mhcc - union

mhcc@Genesis:11:5-9 @ Verse 5-9 -...among themselves. Notwithstanding their union and...-builders: there is no wisdom nor counsel against the Lord. The builders departed according to their families, and the tongue they spake, to the countries and places allotted to them. The children of men never did, nor ever will, come all together again, till the great day, when the Son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, and all nations shall be gathered before him.

mhcc@Genesis:23:1-13 @ Verse 1-13 -...cannot part believers from union with...-humour of many that call themselves Israelites. It was not in pride that Abraham refused the gift, because he scorned to be beholden to Ephron; but in justice and in prudence. Abraham was able to pay for the field, and therefore would not take advantage of Ephron's generosity. Honesty, as well as honour, forbids us to take advantage of our neighbour's liberality, and to impose, upon those who give freely.

mhcc@Exodus:25:10-22 @ Verse 10-22 -...no corruption, in personal union with...-seat. God is said to dwell, or sit between the cherubim, on the mercy-seat. There he would give his law, and hear supplicants, as a prince on his throne.

mhcc@Judges:14:10-20 @ Verse 10-20 -...to betray him. No union can...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@1Samuel:18:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 -...love each other. This union of...

mhcc@2Kings:8:16-24 @ Verse 16-24 -...good could come of union with...

mhcc@Psalms:14 @ ****** Psalms 14 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 14 *** A description of the depravity of human nature, and the deplorable corruption of a great part of mankind. -...any thing short of union with...__Outline Henry'__15 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:15 @ ****** Psalms 15 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 15 *** The way to heaven, if we would be happy, we must be holy. We are encouraged to walk in that way. - Here is a very serious question concerning the character of a citizen of Zion. It is the happiness of glorified saints, that they dwell in the holy hill; they are at home there, they shall be for ever there. It concerns us to make it sure to ourselves that we have a place among them. A very plain and particular answer is here given. Those who desire to know their duty, will find the Scripture a very faithful director, and conscience a faithful monitor. A citizen of Zion is sincere in his religion. He is really what he professes to be, and endeavours to stand complete in all the will of God. He is just both to God and man; and, in speaking to both, speaks the truth in his heart. He scorns and abhors wrong and fraud; he cannot reckon that a good bargain, nor a saving one, which is made with a lie; and knows that he who wrongs his neighbour will prove, in the end, to have most injured himself. He is very careful to do hurt to no man. He speaks evil of no man, makes not others' faults the matter of his common talk; he makes the best of every body, and the worst of nobody. If an ill-...sufficient for him. The union of...__Outline Henry'__16 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:111 @ ****** Psalms 111 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 111 *** The Lord is to be praised for his works. - The psalmist resolves to praise God himself. Our exhortations and our examples should agree together. He recommends the works of the Lord, as the proper subject, when we are praising him; and the dealings of his providence toward the world, the church, and particular persons. All the works of the Lord are spoken of as one, it is his work; so admirably do all the dispensations of his providence centre in one design. The works of God, humbly and diligently sought into, shall all be found just and holy. God's pardoning sin is the most wonderful of all his works, and ought to be remembered to his glory. He will ever be mindful of his covenant; he has ever been so, and he ever will be so. His works of providence were done according to the truth of the Divine promises and prophecies, and so were verity, or truth; and by him who has a right to dispose of the earth as he pleases, and so are judgment, or righteous: and this holds good of the work of grace upon the heart of man, ver. (Verse7,8..)...righteousness shines forth in union with...__Outline Henry'__112 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:133 @ ****** Psalms 133 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 133 *** The excellency of brotherly love. -...the proof of our union with...__Outline Henry'__134 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Ecclesiastes:4:9-12 @ Verse 9-12 -...but above all, the union of...

mhcc@Song:of @ Solomon strkjv@2:8-13 Verse 8-13 - The church pleases herself with thoughts of further communion with Christ. None besides can speak to the heart. She sees him come. This may be applied to the prospect the Old Testament saints had of Christ's coming in the flesh. He comes as pleased with his own undertaking. He comes speedily. Even when Christ seems to forsake, it is but for a moment; he will soon return with everlasting loving-...and worldly vanities, for union and...

mhcc@Jeremiah:23:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...the effect of their union with...

mhcc@Haggai:2:20-23 @ Verse 20-23 -...kingdom of Christ; by union with...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Zechariah:4:11-14 @ Verse 11-14 -...by them. From the union of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Luke:1:26-38 @ Verse 26-38 -...to be taken into union with...

