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2561 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 915.8 (Matthew Henry)
… is God’s servant, employed in his work, obedient to his will, and entirely devoted to his honour and glory. He is the branch; so he was called Isaiah 4:2; The branch …
2562 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 916.4 (Matthew Henry)
… need to be taught, and must apply to God for instruction. To him that gave us the cabinet we must apply for the key wherewith to unlock it. God will teach the meek …
2563 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 918.3 (Matthew Henry)
… obsequious to the will of God as well-managed horses are to their rider or driver. Not that God needs them or their services, but he is pleased to make use of them …
2564 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 918.5 (Matthew Henry)
… prophet to meet them. They thought to bring their present to the priest, God’s ordinary minister; but God has a prophet, an extraordinary one, ready to receive …
2565 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.7 (Matthew Henry)
… them to keep those fasts, thus to humble themselves under those humbling providences, by which God called them to weeping and mourning, thus to accommodate …
2566 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 924.11 (Matthew Henry)
… was God himself, Exodus 23:20. God will increase the gifts and abilities both of the people and princes, in proportion to the respective services for which …
2567 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.17 (Matthew Henry)
… were to live upon the altar; but they complained that they lived poorly and meanly, and that it was not worth while to attend the service of the altar for the …
2568 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.22 (Matthew Henry)
… whom God will accept, then he has no worshippers.” As if he must make the best of their service, or else he would have no service done him; and then what will he do …
2569 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.4 (Matthew Henry)
… honour to God’s servants to be employed as his messengers and to be sent on his errands. Angels have their name thence. Haggai was called the Lord’s messenger …
2570 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.8 (Matthew Henry)
… their services shall be rejected of God; he will be so far from taking any pleasure in them that he will loathe and detest them: I will spread dung in your faces …
2571 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.13 (Matthew Henry)
… strange god, trained up in the service and worship of false gods, at their disposal, as a daughter at her father’s disposal, and having a dependence upon them …
2572 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 929.13 (Matthew Henry)
… make to the calls of his word, what we say and what we think when we have heard a sermon, what answer we give to the message sent us. When God calls us to return, we …
2573 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 929.14 (Matthew Henry)
… as to rob God ? Man, who is a weak creature, and cannot contend with God’s power, will he think to rob him vi et armis—forcibly ? Man, who lies open to God’s knowledge …
2574 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 929.20 (Matthew Henry)
… be got in the service of God, thought it is a service that subjects men to labour and sorrow. They said, It is vain to serve God, or, “ He is vain that serves God, that …
2575 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.68 (Matthew Henry)
… are to be admitted to that service. (3.) They were men of business, who had been bred up to labour. Note, Diligence in an honest calling is pleasing to Christ, and no …
2576 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.30 (Matthew Henry)
… truly serviceable to others, by disposing them to peace. They are working together with Christ, who came into the world to slay all enmities, and to proclaim …
2577 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.64 (Matthew Henry)
… reconciled to him before thou offer thy gift at the altar, before thou approach solemnly to God in the gospel-services of prayer and praise, hearing the word …
2578 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.71 (Matthew Henry)
… . Hypocritical services lay up nothing in heaven ( Isaiah 58:3 ); the gain of them is gone, when the soul is called for, Job 27:8. But if we have prayed and fasted and given …
2579 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.53 (Matthew Henry)
… to own Christ for our Master, and to make addresses to him, and professions of him accordingly: in prayer to God, in discourse with men, we must call Christ …
2580 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.56 (Matthew Henry)
… , he called sinners to him ( Matthew 9:13 ), but when he shall come again in glory, he will drive sinners from him. They that would not come to him to be saved, must depart …