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Isaiah 55:4

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...

Isaiah 55:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Beheld, I have given him. for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Jesus Christ is a witness to you of his Father’s love. I do not knew how God could show his love more fully than he does in the life and death of his Son, Jesus Christ. Christ is the great witness of the Father’s love. Behold how he loves his people in...

Isaiah 55:4-7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 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. Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: let the...

Isaiah 55:5-7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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. 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...

Isaiah 55:5

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. The promise is to Christ. Today are these words fulfilled in our ears, for, in calling these British Isles to know Christ, God has given to the Lord...

Isaiah 55:5

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. So, brethren, the gospel must succeed. Christ must have whole nations to come to him; they must come; they shall come; for God has glorified his Son, and...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:5

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...

Isaiah 55:6-11

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...

Isaiah 55:6

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...

Isaiah 55:6

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.”

Isaiah 55:6-7

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...

Isaiah 55:6

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...

Isaiah 55:6

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...