mhcc - food

mhcc@Genesis:1 @ ****** Genesis 1 ****** *** General Notes on the Book of Genesis *** Genesis is a name taken from the Greek, and signifies "the book of generation or production;" it is properly so called, as containing an account of the origin of all things. There is no other history so old. There is nothing in the most ancient book which exists that contradicts it; while many things recorded by the oldest heathen writers, or to be traced in the customs of different nations, confirm what is related in the book of Genesis. *** Outline of Genesis 1 *** God creates heaven and earth. (_1,2.) The creation of light. (_3-5.) God separates the earth from the waters, and makes it fruitful. (_6-13.) God forms the sun, moon, and stars. (_14-19.) Animals created. (_20-25.) Man created in the image of God. (_26-28.) Food appointed. (_29,30.) The work of creation ended and approved. (_31.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Genesis:2:4-7 @ Verse 4-7 -...and appointed to be food for...

mhcc@Genesis:3:16-19 @ Verse 16-19 -...our iniquity deserves. Man's food shall...3. His life also is but short; considering how full of trouble his days are, it is in favour to him that they are few. Yet death being dreadful to nature, even when life is unpleasant, that concludes the punishment. Sin brought death into the world: if Adam had not sinned, he had not died. He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it. And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! Did travailing pains come with sin? We read of the travail of Christ's soul, Isaiah strkjv@53:11. and the pains of death he was held by, are so called, Acts strkjv@2:24. Did subjection came in with sin? Christ was made under the law, Galatians strkjv@4:4. Did the curse come in with sin? Christ was made a curse for us, he died a cursed death, Galatians strkjv@3:13. Did thorns come in with sin? He was crowned with thorns for us. Did sweat come in with sin? He sweat for us, as it had been great drops of blood. Did sorrow come in with sin? He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. Did death come in with sin? He became obedient unto death. Thus is the plaster as wide as the wound. Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ.

mhcc@Genesis:3:20,21 @ Verse 20,21 -...slain, not for man's food, but...-leaves, a covering too narrow for them to wrap themselves in, Isaiah strkjv@28:20. Such are all the rags of our own righteousness. But God made them coats of skin, large, strong, durable, and fit for them: such is the righteousness of Christ; therefore put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.

mhcc@Genesis:6:22 @ Verse 22 -...saw, and to provide food for...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Genesis:9:1-3 @ Verse 1-3 -...of the animals for food fully...

mhcc@Genesis:42:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...supplied. Shall others get food for...-dying souls. There is provision in Christ; but we must come to him, and seek it from him.

mhcc@Genesis:46:28-34 @ Verse 28-34 -...it becomes us, having food and...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Exodus:16:13-21 @ Verse 13-21 -...in the wilderness, brings food yearly...

mhcc@Exodus:16:32-36 @ Verse 32-36 -...to be his people's food in...4:4. The comforts of the Spirit are hidden manna, Revelation strkjv@2:17. These come from heaven, as the manna did, and are the support and comfort of the Divine life in the soul, while we are in the wilderness of this world. Christ in the word is to be applied to the soul, and the means of grace are to be used. We must every one of us gather for ourselves, and gather in the morning of our days, the morning of our opportunities; which if we let slip, it may be too late to gather. The manna must not be hoarded up, but eaten; those who have received Christ, must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain. There was manna enough for all, enough for each, and none had too much; so in Christ there is enough, but not more than we need. But those who ate manna, hungered again, died at last, and with many of them God was not well pleased; whereas they that feed on Christ by faith, shall never hunger, and shall die no more, and with them God will be for ever well pleased. Let us seek earnestly for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to turn all our knowledge of the doctrine of Christ crucified, into the spiritual nourishment of our souls by faith and love. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Exodus:25:23-30 @ Verse 23-30 - A table was to be made of wood, overlaid with gold, to stand in the outer tabernacle, to be always furnished with the shew-...favoured with. Also the food for...

mhcc@Leviticus:24:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...light we discern the food prepared...

mhcc@Numbers:6:1-21 @ Verse 1-21 -...Nazarites might eat any food allowed...-minded, and devoted to God's service, and desirous to be an example all around us.

mhcc@Numbers:11:4-9 @ Verse 4-9 -...for them, although wholesome food and...

mhcc@Numbers:15:1-21 @ Verse 1-21 - Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and drink-...were intended as the food of...-meat was. And the intent of this law is to direct the proportions of the meat-offering and drink-offering. Natives and strangers are placed on a level in this as in other like matters. It was a happy forewarning of the calling of the Gentiles, and of their admission into the church. If the law made so little difference between Jew and Gentile, much less would the gospel, which broke down the partition-wall, and reconciled both to God.

