Isaiah 9:7 Sermons: Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Sermons

Christian Peace Conditional	A. Plummer, M. A.	Isaiah 9:7
Christ's Influence Ever Increasing		Isaiah 9:7
Claiming and Reckoning	F. B. Meyer, B. A.	Isaiah 9:7
He Will Do It	Sunday School Teacher.	Isaiah 9:7
The Continuity of a Kingdom Founded on Righteousness	R. Tuck	Isaiah 9:7
The Empire is Peace	F. B. Meyer B. A.	Isaiah 9:7
The Government of the Prince of Peace	R. Macculloch.	Isaiah 9:7
The Increase of His Government	E. Parsons.	Isaiah 9:7
The Missionary Work	T. Dale, M. A.	Isaiah 9:7
The Zeal of the Lord	Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.	Isaiah 9:7
Clearest Promises of Christ in Darkest Times		Isaiah 9:1-7
Fulness of Christ	W. Bridge, M. A.	Isaiah 9:1-7
Good Things in the Days of the Great Messiah	E. Erskine.	Isaiah 9:1-7
Immanuel the Light of Life		Isaiah 9:1-7
Light Out of Darkness	G. F. Pentecost, D. D.	Isaiah 9:1-7
Lux in Tenebris		Isaiah 9:1-7
Nevertheless	D. Davies.	Isaiah 9:1-7
Phases of Divine Purpose	J. Parker, D. D.	Isaiah 9:1-7
The Nativity of Our Lord	Clergyman's Magazine	Isaiah 9:1-7
The Prophecy Explained	Bishop Perowne.	Isaiah 9:1-7
The Remedy of the World's Misery	R. Watson.	Isaiah 9:1-7
Vision of Future Glory	E. Johnson	Isaiah 9:1-7
A Christmas Day Sketch	B. Preece.	Isaiah 9:6-7
A Christmas Question		Isaiah 9:6-7
A Prediction of an Ideal King	B. Blake, B. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
A Prophecy of Christ	W. Gregory.	Isaiah 9:6-7
A Son and a Brother	F. B. Meyer, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Ah! That's the Name	Gates of Imagery	Isaiah 9:6-7
All Creation At War with the Sinner	W. Anderson, LL. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
An Infant's Birth a Great Event	W. Jay.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Apparent Contradictions	B. W. Noel, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ Our Life's Ruler	F. B. Meyer, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ Presented to Mankind Sinners	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Best Counsellor	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Counsellor	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Counsellor	W. Reading, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Everlasting Father	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Kinsman of the Race	J. B. Brown, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Mighty God	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the New Life of Humanity	J. B. Brown, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Prince of Peace	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Prince of Peace	W. Reading, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Prince of Peace	The Evangelist	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Revealer of God	J. B. Brown, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Revealer of God and the Asserter of Man	A. Maclennan, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ the Universal Governor	E. Phillips.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ Wonderful in His Victories	T. De W. Talmage, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ Wonderful in the Magnetism of His Person	T. De W. Talmage, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ, the Son of God, Gifted to Sinners	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christians Bear Christ's Image	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christmas Celebrates a Personality	W. H. Murray.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ's Birthday	A. Littleton, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ's Name Above Every Name	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Christ's Name Wonderful		Isaiah 9:6-7
God's Namings	Mrs. H. W. Smith.	Isaiah 9:6-7
His Name -- the Almighty God		Isaiah 9:6-7
His Name -- the Counsellor		Isaiah 9:6-7
His Name -- the Everlasting Father		Isaiah 9:6-7
His Name -- Wonderful		Isaiah 9:6-7
Human Redemption by the Divine Man	Novalis.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Important Births	W. H. Murray.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Jesus Christ the King of All Creation	Evan Lewis, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Jesus Had Universal Connections	W. H. Murray.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Jesus Meets Universal Wants	W. H. Murray.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Jesus the Everlasting Father	J. H. Evans, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Jesus the Mighty God	J. H. Evans, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Jesus the Mighty God	J. Parker, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Messiah the Counsellor	B. W. Noel, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Messiah, the Prince of Peace	B. W. Noel, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Messiah's Name	Sir E. Strachey, Bart.	Isaiah 9:6-7
No Extravagance in Christ	J. Leckie, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Redemption from Within Humanity	J. B. Brown, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Advent of Jesus Joy Producing	Faithful Witness.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Birth of Christ	J. Saurin.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Birth of the Wonderful	B. P. Grenoble.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Child Born: the Son Given	J. Bannerman, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Child Divine	W. Birch.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Child Hezekiah -- Yet Someone Else	Sir E. Strachey, Bart.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Child Jesus	W. Jay.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Everlasting Father	F. Delitzsch.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Everlasting Father	B. Blake, B. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Everlasting Father	J. Edmond, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Good Time Coming	P. B. Meyer, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Government on Christ's Shoulder	T. Boston.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Government on Christ's Shoulder		Isaiah 9:6-7
The Government Upon Christ's Shoulder	E. Erskine.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Great Deliverer	J. Parker, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Great Deliverer	G. Innes.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Hope of Israel	D. Davies.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Incarnation	G. E. Watkins.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Joyful Quarter	Sunday Magazine	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Message of Hope	Canon H. Scott-Holland.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Messianic Prophesies	A. T. Pierson, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Nativity	A. Littleton, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Nativity of Christ	D. Wilson, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Need for the Incarnation	Bishop Beveridge.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Nurses and Titles of the Messiah	J. Ross, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Predicted Names of Christ	J. Bannerman, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Preparation of the World for Christ	J. B. Brown, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Prince of Peace	W. Anderson, LL. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Prince of Peace	C. Bradley, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Prince of Peace	Josiah Mee.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Prince of Peace not Responsible for Strife and Violence	B. W. Noel, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Prince of the Four Names	Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Prophet's Supernatural Prevision	J. Parker, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Son Given		Isaiah 9:6-7
The Way that Led to Christ	Sunday School Chronicle	Isaiah 9:6-7
The Wonderful Name	T. Kelly.	Isaiah 9:6-7
The World into Which Christ was Born	J. B. Brown, B. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Titles of Christ	E. Payson, D. D.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Unto Us	A. Maclennan, M. A.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Who was Jesus Christ	F. W. Aveling, M. A. , B. Sc.	Isaiah 9:6-7
Oracles Concerning Samaria	E. Johnson	Isaiah 9:7-10:4