mhcc@Luke:23:6-12 @ Verse 6-12 -...are often formed by union in...

mhcc@John:15:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...in Christ, must have union with...

mhcc@John:17:11-16 @ Verse 11-16 -...even according to the union of...

mhcc@John:17:20-23 @ Verse 20-23 -...one soul, by their union with...

mhcc@John:20:11-18 @ Verse 11-18 -...relation to God, from union with...

mhcc@Acts:7:30-41 @ Verse 30-41 -...of man, and the union between...22:31. Abraham is dead, yet God is still his God, therefore Abraham is still alive. Now, this is that life and immortality which are brought to light by the gospel. Stephen here shows that Moses was an eminent type of Christ, as he was Israel's deliverer. God has compassion for the troubles of his church, and the groans of his persecuted people; and their deliverance takes rise from his pity. And that deliverance was typical of what Christ did, when, for us men, and for our salvation, he came down from heaven. This Jesus, whom they now refused, as their fathers did Moses, even this same has God advanced to be a Prince and Saviour. It does not at all take from the just honour of Moses to say, that he was but an instrument, and that he is infinitely outshone by Jesus. In asserting that Jesus should change the customs of the ceremonial law. Stephen was so far from blaspheming Moses, that really he honoured him, by showing how the prophecy of Moses was come to pass, which was so clear. God who gave them those customs by his servant Moses, might, no doubt, change the custom by his Son Jesus. But Israel thrust Moses from them, and would have returned to their bondage; so men in general will not obey Jesus, because they love this present evil world, and rejoice in their own works and devices.

mhcc@Acts:20:28-38 @ Verse 28-38 -...so close is the union between...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Acts:23:6-11 @ Verse 6-11 -...God can turn their union into...

mhcc@Romans:5:12-14 @ Verse 12-14 -...In proof of our union with...

mhcc@Romans:6 @ ****** Romans 6 ****** *** Outline of Romans 6 *** Believers must die to sin, and live to God. (_1,2.)...their Christian baptism and union with...(_3-10.) They are made alive to God. (_11-15.) And are freed from the dominion of sin. (_16-20.) The end of sin is death, and of holiness everlasting life. (_21-23.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Romans:7:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...Good works are from union with...-creating grace of the new covenant.

mhcc@Romans:8:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...the world. By their union with...1st Timothy strkjv@5:6. A sanctified soul is a living soul; and that life is peace. The carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself. The carnal man may, by the power of Divine grace, be made subject to the law of God, but the carnal mind never can; that must be broken and driven out. We may know our real state and character by inquiring whether we have the Spirit of God and Christ, or not, ver. 9. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Having the Spirit of Christ, means having a turn of mind in some degree like the mind that was in Christ Jesus, and is to be shown by a life and conversation suitable to his precepts and example.

mhcc@Romans:8:32-39 @ Verse 32-39 -...soul into the nearest union with...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Romans:15:22-29 @ Verse 22-29 -...and instance of the union they...

mhcc@1Corinthians:1:10-16 @ Verse 10-16 -...There will be perfect union in...

mhcc@1Corinthians:12:12-26 @ Verse 12-26 - Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is called therefore the washing of regeneration, Titus strkjv@3:5. But it is by the Spirit, only by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, that we are made members of Christ's body. And by communion with Christ at the Lord's supper, we are strengthened, not by drinking the wine, but by drinking into one Spirit. Each member has its form, place, and use. The meanest makes a part of the body. There must be a distinction of members in the body. So Christ's members have different powers and different places. We should do the duties of our own place, and not murmur, or quarrel with others. All the members of the body are useful and necessary to each other. Nor is there a member of the body of Christ, but may and ought to be useful to fellow-...of the spirit of union in...

mhcc@2Corinthians:3:12-18 @ Verse 12-18 -...Jesus Christ, and into union with..._2__4 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Corinthians:6:11-18 @ Verse 11-18 -...believers enter into such unions, against..._2__7 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Ephesians:2:14-18 @ Verse 14-18 -...God, and of their union with...

mhcc@Ephesians:5:22-33 @ Verse 22-33 -...them, relating to the union between...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Philippians:2:5-11 @ Verse 5-11 - The example of our Lord Jesus Christ is set before us. We must resemble him in his life, if we would have the benefit of his death. Notice the two natures of Christ; his Divine nature, and human nature. Who being in the form of God, partaking the Divine nature, as the eternal and only-...Christ's human nature, in union with...5:23. Here we see such motives to self-denying love as nothing else can supply. Do we thus love and obey the Son of God?

