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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, This is growing sideways; so the believer spreads his branches by public profession and testimony after having become deeply rooted in the faith and having grown up in love to God, then he begins to spread his shadow over the sons of men by telling- “To sinners round, What a dear Saviour he has found.” Hos_14:6. And his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, “I will endue him with usefulness and influence. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, “I will load him with fruit. He shall have the beauty that belongs to that fat and oily tree, the olive.” Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. God can make the foul, polluted sinner to become fragrant to him: “His smell...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, The dew of the Lord imparts influence to men; it gives them, as it were branches, with which they cast a wide shadow. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, The beauty of fruitfulness. God grant all of us this beauty! Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. Oh, to stand in holy repute among men, so that there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that dwell under his shadow shall return;- Your children, your friends, all those who live in your house, shall be the better for your repentance and return to God. They try you now, but when you have left off trying God, they will leave off trying you. Among a man’s own children, there are often those who remind him of his own sin against...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that dwell under his shadow shall return: His children, his servants, his congregation shall be blessed by his gracious influence. As the Upas tree droppeth with deadly poison, so the tree of grace in a Christian droppeth living drops to fall on dead souls. Hos_14:7. They shall revive as the corn, Which suddenly springs up in the East after...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; — His family, his work-people, his neighbours, who wandered from the Lord because he wandered, shall get good from his holy influence. His restoration shall be a benediction to them: “They that dwell under his shadow shall return;” — Hos_14:7. They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. When God blesses men, he also blesses those round about them. Your children, your servants, your neighbours, shall all be the better if the grace of God comes to you. So may it be!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? “I have had enough of them. They have cost me sorrow enough; they have plagued me enough. I will put them away, for I must have my God, and I cannot have him and idols too.” Hos_14:8. I have heard him and observed him: God hears the cry of the penitent, and observes what is going on in his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. The Lord give us wisdom, by his Holy Spirit, to understand and know these things, and to put our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? Let that question also go round our ranks, “What have I to do any more with idols; I, who am bought with the precious blood of Jesus; I, who am named by the name of Jesus; I, who have been baptized into the Sacred Trinity, what have I to do any more with idols?” You may make an idol of that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?” He will spontaneously purge himself from the evil things which he once loved. I shall not need to send the hammer to break his idols, but he shall say, out of the fullness of his own heart, ‘What have I to do any more with idols?’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressor shall fall therein. Yes, they shall fall even when they are in the right ways; and I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. Who is wise? and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. This...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right,- Did your murmuring spirit say that they were not right? Because you have had some sore trial, did your repining spirit say that they were not right? They are certainly right, and you shall see that it is so one day: “The ways of...