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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 55 As the two preceding chapters are prophecies of Christ and his church, this treats of his word and ordinances, and of the nature, use, and efficacy of them. It begins with an invitation of thirsty souls to them, Isaiah 55:1, an expostulation with them for taking wrong methods, and a dissuasive from them, Isaiah 55:2, which is followed with an exhortation to hear the word...
John Gill
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people,.... That is, the Messiah, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech rightly interpret it. This respects an act past in eternity, in God's eternal purposes and decrees, when he appointed Christ to the office of a Mediator; and this was an act of his grace, a free gift of his, flowing from his love to his people, both Jews and Gentiles, even all his...
Matthew Henry
As we had much of Christ in the 53rd chapter, and much of the church of Christ in the 54th chapter, so in this chapter we have much of the covenant of grace made with us in Christ. The "sure mercies of David," which are promised here (ver. 3), are applied by the apostle to the benefits which flow to us from the resurrection of Christ (Acts xiii. 34), which may serve as a key to this chapter; not...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him That is the Son of David — Jesus the Christ — “I have given him.” Isa_55:4. For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. If you want anyone to tell you what God is, Jesus Christ is the witness to the character of God. Do you want a leader to lead you back to peace and happiness — a commander by whose power you may be able to fight Satan and all the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. “I have given him;” that is, David’s greater Son, the true David, “I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, To bear witness to men of what God is. Isa_55:4. A leader and commander to the people. For Christ loves the people, and he leads them rightly. He will lead them to glory.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him— One greater than David, even the Beloved of the Lord, the Only-begotten, the Messiah Prince, the King of kings, even Jesus. Isa_55:4. For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. God did not give us an angel to lead us, but he gave us his Son; and he did not merely give us his Son to be an example, but to die for us, to bleed to death on our behalf,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Jesus Christ is the people’s Witness and Leader; born among them, living among them, dying for them, living still to save them; and God declares that he gives this Christ to such as hear him, to such as incline their ear, and come unto him.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. God’s Witness of his great love to us is his own Son. You cannot doubt God’s readiness to receive guilty men, since Christ has come in the flesh. You cannot doubt his love to sinners, since his only-begotten Son has come to be a Witness to it. Oh, for grace to range ourselves under his banner, and to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. He who is our greater David comes to us to bear witness of the immutable love of God, and to be to us our Captain and our King. Happy are the souls that accept this David to be their Leader. You remember how David, in the cave Adullam, gathered to himself “every one that was in distress, and every one that...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. He who is our greater David comes to us to bear witness to the immutable love of God, and to be to us our Captain and our King. Happy are the souls that accept this David to be their Leader. You remember how David, in the cave Adullam, gathered to himself “every one that was in distress, and every one that...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have given him That is the Son of David Jesus the Christ,” I have given him.” Isa_55:4. For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. If you want anyone to tell you what God is, Jesus Christ is the witness to the character of God. Do you want a leader to lead you back to peace and happiness — a commander by whose power you may be able to fight Satan and all the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Beheld, I have given him. for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Jesus Christ is a witness to you of his Father’s love. I do not knew how God could show his love more fully than he does in the life and death of his Son, Jesus Christ. Christ is the great witness of the Father’s love. Behold how he loves his people in that he gives his Son to die for them! Will you not...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. These words refer not only to David, but to Jesus, great David’s greater Son. The next verse is spoken specially to him, not to us, yet as we overhear it, we...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him — The Son of David, — “great David’s greater Son,” — and God’s own well beloved and only-begotten Son, even Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. God says “I have given him”—
Charles H. Spurgeon
For a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee. Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his...