A seed shall serve him. 27. The devil. 6. The rarest harmonies of music are nothing unless they are sincerely consecrated to God by hearts sanctified by the Spirit. The skin parched by the scorching sun till midday would be unable to supply or to imbibe any moisture. It was after his crucifixion, and during the hours that he hung upon the cross, that his sufferings in this way—the torment of beholding and hearing the scorn and mockery which was made of the truth of his person and doctrine—exceedingly abounded, and in such and so many kinds of mockery and insult that some consider this to have been the chiefest pain and sorrow which he endured in his most sacred passion. "Thou:" I can understand why traitorous Judas and timid Peter should be gone, but thou, my God, my faithful friend, how canst thou leave me? The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: thus the Jewish people were unchurched, and that which called itself an assembly of the righteous is justly for its sins marked upon the forehead as an assembly of the wicked. 6-18. 1300 A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD’S-DAY MORNING, JUNE 18TH, 1876, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. 21. In our Lord's case none either could or would help him, it was needful that he should tread the winepress alone; yet was it a sore aggravation to find that all his disciples had forsaken him, and lover and friend were put far from him. This is a plain and simple process. The words may set forth Jesus as having wrestled with Death until he rolled into the dust with his antagonist. Alexander Wedderburn, 1701. Ver. An humble man has lower thoughts of himself than others can have of him; David, though a king, yet looked upon himself as "a worm:" "I am a worm, and no man." We know that the greatest and most intolerable pain that the body can endure, is that arising from a bone out of its place, or dislocated joint. John Stevenson. Ver. Ver. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. May we by living faith be enabled to see our salvation finished by the death of Jesus! The loss of blood at the hands and feet would hasten the desiccation. From "The Psalter of David in English, truly translated out of Latyn, "in "Devout Psalms, "etc., by E. Whitchurche, 1547. It is evidently his grand consolation that Jehovah will be known throughout all places of his dominion. Posterity shall perpetuate the worship of the Most High. 1. They pierced my hands and my feet. Because he was forsaken for a time you shall not be forsaken for ever. 1–21). 12. a worm! None can keep alive his own soul. Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. Here we have the "hind of the morning" of whom the psalm so plaintively sings, hunted by bloodhounds, all thirsting to devour him. Like them, the Jews, in that good land, "waxed fat and kicked", grew proud, and rebelled; forsook God "that made them, and lightly esteemed the rock of their salvation." We need have no fear for the true apostolic succession; that is safe enough. O that this saying was engraved upon all your foreheads, and upon all your hearts! Though it be small, compared with all the produce of his harvest, yet he prizes it very highly and estimates it by the value of that crop which it may yield in the succeeding autumn. Ps 38:9 33:3 Job 3:24. My darling had better be rendered "my lonely, or solitary one." Among his works are The Saint and his Saviour (1857), Commenting and Commentaries (1876) and numerous volumes of sermons (translated into many languages).-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-Please watch: \"A Call to Separation - A. W. Pink Christian Audio Books / Don't be Unequally Yoked / Be Ye Separate\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDg7u21cKY-~-~~-~~~-~~-~- For the dear Son of God, the Well-beloved, with whom the Father is always pleased, to be forsaken of his God, was indeed grief unfathomable. Ver. There are two "fors, "as though faith gave a double knock at mercy's gate; that is a powerful prayer which is full of holy reasons and thoughtful arguments. Dryness and a horrible clamminess tormented his mouth, so that he could scarcely speak. I will pay my vows before them that fear him. Ver. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? When Christ complains of having been forsaken by God, we are not to understand that he was forsaken by the First Person, or that there was a dissolution of the hypostatic union, or that he lost the favour and friendship of the Father; but he signifies to us that God permitted his human nature to undergo those dreadful torments, and to suffer an ignominious death, from which he could, if he chose, most easily deliver him. Dogs have compassed me. 4-6. They punned upon his prayers, they made matter for laughter of his sufferings, and set him utterly at nought. They shall praise the Lord that seek him. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul." They shoot out the lip. 14. 18. 16. All they that see me laugh me to scorn, etc. 4. 3. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise. Who will save me from the horn of the "Kandam?" This Sun was under a doleful eclipse, this living Lord was pleased to die, and in his death was under the frowns of an angry God. Conversion work has been individual; God has gathered sinners one by one. Having experienced deliverance in the past from great enemies, who were strong as the unicorns, the Redeemer utters his last cry for rescue from death, which is fierce and mighty as the lion. Ver. Must mockery and scorn be added? It is as if he had said, "It matters not what I endure. 7. Ver. 2-3. A saint's troubles, his arguments in prayer. The repetition is expressive of fervent desire—"My God", in an especial sense, as in his words after the resurrection to Mary Magdalene, "I ascend unto my God, and your God; " "My God", not as the Son of God only, but in that nature which he hath assumed, as the beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased; who is loved of the Father and who loveth the Father more than the whole universe. 2 Samuel 14:14. 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