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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. God represents himself as holding a controversy within himself, “These people I must punish. These people I love. I shall have to give them up. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. And this divine turning and repenting, remember, were toward a people who did not turn to the Lord. God turned towards a people that would not turn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; — What a mercy this is for us! If the Lord had been man, he would have cast us off long ago; but, as he is God he is infinitely patient, and he loves to forgive: “I am God, and not man;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. They shall walk after the LORD: See what his almighty grace will do to make these wanderers come back to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee. and I will not enter into the city. Remember that when God entered into Sodom and saw its sin, then he destroyed it; but he determines to have pity upon Samaria, and not to enter into it lest, seeing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; Our hope lies in the fact that God is God. Sometimes, that truth is a terror to men; they are distressed at the thought of the great and holy God, yet in this truth is their only hope of salvation. The Lord says, “I will not return to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. Even his roaring like a lion will only make them tremblingly come back to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: If God can make his people follow him when he roars like a lion, how we ought to follow him. who is the Lamb of God, that takes our sins upon him! Hos_11:10. When he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. When God puts on the lion’s form, and his grave, majestic voice...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall walk after the LORD: It is a great blessing when men begin to seek the Lord whom they formerly shunned. This proves that there has been wrought in them a complete change of heart. Hos_11:10. He shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. God’s terrible voice often makes men tremble, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. This exposition consisted of readings from Hosea 11, , 14.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: They shall come on hasty wings, trembling along, to find a shelter.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: It is a dreadful thing when men go to God and, as it were, make a ring round about him, and compass him about with falsehood and with lies. Many profess to worship God when they are not worshipping at all. Their bodies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. There are still some left to serve Jehovah; there is a remnant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. And it was to the honour of Judah that it was so. When others are false, then is the time for God’s servants to be true. If you held your tongue before, speak out for truth and God in the day when God is compassed about with deceit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. A modest, humble, trembling heart is often by far the sounder heart, but when we begin to sin, and to sin boastfully, and to wrap ourselves about with the robe of self-complacency, then is death very near to us: “When Ephraim spake trembling, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, then it is that we grow: “When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel.” Hos_13:1. But when he offended in Baal, he died. It is when, like Ephraim, we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the word of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. When Jeroboam became king of the new kingdom of Israel, — in order to prevent his subjects from going to Jerusalem to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now they sin more and more, That is the usual way of sin; it is a growing evil; its course is downhill. Hos_13:2. And have made there molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. Their idolatry was such that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Those who will have gods of their own making shall have but a brief enjoyment of them. He who truly worships the everlasting God shall have an everlasting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. If they make idols their gods, they shall be like their idols. Idols are but for a day; what is there in them of endurance? What is there in them of power? “They...