Isaiah 50:2 These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. They place before our thoughts: I. His Divine power and glory. Power is naturally calm. The power that sustains the universe is, in fact, most wonderful when, unseen, unfelt, with its Div... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 50:4 Weariness comes to man through various channels and from many sources. We have many doors in our nature, and at every one of these weariness may enter. I. There is to begin at the lowest door of all the physical one, the weariness which comes to us from bodily toil, or from toil which,... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 50:7 The happiest of gifts for a man to be born with into the world is strength of will; not that a man can by it avoid suffering and sin; but for this that suffering especially raises and heightens the strong will; that when it forsakes sin it forsakes it without a sigh. Happiness within, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 50:10 I. Consider the character of those who are visited with the experience described in the text. Two features stand prominently forth the pious mind, the godly, Christlike life. (1) The pious mind. "Who is among you that feareth the Lord?" The fear of the Lord was the sign of the godly cha... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 50:11 In this text the many fictitious sources from which men seek to derive happiness are compared to a fire kindled, and sparks struck out by way of relieving the darkness of the night. It is of course implied in the metaphor, that true happiness, the real and adequate complement of man's... [ Continue Reading ]