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2321 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.27 (Matthew Henry)
… of God and are forward in using their influence and interest for the advancing of any service that is to be done to him. Dr. Hammond notes hence that the kingdom …
2322 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.28 (Matthew Henry)
… for God’s favours to his church, Psalms 69:35, 69:36. For God will save Zion, the holy mountain, where his service was kept up. He will save all that are sanctified …
2323 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.15 (Matthew Henry)
… them to Christ as their God, on Christ as their altar, which sanctifies every gift. Their conversion to God is called the offering up, or sacrificing, of the Gentiles …
2324 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.1 (Matthew Henry)
… delivered to the sons of Asaph, who were called by his name, for the public service of the church. That was the most eminent family of the singers in Ezra’s time …
2325 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 554.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of service, and must set themselves with diligence and application of mind to do the work to which they are called. He does not say, “ When I shall receive the congregation …
2326 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 560.4 (Matthew Henry)
… thus to call to mind their redemption out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption wrought out for us …
2327 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.3 (Matthew Henry)
… so called both because they are great in power and might and because God is pleased to make use of their service in the government of this lower world; and magistrates …
2328 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.6 (Matthew Henry)
… wished to return to God’s tabernacles again, that there he might strengthen himself in the Lord his God for service and suffering. (2.) They are such as have a …
2329 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to be tied to this service for ever, to be more free to it, but never to go out free from it, preferring bonds to duty far before the greatest liberty to sin …
2330 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.12 (Matthew Henry)
… whom God designs for eminent services are prepared for them by exercises of this kind. [4.] His affliction was now extreme, and worse than ever. God’s terrors …
2331 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of God passed upon them, Psalms 90:7-90:11. IV. He commits himself and his people to God by prayer for divine mercy and grace, and the return of God’s favour, Psalms …
2332 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 570.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be serviceable to them, Psalms 91:11, 91:12. This is a precious promise, and speaks a great deal both of honour and comfort to the saints, nor is it ever the worse …
2333 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 571.2 (Matthew Henry)
… order to the work. 2. The proper work of the sabbath is praising God; every sabbath day must be a thanksgiving-day; and the other services of the day must be in order …
2334 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 574.6 (Matthew Henry)
… for, to his honour and service we are entirely devoted as a peculiar people, and therefore to him must be glory in the churches (whether it be in the world or no …
2335 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 575.4 (Matthew Henry)
… here called to sing unto the Lord; sing to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, when the morning stars sang together, is now, in the …
2336 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 577.4 (Matthew Henry)
… deliverance. God’s power and faithfulness, called here his right hand and his holy arm, brought relief to the Lord Jesus, in raising him from the dead, and exalting …
2337 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 578.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, which they were also bound dutifully and conscientiously to attend to, Romans 9:4. And this they are called to do in this psalm, where yet there …
2338 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 579.2 (Matthew Henry)
… answered to. But, if we take the foregoing psalm to be (as we have opened it) a call to the Jewish church to rejoice in the administration of God’s kingdom, which …
2339 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 582.17 (Matthew Henry)
… others to praise God, and here, in the close, he calls upon the angels to do it; not as if they needed any excitement of ours to praise God, they do it continually …
2340 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 583.10 (Matthew Henry)
… nature call for something to support it, and repair its daily decays? Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and is therefore called the staff of life …