mhcc@Deuteronomy:8:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...of God is the food of...

mhcc@Deuteronomy:29:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...God gives not only food and...

mhcc@Judges:6:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...The invaders left no food for...

mhcc@Judges:14:10-20 @ Verse 10-20 -...had got honey, for food and...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@1Kings:17:8-16 @ Verse 8-16 - Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, and some, it is likely, would have bidden him welcome to their houses; yet he is sent to honour and bless with his presence a city of Sidon, a Gentile city, and so becomes the first prophet of the Gentiles. Jezebel was Elijah's greatest enemy; yet, to show her how powerless was her malice, God will find a hiding-...of famine. To have food from...

mhcc@2Kings:4:38-44 @ Verse 38-44 -...also made a little food go...132:15. whom he feeds, he fills; and what he blesses, comes to much. Christ's feeding his hearers was a miracle far beyond this, but both teach us that those who wait upon God in the way of duty, may hope to be supplied by Divine Providence. Henry'_2__5 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Chronicles:32:24-33 @ Verse 24-33 - God left Hezekiah to himself, that, by this trial and his weakness in it, what was in his heart might be known; that he was not so perfect in grace as he thought he was. It is good for us to know ourselves, and our own weakness and sinfulness, that we may not be conceited, or self-...even those favours the food and..._2__33 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Nehemiah:13:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...things that are the food and...

mhcc@Psalms:28:6-9 @ Verse 6-9 -...his ordinances, which are food to...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:37:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 - When we look abroad we see the world full of evil-...but, Thou shalt have food convenient...

mhcc@Psalms:69:22-29 @ Verse 22-29 -...nature, are made the food and...-willed, so that they will not come in to God's righteousness, shall have their doom accordingly; they themselves decide it. Let those not expect any benefit thereby, who are not glad to be beholden to it. It is better to be poor and sorrowful, with the blessing of the Lord, than rich and jovial, and under his curse. This may be applied to Christ. He was, when on earth, a man of sorrows that had not where to lay his head; but God exalted him. Let us call upon the Lord, and though poor and sorrowful, guilty and defiled, his salvation will set us up on high.

mhcc@Psalms:74:12-17 @ Verse 12-17 -...it. This providence was food to...

mhcc@Psalms:105:8-23 @ Verse 8-23 -...of spiritual life, the food and...

mhcc@Psalms:119:17-24 @ Verse 17-24 -...word of God, as food which...

mhcc@Psalms:136:23-26 @ Verse 23-26 -...May He who giveth food to...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Proverbs:10:7. @ Verse 7. -...Pious discourse is spiritual food to...

mhcc@Proverbs:30:7-9 @ Verse 7-9 - Agur wisely prayed for a middle state, that he might be kept at a distance from temptations; he asked daily bread suited to his station, his family, and his real good. There is a remarkable similarity between this prayer and several clauses of the Lord's prayer. If we are removed from vanity and lies; if we are interested in the pardoning love of Christ, and have him for our portion; if we walk with God, then we shall have all we can ask or think, as to spiritual things. When we consider how those who have abundance are prone to abuse the gift, and what it is to suffer want, Agur's prayer will ever be found a wise one, though seldom offered. Food convenient; what is so for one, may not be so for another; but we may be sure that our heavenly Father will supply all our need, and not suffer us to want anything good for us; and why should we wish for more?

mhcc@Ecclesiastes:2:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...as to Solomon. Having food and...

mhcc@Ecclesiastes:5:18-20 @ Verse 18-20 -...of life, the only food of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:1:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...part of the summer food of...

mhcc@Isaiah:21:13-17 @ Verse 13-17 -...the want of necessary food who...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:32:9-20 @ Verse 9-20 - When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-...we make them the food of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Ezekiel:3:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...of God as the food for...

