INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 44
"...though we have often looked into the things of God, they will yet bear to be looked over again" "The lessons we have learned we should still repeat to ourselves. Every time we review the sacred fabric of holy things, which we have in the scriptures, we shall still find something new which we did not before take notice of." "...he sees the house filled with the glory of the Lord, which strikes an awe upon him, so that he falls prostrate at the sight, the humblest posture of adoration & the expression of a holy awe" "The more we see of the glory of God the more low we shall lie in our own eyes." "Those who are appointed to be teachers have need to be very diligent careful learners, that they may neither forget any of the things they are entrusted with nor mistake concerning them." "It is time for those that have continued long in sin to reckon it long enough, & too long, & to begin to think of taking up in time, & leaving off their evil courses." "...those who have robbed God of his honour will justly be deprived of their honour." "Those who have been faithful are honoured & established." "God will put marks of honour upon those who give proofs of their fidelity & constancy to him in shaking trying times, & will employ those in his service who have kept close to his service when others deserted it & drew back." "If we keep close to God, God will keep us close to him." "They shall teach my people the difference between the holy & the profane, between good & evil, lawful & unlawful" "Ministers must decide controversies according to the word of God" "Those who have God for their inheritance & their possession may be content with a little, & ought not to covet a great deal of the possessions & inheritances of this earth. If we have God, we have all; & therefore may well reckon that we have enough." "It is all in all to the comfort of any house to have the blessing of God upon it & to have the blessing to rest in it" CHAPTER 45 "Whatever our substance is we must honour God with it, by giving him his dues out of it." "Those that worship God together should often join in renewing their repentance for their manifold defects, & applying the blood of Christ for the pardon of them" CHAPTER 46 "Great men should, by their constant & reverent attendance on God in public worship, give a good example to their inferiors, both engaging them & encouraging them to do likewise." "Christians, who are to present themselves to God as living sacrifices, should aim & endeavour to be - blameless, & harmless, & without rebuke." "Ministers must take heed of doing any thing to bolster up ignorant people in their superstitious vanities." CHAPTER 47 "The gifts of the Spirit increase by being exercised, & grace, where it is true, is growing, like the light of the morning, which shines more & more to the perfect day." "It is good to be often searching into the things of God, & trying the depth of them, not only to look on the surface of those waters, but to go to the bottom of them as far as we can, to be often digging, often diving, into the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, as those who covet to be intimately acquainted with those things." "The grace of God makes dead sinners alive & living saints lively; every thing is made fruitful & flourishing by it." "Those that will not be watered with the grace of God, & made fruitful, shall be abandoned to their own hearts' lusts, & left for ever unfruitful." "Gospel-grace makes those persons & places which were unprofitable & good for nothing to become serviceable to God & man." "It is God that appoints the bounds of our habitation" Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 994 - 1011.
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September 2023
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