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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. God remembers what he did for us when we were young; and sin against him is much aggravated by his long kindness to us. He brings this up against his rebellious people, “When Israel was a child, then I loved him.” Some of you may remember your childhood with deep regret —...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Israel was a child, When the nation was yet young, and had scarcely started on its march among the peoples of the earth: “When Israel was a child,” — Hos_11:1. Then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. God’s love does not depend upon the standard of our spiritual attainments. While we are yet children in grace, the Father’s love is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. The nation of Israel did not fulfill the promise of its youth; it was not faithful to God. The people heard from the lips of Moses the command “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:” yet they turned aside continually to the idols...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. These people only had to be called away, and away they went. There are some of that sort. You have only to beckon them anywhere. Like a dog that is whistled to, they will follow anybody’s call. They leave God for anything, for nothing....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As they called them, so they went from them; Such was the perversity of this child-nation, whom nevertheless God loved that though galled by Jehovah, he went away, and refused to obey the divine call. The Israelites in Egypt “hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage;” and, even after their great deliverance, they were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And burned incense to graven images. I taught Ephraim also to go, — This child-nation was taught by God how to walk; —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I taught Ephraim also to go, — Just as nurses teach children to walk: “I taught Ephraim also to go,” — Hos_11:3. Taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. God has done great things for many of us who, possibly, have never noticed his hand at work on our behalf. Lives which were in great peril have been saved, yet the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. God describes himself as acting like a nurse that holds a child up by its arms and teaches it its first steps. Yet they did not know what God was doing for them. God has done great things for many of us, and perhaps we have never recognized his command....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Taking them by their arms; As nurses hold up their little children when for the first time they try to stand or toddle along. Hos_11:3. But they knew not that I healed them. This was a singular thing, and it shows the great blindness of man, that he does not know his own Physician. It was so with Israel: “They knew not that I healed them.” Surely,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. As men do with the bullocks that have been ploughing, lifting the yoke from them, and giving them rest and food before they have to begin ploughing again. So did God to Israel, and so has he done to us. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. As the good husbandman, when the oxen come to the end of the field, takes off the yoke and puts on the noseband, so has God often done with us in the day of our trouble. He has unyoked us, and he has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. As men do to their cattle when they have been ploughing, and they come to the end of the day’s work, then the bit is removed, or the yoke is lifted off the shoulder, and fit fodder is provided for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. If men will sin, they shall suffer; and God’s people will be the first to suffer for their sins against the Lord, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. When men will have their own way, God sometimes lets them have their way, and that turns out to be the most unhappy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. If we try to escape from our trouble without hearing the voice of God in it we shall run into another; if, by our own plotting and scheming, we escape from Egypt, then the Assyrian shall be our king, and there is small choice between...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the word shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. That is a very striking expression, “Because of their own counsels.” It should be a solemn warning to us not to follow the devices of our own heart when we see the consequences of Israel’s walking after his own way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? There seems to be a contest in the heart of God; at least, that is how he describes it himself, as though mercy pleaded with justice, and love contended with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. There is a propensity in the human heart to go away from God — even in the hearts of God’s own people. Oh! how sad it is that, though often called to God by the voice of Providence, and by the call of his Word, yet none at all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: They seemed as if they must do it, as if their hearts were set upon it; they were “bent” upon it. Oh, that our bent and bias were towards holiness, and not towards backsliding! Hos_11:7. Though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. See how Israel puts God away, and will not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? “I cannot destroy thee, as I destroyed the guilty cities of the plain in the days of old.” Hos_11:8. Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. O backsliders, if God’s repentings are kindled, will not yours also be kindled? If you have left him, and yet he...