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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Repentance is not the root of grace, but the lily-like flower of it. It is not a thing for the early morning of Christian life alone. Repentance will go side by side with faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe ourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations, 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 was nothing for them to boast of in...
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...
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...
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...
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.”
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, God’s servants learn nothing until they have an experience similar to that of Ezekiel. They must be led by the Spirit of the Lord, and they must have their eyes and mouths opened by him, and then they can both see the vision, and tell the vision to others. Eze_37:1....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And caused me to pass by them round about: He had to make a thorough survey of this grim and ghastly charnel -house. Eze_37:2. And, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. They had lain there so long that the wind had dried up the juices of the marrow-bones, and they were turned to dust.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? God did not ask this question for his own information, but for the prophet’s. The Lord wanted him to realize the difficulties of the work to which he was called that he might be driven the more completely to rely upon God, and not upon himself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. We have heard of a Romanist who had, as a penance from his priest, to go and water a dry stick. Ezekiel’s task of preaching to dry bones seemed to be as useless as that; yet, if God bids us do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. He had to tell these bones the unconditional purposes and promises of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, A rustle, — Eze_37:7. And behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. Here was divine power bringing the bones to their proper position in the various bodies, and forging the separated anatomy to re-form itself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. So there was no very great improvement so far; there were only dead bodies instead of dry bones; there was something more to look at, but nothing more agreeable, and really no more of life than there was before.