Pulpit Commentary Homiletics

Oracles Concerning Samaria

Isaiah 9:7-10:4

E. Johnson

I. CONCERNING ITS INFATUATED PRIDE. (Vers. 8-12.) The word of menace is to fall like a heavy weight upon the nation, a "burden" especially to be felt by the kingdom of the ten tribes (cf. Zechariah 9:1). It has been made tributary to the Assyrians, yet imagines it will recover its former power by violence and predatory raids. In their bravado they exclaim, "Though the bricks fall down, we will build with freestone; and though sycamores are felled, we will make cedars spring up instead!" To punish this insolence, Jehovah has armed its smaller enemies against it - Syrians in the north-east, Philistines in the south-west; and severer judgments are to follow. The cup is not yet full; the avenging hand is still stretched out. The strophe gives us a picture of infatuation, leading to obstinate resistance and incurring accumulation of punishment. We may be reminded of that fine picture in Homer of Ate, the spirit of error or bewilderment, who with soft feet walks above men's heads, and who would lead all astray to their ruin ('Iliad,' 19:91, sqq.). Yet neither the nation nor the individual falls a prey to such temptations without guilt, though where the guilt begins it may be difficult to trace. The temper of insolence and bravado is a symptom of this aberration creeping on. What need have we to pray that the "eyes of our mind may be opened," that we may never have the light of discernment between the "spirit of truth and the spirit of error" put out in our bosom!

II. CONCERNING ITS OBSTINATE IMPENITENCE. The nation "turns not to him that smote it." It hears not the rod and who hath appointed it. Suffering either changes the disposition and bends the will upon new objects, or it rouses the temper to determined perseverance in the evil course. Men must know the time to retreat and turn back no less than to go forward in a given course. For, as patient continuance in well-doing is blessed with highest promises, the harshness of the impenitent heart treasures up against itself a store of wrath. In this case a visible destruction has come upon Israel. A day of battle has taken place; "hexad and tail, palm and rush," officers and privates in the army alike, have been cut off. For the leaders of Israel have proved misleaders, and their blind followers have perished. And the prophet represents Jehovah as looking sternly on, neither rejoicing in the youth of the nation, nor pitying its disasters. Suffering unrelieved by pity, woes over which Heaven frowns rather than expands with infinite smiles of hope, - such things follow impenitence and willfulness.

