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mhcc@Genesis:1:3-5 @ Verse 3-5 -...first thing that is wrought in...1st John strkjv@5:20. The light which God willed, he approved of. God divided the light from the darkness; for what fellowship has light with darkness? In heaven there is perfect light, and no darkness at all; in hell, utter darkness, and no gleam of light. The day and the night are the Lord's; let us use both to his honour, by working for him every day, and resting in him every night, meditating in his law both day and night.

mhcc@Genesis:40:20-23 @ Verse 20-23 - Joseph's interpretation of the dreams came to pass on the very day fixed. On Pharaoh's birth-day, all his servants attended him, and then the cases of these two came to be looked into. We may all profitably take notice of our birth-...butler's enlargement, but Christ wrought out...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Genesis:44:18-34 @ Verse 18-34 -...could not but be wrought upon...7:14. and he not only made intercession for the transgressors, but he became a Surety for them, testifying therein tender concern, both for his Father and for his brethren. Jesus, the great antitype of Joseph, humbles and proves his people, even after they have had some tastes of his loving-kindness. He brings their sins to their remembrance, that they may exercise and show repentance, and feel how much they owe to his mercy. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Exodus:9:8-12 @ Verse 8-12 -...the Egyptians were not wrought upon...

mhcc@Numbers:17:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...of God, that, having wrought divers...

mhcc@Numbers:21:10-20 @ Verse 10-20 -...notice what God has wrought for...12:3. As the brazen serpent was a figure of Christ, who is lifted up for our cure, so is this well a figure of the Spirit, who is poured forth for our comfort, and from whom flow to us rivers of living waters, John strkjv@7:38,39. Does this well spring up in our souls? If so, we should take the comfort to ourselves, and give the glory to God. God promised to give water, but they must open the ground. God's favours must be expected in the use of such means as are within our power, but still the power is only of God.

mhcc@Numbers:22:22-35 @ Verse 22-35 -...was a great miracle wrought by...

mhcc@Deuteronomy:11 @ ****** Deuteronomy 11 ****** *** Outline of Deuteronomy 11 ***...The great work God wrought for...(_1-7.) Promises and threatenings. (_8-17.) Careful study of God's word requisite. (_18-25.) The blessings and the curse set forth. (_26-32.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Deuteronomy:13:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 -...they should not be wrought upon...

mhcc@Deuteronomy:30:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 -...change that will be wrought upon...

mhcc@Joshua:2:8-21 @ Verse 8-21 -...the miracles the Lord wrought for...117:2. in both these we must be followers of him. Those who will be conscientious in keeping promises, are cautious in making them. The spies make needful conditions. The scarlet cord, like the blood upon the doorpost at the passover, recalls to remembrance the sinner's security under the atoning blood of Christ; and that we are to flee thereto for refuge from the wrath of a justly offended God. The same cord Rahab used for the saving of these Israelites, was to be used for her own safety. What we serve and honour God with, we may expect he will bless, and make useful to us.

mhcc@Joshua:11:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 - The wonders God wrought for the Israelites were to encourage them to act vigorously themselves. Thus the war against Satan's kingdom, carried on by preaching the gospel, was at first forwarded by miracles; but being fully proved to be of God, we are now left to the Divine grace in the usual course, in the use of the sword of the Spirit. God encouraged Joshua. Fresh dangers and difficulties make it necessary to seek fresh supports from the word of God, which we have nigh unto us for use in every time of need. God proportions our trials to our strength, and our strength to our trials. Joshua's obedience in destroying the horses and chariots, shows his self-denial in compliance with God's command. The possession of things on which the carnal heart is prone to depend, is hurtful to the life of faith, and the walk with God; therefore it is better to be without worldly advantages, than to have the soul endangered by them.

mhcc@Joshua:12:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...is the same who wrought by...

mhcc@1Kings:18:21-40 @ Verse 21-40 - Many of the people wavered in their judgment, and varied in their practice. Elijah called upon them to determine whether Jehovah or Baal was the self-existent, supreme God, the Creator, Governor, and Judge of the world, and to follow him alone. It is dangerous to halt between the service of God and the service of sin, the dominion of Christ and the dominion of our lusts. If Jesus be the only Saviour, let us cleave to him alone for every thing; if the Bible be the world of God, let us reverence and receive the whole of it, and submit our understanding to the Divine teaching it contains. Elijah proposed to bring the matter to a trial. Baal had all the outward advantages, but the event encourages all God's witnesses and advocates never to fear the face of man. The God that answers by fire, let him be God: the atonement was to be made by sacrifice, before the judgment could be removed in mercy. The God therefore that has power to pardon sin, and to signify it by consuming the sin-...believed, and have been wrought upon...

