None of these things have happened to them yet, and in the judgment of others they are less likely to happen now than ever they were, but yet they convert their suspicions into realities, and torture themselves with them though they be but fancies. You can at this very moment tell of the widow’s God; you can sing of him who strengtheneth the weak against the strong, who delivers them that are ready to perish, and makes the faint heart to sing for joy. The Ultimate Commentary On Isaiah: A Collective Wisdom On The Bible - Kindle edition by Barnes, Albert, Clarke, Adam, Henry, Matthew, Spurgeon, Charles H., Wesley, John. Come we now to the text. We have no more right to take a promise to ourselves that does not belong to us than we have to take another man’s purse from him. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. They have a little trouble factory in their houses, and they sit down and use their imaginations to meditate terror. God's care of his people. "Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation. Chapter 11. (Spurgeon) 2. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Ultimate Commentary On Isaiah: A Collective Wisdom On The Bible. This is a very natural fear, and in some respects a very proper fear. More or less we must be alone in the service of God. Commentary on Isaiah 30:27-33 (Read Isaiah 30:27-33) God curbs and restrains from doing mischief. if our God were dead we should be poor orphans indeed, but while it rings out from the precious Book, and rings in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, “Be not dismayed; for I am thy God,” we have not come to absolute poverty yet. Thou mayst come to this text, like a child to his father’s own table, and thou mayst draw from it all manner of comforts to sustain thy spirit. I know well what your state of mind is. “Ah!” saith fear as it looks within, at the heart still prone to wander, “I shall never hold on ray way.” “Ah!” saith fear as it looks at the besetting sin, “I shall be tripped up yet; I shall never persevere to the end.” Grace is there, it is true, but fear is blind to the better nature, and fixes his glance only on the body of this death. A part of the road to heaven every man must tread with no companion but his God. “Fear thou not; for I am with thee.”. (New American Commentary: Volume 15a: Isaiah 1-39. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. Happy art thou, my soul, if grace has inscribed thy name in God’s eternal book! So, too, in suffering, there is a bitterness with which no stranger can intermeddle. 4) (Isaiah 10:16-19) Judgment executed by the sovereign Lord … RVR60 VUL WLC LXX mGNT TR . Clear Advanced Options. We have something better to talk of than our own follies, we do not feel bound to turn the pulpit into a public confessional, and all experiences are not to be published abroad; but, for all that, permit me to say, that there are times with the boldest and the strongest, when they would give all they have for the very smallest evidence of grace, and count themselves happy to creep to the foot of the cross, and say, “God be merciful to me a sinner!”, Yet, I do not say this to encourage anybody in fearing, for, let me just give you the opposite side. It is better to be a broken-legged lamb in Christ’s bosom than to be the strongest ram in Satan’s flock. Is it for him that you live? And then, my brethren, if fear finds food within, it also very readily finds food without. Isaiah 9:10. O rest upon it, and you shall not be cast down! Faith it is that holds a man as the great bower anchor holds a vessel when the winds are out. 2:10. 7:3; 38:1; 39:3). Cover’d is my unrighteousness, Others vaunt their impregnable castles, placed on inaccessible rocks, and secured with gates of iron, but God is a far better refuge from distress than all these: and when the time comes to carry the war into the enemy's territories, the Lord stands his people in better stead than all the valour of legions or the boasted strength of chariot and horse. O that he were cast out, for he can never be heir with the free-born nature! Isaiah 6 – Isaiah’s Conviction, Cleansing and Call A. Mr. Ready-to-halt will never stand so firmly, or run so nimbly, as Mr. Valiant-for-truth, do what you will with him. If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayst. Christian companionship is a great comfort, but if a man becomes a leader in Israel, he becomes a lonely spirit to a certain degree. A. He can put physical strength of the most gigantic kind into an infant’s arm if he wills it. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament "Whom then would he teach knowledge? If I were in conversation with any one of you, and you should say to me, “Sir, I cannot believe you,” nothing you could say would sting me more. Whose mercy shall unshaken stay, That same hand which might have crushed, is now placed under us to bear us up in all our afflictions. It means that omnipotence will be with you to be your strength, that omniscience will be with you to be your wisdom, that immutability will be with you to be your succour, that all the attributes of God will be with you to be your treasury. For the Lord GOD of hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all t… We will confess unbelief of God without a blush, and yet nothing could make us acknowledge dishonesty to man. Here is my hope, my joy, my rest! 1. He does not say, “Fear so much, but not beyond that,” but he gives an unlimited exhortation, “Fear not.” He does not say, “Do not fear so often,” but, “Fear not.” It is an exhortation without any time to it, and therefore it applies to all times. Bible Commentaries Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible ... Verses 1-10. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. Let it lie on the palate of your soul; absorb it into your very nature. They know that they shall be bankrupt; there was a little falling off in their trade last week. Isaiah 28:10. They are God’s workmanship, created by him unto good works, Eph. Isaiah 43:10-11. Five times in this verse you get some form of the pronoun “thou,” and five times you get the pronoun “I.” Whatever there may be of you, there shall be as much of God. With the proud oppressors of his people at home, that abused their power, to pervert justice, whom he would reckon with for their tyranny (v. 1-4). Do you count it your highest honour to be called a servant of Christ? That is the hand which bears up the unpillared arch of heaven, that spans both sea and shore. . But here is another man, he says, “Well, I am in a very awkward predicament, and I must look to the main chance; I am not sure that God will be with me; I must help myself, for I am very likely to be ruined.” That man will take up with one of those dodges in business by which men raise money. But, if they did but know it, there is more presumption in unbelief than there can be in faith. I wish it were so. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. (1-2) What Isaiah saw. “Look,” said the ambassador of France to the Spanish ambassador as he took him into the French king’s treasury, “Look at my master’s gold; how rich he is!” The Spanish ambassador took his walking stick and began to thrust it down into the bags and into the money chest. That precept is absolute and unqualified, we are not to fear at all. Behold, the lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. Amen. Scripture: Adam never was afraid of his God till he had broken his commands. Be thankful, believer, that you are not alone, because the Father is with you, the Son is with you, the Holy Ghost is with you, and what does that mean? God deliver us from being strong and mighty in ourselves; but yet at the same time there are many evils connected with fearing, and every child of God should be on his guard against giving way to it. Is not unbelief a robbery of God, a treason felony against him? He says in the ninth verse, “I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away” Now you have, some of you, been professors of the Christian faith for many years. 1. Desponding people can find reason for fear where no fear is. As grace grows and increases in power, fear declines; and, when sin is cut up root and branch, then no doubt or fear will ever vex us again. A servant does not do his own will. May the Holy Spirit spread for you a table in the wilderness, and give you appetites to feed by faith upon these royal dainties, which, like the pulse that Daniel and his companions fed upon, shall make you well favoured before God and man. (10-20) The vanity and folly of idolatry. . They weave sackcloth and scrape up ashes. Now, if a professed Christian under trial acts just like a worldling, the worldly man sums it all up and says, “There is nothing in religion.” But, if in the time of difficulty, the time of affliction, the time of bereavement, the Christian man’s faith makes him happy, resigned, content with the Lord’s will, why then even the coarsest of ungodly minds see the power of grace, and it may be that they will be led to reflect, and to ask themselves, “If there be such a choice grace as this in the world, why should not I have it?” and perhaps they will come to seek and find it. Beauty for Ashes "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. shame, and sin most base, that heirs of heav’n, Why should not the child of God be afraid? Sin is the mother of the fear which hath torment. When the Lord God walked in the garden in the cool of day, and Adam heard the Almighty’s foot-fall, he hastened to commune with God as a dear child talks with a loving father. Verse 1. Surely, my brethren, we feel that, judged by the strictness of the law, we deserved to have been cast away, and yet, being under grace, we have been preserved by the Lord’s salvation even until now. To those removed from the breast? He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Salem Media Group. Lord, with such a heart as mine, And to whom make preaching intelligible? Even those who have faith in God may occasionally be weak enough to fear and be dismayed about common circumstances to which they ought to be indifferent, or over which they ought by faith to exult. 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. Still, further to help us to find out to whom this text belongs, notice that the person here described is spoken of in the eighth verse as a “servant” “Thou, Israel, art my servant,” and in the ninth verse, “And said unto thee, Thou art my servant.” Now, are you God’s servant, dear hearer? Proud member Assyria, the unintentional instrument in the hand of the LORD. Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New Testament. She loved the child with as tender a love as the father did, but she laid it down on the bed, and she said, “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” Good woman, your husband did not say anything, but he felt the difference between himself and you, and who can tell what good results will follow? They feel certain about this dreadful thing and that, and fret accordingly. right hand of my righteousness—that is, My right hand prepared in accordance with My righteousness (faithfulness to My promises) to uphold thee. The last word of the text is, “Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness” Many a child of God is afflicted with a fear that he shall one day bring dishonour upon the cross of Christ, and in an unguarded moment shall slip with his feet. God can come into you, my brother, and into you, my sister, and can make you on a blaze with glory like the bush in Horeb. It is faith that wins souls. "—Isaiah … “Be not dismayed.” He does not say, “Be not utterly dismayed;” there is no qualifying adverb, but it means, “Be not dismayed at all.” This command, then, chides fear and forbids dismay. Text Commentaries by C. H. Spurgeon Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), often known today as the Prince of Preachers, began his pastorate at London's New KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB20 NASB95. For precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there!" Isaiah 60:9-10. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. There are some in God’s family who are constitutionally weak, and will probably never outgrow that weakness till they have entered into rest. For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness. Here is a word, then, for timid, trembling workers for God. David was a very strong man, and he overthrew Goliath, but we read that on one occasion when he was in battle, “David waxed faint.” So the Lord’s mightiest heroes sometimes have their fainting fits. And my servant whom I have chosen: That great Servant of God, you know his name, even Christ Jesus the faithful and true Witness, bears better witness for God than the whole nation of the Jews, or the Lord’s chosen people in all ages, can bear. Enrich’d with all the fulness of the Lord, Gloom need not be perpetual with us. “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” Do not merely “see” that he is good as you read the text, but “taste” the text. They are a people called out by his special grace, with a gracious call which they have not been able to resist, and they have come forth and declared themselves on the Lord’s side. Oh, sin of sins! Are you no longer governed by a proud and high spirit, which cries, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him?” But do you desire to know what God’s will is, and then to do just what he bids you? Before the world’s foundation slain; When heaven and earth are fled away. Isaiah 43:10. I pray you, my brethren, tell me which of these two is the worst fault? Fear, coming in by sin and being sustained by sin, readily finds food upon which it may live. Oh! Charles Haddon Spurgeon February 18, 1866 Scripture: Isaiah 55:8-9 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 12 Man's Thoughts and God's Thoughts “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. Converts are not brought to Christ through unbelieving Christians. We used to talk of our “Iron Duke,” and there was one man in Scripture who was an Iron Prophet, and that was Elijah the Tishbite, and yet he sat down under the juniper-tree, and, I had almost said, whined out, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.” The best of men are but men at the best, and the strongest men are weak if God’s mighty hand is for awhile withdrawn. “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. It takes away the very Godhead from God, for if God be not true, he is not a God; and if he be not fit to be believed, neither is he fit to be adored, for a God whom you cannot trust you cannot worship. (10) In that day there shall be a root of Jesse . IF there should be nothing in the sermon this evening, brethren, there is enough in the text to satisfy your mouth with good things, so that your youth may be renewed like the eagle’s. To those weaned from the milk? Since Isaiah 10:1-4 connects with Isaiah 9, it is examined in the previous chapter. May the Holy Spirit reveal all the fulness of this wonderful verse to your hearts. The Ultimate Commentary On Isaiah: A Collective Wisdom On The Bible - Kindle edition by Barnes, Albert, Clarke, Adam, Henry, Matthew, Spurgeon, Charles H., Wesley, John. Is it not written, “Rejoice evermore”? Isaiah He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. thou bottomless abyss! “Oh!” said the French ambassador, “of course there is a bottom.” “Ah!” said the Spaniard, but my master’s treasury has no bottom, for he has all the mines of Mexico and Peru.” Now, what the Spaniard said boastfully we may say truthfully. Doubts and fears also breed sin. No, we talk about it, and confess it, but we do not sufficiently consider the deep heinousness of it. For me to accept the naked promise of a faithful God, and, despite my unworthiness, still to believe it true, is humility; but for me to take that promise from my father’s lip, and begin to cavil at it, and to question it, is nothing better than pride hiding its nakedness with the thinnest gauze