III. CONCERNING ITS FLAGRANT INIQUITIES. We say flagrant, and this word exactly fits the prophet's description: "Wrong burning like fire, devouring thorn and thistle, and kindling the thickets of the forest, so that they curl up in columns of smoke." Covetousness devours and ravages like a famine or a pest. Every one begins to devour his own arm in insatiate greed; that is, one tribe its brother-tribe. Not content with mutual rapacity, Manasseh against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh, the two turn against Judah. And so again and again the deep warning reverberates: "His anger is not turned away; his hand is stretched out still."

IV. CONCERNING JUDICIAL WICKEDNESS AND THE FINAL ISSUE. Here the prophet seems to turn to Judah. As one of Jehovah's noblest attributes is that of Father of the fatherless, and as justice is his delight, so nothing can more darkly designate offense against him than the spoliation of the widow and the orphan. Here, then, the climax of denunciation is reached. And the prophet has now only to hint the future judgment and overthrow. What will they do in the day of visitation? What refuge will be open? What retreat in which a false glory may be hidden? They will cringe as prisoners, and as slain they will fall Better to have the troubled heart, which nevertheless finds its refuge in God, than the reckless self-confidence which invites his anger. Poverty of spirit - against this no prophetic doom is hurled; and adversity with honesty is no real adversity, for the hand of Jehovah is here stretched out, not to smite, but to help. - J.

Biblical Illustrator

Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end.

Isaiah 9:7

The missionary work

T. Dale, M. A.

I. WHAT IS THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED AND WHOSE AGENCY SHALL ACCOMPLISH IT?

1. The missionary work is the increase of Messiah's government and peace: the proclamation of Messiah as King of kings and Lord of lords throughout the universe; the establishment of peace among men, because He hath made peace for them through the blood of His Cross.

2. "The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."

II. WHAT ARE THE INSTRUMENTS WHOM THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL EMPLOY in the accomplishment of this seemingly impossible work? They are themselves subjects of the Kingdom which they aim to extend, and adorers of the one name which they desire to exalt, believers in the Word which they combine to diffuse, holding substantially the same truths, maintaining steadfastly some fellowship with those to whom the Lord Jesus proclaimed in the days of His flesh, "Go ye," and to whom He graciously declared, "Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world."

III. WHAT IS OUR OWN DUTY AND OBLIGATION IN REFERENCE TO THIS WORK? As we are Britons, the missionary work belongs to us from our country; as we are Christians, from our profession; as we are churchmen, it appeals to us from our very prayers, for how can we implore our blessed Lord to bring home to His flock the infidel, the heretic, the beguiled Romanist, the benighted idolater, unless we are prepared, as far as in us lies, to "prepare the way of the Lord, and make in the desert a highway for our God"? But neither as Britons, nor as Christians, nor as churchmen, shall we ever learn our duty from any teacher but God's Word, or perform it through any power but that of God's Spirit. Besides, while the missionary work, being a work of faith, is therefore acceptable to God, it is also profitable to ourselves; it awakens brotherly affections, it kindles a holy zeal, it expands Christian charity, it brings us into communion with "the excellent of the earth," it cements our fellowship with each other, and with Christ; by engaging in it heart and soul, we not only apprehend the brotherhood of man, but we anticipate the brotherhood of heaven, when they shall "come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God." Nor is the missionary work profitable only to the heathen and to our own souls, but to those who dwell immediately around us. What we attempt abroad we shall never be content to leave undone at home.

(T. Dale, M. A.)

The increase of His government

E. Parsons.

I. THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT. This implies —

1. The extended diffusion of the knowledge of His Gospel.

2. The triumphs of His grace over the sin and misery of man.

3. The diffusion of the peaceful influence of the Gospel in calming the passions, and allaying the violence of unhappy men.