mhcc@2Kings:4:18-37 @ Verse 18-37 -...thy faith! He that wrought it,...-comfort is taken from us, it is well if we can say, through grace, that we did not set our hearts too much upon it; for if we did, we have reason to fear it was given in anger, and taken away in wrath. Elisha cried unto God in faith; and the beloved son was restored alive to his mother. Those who would convey spiritual life to dead souls, must feel deeply for their case, and labour fervently in prayer for them. Though the minister cannot give Divine life to his fellow-sinners, he must use every means, with as much earnestness as if he could do so.

mhcc@2Kings:20:12-21 @ Verse 12-21 -...about Him who had wrought the...16:7,8. Ministers must be both, as there is occasion. Hezekiah allowed the justice of the sentence, and God's goodness in the respite. Yet the prospect respecting his family and nation must have given him many painful feelings. Hezekiah was indeed humbled for the pride of his heart. And blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Henry'_2__21 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Kings:21:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...afterwards be thankful. Manasseh wrought much...-servers, and in temptation fall away.

mhcc@Nehemiah:13:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...when we are thus wrought upon...

mhcc@Nehemiah:13:15-22 @ Verse 15-22 - The keeping holy the Lord's day forms an important object for their attention who would promote true godliness. Religion never prospers while sabbaths are trodden under foot. No wonder there was a general decay of religion, and corruption of manners among the Jews, when they forsook the sanctuary and profaned the sabbath. Those little consider what an evil they do, who profane the sabbath. We must answer for the sins others are led to commit by our example. Nehemiah charges it on them as an evil thing, for so it is, proceeding from contempt of God and our own souls. He shows that sabbath-...that the cure he wrought was...

mhcc@Job:19:23-29 @ Verse 23-29 -...seems to have powerfully wrought on...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:7:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...All His works were wrought in...

mhcc@Psalms:18 @ ****** Psalms 18 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 18 ***...in the deliverances God wrought for...(_1-19.) He takes the comfort of his integrity, which God had cleared up. (_20-28.) He gives to God the glory of all his mighty deeds. (_29-50.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Psalms:33:12-22 @ Verse 12-22 -...thy Spirit and grace wrought in...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:45:10-17 @ Verse 10-17 -...righteousness, which he has wrought out...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:49:6-14 @ Verse 6-14 -...dear; but, being once wrought, it...1:18. This likewise shows the folly of worldly people, who sell their souls for that which will never buy them. With all their wealth they cannot secure themselves from the stroke of death. Yet one generation after another applaud their maxims; and the character of a fool, as drawn by heavenly Wisdom itself, Luke strkjv@12:16-21,. continues to be followed even among professed Christians. Death will ask the proud sinner, Where is thy wealth, thy pomp? And in the morning of the resurrection, when all that sleep in the dust shall awake, the upright shall be advanced to the highest honour, when the wicked shall be filled with everlasting shame and contempt, Daniel strkjv@12:2. Let us now judge of things as they will appear in that day. The beauty of holiness is that alone which the grave cannot touch, or damage.

mhcc@Psalms:51:16-19 @ Verse 16-19 -...him. The good work wrought in...-offering and sacrifice. The broken heart is acceptable to God only through Jesus Christ; there is no true repentance without faith in him. Men despise that which is broken, but God will not. He will not overlook it, he will not refuse or reject it; though it makes God no satisfaction for the wrong done to him by sin. Those who have been in spiritual troubles, know how to pity and pray for others afflicted in like manner. David was afraid lest his sin should bring judgements upon the city and kingdom. No personal fears or troubles of conscience can make the soul, which has received grace, careless about the interests of the church of God. And let this be the continued joy of all the redeemed, that they have redemption through the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:68 @ ****** Psalms 68 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 68 *** A prayer-- The greatness and goodness of God. (_1-6.)...The wonderful works God wrought for...(_7-14.) The presence of God in his church. (_15-21.) The victories of Christ. (_22-28.) Enlargement of the church. (_29-31.) The glory and grace of God. (_32-35.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Psalms:77:11-20 @ Verse 11-20 -...great redemption to be wrought out...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:81:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 - All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences, and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, more glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we are delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the base and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin, and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews, on their solemn feast-...a more glorious redemption, wrought out...