of pretended modesty. Jeremiah knew something of the ways of these Arabs when he wrote (chapter 3:2) "In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness;" and the simile is used in Psalm 10:9, 10, for the Arabs wait and watch for their prey with the greatest eagerness and perseverance. (wpe), Isaiah 41:10. Text Commentaries by C. H. Spurgeon Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), often known today as the Prince of Preachers, began his pastorate at London's New KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB20 NASB95. He could not manage to carry his big book any further, he was dissappointed and unhappy. Trust Jesus Christ, and the promises are thine. The conviction of the prophet. Here, in threatening the ruin of Sennacherib's army, the prophet points at the final and everlasting destruction of all impenitent sinners. Prepare the way for the people: Isaiah prophetically looks … And, brethren, fear continues in good men because sin continues in them. O come to the tree of the cross, and look up to his sufferings, and rely upon him; and then, when you have sat under his shadow with great delight, may this text, which is one of the fruits of that tree, be sweet unto your taste. But the moment he had touched the fruit that was forbidden, he ran away and hid himself, and when God said, “Where art thou, Adam?” Adam came cringing and trembling, for he was afraid of God. I trust in God, and come what may, I will not pawn my reputation.” Now, whatever may come of it, that man’s character will be safe, because his faith is firm. “Mother,” said he, “is God dead?” Ah! There are some who say, “I believe that God can strengthen me personally, but I need to have those around me who will help me; I desire to see raised up in the church of God other ministers, other Christian workers; I want to have some at my side who will with equal earnestness and with greater talent contend for the truth.” Note, then, this word, “I will help thee.” I will not only give you strength to use yourselves, but I will exert my strength both in other men and in my providence to help you. My soul shall be joyful in my God; What a precious sentence — “My soul shall be joyful in my God.” Isa_61:10. He can make you so strong that you can endure anything. 1. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. Well, you know what a grand matter is God’s help. “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” Go home, and take the text with you in the hand of faith. His society is the angels’ delight, and the bliss of glorified spirits. He speaks upon the honour of an honest man, and if you say, “I cannot believe you,” and even begin to lament that you have no faith in him, the reflection is not upon yourself, but on the person whom you cannot believe. I told you once before a story I heard from a minister, but I must tell it you again. And perish at the last.”. Well, he avails himself of one of those schemes; of course he does, he who has not faith is sure to have much craft. Benson Commentary Isaiah 10:27. With faith I plunge me in this sea: Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! The poet was right when he said—, “Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself, I know it is said that some of God’s plants grow best in the shade. Nothing can weaken you so much, nothing can make you so unhappy, as to be distrusting. In that day his burden shall be taken away, &c. — The burden imposed on the Jews by the Assyrian. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening; David Guzik :: Hechos 9 – La Conversión de Saulo de Tarso; ... Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Isaiah 11 ← Back to Matthew Henry's Bio & Resources. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The crown of lite shall be.”. First, then, we are reminded of A VERY COMMON DISEASE OF GOOD MEN— FEAR AND DISMAY. But, my brethren, transfer the figure to spiritual strength. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. They feel sure that they shall die in the workhouse; it is clear they will die somewhere. Oh! “Now,” said the father, “I knew he could not do it, but as he wanted to be doing something, to please him and to do him good by encouraging his industry, I told him he might take a book and carry it up.” So away he went, and picked out one of the biggest volumes—Caryl on Job or Poli Synopsis I should think— and when he had climbed a step or two up the stairs, down he sat and began to cry. B & H Publishing Group) Oswalt adds that… it is impossible to link Isaiah 6 … Here you have angels’ food; nay, the very bread of life itself lies within these choice words. Like the swallows which come to us in the spring-time, and are gone when the summer has departed, such are our worldly friends; when our goods are gone they are gone. “Fear thou not; be not dismayed.”. Go through, Go through the gates! If the Lord has not sent them any trial, they make one for themselves. (10) A way prepared for the coming of the Lord. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Mercy, free, boundless mercy cries! It is sin, consciousness of sin, that “makes cowards of us all.” Though he who made us is a consuming fire, and we should always have a holy awe of him, yet the fear that gendereth bondage would never have come into our spirit if we had not first of all transgressed his law. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, Brothers and sisters. 10. It will not be ours because we have chosen Christ, but because he has chosen us. O love! This disease of fear came into man's heart with sin. Sure my soul’s anchor may remain: Should fret, and fume, and wear away their souls Page183. “Fear not.” Fear not at all. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Beauty for Ashes: Sermons on Isaiah (Spurgeon Through the Scriptures). These words were evidently spoken in God’s name by the prophet to God’s “chosen” ones. (Isaiah 10 Commentary) There is also a twist of irony in the questions in this passage for it is as if he is asking “When you have forsaken others in their time of need, who will you go to for help when you are in need?” And where will you leave your wealth? It was said of Jeroboam, that he sinned, and made Israel to sin, and so does unbelief. We are bound to confess, “My feet had almost gone; my steps had well-nigh slipped;” but we have been upheld even to this hour. Isaiah 28:10. They even call full assurance “presumption,” and are amazed that anybody should have confidence in God. Whatever there may be of your weakness, there shall be as much of God’s strength. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Isaiah 6 – Isaiah’s Conviction, Cleansing and Call A. Or perhaps, you are going to the States, or Canada, or Australia, and the thought in your mind now is— “I cannot bear being separated from all I love.” Now, here is this precious word for you, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee.” The Lord of Hosts is the best of company. Read the eighth verse “But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.” And again in the ninth verse: “Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee.” So, then, if you or I should meet with anything that is gracious and comfortable here it will come to us, not upon the footing of merit, but upon the ground of sovereign grace. 3) (Isaiah 10:15) Contrast between the praise due to the sovereign Lord and praise due to the tool nation. From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 16. (1-2) What Isaiah saw. But since, dear friends, you and I cannot read the secret roll of God’s electing love, we are helped to judge whether this text belongs to us by another description; for those who are here called “chosen,” are, in the ninth verse, also described as being “called.” “Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof.” God’s chosen people of old were set apart for himself, and called out from all the rest of the world, and so they are now. By his divine foresight he perceives that there are great and varied trials a little way ahead, and therefore he prepares them for the ordeal. Why, he has done it up till now. Some of my dear friends will occasionally tell me, “We have suffered from doubts, and fears, and troubles, of which you have no conception.” They suppose that their minister, and others whom they love and respect, know nothing at all experimentally about their infirmities. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. As Mary at Jesus' feet was preferred to Martha and her much serving, so must sacred reverence take the first place, and energetic service follow in due course." Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. If they had attained to perfect love it would cast out fear, for fear hath torment; but, since the flesh is still in them and the lusts thereof still strive for the mastery, even the holiest of God’s people are sometimes afflicted with the mockings of the child of the bondwoman. O my dear friend, how I desire that thou mayst yet have the promises of the covenant for thine own. There is a good woman over there who has lost her child, her only child. Now see how the man who has faith beats the devil! He takes his guidance from his master’s mouth and his master’s eye. ... (10) The travelers on the Highway of … This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Shall unsubstantial mists of earthborn care Isaiah 41, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV . The conviction of the prophet. He has created them and formed them, not only given them a being, but this being, formed them into a people, constituted their government, and incorporated them by the charter of his covenant. With childish dreams of ills which ne’er may come; It is a very strong thing to say to any man, “I cannot believe you.” Why, if there were two of the lowest men or women, fighting in a street quarrel, and one of them said to the other, “I cannot believe a word you say,” the veriest drab would feel the insult. Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New Testament. Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New Testament. We have become naked, and poor, and miserable through sin, and God, instead of driving us from his presence, comes loaded with mercy, And thus he speaks to us. To those removed from the breast? “Ah! I tell you, sirs, I would sooner you would go to heaven creeping on all fours, with never a song in your mouths, than go to hell presuming. Unless thou hold me fast, But now again I beg you to grasp this precious word, “I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness,” that is the selfsame hand which holds the stars in their place.
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