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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. He puts it twice over, because it is such a prodigy of grace that God should heal sinners that are so polluted with sin. He puts it over again. “I will heal him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. “Work up” such is the word — “whose waters work up mire and dirt” continually, as it were, in a work, and bringing up its filthiness from the bottom — bringing it to the shore — taking away the brightness from every wave and the crystal blue from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. They may have the semblance of peace, or a false peace, but nothing which is worthy of being called peace. This exposition consisted of readings from Isa_57:10-21; and Isa_58:1-11.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily,— There are many nominally religious people who are full of sin. They have an external religion which allows them to live in rebellion against God. And such people are not easily convinced of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God’s messengers must not only speak, they must speak very forcibly, they must speak as with the sound of a trumpet, before men will hear them. Among the most stolid of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. They are always in a place of worship if possible; they cannot have too many services and sermons; yet they have no heart towards God. O my dear friends, let...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, They are careful to offer morning prayers, they would not go into their business without bending the knee to God; and they are eager and attentive hearers in the house of the Lord. Isa_58:2. As a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? When God rejects a man’s religion, what must be the reason of it? Here is the explanation. Isa_58:3. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. “You fast, but you make your workmen toil on...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. They fasted, and then they said, “Why did not God accept our fasting?” Why, because they made their poor servants work up to the very last all that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? They could not make out why they did not benefit by their religiousness. They fasted, but they did not find themselves improved thereby. They afflicted their souls, yet they did not receive pardon for their sins, and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. The best sort of mere external religion will soon turn sour. If you do not worship the Lord in a right spirit, God will loathe the very form of your service. Why, you might, by hypocrisy,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day to make your voice to be heard on high. They were fond of getting into religious disputes; and when they had a fast day they fell to loggerheads about different doctrines, and they got angry with one another, till they began to smite...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: Even in their fasts, they disputed with one another; one said the fast should be on such a day, another would keep it on another day; and no doubt there are some professing Christians who are very zealous, mainly out of spite against other professors; they with as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head us a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? The mere appearance of sorrow, the outward garb of mortification,-what is there in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Does God care for the externals of worship only? Is he satisfied with sackcloth and ashes, and the hanging down of the head...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, That is, if by any dishonesty you have got a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Yes, this is true fasting before God; — not to demand your pound of flesh, and declare that you will have it; not to grind down the poor man to the last farthing; but “to loose the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To undo the heavy burdens, Not to exact from a man what you have no right to have, but what, perhaps, the law may allow you to get out of him. This is God’s fasting — “to undo the heavy burdens.”