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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. The remembrance of their own deliverance out of Egyptian bondage was to make them merciful and kind to their own bondservants.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. This exposition consisted of readings from Lev_25:1-7; Lev_25:17-22, and Deu_15:1-18.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. That is the preamble, just as in legal documents there is usually some statement of the purport and intent of the indenture before the matter is proceeded with. These...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. Either there had been means of frequent renewal of their garments, or else by a miracle these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: People not used to war either, and feeble folk, yet they smote the great kings and slew mighty kings, for the Lord was with them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. This, then, was the covenant made with the nation, that God should be their God and he would prosper them: as he had done,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: This national covenant embraced all the great men, the captains, the wise men,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: that he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Neither with you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) Now you have seen how they worshipped idols; you have seen that you may avoid; you have beheld their folly that you may escape...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; For the worship of false gods is the cause of untold mischief and evil: wherever it is found it is a root that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: For there were some who so hardened themselves against God that they said, “We shall have peace: let us do what we like: let us worship these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, Not light upon him, but lie upon him, rest there and stop there.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, As a huntsman separates a stag from the herd that he may hunt it all the day, so shall God with any idolater that should come amongst his people with whom he made a covenant that day. Oh, how God hates that anything...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass” Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. All through, the song is for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of mymouth. Because men are so slow of hearing, Moses calls on the heavens and the earth to bear witness against them; and because of the sublimity of his subject, he calls upon the heavens and the earth to pay attention to it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: It is good preaching, and good hearing too, when the gospel comes like a gentle shower which saturates and soaks into the soil, and refreshes and makes it fruitful; may God the Holy Spirit make it to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. They have corrupted themselves, What a contrast there is between the incorruptible and immutable God and corruptible man! “They have corrupted...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is the rock, Immutable, eternal. Deu_32:4. His work is perfect: Sometimes very terrible and very mysterious, but his work is perfect. Deu_32:4. For all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. But as for his people, what a contrast between them and their God!