mhcc - occasions

mhcc@Genesis:12:1-3 @ Verse 1-3 - God made choice of Abram, and singled him out from among his fellow-...Sin, and all the occasions of...1. I will make of thee a great nation. When God took Abram from his own people, he promised to make him the head of another people. 2. I will bless thee. Obedient believers shall be sure to inherit the blessing. 3. I will make thy name great. The name of obedient believers shall certainly be made great. 4. Thou shalt be a blessing. Good men are the blessings of their country. 5. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. God will take care that none are losers, by any service done for his people. 6. In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Jesus Christ is the great blessing of the world, the greatest that ever the world possessed. All the true blessedness the world is now, or ever shall be possessed of, is owing to Abram and his posterity. Through them we have a Bible, a Saviour, and a gospel. They are the stock on which the Christian church is grafted.

mhcc@Genesis:26:18-25 @ Verse 18-25 -...make quarrels, and are occasions of...-sheba, God brought comforts to his soul. Those may remove with comfort who are sure of God's presence.

mhcc@Genesis:34:1-19 @ Verse 1-19 -...should carefully avoid all occasions of...

mhcc@Genesis:43:15-25 @ Verse 15-25 -...should take all fit occasions to...

mhcc@Exodus:36 @ ****** Exodus 36 ****** *** Outline of Exodus 36 *** The making of the tabernacle The liberality of the people restrained. -...lucre, and avoid all occasions and...1:23. This is the sum of the ministry of reconciliation, 2Corinthians strkjv@5:18,19. This was the design of the "tabernacle of witness," a visible testimony of the love of God to the race of men, however they were fallen from their first state. And this love was shown by Christ's taking up his abode on earth; by the Word being made flesh, John strkjv@1:14,. wherein, as the original expresses it, he did tabernacle among us. __Outline Henry'__37 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Leviticus:5:14-19 @ Verse 14-19 -...so very broad, the occasions of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Leviticus:13:18-44 @ Verse 18-44 -...strife and contention often occasions the...

mhcc@Numbers:31:13-18 @ Verse 13-18 -...us to avoid all occasions of...

mhcc@Deuteronomy:6:6-16 @ Verse 6-16 -...to use upon all occasions, to...

mhcc@Judges:10:10-18 @ Verse 10-18 -...from sin, and from occasions of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Judges:12:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...outward disadvantages. It often occasions quarrels...

mhcc@2Samuel:11:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 - Observe the occasions of David's sin; what led to it. 1. Neglect of his business. He tarried at Jerusalem. When we are out of the way of our duty, we are in temptation. 2. Love of ease: idleness gives great advantage to the tempter. 3. A wandering eye. He had not, like Job, made a covenant with his eyes, or, at this time, he had forgotten it. And observe the steps of the sin. See how the way of sin is down-hill; when men begin to do evil, they cannot soon stop. Observe the aggravations of the sin. How could David rebuke or punish that in others, of which he was conscious that he himself was guilty?

mhcc@1Kings:3:Jas @ Verse Jas -...calling, and the various occasions we...

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-...Let us shun the occasions of..._2__33 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Proverbs:23:1-3 @ Verse 1-3 - God's restraints of the appetite only say, Do thyself no harm.4,5. Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long.6-...to take all fit occasions to...10,11. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty.

mhcc@Ecclesiastes:10:16-20 @ Verse 16-20 -...though it answers the occasions of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:27:6-13 @ Verse 6-13 -...a distance from the occasions of...12,13, seem to predict the restoration of the Jews after the Babylonish captivity, and their recovery from their present dispersion. This is further applicable to the preaching of the gospel, by which sinners are gathered into the grace of God; the gospel proclaims the acceptable year of the Lord. Those gathered by the sounding of the gospel trumpet, are brought in to worship God, and added to the church; and the last trumpet will gather the saints together. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:33:15-24 @ Verse 15-24 -...believer watches against all occasions of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jeremiah:12:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...of the trials it occasions us....

