INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 63
"God was Israel's Saviour out of the hand of their oppressors; the Lord Jesus is ours; his name, Jesus, signifies a Saviour, for he saves his people from their sins." "He is mighty to save, able to bring about the promised redemption, whatever difficulties & oppositions may be in the way of it." "He gains the victory purely by his own strength; I have trodden the wine-press alone, v. 3." "God can help when all other helpers fail" "He undertakes the war purely out of his own zeal. It is in his anger, it is in his fury, that he treads down his enemies (v. 3)." "There is a day fixed for divine vengeance, which may be long deferred, but will come at last; & we may be content to wait for it" "Does Christ say, Surely I come quickly; let our hearts reply, Even so come; let the year of the redeemed come." "Let those that make themselves drunk with the cup of riot (& then they are in their fury) repent & reform lest God make them drunk with the cup of trembling, the cup of his fury." "...if we would count the fruits of his loving-kindness, they are more to number than the sand." "We must bless God for the mercies enjoyed by others as well as for those enjoyed by ourselves" "God does good because he is good" "...we should magnify God's goodness, & speak honourably of it" "The ungrateful rebellions of God's children against him are a vexation to his Holy Spirit." "See the folly of sinners; they willfully lose him for a friend who is the most desirable friend, & make him their enemy who is the most formidable enemy." "When the present days are dark & cloudy it is good to remember the days of old, to recollect our own & others' experiences of the divine power & goodness & make use of them, to look back upon the years of the right hand of the Most High (Psalms 77:5, 10), & remember that he is God, & changes not." "If God makes us a way, he will make it plain & level; the road he opens to his people he will lead them in." "God's people dread nothing more than his departures from them, & desire nothing more than his returns to them." "God has a zeal for his own glory, & for the comfort of his people; his name is Jealous; & he is a jealous God; & he has strength proportionable to secure his own glory & the interest of his people, in despite of all opposition." CHAPTER 64 "They desire that God would in his providence manifest himself both to them & for them. When God works some extraordinary deliverance for his people he is said to shine forth, to show himself strong" "Sooner or later God will make his name know to his adversaries & force those to tremble at his presence that would not come & worship in his presence. God's name, if it be not a stronghold for us, into which we may run & be safe, will be a strong-hold against us, out of the reach of which we cannot run & be safe. The day will come when nations shall be made to tremble at the presence of God, though they be ever so numerous & strong." "Men have not heard nor seen what God has prepared for those that wait for him." "God loves a cheerful giver, a cheerful worshipper. We must serve the Lord with gladness." "He meets his praying people with an answer of peace, while they are yet speaking." "It is well for us that our hopes of salvation are built not upon any merit or sufficiency of our own... but upon God's mercies & promises, for in those, we are sure, is continuance." "We have all by sin become not only obnoxious to God's justice, but odious to his holiness; for sin is that abominable thing which the Lord hates, & cannot endure to look upon." "Our performances, though they be ever so plausible, if we depend upon them as our righteousness & think to merit by them at God's hand, are as filthy rags - rags, & will not cover us - filthy rags, & will but defile us." "To pray is to take hold of God, by faith to take hold of the promises & the declarations God has made of his good-will to us & to plead them with him, - to take hold of him as of one who is about to depart from us, earnestly begging of him not to leave us" "Those that would take hold of God in prayer so as to prevail with him must stir up themselves to do it" "When we are under providential rebukes from God it is good to keep fast hold of our covenant-relation to him." "See what devastations sin brings upon a people" "If thus we interest God in all our concerns by devoting them to his service, & interest ourselves in all his concerns by laying them near our hearts, we may with satisfaction leave both with him, for he will perfect both." CHAPTER 65 "With what pleasure does the great God here speak of his being sought unto, & how does he glory in it" "...there is joy in heaven over great sinners who repent." "If our guide be our own thoughts, our way is not likely to be good; for every imagination of the thought of our hearts is only evil." "They forsook God's temple... for they liked not God's institutions... They forsook God's altar... They violated the laws of God" "Nothing in men is more odious & offensive to God than a proud conceit of themselves & contempt of others; for commonly those are most unholy of all that think themselves holier than any." "Good men are blessings to the places where the live; & sometimes God spares whole cities & nations for the sake of a few such in them." "God's faithful servants, however they are looked upon, are the best friends their country has; & those who serve him do therein serve their generation." "Those that seek God shall find him, & shall find him their bountiful rewarder." "It is not strange that those who will not be persuaded to choose that which is good persist in their choice & pursuit of that which is evil."
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September 2023
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