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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no Saviour beside me. I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. The Israelites drew near to God when they wanted bread and water in the wilderness. God says, “I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought;” and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. Now here is the wickedness of idolatry, that we have so good a God, and yet must needs look after another. Here is the sin of trusting to an arm of flesh, that we have an almighty arm to lean upon, and instead of doing so we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Look back upon days of your trouble, when God was very near to you; do you not remember when he was everything to you? When you were poor, when you were sick, when you were despised, God did know you then; yet now you sing,- “What peaceful hours I once enjoyed, How sweet their memory...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. What a terrible verse this is! After they had been filled, they turned away from the God that filled them. When they were poor and despised, then he was all to them; but afterwards, when by his providence they grew rich...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. For God is jealous, and most jealous of those whom he loves best. He cannot endure that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. “You have gone away from me, but I will bring you back again. You have destroyed yourself by your sin, but I will restore you to my favor by my grace. You may look within yourself for causes of repentance, but you must not look to yourself for the means of restoration; you must look to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me thine help. I will be thy king: If thou hast shifted me from the throne, and set up a usurper, I will come and be thy King even now.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? To whom else canst thou look? Where else canst thou find peace? Hos_13:10. And thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? What is the good of them? Have they not all turned out to be a delusion?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. How sadly true this is! Sin seems to be bound up in our very nature. It is hard to find it; it is hidden away; and when we discover some of it, and it is purged away, there is still more to be found. As hidden treasure may lie in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; Oh, what great promises we get driven, like piles, into the marshes of our sin, to make a foundation for God’s grace! Here, when the Lord says that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. Lord, work this quickening in thy people tonight, and let us live in the fullness of thy divine love, and so anticipate the day when our bodies also shall be raised by thy glorious power!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Fallen into sorrow, fallen into shame, fallen into spiritual poverty, fallen into weakness of faith, fallen almost to destruction, though thou art Israel, and God loves thee, yet “thou hast fallen by thine iniquity;” and the only possible way in which thou canst obtain...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Come back, poor wanderer! My brother or my sister, if your heart has grown cold toward your Lord and Master, return to him this very hour. This message comes from God himself, through his servant the prophet, “O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have backslidden, thou hast not lost thy right to claim him as thy God, for he is thine eternally by a fixed entail; and because he is still thy God, let his everlasting kindness entice thee to come back to him.” Hos_14:1. For thou hast fallen...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord, hear these tender pleading words, and then yield to him who utters them. God speaks, not to condemn, but to comfort. He would fain allure you back to him with his gracious words of love: “O Israel, return unto the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by going back to the place where we lost it: “Return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.” Then, to help us return, God, through his servant, actually makes a prayer for us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him,— He puts the words into our mouths; for he knows that, sometimes, we feel as if we cannot give proper expression to our repentance. We feel it, but we cannot utter it; so he puts the very form of the confession into his children’s mouths: “Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. As if he feared that we could not find suitable words to speak to him, he puts the right words into our mouths. Our Heavenly Father is so anxious to bring back his children when they wander from him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him,- See, he puts the words into your mouth; as if he felt persuaded that you would say, “Lord, I cannot pray an acceptable prayer,” he makes one for you, so that you, who have backslidden the most, and have gone the farthest astray, may have no excuse: “Turn to the Lord: say unto him,” —...