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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: “Woe unto them.” When we get a woe in this Book of Blessings it is sent as a warning, that we may escape from woe. God’s woes are better than the devil’s welcomes. God always means man’s good, and only sets ill before him that he may turn from the dangers...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Blaspheming God, and rushing on the bosses of his buckler, defying him to smite them. And all this came from dallying with sin, from drawing iniquity with cords of vanity Beware of the eggs...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the year that King Uzziah died You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself into the priests’ office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a separate house during the rest of his life. In the year that he died Isaiah saw a greater King, whom no defilement can ever touch, a King that reigneth and lives for ever,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Above it stood the seraphims: each on had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. There are the spirits that dwell in the presence of God, nearest to him, and as he is a consuming fire they come to be like him, for the seraphims are burning ones, consumers, burning and shining...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And one cried upon another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. And if even the voice of a seraph moved the very foundations of the temple, what will the voice of God do when he shall speak once...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. There was, indeed, enough to make him say, “Woe is me!” A sinful preacher, an imperfect preacher, among a sinful and imperfect people, he felt as if the society in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. The live coal from off the altar does not represent the holy flame which burns in the prophet’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Here we have the Divine Trinity in Unity. “Whom shall I send?” There is Unity. “Who will go for us?” There is the Trinity. God is seeking a messenger to deliver his message to men. Isa_6:8. Then said I, — Stammering it out with the blistered lip, — Isa_6:8. Here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also I heard the voice of the lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, send me. Observe the unity and the plurality, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Upon what theory, but that of the doctrine of the Trinity can we explain so singular a change from the singular to the plural “Whom shall I send,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. That was no gospel ministry; it was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. What a ministry, dark with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the Cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. This was a heavy task. for the prophet; he had no tidings of God’s relenting, no tokens of divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. So it happened, as you know, the people were carried away captive; they still refused, they would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But yet — “ You never get this deep bass note of divine justice without having a “but yet” to accompany it. Isa_6:13. In it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. When the oak sheds all its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. And, therefore, the Jewish nation is not destroyed, but still exists, and the Church of God is not destroyed, despite all that happens to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, Shear-jashub was but a child; and why Isaiah was to take his son with him does not appear, except that his name signifies, “The remnant shall return,” and it was part of the prophet’s message that the remnant, the people who had been carried away captive,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And say unto him, The prophet is told the word he is to speak as well as the place where he is to deliver the message. Isaiah knew that he was soon to go and deal with men of hard, heart and deaf car. The other day we read the sixth chapter of this prophecy; and we noted the hard task that Isaiah had to perform. Now he is beginning his work with...