mhcc@Psalms:99:6-9 @ Verse 6-9 -...in prayer; miracles were wrought at...-seat, let us never forget that he is holy. **** 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..)...time was to be wrought out...__Outline Henry'__112 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:118:22,23, @ Verse 22,23, -, may refer to David's preferment; but principally to Christ. 1. His humiliation; he is the Stone which the builders refused: they would go on in their building without him. This proved the ruin of those who thus made light of him. Rejecters of Christ are rejected of God. 2. His exaltation; he is the chief Cornerstone in the foundation. He is the chief Top-stone, in whom the building is completed, who must, in all things, have the pre-...and the redemption he wrought out...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:119:33-40 @ Verse 33-40 -...And where God has wrought to...

mhcc@Psalms:124:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 - God suffers the enemies of his people sometimes to prevail very far against them, that his power may be seen the more in their deliverance. Happy the people whose God is Jehovah, a God all-...to any particular deliverance wrought in...

mhcc@Psalms:147:12-20 @ Verse 12-20 -...Such is the change wrought in...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Ecclesiastes:7:11-22 @ Verse 11-22 -...who will not be wrought upon...

mhcc@Song:of @ Solomon strkjv@1:9-17 Verse 9-17 -...which his grace has wrought on...(the believer) has a humble, modest eye, discovering simplicity and godly sincerity; eyes enlightened and guided by the Holy Spirit, that blessed Dove. The church expresses her value for Christ. Thou art the great Original, but I am but a faint and imperfect copy. Many are fair to look at, yet their temper renders them unpleasant: but Christ is fair, yet pleasant. The believer, ver.16, speaks with praise of those holy ordinances in which true believers have fellowship with Christ. Whether the believer is in the courts of the Lord, or in retirement; whether following his daily labours, or confined on the bed of sickness, or even in a dungeon, a sense of the Divine presence will turn the place into a paradise. Thus the soul, daily having fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, enjoys a lively hope of an incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance above. __2 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:35:5-10 @ Verse 5-10 -...great wonders, shall be wrought on...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:43:8-13 @ Verse 8-13 -...of what he has wrought in...

mhcc@Isaiah:44:21-28 @ Verse 21-28 -...The work of redemption wrought for...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:58:3-12 @ Verse 3-12 -...God and man, and wrought in...

mhcc@Isaiah:59:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...wait for is not wrought for...-wrought salvation shall avail those who despise the Redeemer's robe of righteousness. Every man who is destitute of the Spirit of Christ, runs swiftly to evil of some sort; but those regardless of Divine truth and justice, are strangers to peace.

mhcc@Isaiah:59:16-21 @ Verse 16-21 -...is promised to be wrought out...14:16. The word of Christ will always continue in the mouths of the faithful; and whatever is pretended to be the mind of the Spirit, must be tried by the Scriptures. We must lament the progress of infidelity and impiety. But the cause of the Redeemer shall gain a complete victory even on earth, and the believer will be more than conqueror when the Lord receives him to his glory in heaven. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:60:15-22 @ Verse 15-22 -...a redemption, shall be wrought out...21:23. strkjv@22:5. Nothing can answer to this but some future glorious state of the church on earth, or the state of the church triumphant in heaven. Those that make God their only light, shall have him their all-sufficient light. And the happiness shall know no change or alloy. No people on earth are all righteous; but there are no mixtures in heaven. They shall be wholly righteous. The spirits of just men shall there be made perfect. The glory of the church shall be to the honour of God. When it shall be finished, it will appear a work of wonder. It may seem too difficult to be brought about, but the God of almighty power has undertaken it. It may seem to be delayed and put off; but the Lord will hasten it in the time appointed by his wisdom, though not in the time prescribed by our folly. Let this hope cheer us under all difficulties, and stir us up to all diligence, that we may have an abundant entrance into this everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:62:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 -...by his grace, has wrought that...