mhcc@Ezekiel:34:17-31 @ Verse 17-31 - The whole nation seemed to be the Lord's flock, yet they were very different characters; but he knew how to distinguish between them. By good pastures and deep waters, are meant the pure word of God and the dispensing of justice. The latter verses,23-...salvation, he yields spiritual food to...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jonah:3:5-10 @ Verse 5-10 -...moans for want of food remind...66:18. The work of a fast-day is not done with the day. The Ninevites hoped that God would turn from his fierce anger; and that thus their ruin would be prevented. They could not be so confident of finding mercy upon their repentance, as we may be, who have the death and merits of Christ, to which we may trust for pardon upon repentance. They dared not presume, but they did not despair. Hope of mercy is the great encouragement to repentance and reformation. Let us boldly cast ourselves down at the footstool of free grace, and God will look upon us with compassion. God sees who turn from their evil ways, and who do not. Thus he spared Nineveh. We read of no sacrifices offered to God to make atonement for sin; but a broken and a contrite heart, such as the Ninevites then had, he will not despise. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:6:25-34 @ Verse 25-34 - There is scarcely any sin against which our Lord Jesus more warns his disciples, than disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of this life. This often insnares the poor as much as the love of wealth does the rich. But there is a carefulness about temporal things which is a duty, though we must not carry these lawful cares too far. Take no thought for your life. Not about the length of it; but refer it to God to lengthen or shorten it as he pleases; our times are in his hand, and they are in a good hand. Not about the comforts of this life; but leave it to God to make it bitter or sweet as he pleases. Food and raiment God has promised, therefore we may expect them. Take no thought for the morrow, for the time to come. Be not anxious for the future, how you shall live next year, or when you are old, or what you shall leave behind you. As we must not boast of tomorrow, so we must not care for to-...to provide for us food and...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:12:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 - Being in the corn-...provision for health and food is...5:14. No law must be understood so as to contradict its own end. And as Christ is the Lord of the sabbath, it is fit the day and the work of it should be dedicated to him.

mhcc@Matthew:24:1-3 @ Verse 1-3 -...body soon will be food for...

mhcc@Mark:6:30-44 @ Verse 30-44 -...should not want bodily food. If...

mhcc@Mark:14:22-31 @ Verse 22-31 -...The Lord's supper is food for...

mhcc@Luke:11:5-13 @ Verse 5-13 -...parent is to give food to...

mhcc@Luke:14:15-24 @ Verse 15-24 -...Christ, which will be food and...

mhcc@Luke:15:11-16 @ Verse 11-16 - The parable of the prodigal son shows the nature of repentance, and the Lord's readiness to welcome and bless all who return to him. It fully sets forth the riches of gospel grace; and it has been, and will be, while the world stands, of unspeakable use to poor sinners, to direct and to encourage them in repenting and returning to God. It is bad, and the beginning of worse, when men look upon God's gifts as debts due to them. The great folly of sinners, and that which ruins them, is, being content in their life-...souls; they have neither food nor...

mhcc@also:the @...signify though we have food to...

mhcc@John:6:28-35 @ Verse 28-35 -...made to be the food of...

mhcc@John:21:1-14 @ Verse 1-14 -...only grace sufficient, but food convenient....

mhcc@Acts:20:7-12 @ Verse 7-12 -...to us, to be food and...

mhcc@Romans:7:7-13 @ Verse 7-13 - There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostle would not have known the sinfulness of his thoughts, motives, and actions, but by the law. That perfect standard showed how wrong his heart and life were, proving his sins to be more numerous than he had before thought, but it did not contain any provision of mercy or grace for his relief. He is ignorant of human nature and the perverseness of his own heart, who does not perceive in himself a readiness to fancy there is something desirable in what is out of reach. We may perceive this in our children, though self-love makes us blind to it in ourselves. The more humble and spiritual any Christian is, the more clearly will he perceive that the apostle describes the true believer, from his first convictions of sin to his greatest progress in grace, during this present imperfect state. St. Paul was once a Pharisee, ignorant of the spirituality of the law, having some correctness of character, without knowing his inward depravity. When the commandment came to his conscience by the convictions of the Holy Spirit, and he saw what it demanded, he found his sinful mind rise against it. He felt at the same time the evil of sin, his own sinful state, that he was unable to fulfil the law, and was like a criminal when condemned. But though the evil principle in the human heart produces sinful motions, and the more by taking occasion of the commandment; yet the law is holy, and the commandment holy, just, and good. It is not favourable to sin, which it pursues into the heart, and discovers and reproves in the inward motions thereof. Nothing is so good but a corrupt and vicious nature will pervert it. The same heat that softens wax, hardens clay. Food or medicine when taken wrong, may cause death, though its nature is to nourish or to heal. The law may cause death through man's depravity, but sin is the poison that brings death. Not the law, but sin discovered by the law, was made death to the apostle. The ruinous nature of sin, and the sinfulness of the human heart, are here clearly shown.

mhcc@1Corinthians:9:1-14 @ Verse 1-14 - It is not new for a minister to meet with unkind returns for good-will to a people, and diligent and successful services among them. To the cavils of some, the apostle answers, so as to set forth himself as an example of self-...souls good, should have food provided...

mhcc@1Corinthians:10:15-22 @ Verse 15-22 -...feasting with idolaters. Eating food as...

mhcc@2Corinthians:8:10-15 @ Verse 10-15 -...have no more than food and...

mhcc@2Timothy:3:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...we make them the food and...

mhcc@1Peter:3:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...two necessaries of life, food and...

mhcc@Revelation:6:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...people loathe their spiritual food, God...

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