4. The annihilation of all that opposes His progress.

II. HOW IS THE GOVERNMENT OF CHRIST TO INCREASE? By the agency of miracles? No; the age of miracles is gone. By the distribution of the Bible, and suitable tracts, by pious individuals? Doubtless this may be the means of great usefulness. By the education of the young? We look for something more than all this. How then shall it be increased? By the instrumentality of the preached Gospel accompanied by the influences of the Holy Spirit.

III. WHERE IS THE NECESSITY OR CERTAINTY OF THIS INCREASE OF THE SAVIOUR'S GOVERNMENT?

1. In the Divine appointment.

2. In the claims of His mediatorial sacrifice (Philippians 2:8-11).

3. In the very nature of His exaltation (Ephesians 1:21, 22).

4. In the events which have taken place in the theatre of the world (Haggai 2:7).

5. In the proofs with which we are furnished of the final evangelisation of the world.

(E. Parsons.)

The government of the Prince of Peace

R. Macculloch.

I. THE VAST AMPLITUDE AND GROWING EXTENT OF THE MESSIAH'S KINGDOM.

II. THE MEANS BY WHICH THE KINGDOM IS GROWING.

(R. Macculloch.)

Christian peace conditional

A. Plummer, M. A.

"His government and peace." Note that combination. It contains a truth much needed in these times. There is no peace without government. Liberty and independence are our favourite watchwords; liberty for the community, liberty for the individual. Obedience, order, self-control, are less enthusiastically praised. Yet we cannot have the one without the other. We need no appeal to history, no a priori conjectures, to convince us of the truth, that peace and government must go hand in hand. The experience of our own times, the experience of each man's daily life, is ample to teach us that. Every newspaper we take up is full of such lessons. Every reproach of conscience tells the same.

1. Is it not so in the State? Whence comes the want of peace in our sister island? Whence come the perplexity and the insecurity which are such a stain on our civilisation, and which make statesmen well-nigh despair? Is it not because government has become impossible, while law is neutralised and defiled by the unscrupulous opposition of a rival and self-constituted power?

2. Is it not so in ourselves? Whence comes the want of peace in our own hearts? Is it not because of the want of government there; while passion, and self-indulgence, and the fashion of the world, usurp in turn the authority of conscience? What we fancy, what comes easiest to us, what other men do, these constitute our rule of life: not the dictates of conscience, not the will of God, not the example of Jesus Christ. We most of us wish for peace, as we most of us wish for heaven; but we take little means of winning either the one or the other. The cry for personal freedom, for liberty of thought and conscience, is on every lip; but we are most of us more eager to win the power of doing what we choose, than careful to choose what is best. Self-knowledge, self-control, self-renunciation — this is the only road. And while you pursue it, liberty will come unsought; for the highest liberty of all is to be free from the tyranny of self. Self-government is only another name for that service which is perfect freedom. Perfect peace is found in the absolute surrender of self to One who cannot abuse so tremendous a trust. And with this peace in your own hearts you will almost without effort, almost without knowing it, bring peace to others.

(A. Plummer, M. A.)

"He will do it

Sunday School Teacher.

Charles, King of Sweden, father of the great Gustavus Adolphus, was an ardent Protestant, and purposed for his country more good than he was able to accomplish. His son, who gave early promise of his brilliant qualities, was his father's great hope. Often when a scheme of reformation, yet impracticable, was referred to, the king would lay his hand upon the boy's head and say to the bystanders, "He will do it." So with respect to all which cannot now be accomplished, our faith should look confidently to "Great David's greater Son," in whose reign it will surely be effected.

(Sunday School Teacher.)

"The empire is peace

F. B. Meyer B. A.

Napoleon, standing amid the ambassadors of Europe, reassured the entire continent by the utterance of his New Year's motto, "The empire is peace." But with far greater truth may we apply the words to Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose rule over the soul is the synonym of peace unspeakable and full of glory. And as His government spreads further and further over the soul, with its growing area there is growing peace, until they shall both become complete to all the heights, and depths, and breadths of blessedness. Of the increase or his government, and of our peace, there is no end.

(F. B. Meyer B. A.)

Christ's influence ever increasing

Speaking on the day of Mr. Gladstone's funeral, the Rev. F.B. Meyer said: "One of the marks which distinguish Jesus Christ from every human teacher and reformer is the fact that His influence is ever increasing. The influence of Gladstone, today so great, will diminish year by year, but Jesus Christ's influence was never so great as it is now."