mhcc@Jeremiah:2:29-37 @ Verse 29-37 -...nation had not been wrought upon...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jeremiah:3:21-25 @ Verse 21-25 -...from sin Jesus Christ wrought out...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jeremiah:16:14-21 @ Verse 14-21 -...great salvation to be wrought by...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jeremiah:23:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...righteousness which he has wrought out...

mhcc@Ezekiel:3:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon...

mhcc@Ezekiel:11:14-21 @ Verse 14-21 -...and happy change is wrought by...

mhcc@Ezekiel:20:45-49 @ Verse 45-49 -...who will not be wrought upon...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Ezekiel:33:10-20 @ Verse 10-20 -...blessed changes have been wrought by...

mhcc@Amos:3:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...that will not be wrought upon...

mhcc@Nahum:1:9-15 @ Verse 9-15 -...to the great redemption wrought out...10:15. Christ's ministers are messengers of good tidings, that preach peace by Jesus Christ. How welcome to those who see their misery and danger by sin! And the promise they made in the day of trouble must be made good. Let us be thankful for God's ordinances, and gladly attend them. Let us look forward with cheerful hope to a world where the wicked never can enter, and sin and temptation will no more be known. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Habakkuk:3:3-15 @ Verse 3-15 -...In all the salvations wrought for...

mhcc@Zechariah:2:6-9 @ Verse 6-9 -...which he has himself wrought out,...2:40. What Christ will do for his church, shall be an evident proof of God's care and affection. He that touches you, touches the apple of his eye. This is a strong expression of God's love to his church. He takes what is done against her as done against the tenderest part of the eye, to which the least touch is a great offence. Christ is sent to be the Protector of his church.

mhcc@Zechariah:14:8-15 @ Verse 8-15 -...graces of the Spirit wrought in...

mhcc@Matthew:4:18-22 @ Verse 18-22 -...and Andrew, could have wrought upon...1:37. now they must leave their calling. Those who would follow Christ aright, must, at his command, leave all things to follow him, must be ready to part with them. This instance of the power of the Lord Jesus encourages us to depend upon his grace. He speaks, and it is done.

mhcc@Matthew:6:5-8 @ Verse 5-8 - It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ pray. You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a living Christian that does not pray. If prayerless, then graceless. The Scribes and Pharisees were guilty of two great faults in prayer, vain-...is God from being wrought upon...

mhcc@Matthew:9:9 @ Verse 9 -...A saving change is wrought in...

mhcc@Matthew:11:7-15 @ Verse 7-15 - What Christ said concerning John, was not only for his praise, but for the people's profit. Those who attend on the word will be called to give an account of their improvements. Do we think when the sermon is done, the care is over? No, then the greatest of the care begins. John was a self-...and love! Multitudes were wrought upon...

mhcc@Matthew:15:10-20 @ Verse 10-20 -...the heart, and is wrought there....

mhcc@Matthew:22:1-14 @ Verse 1-14 -...of the great salvation wrought out...-feast. The design of the gospel is to gather souls to Christ; all the children of God scattered abroad, John strkjv@10:16. strkjv@11:52. The case of hypocrites is represented by the guest that had not on a wedding-garment. It concerns all to prepare for the scrutiny; and those, and those only, who put on the Lord Jesus, who have a Christian temper of mind, who live by faith in Christ, and to whom he is all in all, have the wedding-garment. The imputed righteousness of Christ, and the sanctification of the Spirit, are both alike necessary. No man has the wedding-garment by nature, or can form it for himself. The day is coming, when hypocrites will be called to account for all their presumptuous intruding into gospel ordinances, and usurpation of gospel privileges. Take him away. Those that walk unworthy of Christianity, forfeit all the happiness they presumptuously claimed. Our Saviour here passes out of the parable into that which it teaches. Hypocrites go by the light of the gospel itself down to utter darkness. Many are called to the wedding-feast, that is, to salvation, but few have the wedding-garment, the righteousness of Christ, the sanctification of the Spirit. Then let us examine ourselves whether we are in the faith, and seek to be approved by the King.

mhcc@Mark:1:23-28 @ Verse 23-28 -...as great often is wrought now,...

