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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the LORD GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. There is no man saved for his own sake: there is no man redeemed for his own sake. It is for God’s own glory’s sake. There is no motive so high, there is none so worthy of God, as the making known to all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the LORD GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. The covenant is all of grace, you see; mercy is shown to the unworthy,- not for their own sakes, but for God’s own glory’s sake. Oh, how sweet it is to have a share in this blessed covenant! Now turn to the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord God, in the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities,.... By the free and full pardon of them; by sprinkling clean water on them, the blood of Christ on their consciences; and by applying the righteousness of Christ to them for their justification; as well as by creating clean hearts in them, for their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities if will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the desolate land shall be tilled,.... The land of Judea, which lay desolate during the captivity, and which now is under the dominion of the Turks, and in a ruinous state, shall be manured and cultivated, and become fruitful, as it formerly was: or the people of the Jews, who, in a spiritual sense, are like barren and uncultivated ground;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they shall say,.... Either the neighbouring nations that lived round about the land of Israel, Ezekiel 36:36, or rather the travellers, as before, who having as they passed by observed what it had been, and now see what it is; these shall say to one another: this land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; for delight and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the Heathen that are left round about you,.... Not cut off by the judgments which came upon them, according to the prophecies in chapter twenty five and twenty six, the residue of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Tyrians; and, in the mystical sense, this may design the residue of the antichristian states not destroyed by the vials of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them;— The blessing shall come, but not without prayer for it,—not without...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel,.... Besought and prayed unto for the accomplishment of the above promises, as well as what follows: for though God has promised and will perform, yet he expects that his people will apply to him for it; it is our duty to put the Lord in mind of his promises, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. There must be the spirit of prayer and supplication poured out first. We shall see Israel restored to her land when Israel is restored to the mercy-seat; and we shall see great prosperity as a church,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will increase them with men like a flock. As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; Like the multitudes of lambs that were brought up to Jerusalem at the time of the passover, such should be the number of the chosen people once again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. Take up this promise, members of this Church, and urge it before God that he would give us not few additions, but many, very many. “I will increase them with men like a flock.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts,.... Like flocks of sheep, which were consecrated and set apart for holy uses, for sacrifices; even like the flocks of sheep, which were brought to Jerusalem to be offered in sacrifice at the three solemn festivals in the year; especially at the passover, when the Jews came from all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. And that is the great end of it all — to make men know that the I AM is — that the true and real God is still potent among the sons of men and doeth his will both here and among the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. The result of all this wondrous mercy was to be, that they were to be ashamed of their former sins, and loathe their past iniquities, and so know the Lord as to turn from their evil ways, and live unto him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; When a great number of lambs would be brought up to Jerusalem for them to keep the Passover with, a great and countless company. Oh! that such additions may be given to the Church! Eze_36:38. So shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the...