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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? It was a spiritual worship that the Lord required; not externals, not outward gifts, but the heart. If thou wilt bring an offering, bring thyself; there is no other gift that the Lord so much...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD’S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. God’s voice to his people is often uttered by means of their affliction Hear ye the rod.” He wishes us to understand that judgments and calamities are his voice crying to the city. Oh, that we were men of wisdom, that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Here he comes to practical details. In Micah’s day, men had grown rich by oppression, by a want of justice; they had wronged their fellow men, and God asked them whether they expected to be pleasing to him when their houses were full of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. They were, I suppose, very much what Orientals are still; you cannot trade with them without having need of more than two...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. They lied, and they cheated; so God would give them a sorry tongue, betokening their ill-health. He would make their present distress to get worse and worse, till they should be sick through their wounds.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; The satisfaction that comes to us through eating is of his mercy, and when he wills, he can say, “Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied.” Mic_6:14. And thy casting down shall he in the midst of thee; “Thou shalt feel an inward sinking; even when thou hast eaten, thou shalt be faint, as a man who has eaten...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. God can let men have every form of outward prosperity, and yet make nothing of it. I fear that some, perhaps some present, have every outward religious blessing; yet nothing comes of it. You hear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the statutes of Omri are kept, They would not keep the statutes of God; but they could keep the foul statutes of Omri, which appear to have been specially objectionable to God. Mic_6:16. And all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; He was an arch rebel against God. Remember his murder of Naboth to get his vineyard;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit. It is a terrible thing for a good man to find good men growing very scarce, and to see wicked men becoming more wicked than ever. It makes him feel his loneliness very keenly, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. Those were sad times in which Micah lived; and yet, under some aspects, one might be willing and even glad to live in such times, for, if ever one could be useful to one’s fellows, surely it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, I wish the professed followers of Christ did good with both hands, that is, with every faculty, with every capacity, in every way, and at every opportunity, just as wicked men “do evil with both hands earnestly.” Mic_7:3. The prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Sin brings sorrow in its train; and, as nations will have no future as nations, God deals with national sin here upon earth, and visits it with national punishments. Now that sin had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. So saturated with dishonesty had the nation become that the evil had penetrated even into domestic life, so that, where all should have been in a state of mutual happy confidence, the prophet felt bound to tell them that each...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. And this is true in a measure still, for, without the fear of God, you will find that even the nearest and dearest relationships will not keep the unconverted from being the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I will look unto the LORD;- There was nowhere else for the prophet to look. According to what he tells us, all men had become false; “therefore,” says he, “I will look unto Jehovah;”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. And this is all the light that God’s people need. Even if it be the darkness of a black Egyptian night into which our spirit has fallen, yet, if God shall but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Listen to this testimony of the prophet, tried child of God; even when in your own household you find enemies, put your trust in God, for he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. This verse relates to the nation which, at that time, was oppressing Israel She should have her turn of suffering for she should be crushed beneath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. This is what was to befall those who had sinned against God, and oppressed his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. That is a wonderful expression, “the fruit of their doings.” All doings bear fruit of one kind or another, and sinful doings bear bitter and deadly fruit. Woe to the man who is made to eat the fruit of his own doings! That which men eat on...