mhcc@Mark:5:21-34 @ Verse 21-34 -...dying. Another cure was wrought by...6:7. It is common with people not to apply to Christ till they have tried in vain all other helpers, and find them, as certainly they will, physicians of no value. Some run to diversions and gay company; others plunge into business, or even into intemperance; others go about to establish their own righteousness, or torment themselves by vain superstitions. Many perish in these ways; but none will ever find rest to the soul by such devices; while those whom Christ heals of the disease of sin, find in themselves an entire change for the better. As secret acts of sin, so secret acts of faith, are known to the Lord Jesus. The woman told all the truth. It is the will of Christ that his people should be comforted, and he has power to command comfort to troubled spirits. The more simply we depend on Him, and expect great things from him, the more we shall find in ourselves that he is become our salvation. Those who, by faith, are healed of their spiritual diseases, have reason to go in peace.

mhcc@Mark:5:35-43 @ Verse 35-43 -...miracle, and Him that wrought it....**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Mark:8:22-26 @ Verse 22-26 -...them. The cure was wrought gradually,...

mhcc@Mark:9:30-40 @ Verse 30-40 - The time of Christ's suffering drew nigh. Had he been delivered into the hands of devils, and they had done this, it had not been so strange; but that men should thus shamefully treat the Son of man, who came to redeem and save them, is wonderful. Still observe that when Christ spake of his death, he always spake of his resurrection, which took the reproach of it from himself, and should have taken the grief of it from his disciples. Many remain ignorant because they are ashamed to inquire. Alas! that while the Saviour teaches so plainly the things which belong to his love and grace, men are so blinded that they understand not his sayings. We shall be called to account about our discourses, and to account for our disputes, especially about being greater than others. Those who are most humble and self-...them that he who wrought miracles...

mhcc@Luke:7:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 -...love. The cure soon wrought and...

mhcc@Luke:7:19-35 @ Verse 19-35 -...those who were not wrought upon...

mhcc@Luke:13:10-17 @ Verse 10-17 -...This deliverance is often wrought on...

mhcc@Luke:15:17-24 @ Verse 17-24 -...grace and holiness are wrought in...

mhcc@John:3:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 - Nicodemus was afraid, or ashamed to be seen with Christ, therefore came in the night. When religion is out of fashion, there are many Nicodemites. But though he came by night, Jesus bid him welcome, and hereby taught us to encourage good beginnings, although weak. And though now he came by night, yet afterward he owned Christ publicly. He did not talk with Christ about state affairs, though he was a ruler, but about the concerns of his own soul and its salvation, and went at once to them. Our Saviour spoke of the necessity and nature of regeneration or the new birth, and at once directed Nicodemus to the source of holiness of the heart. Birth is the beginning of life; to be born again, is to begin to live anew, as those who have lived much amiss, or to little purpose. We must have a new nature, new principles, new affections, new aims. By our first birth we were corrupt, shapen in sin; therefore we must be made new creatures. No stronger expression could have been chosen to signify a great and most remarkable change of state and character. We must be entirely different from what we were before, as that which begins to be at any time, is not, and cannot be the same with that which was before. This new birth is from heaven, ch. strkjv@1:13,. and its tendency is to heaven. It is a great change made in the heart of a sinner, by the power of the Holy Spirit. It means that something is done in us, and for us, which we cannot do for ourselves. Something is wrong, whereby such a life begins as shall last for ever. We cannot otherwise expect any benefit by Christ; it is necessary to our happiness here and hereafter. What Christ speak, Nicodemus misunderstood, as if there had been no other way of regenerating and new-moulding an immortal soul, than by new-...new birth which is wrought by...11-13, shows the folly of those who make these things strange unto them; and it recommends us to search them out. Jesus Christ is every way able to reveal the will of God to us; for he came down from heaven, and yet is in heaven. We have here a notice of Christ's two distinct natures in one person, so that while he is the Son of man, yet he is in heaven. God is the "HE THAT IS," and heaven is the dwelling-place of his holiness. The knowledge of this must be from above, and can be received by faith alone. Jesus Christ came to save us by healing us, as the children of Israel, stung with fiery serpents, were cured and lived by looking up to the brazen serpent, Numbers strkjv@21:6-9. In this observe the deadly and destructive nature of sin. Ask awakened consciences, ask damned sinners, they will tell you, that how charming soever the allurements of sin may be, at the last it bites like a serpent. See the powerful remedy against this fatal malady. Christ is plainly set forth to us in the gospel. He whom we offended is our Peace, and the way of applying for a cure is by believing. If any so far slight either their disease by sin, or the method of cure by Christ, as not to receive Christ upon his own terms, their ruin is upon their own heads. He has said, Look and be saved, look and live; lift up the eyes of your faith to Christ crucified. And until we have grace to do this, we shall not be cured, but still are wounded with the stings of Satan, and in a dying state. Jesus Christ came to save us by pardoning us, that we might not die by the sentence of the law. Here is gospel, good news indeed. Here is God's love in giving his Son for the world. God so loved the world; so really, so richly. Behold and wonder, that the great God should love such a worthless world! Here, also, is the great gospel duty, to believe in Jesus Christ. God having given him to be our Prophet, Priest, and King, we must give up ourselves to be ruled, and taught, and saved by him. And here is the great gospel benefit, that whoever believes in Christ, shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and so saving it. It could not be saved, but through him; there is no salvation in any other. From all this is shown the happiness of true believers; he that believeth in Christ is not condemned. Though he has been a great sinner, yet he is not dealt with according to what his sins deserve. How great is the sin of unbelievers! God sent One to save us, that was dearest to himself; and shall he not be dearest to us? How great is the misery of unbelievers! they are condemned already; which speaks a certain condemnation; a present condemnation. The wrath of God now fastens upon them; and their own hearts condemn them. There is also a condemnation grounded on their former guilt; they are open to the law for all their sins; because they are not by faith interested in the gospel pardon. Unbelief is a sin against the remedy. It springs from the enmity of the heart of man to God, from love of sin in some form.

