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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Do not abhor us for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. Now he is getting actually to praying; he cannot help himself. He is told that he must not pray, but he feels that he must; he loves the people so much that he must plead for them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain! Or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. O splendid perseverance of importunity,—strong resolve of a forbidden intercession! “Thou, O Lord our God, tellest us not to pray, but we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is written upon steel with the point of a diamond as hope to get this perversity out of the nation; it is graven upon the tablets of their heart. What is mere habit can be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. God forbade the setting up of altars. There was one altar at Jerusalem, and there were to be no more; but they selected spots where great trees had long grown, they chose the tops of the hills, and they built shrines for their idols there; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The heart- That is the principal matter, it was the heart of the nation which had gone astray from God: “The heart”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not be right, shall leave them in the midst of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, — those who profess to be sent of God to instruct the people, but who are not sent of God at all, whose labours only result in the scattering of the sheep, and destroying them, instead of gathering them to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you, the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. We are looking for that glorious King. Oh, that he would soon come! He is the great Monarch who shall absorb all other monarchies, for “he shall reign for ever and ever.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. What a glorious name for our King, who is made of God unto us “righteousness.” We may well rejoice to think that all the perfect righteousness of our great King and Lord shall belong to us, for this shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, the LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; In Jeremiah’s day there was a set of men who pretended to be prophets, yet who contradicted the Lord’s servant at every point. Jer_23:9. All my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. Jeremiah...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the land is full of adulterers, for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. It is an awful thing when wickedness abounds even in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: What an awful description of the doom of the profane prophets and priests! Slippery ways are bad enough in the light, but “their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: It was bad enough for Samaria to go astray....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: That is one mark of a false prophet, he makes you feel that you are a fine fellow, that there is something good in you: “They make you vain.” Jer_23:16. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. This is yet another mark of the false prophet. He always tries to smooth down the consequences of sin. “In the future state,” he says, “sin may occasion...