mhcc@Ezekiel:32:1-16 @ Verse 1-16 -...joy, we increase the occasions of...

mhcc@Hosea:10:9-15 @ Verse 9-15 -...but there are special occasions when...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Joel:1:8-13 @ Verse 8-13 - All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed in the enjoyment, lose their joy; whereas spiritual joy then flourishes more than ever. See what perishing, uncertain things our creature-...As far as poverty occasions the...

mhcc@Matthew:18:7-14 @ Verse 7-14 -...in sin. The outward occasions of...

mhcc@Matthew:23:1-12 @ Verse 1-12 - The scribes and Pharisees explained the law of Moses, and enforced obedience to it. They are charged with hypocrisy in religion. We can only judge according to outward appearance; but God searches the heart. They made phylacteries. These were scrolls of paper or parchment, wherein were written four paragraphs of the law, to be worn on their foreheads and left arms, Exodus strkjv@13:2-10. strkjv@13:11-16. Deuteronomy strkjv@6:4-9. strkjv@11:13-...Lord Jesus takes all occasions to...

mhcc@John:6:15-21 @ Verse 15-21 -...as to become the occasions of...

mhcc@John:15:9-17 @ Verse 9-17 -...him, and take all occasions to...

mhcc@Acts:1 @ ****** Acts 1 ****** *** General Notes on the Book of Acts ***...were delivered, and the occasions on...*** Outline of Acts 1 *** Proofs of Christ's resurrection. (_1-5.) Christ's ascension. (_6-11.) The apostles unite in prayer. (_12-14.) Matthias chosen in the place of Judas. (_15-26.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Galatians:6:6-11 @ Verse 6-11 - Many excuse themselves from the work of religion, though they may make a show, and profess it. They may impose upon others, yet they deceive themselves if they think to impose upon God, who knows their hearts as well as actions; and as he cannot be deceived, so he will not be mocked. Our present time is seed time; in the other world we shall reap as we sow now. As there are two sorts of sowing, one to the flesh, and the other to the Spirit, so will the reckoning be hereafter. Those who live a carnal, sensual life, must expect no other fruit from such a course than misery and ruin. But those who, under the guidance and influences of the Holy Spirit, live a life of faith in Christ, and abound in Christian graces, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. We are all very apt to tire in duty, particularly in doing good. This we should carefully watch and guard against. Only to perseverance in well-doing is the reward promised. Here is an exhortation to all to do good in their places. We should take care to do good in our life-...lives. Especially when fresh occasions offer,...

mhcc@Colossians:3:5-11 @ Verse 5-11 - It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about them. Continual opposition must be made to all corrupt workings, and no provision made for carnal indulgences. Occasions of sin must be avoided: the lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world; and covetousness, which is idolatry; love of present good, and of outward enjoyments. It is necessary to mortify sins, because if we do not kill them, they will kill us. The gospel changes the higher as well as the lower powers of the soul, and supports the rule of right reason and conscience, over appetite and passion. There is now no difference from country, or conditions and circumstances of life. It is the duty of every one to be holy, because Christ is a Christian's All, his only Lord and Saviour, and all his hope and happiness.

mhcc@1Thessalonians:5:16-22 @ Verse 16-22 - We are to rejoice in creature-...who shuns not the occasions of...

mhcc@1Peter:1:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 - This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the electing love of the Father, the redemption of the Son, and the sanctification of the Holy Ghost; and so to give glory to one God in three Persons, into whose name they had been baptized. Hope, in the world's phrase, refers only to an uncertain good, for all worldly hopes are tottering, built upon sand, and the worldling's hopes of heaven are blind and groundless conjectures. But the hope of the sons of the living God is a living hope; not only as to its object, but as to its effect also. It enlivens and comforts in all distresses, enables to meet and get over all difficulties. Mercy is the spring of all this; yea, great mercy and manifold mercy. And this well-...things we possess into occasions and...

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