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this

The zeal of the Lord

Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.

"The zeal" translates our English version, but no one English word will give it. It is that mixture of hot honour and affection to which "jealousy" in its good sense comes near.

(Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.)

Claiming and reckoning

F. B. Meyer, B. A.

If we ask anything according to His will, we know that He hears us; and if we know that He hears us, we know that we have the petition that we desired of Him — not only that it will be our, but that it is our, to be used forthwith for His glory, because the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform it.

1. Are you in need of counsel? Reverently and thoughtfully claim the wisdom of the "Counsellor;" reckon that you have it, and act to the best of your judgment, believing that His wisdom is threading it with its unseen direction. And when you have acted, whatever be the results, dare to believe that you were directed to do the best thing, and never look back.

2. Are you in need of strength? Reverently and believingly claim the power of the "Mighty God," and reckon that it is yours; and go forth to any work to which He may call yon, believing that you are adequately equipped. You will not know what power you have till you begin to use it.

3. Are you in need of unchanging love and affection, in a world of incessant disappointment, in which the warmest friendships cool/ and the dearest friends die? Reverently and gladly avail yourself of the love of me "Father of the Ages," the I AM, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

4. Do you want peace? Reverently and trustfully claim His peace, who is the "Prince of Peace; and know that it is yours in the depths of your soul, though the surface of your life be still swept by storms. These are two great words — "claim" God's fulness, and "reckon" that whatever you can claim is yours, although no answering emotion assures you that it is. Dare to act in faith, stepping out in the assurance that you have what you have claimed, and doing just as you would do if you felt to have it. But this is only possible when you have put the government, where God the Father has placed it, on the shoulders of Jesus. It is there by right, but it must be also there by choice and acquiescence.

(F. B. Meyer, B. A.)

People

Aram, David, Isaiah, Jacob, Manasseh, Naphtali, Rezin, Syrians

Places

Galilee, Jordan River, Midian, Samaria

Topics

Accomplish, Age, Almighty, Armies, David, David's, Decision, Establish, Establishing, Evermore, Fixed, Forever, Forevermore, Forth, Government, Henceforth, Hosts, Increase, Increased, Judgment, Justice, Kingdom, Order, Peace, Perform, Power, Princely, Purpose, Reign, Righteousness, Rule, Seat, Strong, Support, Supporting, Throne, Uphold, Upholding, Wise, Zeal

Outline

1. What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions, by the birth and kingdom of Christ
8. The judgments upon Israel for their pride
13. For their hypocrisy
18. And for their unrepentance

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Isaiah 9:7

     1185   God, zeal of
     1351   covenant, with David
     2072   Christ, righteousness
     2215   Christ, Son of David
     2312   Christ, as king
     2345   Christ, kingdom of
     5089   David, significance
     5360   justice, God
     5426   news
     5581   throne
     7735   leaders, political
     9145   Messianic age

Isaiah 9:1-7

8370 zeal

Isaiah 9:4-7

2354 Christ, mission

Isaiah 9:6-7

     1075   God, justice of
     1443   revelation, OT
     2042   Christ, justice of
     2230   Messiah, coming of
     5366   king
     5467   promises, divine
     6641   election, responsibilities
     9140   last days

Library

May 27. "The Government Shall be Upon his Shoulder" (Isa. Ix. 6).
"The government shall be upon His shoulder" (Isa. ix. 6). You cannot make the heart restful by stopping its beating. Belladonna will do that, but that is not rest. Let the breath of life come--God's life and strength--and there will be sweet rest. Home ties and family affection will not bring it. Deliverance from trouble will not bring it. Many a tried heart has said: "If this great trouble was only gone, I should have rest." But as soon as one goes another comes. The poor, wounded deer on the mountain …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

The Kingdom and the King
'The people that walked in darkness hare seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4. For Thou hast broken the yoke of His burden, and the staff of His shoulder, the rod of His oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 5. For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Nativity
'Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 20. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Sun Rising Upon a Dark World
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon then hath the light shined. C ontrasts are suited to illustrate and strengthen the impression of each other. The happiness of those, who by faith in MESSIAH, are brought into a state of peace, liberty, and comfort, is greatly enhanced and heightened by the consideration of that previous state of misery in which they once lived, and of the greater misery to which they were justly exposed. …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1

