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mhcc@Genesis:1:14-19 @ Verse 14-19 -...were written, not to gratify curiosity,...

mhcc@Genesis:2:8-14 @ Verse 8-14 -...we seek things to gratify pride...1. There was the tree of life in the midst of the garden. Of this man might eat and live. Christ is now to us the Tree of life, Revelation strkjv@2:7. strkjv@22:2. and the Bread of life, John strkjv@6:48,51. 2. There was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so called because there was a positive revelation of the will of God about this tree, so that by it man might know moral good and evil. What is good? It is good not to eat of this tree. What is evil? It is evil to eat of this tree. In these two trees God set before Adam good and evil, the blessing and the curse.

mhcc@Genesis:3:16-19 @ Verse 16-19 -...she had sought to gratify the...1. His habitation is cursed. God gave the earth to the children of men, to be a comfortable dwelling; but it is now cursed for man's sin. Yet Adam is not himself cursed, as the serpent was, but only the ground for his sake. 2. His employments and enjoyments are imbittered to him. Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. Yet man is not sentenced to eat dust as the serpent, only to eat the herb of the field. 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:6:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...of his soul to gratify his...

mhcc@Genesis:8:4-12 @ Verse 4-12 -...would serve only to gratify curiosity;...116:7. And as Noah put forth his hand, and took the dove, and pulled her to him, into the ark, so Christ will save, and help, and welcome those that flee to him for rest.

mhcc@Exodus:20:12-17 @ Verse 12-17 - The laws of the SECOND table, that is, the last six of the ten commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great commandment, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, Luke strkjv@10:27. Godliness and honesty must go together. The fifth commandment concerns the duties we owe to our relations. Honour thy father and thy mother, includes esteem of them, shown in our conduct; obedience to their lawful commands; come when they call you, go where they send you, do what they bid you, refrain from what they forbid you; and this, as children, cheerfully, and from a principle of love. Also submission to their counsels and corrections. Endeavouring, in every thing, to comfort parents, and to make their old age easy; maintaining them if they need support, which our Saviour makes to be particularly intended in this commandment, Matthew strkjv@15:4-6. Careful observers have noted a peculiar blessing in temporal things on obedient, and the reverse on disobedient children. The sixth commandment requires that we regard the life and the safety of others as we do our own. Magistrates and their officers, and witnesses testifying the truth, do not break this command. Self-defence is lawful; but much which is not deemed murder by the laws of man, is such before God. Furious passions, stirred up by anger or by drunkenness, are no excuse: more guilty is murder in duels, which is a horrible effect of a haughty, revengeful spirit. All fighting, whether for wages, for renown, or out of anger and malice, breaks this command, and the bloodshed therein is murder. To tempt men to vice and crimes which shorten life, may be included. Misconduct, such as may break the heart, or shorten the lives of parents, wives, or other relatives, is a breach of this command. This command forbids all envy, malice, hatred, or anger, all provoking or insulting language. The destruction of our own lives is here forbidden. This commandment requires a spirit of kindness, longsuffering, and forgiveness. The seventh commandment concerns chastity. We should be as much afraid of that which defiles the body, as of that which destroys it. Whatever tends to pollute the imagination, or to raise the passions, falls under this law, as impure pictures, books, conversation, or any other like matters. The eighth commandment is the law of love as it respects the property of others. The portion of worldly things allotted us, as far as it is obtained in an honest way, is the bread which God hath given us; for that we ought to be thankful, to be contented with it, and, in the use of lawful means, to trust Providence for the future. Imposing upon the ignorance, easiness, or necessity of others, and many other things, break God's law, though scarcely blamed in society. Plunderers of kingdoms though above human justice, will be included in this sentence. Defrauding the public, contracting debts without prospect of paying them, or evading payment of just debts, extravagance, all living upon charity when not needful, all squeezing the poor in their wages; these, and such things, break this command; which requires industry, frugality, and content, and to do to others, about worldly property, as we would they should do to us. The ninth commandment concerns our own and our neighbour's good name. This forbids speaking falsely on any matter, lying, equivocating, and any way devising or designing to deceive our neighbour. Speaking unjustly against our neighbour, to hurt his reputation. Bearing false witness against him, or in common conversation slandering, backbiting, and tale-...of having what will gratify ourselves....