mhcc@1John:2:18-23 @ Verse 18-23 -...seek to live in union with...-creating work of the Holy Ghost. Let us protest against such antichristian doctrine, and keep from them as much as we may.

mhcc@1John:3:3-10 @ Verse 3-10 -...great proof of spiritual union with,...-deceit. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, and to be a follower of Christ, shows an interest by faith in his obedience and sufferings. But a man cannot act like the devil, and at the same time be a disciple of Christ Jesus. Let us not serve or indulge what the Son of God came to destroy. To be born of God is to be inwardly renewed by the power of the Spirit of God. Renewing grace is an abiding principle. Religion is not an art, a matter of dexterity and skill, but a new nature. And the regenerate person cannot sin as he did before he was born of God, and as others do who are not born again. There is that light in his mind, which shows him the evil and malignity of sin. There is that bias upon his heart, which disposes him to loathe and hate sin. There is the spiritual principle that opposes sinful acts. And there is repentance for sin, if committed. It goes against him to sin with forethought. The children of God and the children of the devil have their distinct characters. The seed of the serpent are known by neglect of religion, and by their hating real Christians. He only is righteous before God, as a justified believer, who is taught and disposed to righteousness by the Holy Spirit. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. May all professors of the gospel lay these truths to heart, and try themselves by them.

mhcc@1John:3:22-24 @ Verse 22-24 - When believers had confidence towards God, through the Spirit of adoption, and by faith in the great High Priest, they might ask what they would of their reconciled Father. They would receive it, if good for them. And as good-will to men was proclaimed from heaven, so good-...Father through him. This union between..._1__4 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@1John:5:18-21 @ Verse 18-21 -...favour of both; in union with..._2_1 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Revelation:12:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...sanctified, and shining by union with...

mhcc@Revelation:14:6-13 @ Verse 6-13 -...in a state of union with...

mhcc@Revelation:19:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 -...ransomed church. This second union will...(by which is meant a reign of Christ, or a state of happiness, for a thousand years on earth) may be considered as the celebration of his espousals on earth. Then the church of Christ, being purified from errors, divisions, and corruptions, in doctrine, discipline, worship, and practice, will be made ready to be publicly owned by him as his delight and his beloved. The church appeared; not in the gay, gaudy dress of the mother of harlots, but in fine linen, clean and white. In the robes of Christ's righteousness, imputed for justification, and imparted for sanctification. The promises of the gospel, the true sayings of God, opened, applied, and sealed by the Spirit of God, in holy ordinances, are the marriage-feast. This seems to refer to the abundant grace and consolation Christians will receive in the happy days which are to come. The apostle offered honour to the angel. The angel refused it. He directed the apostle to the true and only object of religious worship; to worship God, and him alone. This plainly condemns the practice of those who worship the elements of bread and wine, and saints, and angels; and of those who do not believe that Christ is truly and by nature God, yet pay him a sort of worship. They stand convicted of idolatry by a messenger from heaven. These are the true sayings of God; of Him who is to be worshipped, as one with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

mhcc@Revelation:21:22-27 @ Verse 22-27 -...more full express the union and...-equality of the Son with the Father, in the Godhead? What a dismal world would this be, if it were not for the light of the sun! What is there in heaven that supplies its place? The glory of God lightens that city, and the Lamb is the Light thereof. God in Christ will be an everlasting Fountain of knowledge and joy to the saints in heaven. There is no night, therefore no need of shutting the gates; all is at peace and secure. The whole shows us that we should be more and more led to think of heaven as filled with the glory of God, and enlightened by the presence of the Lord Jesus. Nothing sinful or unclean, idolatrous, or false and deceitful, can enter. All the inhabitants are made perfect in holiness. Now the saints feel a sad mixture of corruption, which hinders them in the service of God, and interrupts their communion with him; but, at their entrance into the holy of holies, they are washed in the laver of Christ's blood, and presented to the Father without spot. None are admitted into heaven who work abominations. It is free from hypocrites, such as make lies. As nothing unclean can enter heaven, let us be stirred up by these glimpses of heavenly things, to use all diligence, and to perfect holiness in the fear of God. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

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