mhcc@John:6:52-59 @ Verse 52-59 -...crucified, and the redemption wrought out...

mhcc@John:9:8-12 @ Verse 8-12 -...the work of grace wrought upon...

mhcc@John:10:31-38 @ Verse 31-38 -...by Divine power he wrought his...

mhcc@John:17:6-10. @ Verse 6-10. -...of a work already wrought in...

mhcc@Acts:4:5-14 @ Verse 5-14 -...the miracle had been wrought by...

mhcc@Acts:5:12-16 @ Verse 12-16 -...that power alone which wrought such...

mhcc@Acts:6:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...magnified, when those are wrought upon...

mhcc@Acts:11:19-24 @ Verse 19-24 -...and it must be wrought upon...

mhcc@Acts:12:6-11 @ Verse 6-11 - A peaceful conscience, a lively hope, and the consolations of the Holy Spirit, can keep men calm in the full prospect of death; even those very persons who have been most distracted with terrors on that account. God's time to help, is when things are brought to the last extremity. Peter was assured that the Lord would cause this trial to end in the way that should be most for his glory. Those who are delivered out of spiritual imprisonment must follow their Deliverer, like the Israelites when they went out of the house of bondage. They knew not whither they went, but knew whom they followed. When God will work salvation for his people, all difficulties in their way will be overcome, even gates of iron are made to open of their own accord. This deliverance of Peter represents our redemption by Christ, which not only proclaims liberty to the captives, but brings them out of the prison-...aware what God has wrought in...

mhcc@Acts:13:42-52 @ Verse 42-52 -...grace of God that wrought it...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Acts:16:25-34 @ Verse 25-34 -...work of God was wrought in...

mhcc@Acts:22:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 - The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-...shown in the change wrought in...

mhcc@Acts:28:23-31 @ Verse 23-31 -...concerning Jesus. Some were wrought upon...4:22. We learn also fromPhp strkjv@1:13,. how God overruled Paul's imprisonment for the furtherance of the gospel. And not the residents at Rome only, but all the church of Christ, to the present day, and in the most remote corner of the globe, have abundant reason to bless God, that during the most mature period of his Christian life and experience, he was detained a prisoner. It was from his prison, probably chained hand to hand to the soldier who kept him, that the apostle wrote the epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Hebrews; epistles showing, perhaps more than any others, the Christian love with which his heart overflowed, and the Christian experience with which his soul was filled. The believer of the present time may have less of triumph, and less of heavenly joy, than the apostle, but every follower of the same Saviour, is equally sure of safety and peace at the last. Let us seek to live more and more in the love of the Saviour; to labour to glorify Him by every action of our lives; and we shall assuredly, by his strength, be among the number of those who now overcome our enemies; and by his free grace and mercy, be hereafter among the blessed company who shall sit with Him upon his throne, even as He also has overcome, and is sitting on his Father's throne, at God's right hand for evermore. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Romans:2:1-16 @ Verse 1-16 -...is the great change wrought in...