Characters and Names of Messiah
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. S uch was the triumphant exultation of the Old Testament Church! Their noblest hopes were founded upon the promise of MESSIAH; their most sublime songs were derived from the prospect of His Advent. By faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, they considered the gracious declarations …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1

December the Twenty-Fourth Entering in at Lowly Doors
"Unto us a Child is born." --ISAIAH ix. 1-7. How gentle the coming! Who would have had sufficient daring of imagination to conceive that God Almighty would have appeared among men as a little child? We should have conceived something sensational, phenomenal, catastrophic, appalling! The most awful of the natural elements would have formed His retinue, and men would be chilled and frozen with fear. But He came as a little child. The great God "emptied Himself"; He let in the light as our eyes were …
John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

Harvest Joy
"Thou hast magnified the nation, and increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil."--Isaiah 9:3. Notice that I make a correction in the version from which I am reading. The Authorized Version has it, "Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy." This is not consistent with the connection; the Revised Version has very properly put it, "Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy." I have not …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892

His Name --Wonderful!
My dear friends, we live to-day upon the verge of that bright spot. The world has been passing through these clouds of darkness, and the light is gleaming on us now, like the glintings of the first rays of morning. We are coming to a brighter day, and "at evening time it shall be light." The clouds and darkness shall be rolled up as a mantle that God needs no longer, and he shall appear in his glory, and his people shall rejoice with him. But you must mark, that all the brightness was the result …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858

His Name --The Counsellor
We shall now enter upon the discussion of this title which is given to Christ, a title peculiar to our Redeemer; and you will see why it should be given to him and why there was a necessity for such a Counsellor. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ is a Counsellor in a three-fold sense. First, he is God's Counsellor; he sits in the cabinet council of the King of heaven; he has admittance into the privy chamber, and is the Counsellor with God. In the second place, Christ is a Counsellor in the sense which …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858

His Name --The Mighty God
The term here used for God, El, is taken from a Hebrew or root, which, as I take it, signifies strength; and perhaps a literal translation even of that title might be, "The Strong one," the strong God. But there is added to this an adjective in the Hebrew, expressive of mightiness, and the two taken together express the omnipotence of Christ, his real deity and his omnipotence, as standing first and foremost among the attributes which the prophet beheld. "The mighty God." I do not propose this morning …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859

A Christmas Question
This morning, however, the principal object of my discourse, and, indeed, the sole one, is to bring out the force of those two little words, "unto us." For you will perceive that here the full force of the passage lies. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given." The divisions of my discourse are very simple ones. First, is it so? Secondly, if it is so, what then? Thirdly, if it is not so, what then? I. In the first place, IS IT SO? Is it true that unto us a child is born, unto us a Son …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 6: 1860

The Same Text Further Explained.
For His Only-begotten Son might, ye Arians, be called Father' by His Father, yet not in the sense in which you in your error might perhaps understand it, but (while Son of the Father that begat Him) Father of the coming age' (Isa. ix. 6, LXX). For it is necessary not to leave any of your surmises open to you. Well then, He says by the prophet, A Son is born and given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Angel of Great Counsel, mighty God, Ruler, Father of the …
Athanasius—Select Works and Letters or Athanasius

Two Famous Versions of the Scriptures
[Illustration: (drop cap B) Samaritan Book of the Law] By the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, on the coast of Egypt, lies Alexandria, a busy and prosperous city of to-day. You remember the great conqueror, Alexander, and how nation after nation had been forced to submit to him, until all the then-known world owned him for its emperor? He built this city, and called it after his own name. About a hundred years before the days of Antiochus (of whom we read in our last chapter) a company of Jews …
Mildred Duff—The Bible in its Making

