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2421 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 727.6 (Matthew Henry)
… put to hard service and made to feel both want and pain, which will be more than doubly grievous to her who formerly would not venture to set so much as the sole …
2422 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 728.12 (Matthew Henry)
… he calls by name, and to whom he calls. They are his called, for they are called to him, called by his name, and called his; and therefore he will look after them, and …
2423 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.3 (Matthew Henry)
… was called to this service, and help was laid upon him; and he came at the call, for he said, Lo, I come, with an eye to what was written of him in the volume of the book …
2424 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.1 (Matthew Henry)
… whom God sends produces his commission ( Isaiah 50:4 ), alleges his own readiness to submit to all the services and sufferings he was called to in the execution …
2425 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.7 (Matthew Henry)
… is God that wakens us morning by morning. If we do any thing to purpose in his service, it is he who, as our Master, calls us up; and we should doze perpetually if he …
2426 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, so a good will to the work and service of God, is from the grace of God. 2. His obedient patience in his suffering work. I call it obedient patience because …
2427 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.2 (Matthew Henry)
… church to be made serviceable to the glory of God, and to be as his garden in which he delights. (2.) He will make them cheerful, and so give them hearts to rejoice …
2428 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their gods, which they called their portion, and took for their lot, as God’s people take him for their lot and portion. But these gods of stone would really be …
2429 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.7 (Matthew Henry)
… about to put a cheat upon God by their external services, here they go about to pick a quarrel with God for not being pleased with their services, as if he had …
2430 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s readiness to hear prayer. When God calls to us by his word it becomes us to say, Here we are; what saith our Lord unto his servants ? But that God should say …
2431 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.20 (Matthew Henry)
… must call it the Lord’s holy day, and honourable. We must call it holy, separated from common use and devoted to God and to his service, must call it the holy of …
2432 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 740.7 (Matthew Henry)
… said to minister to the church, and to come up as living sacrifices, presenting themselves to God by a reasonable service on his altar, Romans 12:1 .
2433 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 740.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , nor to gain applause to themselves for piety and devotion, but to show forth the praises of the Lord, Isaiah 60:6. Our greatest services and gifts to the church …
2434 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 741.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ordained to it: The Spirit of God is upon me, because the Lord God has anointed me. What service God called him to he furnished him for; therefore he gave him his …
2435 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 741.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s planting, Isaiah 60:21. All that Christ does for us is to make us God’s people, and some way serviceable to him as living trees, planted in the house of …
2436 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 741.14 (Matthew Henry)
… holy calling.” Priests were princes’ peers, and in Hebrew were called by the same name. You shall be the ministers of our God, as the Levites were. Note, Those whom …
2437 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.13 (Matthew Henry)
… service, and they shall not be ashamed to own both. None are to be called the redeemed of the Lord but those that are the holy people; the people of God’s purchase …
2438 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 743.21 (Matthew Henry)
… ), but God by Moses; for it was he that qualified Moses for, called him to, assisted and prospered him in that great undertaking. Moses is here called the shepherd …
2439 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 743.25 (Matthew Henry)
… never called by thy name; we are rejected and abandoned, despised and trampled upon, as if we never had been in thy service nor had thy name called upon us.” Thus …
2440 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 744.12 (Matthew Henry)
… called on God’s name, it was with a great deal of indifferency: There is none that stirs up himself to take hold of God. Note, [1.] To pray is to take hold of God, by …