mhcc@Romans:7:23-25 @ Verse 23-25 -...because of any holiness wrought in...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Romans:9:6-13 @ Verse 6-13 -...not, but God therein wrought according...

mhcc@Romans:14:14-18 @ Verse 14-18 - Christ deals gently with those who have true grace, though they are weak in it. Consider the design of Christ's death: also that drawing a soul to sin, threatens the destruction of that soul. Did Christ deny himself for our brethren, so as to die for them, and shall not we deny ourselves for them, so as to keep from any indulgence? We cannot hinder ungoverned tongues from speaking evil; but we must not give them any occasion. We must deny ourselves in many cases what we may lawfully do, when our doing it may hurt our good name. Our good often comes to be evil spoken of, because we use lawful things in an uncharitable and selfish manner. As we value the reputation of the good we profess and practise, let us seek that it may not be evil-...Ghost; that spiritual joy wrought by...

mhcc@1Corinthians:12:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...unless that faith is wrought by...

mhcc@2Corinthians:1:15-24 @ Verse 15-24 -...as the wonders God wrought in..._2__2 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Corinthians:4:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...in the blessed change wrought by...

mhcc@2Corinthians:7:5-11 @ Verse 5-11 -...and against sin. It wrought revenge...

mhcc@2Corinthians:11:16-21 @ Verse 16-21 -...of what God has wrought for...

mhcc@Galatians:1:15-24 @ Verse 15-24 -...God; their conversion is wrought by...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Ephesians:5:3-14 @ Verse 3-14 -...the grace of God wrought a...

mhcc@Colossians:2:8-17 @ Verse 8-17 -...baptism, and by faith wrought in...-wall to the Gentiles, the Lord Jesus took out of the way. When the substance was come, the shadows fled. Since every mortal man is, through the hand-writing of the law, guilty of death, how very dreadful is the condition of the ungodly and unholy, who trample under foot that blood of the Son of God, whereby alone this deadly hand-writing can be blotted out! Let not any be troubled about bigoted judgments which related to meats, or the Jewish solemnities. The setting apart a portion of our time for the worship and service of God, is a moral and unchangeable duty, but had no necessary dependence upon the seventh day of the week, the sabbath of the Jews. The first day of the week, or the Lord's day, is the time kept holy by Christians, in remembrance of Christ's resurrection. All the Jewish rites were shadows of gospel blessings.

mhcc@1Thessalonians:2:13-16 @ Verse 13-16 -...it accordingly. The word wrought in...

mhcc@2Thessalonians:1:5-10 @ Verse 5-10 -...has purchased for, and wrought in,...

mhcc@2Thessalonians:1:11,12 @ Verse 11,12 - Believing thoughts and expectations of the second coming of Christ should lead us to pray to God more, for ourselves and others. If there is any good in us, it is owing to the good pleasure of his goodness, and therefore it is called grace. There are many purposes of grace and good-...known to us, and wrought in..._2__2 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Timothy:1:6-14 @ Verse 6-14 -...Christ; and the change wrought in...

mhcc@Hebrews:13:16-21 @ Verse 16-21 -...no good thing is wrought in...

mhcc@James:5:12-18 @ Verse 12-18 -...an effectual fervent prayer, wrought in...-seat, it avails much. The power of prayer is proved from the history of Elijah. In prayer we must not look to the merit of man, but to the grace of God. It is not enough to say a prayer, but we must pray in prayer. Thoughts must be fixed, desires must be firm and ardent, and graces exercised. This instance of the power of prayer, encourages every Christian to be earnest in prayer. God never says to any of the seed of Jacob, Seek my face in vain. Where there may not be so much of miracle in God's answering our prayers, yet there may be as much of grace.

mhcc@1John:4:14-21 @ Verse 14-21 -...of the happy change wrought in..._1__5 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Jude:1:24,25 @ Verse 24,25 -...the work he has wrought in...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Revelation:2:18-29 @ Verse 18-29 -...his people to be wrought in...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

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