isa_55:3. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Will God enter into covenant with sinful men — with thirsty men — with hungry men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, You know what that means; bend forward, to catch the faintest utterance of the voice that is speaking. Isa_55:3. And come ‘unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; We do not live by sight; all the pretty things that you can see in a Romish place of worship will not save a single soul. The preaching of the gospel is God’s way of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. These words refer not only to David, but to Jesus, great David’s greater Son. The next verse is spoken...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him — The Son of David, — “great David’s greater Son,” — and God’s own well beloved and only-begotten Son, even Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. God says “I have given him”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him That is the Son of David — Jesus the Christ — “I have given him.” Isa_55:4. For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. If you want anyone to tell you what God is, Jesus Christ is the witness to the character of God. Do you want a leader to lead you back to peace and happiness — a commander by whose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. “I have given him;” that is, David’s greater Son, the true David, “I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, To bear witness to men of what God is. Isa_55:4. A leader and commander to the people. For Christ loves the people, and he leads them rightly. He will lead them to glory.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him— One greater than David, even the Beloved of the Lord, the Only-begotten, the Messiah Prince, the King of kings, even Jesus. Isa_55:4. For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. God did not give us an angel to lead us, but he gave us his Son; and he did not merely give us his Son to be an example,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Jesus Christ is the people’s Witness and Leader; born among them, living among them, dying for them, living still to save them; and God declares that he gives this Christ to such as hear him, to such as incline their ear, and come unto him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. God’s Witness of his great love to us is his own Son. You cannot doubt God’s readiness to receive guilty men, since Christ has come in the flesh. You cannot doubt his love to sinners, since his only-begotten Son has come to be a Witness to it. Oh, for grace...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. He who is our greater David comes to us to bear witness of the immutable love of God, and to be to us our Captain and our King. Happy are the souls that accept this David to be their Leader. You remember how David, in the cave Adullam, gathered to himself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. He who is our greater David comes to us to bear witness to the immutable love of God, and to be to us our Captain and our King. Happy are the souls that accept this David to be their Leader. You remember how David, in the cave Adullam, gathered to himself...