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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: But the poor penitent cries, “Alas, Lord, I do not know what to say. So God puts in the sinner’s mouth the very words he is to utter. Hos_14:2. Say unto him. Take away all iniquity, — That is where the mischief lies, in your iniquity, your turning aside from the path of truth and iniquity. Say to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: “What words am I to take?” asks the poor convinced sinner. “I cannot put words together.” Here are the words put into your mouth: — Hos_14:2. Say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. Come with humble confession, come with sincere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us;- When a man trusts to his God, he gets away from all other trust. Confidence in God is the death of all other confidences: “Asshur shall not save Hos_14:3. We will not ride upon horses: Which, somehow or other, were always the Israelites’ fear and trust. They always looked upon horsemen as the most powerful friends or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will me say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. If you expect the Lord to smile upon you, you must have done away with all your idols. You must put away all your false confidences, and those other sinful things in which you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; -Backslider, hast thou been putting thy trust anywhere but in God, hoping to find comfort in the world and in sin? Then make this confession: “Asshur shall not save us;” — Hos_14:3. We will not ride upon horses: These were the confidence of the Egyptians, and the Israelites vainly tried to imitate their powerful and rich...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Everlastingly turned away through the complete and satisfactory atonement of Jesus Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; — They had been accustomed to rely either upon Assyria or upon Egypt; and one of the first signs of their real repentance was that they had given up their false dependences. So, sinner, you must give up your self-righteousness, your ceremonialism, anything and everything in which you have trusted in place of trusting in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. If you come to God to be saved, you must bring no other saviour with you. What an encouragement is given to us to come to God! He calls himself the Father of the fatherless. O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding,— He can do it; he will do it, he evidently rejoices to do it. He soliloquizes with himself, as though it were a very pleasant thought to him: “I will heal their backsliding,”— Hos_14:4. I will love them freely: “Though there is nothing lovely in them, though they deserve my wrath,—though, according to their own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, — “Nobody else can do it, but I can, and I will. I will not chide them any more, I will not keep them at a distance from me as unworthy to draw near to me; but ‘I will heal their backslidings,’” — Hos_14:4. I will love them freely; — That is a grand sentence. God could not love us anyhow else, for what price could...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: — You know that, in the East the dew is a great fertilizer, even more so than it is here; When a plot of ground is all browned by the hot sun, the dew makes it green and fruitful again. So God says, “I will be as the dew unto Israel:” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: — Listen to the heavenly music: “I will.” “I will.” When God says, “I will,” you may depend upon it that he will do what he says he will. If you or I say, “I will,” it must be with the proviso, “If it is God’s will, I will do so-and- so,” but God is the almighty king whose least word is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: “Swiftly and mysteriously will I come and refresh him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel: “When they come back to me, I will refresh them,—softly, sweetly, efficaciously, abundantly, mysteriously, even as the dew refreshes the thirsty earth.” Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily,- Your souls shall suddenly spring up. As the daffodil-lily springs up almost in a night, and its golden bells speedily...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall grow as the lily, — That is, upwards, bearing his flowers as near heaven as he can; not groveling as he once did. He shall grow rapidly, as the daffodil lily does, which seems to start up, in the East, after a shower of rain, and come to maturity at once. Lord, grant that we may bring forth lilies of grace all of a sudden! May there be in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel:- The dew is God’s gift, and so is grace; the dew falls silently, yet copiously, and bedews both the leaf and the root sufficiently. “I will be as the dew unto Israel,” is a promise to the man of faith, the man of prayer, the man who can endure trial: “I will be as the dew unto Israel;” — Hos_14:5. He shall grow as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel: — “Not as first, not as tempest; but in gentle yet effectual grace, I will visit them. I will be as the dew unto Israel:” — Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily, “He shall be as beautiful and fair as the lily, though just now he was black as night.” Hos_14:5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. “He shall be as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall grow as the lily, Quickly, beautifully, — Hos_14:5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. He shall be as permanent as he is fair, like a cedar as well as like a lily.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, You shall begin to have influence upon others, and cast a shadow over them for their good. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, His soul, bedewed by grace divine, shall be beautiful as the olive tree, which has an almost indescribable loveliness all its own. Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. There shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; His children, who were led into mischief by his bad example, shall be drawn back again.