mhcc - turning

mhcc@Genesis:33:1-16 @ Verse 1-16 -...behaviour goes far towards turning away...-hearted, and open-handed. But Jacob declined Esau's offer to accompany him. It is not desirable to be too intimate with superior ungodly relations, who will expect us to join in their vanities, or at least to wink at them, though they blame, and perhaps mock at, our religion. Such will either be a snare to us, or offended with us. We shall venture the loss of all things, rather than endanger our souls, if we know their value; rather than renounce Christ, if we truly love him. And let Jacob's care and tender attention to his family and flocks remind us of the good Shepherd of our souls, who gathers the lambs with his arm, and carries them in his bosom, and gently leads those that are with young, Isaiah strkjv@40:11. As parents, teachers or pastors, we should all follow his example.

mhcc@Exodus:7:14-25 @ Verse 14-25 -...the ten plagues, the turning of...

mhcc@Numbers:13:1-20 @ Verse 1-20 -...following chapter, of the turning back...

mhcc@Numbers:14:1-4 @ Verse 1-4 -...See the folly of turning from...

mhcc@Numbers:14:11-19 @ Verse 11-19 -...nation's sin, is the turning away...

mhcc@Deuteronomy:4:24-40 @ Verse 24-40 -...seest what comes of turning from...

mhcc@1Samuel:14:24-35 @ Verse 24-35 -...graciously gives. Saul was turning aside...

mhcc@2Kings:17:7-23 @ Verse 7-23 -...far more malignant. Without turning from...

mhcc@2Chronicles:25:17-28 @ Verse 17-28 -...be dated from his turning from..._2__26 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Ezra:9:5-15 @ Verse 5-15 -...presage of ruin, than turning to...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:60:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 -...And when God is turning his...

mhcc@Song:of @ Solomon strkjv@1:7,8 Verse 7,8 - Observe the title given to Christ, O Thou whom my soul loveth. Those that do so, may come to him boldly, and may humbly plead with him. Is it with God's people a noon-time of outward troubles, inward conflicts? Christ has rest for them. Those whose souls love Jesus Christ, earnestly desire to share in the privileges of his flock. Turning aside from Christ is what gracious souls dread more than anything else. God is ready to answer prayer. Follow the track, ask for the good old way, observe the footsteps of the flock, look what has been the practice of godly people. Sit under the direction of good ministers; beside the tents of the under shepherds. Bring thy charge with thee, they shall all be welcome. It will be the earnest desire and prayer of the Christian, that God would so direct him in his worldly business, and so order his situation and employment, that he may have his Lord and Saviour always before him.

mhcc@Jeremiah:3:21-25 @ Verse 21-25 - Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The promise to those that return is, God will heal their backslidings, by his pardoning mercy, his quieting peace, and his renewing grace. They come devoting themselves to God. They come disclaiming all expectations of relief and succour from any but the Lord. Therefore they come depending upon him only. He is the Lord, and he only can save. It points out the great salvation from sin Jesus Christ wrought out for us. They come justifying God in their troubles, and judging themselves for their sins. True penitents learn to call sin shame, even the sin they have been most pleased with. True penitents learn to call sin death and ruin, and to charge upon it all they suffer. While men harden themselves in sin, contempt and misery are their portion: for he that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but he that confesseth and forsaketh them, shall find mercy. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jeremiah:9:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...has many ways of turning a...

mhcc@Ezekiel:1:15-25 @ Verse 15-25 -...adversity; the wheels are turning round...

mhcc@Ezekiel:36:25-38 @ Verse 25-38 -...the soul, as the turning a...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Hosea:7:8-16 @ Verse 8-16 - Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are of old age, but they noticed them not. The pride which leads to break the law of God leads to self-...for their lusts. Their turning from...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jonah:3:5-10 @ Verse 5-10 -...sins with prayer, and turning from...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@Micah:7:8-13 @ Verse 8-13 -...the remote parts, not turning back...