Two Things to be Observed in Gratuitous Justification.
1. The glory of God remains untarnished, when he alone is acknowledged to be just. This proved from Scripture. 2. Those who glory in themselves glory against God. Objection. Answer, confirmed by the authority of Paul and Peter. 3. Peace of conscience obtained by free justification only. Testimony of Solomon, of conscience itself, and the Apostle Paul, who contends that faith is made vain if righteousness come by the law. 4. The promise confirmed by faith in the mercy of Christ. This is confirmed …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Christ's Prophetic Office
'The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet,' &c. Deut 18:85. Having spoken of the person of Christ, we are next to speak of the offices of Christ. These are Prophetic, Priestly, and Regal. 'The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet.' Enunciatur hic locus de Christo. It is spoken of Christ.' There are several names given to Christ as a Prophet. He is called the Counsellor' in Isa 9:9. In uno Christo Angelus foederis completur [The Messenger of the Covenant appears in Christ alone]. …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

The Upbringing of Jewish Children
The tenderness of the bond which united Jewish parents to their children appears even in the multiplicity and pictorialness of the expressions by which the various stages of child-life are designated in the Hebrew. Besides such general words as "ben" and "bath"--"son" and "daughter"--we find no fewer than nine different terms, each depicting a fresh stage of life. The first of these simply designates the babe as the newly--"born"--the "jeled," or, in the feminine, "jaldah"--as in Exodus 2:3, 6, 8. …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life

The Disciple, -- Master, if Thou Wouldst Make a Special Manifestation of Thyself to The...
The Disciple,--Master, if Thou wouldst make a special manifestation of Thyself to the world, men would no longer doubt the existence of God and Thy own divinity, but all would believe and enter on the path of righteousness. The Master,--1. My son, the inner state of every man I know well, and to each heart in accordance with its needs I make Myself known; and for bringing men into the way of righteousness there is no better means than the manifestation of Myself. For man I became man that he might …
Sadhu Sundar Singh—At The Master's Feet

Of the Name of God
Exod. iii. 13, 14.--"And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." We are now about this question, What God is. But who can answer it? Or, if answered, who can understand it? It should astonish us in …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Humility is the Root of Charity, and Meekness the Fruit of Both. ...
Humility is the root of charity, and meekness the fruit of both. There is no solid and pure ground of love to others, except the rubbish of self-love be first cast out of the soul; and when that superfluity of naughtiness is cast out, then charity hath a solid and deep foundation: "The end of the command is charity out of a pure heart," 1 Tim. i. 5. It is only such a purified heart, cleansed from that poison and contagion of pride and self-estimation, that can send out such a sweet and wholesome …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Wesley's Hymns Reconsidered
Bernard Manning A paper read before the Cambridge University Methodist Society on February 9, 1939. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, sometime Scholar of Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, once wrote some ingenious verses {Metrical Feet: Lesson for a Boy.} to help his sons to remember the chief sorts of metre. If Coleridge had been a Methodist instead of a pilgrim from Anglicanism to Unitarianism and back again, he would have needed to do no such thing: he would have needed only to advise his boys …
Bernard L. Manning—The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers

The Lord's Prayer.
(Jerusalem. Thursday Night.) ^D John XVII. ^d 1 These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven [the action marked the turning of his thoughts from the disciples to the Father], he said, Father, the hour is come [see pp. 116, 440]; glorify thy Son, that the son may glorify thee: 2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life. [The Son here prays for his glorification, viz.: resurrection, ascension, coronation, etc., …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Peace
Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. I Pet 1:1. Having spoken of the first fruit of sanctification, assurance, I proceed to the second, viz., Peace, Peace be multiplied:' What are the several species or kinds of Peace? Peace, in Scripture, is compared to a river which parts itself into two silver streams. Isa 66:12. I. There is an external peace, and that is, (1.) (Economical, or peace in a family. (2.) Political, or peace in the state. Peace is the nurse of plenty. He maketh peace in thy borders, …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished.
(Admonition 14.) Differently to be admonished are those who fear scourges, and on that account live innocently, and those who have grown so hard in wickedness as not to be corrected even by scourges. For those who fear scourges are to be told by no means to desire temporal goods as being of great account, seeing that bad men also have them, and by no means to shun present evils as intolerable, seeing they are not ignorant how for the most part good men also are touched by them. They are to be admonished …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

Messiah's Entrance into Jerusalem
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. -- And He shall speak peace unto the heathen. T he narrowness and littleness of the mind of fallen man are sufficiently conspicuous in the idea he forms of magnificence and grandeur. The pageantry and parade of a Roman triumph, or of an eastern monarch, as described in history, exhibit him to us …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1

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