mhcc@Numbers:6:1-21 @ Verse 1-21 -...to God, must not gratify the...-minded, and devoted to God's service, and desirous to be an example all around us.

mhcc@Numbers:22:15-21 @ Verse 15-21 -...low they stoop, to gratify their...

mhcc@Judges:13:15-23 @ Verse 15-23 -...what he asked to gratify his...9:12. In Manoah's reflections there is great fear; We shall surely die. In his wife's reflection there is great faith. As a help meet for him, she encouraged him. Let believers who have had communion with God in the word and prayer, to whom he has graciously manifested himself, and who have had reason to think God has accepted their works, take encouragement from thence in a cloudy and dark day. God would not have done what he has done for my soul, if he had designed to forsake me, and leave me to perish at last; for his work is perfect. Learn to reason as Manoah's wife; If God designed me to perish under his wrath, he would not give me tokens of his favour.

mhcc@2Samuel:21:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...It was not to gratify any...-mercies for some years past, and to obtain his favour in the present harvest. In vain do we expect mercy from God, unless we do justice upon our sins. Executions must not be thought cruel, which are for the public welfare.

mhcc@1Kings:9:10-14 @ Verse 10-14 -...them. If Solomon would gratify him,...

mhcc@1Kings:11:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...even when opportunities to gratify them...

mhcc@Job:36:15-23 @ Verse 15-23 -...having chosen rather to gratify his...

mhcc@Psalms:37:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 - When we look abroad we see the world full of evil-...has not promised to gratify the...

mhcc@Isaiah:5:8-23 @ Verse 8-23 -...who exert themselves to gratify their...-denying duties. Also, how light soever men make of drunkenness, it is a sin which lays open to the wrath and curse of God. Their judges perverted justice. Every sin needs some other to conceal it.

mhcc@Isaiah:10:5-19 @ Verse 5-19 -...No; he designs to gratify his...-bearer fainteth, and those who follow are put to confusion. Who is able to stand before this great and holy Lord God?

mhcc@Isaiah:28:1-4 @ Verse 1-4 -...and all merely to gratify a...

mhcc@Jeremiah:49:28-33 @ Verse 28-33 -...will do this to gratify his...

mhcc@Micah:1:8-16 @ Verse 8-16 - The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as mourners used to do; let every house in Jerusalem become a house of Aphrah, "a house of dust." When God makes the house dust it becomes us to humble ourselves to the dust under his mighty hand. Many places should share this mourning. The names have meanings which pointed out the miseries coming upon them; thereby to awaken the people to a holy fear of Divine wrath. All refuges but Christ, must be refuges of lies to those who trust in them; other heirs will succeed to every inheritance but that of heaven; and all glory will be turned into shame, except that honour which cometh from God only. Sinners may now disregard their neighbours' sufferings, yet their turn to be punished will some come. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:16:1-4 @ Verse 1-4 -...something else which would gratify the...

mhcc@Mark:10:32-45 @ Verse 32-45 -...world. If Jesus would gratify all...

mhcc@Luke:12:13-21 @ Verse 13-21 -...indulge the flesh and gratify the...

mhcc@Luke:13:23-30 @ Verse 23-30 -...men's consciences, not to gratify their...

mhcc@Luke:23:6-12 @ Verse 6-12 -...a miracle only to gratify his...

mhcc@John:19:19-30 @ Verse 19-30 -...before. Pilate would not gratify the...

mhcc@Acts:21:8-18 @ Verse 8-18 -...which he could not gratify them...

mhcc@Acts:21:19-26 @ Verse 19-26 -...Jerusalem, asked Paul to gratify the...-wise God overruled both their advice and Paul's compliance with it, to serve a better purpose than was intended. It was in vain to think of pleasing men who would be pleased with nothing but the rooting out of Christianity. Integrity and uprightness will be more likely to preserve us than insincere compliances. And it should warn us not to press men to doing what is contrary to their own judgment to oblige us.

mhcc@Acts:25:13-27 @ Verse 13-27 -...they only meant to gratify their...-day; to have nothing certain laid to our charge. And God makes even the enemies of his people to do them right. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@2Timothy:3:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...within. Men love to gratify their...

mhcc@Hebrews:12:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...may chasten us, to gratify their...

mhcc@2Peter:2:10-16 @ Verse 10-16 -...who are bold to gratify their...

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