mhcc@Malachi:4:4-6 @ Verse 4-6 -...Elijah had done. The turning of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:27:45-50 @ Verse 45-50 -...scene; it was the turning point...22:1. Hereby he teaches of what use the word of God is to direct us in prayer, and recommends the use of Scripture expressions in prayer. The believer may have tasted some drops of bitterness, but he can only form a very feeble idea of the greatness of Christ's sufferings. Yet, hence he learns something of the Saviour's love to sinners; hence he gets deeper conviction of the vileness and evil of sin, and of what he owes to Christ, who delivers him from the wrath to come. His enemies wickedly ridiculed his complaint. Many of the reproaches cast upon the word of God and the people of God, arise, as here, from gross mistakes. Christ, just before he expired, spake in his full strength, to show that his life was not forced from him, but was freely delivered into his Father's hands. He had strength to bid defiance to the powers of death: and to show that by the eternal Spirit he offered himself, being the Priest as well as the Sacrifice, he cried with a loud voice. Then he yielded up the ghost. The Son of God upon the cross, did die by the violence of the pain he was put to. His soul was separated from his body, and so his body was left really and truly dead. It was certain that Christ did die, for it was needful that he should die. He had undertaken to make himself an offering for sin, and he did it when he willingly gave up his life.

mhcc@Luke:15:17-24 @ Verse 17-24 -...himself. That is a turning point...

mhcc@Luke:24:13-27 @ Verse 13-27 -...Scripture was fulfilled, and turning them...

mhcc@John:2:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 - It is very desirable when there is a marriage, to have Christ own and bless it. Those that would have Christ with them at their marriage, must invite him by prayer, and he will come. While in this world we sometimes find ourselves in straits, even when we think ourselves in fulness. There was want at a marriage feast. Those who are come to care for the things of the world, must look for trouble, and count upon disappointment. In our addresses to Christ, we must humbly spread our case before him, and then refer ourselves to him to do as he pleases. In Christ's reply to his mother there was no disrespect. He used the same word when speaking to her with affection from the cross; yet it is a standing testimony against the idolatry of after-...of Christ's miracles was turning water...-comforts to all true believers, and make them comforts indeed. And Christ's works are all for use. Has he turned thy water into wine, given thee knowledge and grace? it is to profit withal; therefore draw out now, and use it. It was the best wine. Christ's works commend themselves even to those who know not their Author. What was produced by miracles, always was the best in its kind. Though Christ hereby allows a right use of wine, he does not in the least do away his own caution, which is, that our hearts be not at any time overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, Luke strkjv@21:34. Though we need not scruple to feast with our friends on proper occasions, yet every social interview should be so conducted, that we might invite the Redeemer to join with us, if he were now on earth; and all levity, luxury, and excess offend him.

mhcc@Acts:3:22-26 @ Verse 22-26 -...to bless us, by turning us...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@1Timothy:4:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 -...spoke of a general turning from...-denial, in attending to the requirements of God's law, without being tasked to imaginary duties, which reject what he has allowed. But nothing justifies an intemperate or improper use of things; and nothing will be good to us, unless we seek by prayer for the Lord's blessing upon it.

mhcc@2Timothy:4:9-13 @ Verse 9-13 -...often the cause of turning back...

mhcc@Hebrews:1 @ ****** Hebrews 1 ****** *** General Notes on the Book of Hebrews ***...and to prevent their turning from...*** Outline of Hebrews 1 *** The surpassing dignity of the Son of God in his Divine person, and in his creating and mediatorial work. (_1-3.) And in his superiority to all the holy angels. (_4-14.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Hebrews:6 @ ****** Hebrews 6 ****** *** Outline of Hebrews 6 ***...consequences of apostacy, or turning back,...(_1-8.) The apostle expresses satisfaction, as to the most of them. (_9,10.) And encourages them to persevere in faith and holiness. (_11-20.) *** Commentary ***

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