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      God's Hornets
      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Apr 3, 2007





April 4




"And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee" (Exodus 23:28).



What the hornets were we need not consider. They were God's own army which He
sent before His people to sting their enemies and render Israel's conquest
easy. Our God by His own chosen means will fight for His people and gall their
foes before they come into the actual battle. Often He confounds the
adversaries of truth by methods in which reformers themselves have no hand. The
air is full of mysterious influences which harass Israel's foes. We read in the
Apocalypse that "the earth helped the woman."



Let us never fear. The stars in their courses fight against the enemies of our
souls. Oftentimes when we march to the conflict we find no host to contend
with. "The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." God's
hornets can do more than our weapons. We could never dream of the victory being
won by such means as Jehovah will use. We must obey our marching orders and go
forth to the conquest of the nations for Jesus, and we shall find that the LORD
has gone before us and prepared the way; so that in the end we will joyfully
confess, "His own right hand and his holy arm, have gotten him the victory."



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The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross



"It is finished"



by A.W. Pink



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Here we see the completion of his sufferings.



But what tongue or pen can describe the sufferings of the Saviour? O the
unutterable anguish, physical, mental, and spiritual which he endured!
Appropriately was he designated "the Man of Sorrows." Sufferings at the hands
of men, at the hands of Satan, and at the hands of God. Pain inflicted upon him
by enemies and friends alike. From the beginning he walked amid the shadows
which the cross cast athwart his path. Hear his lament: "I am afflicted and
ready to die from my youth up" (Ps. 88:15). What a light this throws on his
earlier years! Who can say how much is contained in those words? For us, an
impenetrable veil is cast over the future; none of us know what a day may bring
forth. But the Saviour knew the end from the beginning!



One has only to read through the gospels to learn how the awful cross was ever
before him. At the marriage-feast of Cana, where all was gladness and
merriment, he makes solemn reference to "his hour" not yet come. When Nicodemus
interviewed him at night the Saviour referred to the "lifting up of the Son of
man". When James and John came to request from him the two places of honour in
his coming kingdom, he made mention of the "cup" which he had to drink and of
the "baptism" wherewith he must be baptized. When Peter confessed that he was
the Christ, the Son of the living God, he turned to his disciples and began to
show unto them "how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of
the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again
the third day" (Matthew 16:21). When Moses and Elijah stood with him on the
mount of transfiguration it was to speak of "his decease which he should
accomplish at Jerusalem."



If it is true we are quite unable to estimate the sufferings of Christ due to
the anticipation of the cross, still less can we fathom the dread reality
itself. The physical sufferings were excruciating, but even this was as nothing
compared with his anguish of soul. To a considering of these sufferings we have
already devoted several paragraphs in previous chapters, yet we make no apology
in turning to them again. We cannot contemplate too often what the Saviour
endured in order to secure our salvation. The better we are acquainted with his
sufferings, and the more frequently we meditate thereon, the warmer will be our
love and the deeper our gratitude.



At last the closing hours have come. There had been the terrible experience in
Gethsemane followed by the appearings before Caiaphas, before Pilate, before
Herod, and back again before Pilate. There had been the scourging and mocking
by the brutal soldiers; the journey to Calvary; the fastening of his hands and
feet to the cruel tree. There had been the reviling of the priests, the crowd,
and the two thieves crucified with him. There had been the callous indifference
of a vulgar mob, among whom "none took pity" and none spoke a word of "comfort"
(Ps. 69:20). There had been the awful cloud that hid from him the Father’s
face, which wrung from him the bitter cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?" There had been the parched lips which drew from him the
exclamation "I thirst". There had been the fearful conflict with the power of
darkness as the serpent "bruised" his heel. Well might the sufferer ask, "Is it
nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow
like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hat afflicted me
in the day of his fierce anger" (Lam. 1:12).



But now the suffering is ended. That from which his holy soul shrank is over.
The Lord has bruised him; man and devil have done their worst. The cup has been
drained. The awful storm of God’s wrath has just spent itself. The darkness is
ended. The sword of divine justice is sheathed. The wages of sin have been
paid. The prophecies of his sufferings are all fulfilled. The cross has been
"endured". Divine holiness has been fully satisfied. With a cry of triumph - a
loud cry, a cry which reverberated throughout the entire universe - the Saviour
exclaims, "It is finished". The ignominy and shame, the suffering and agony are
past. Never again shall he experience pain. Never again shall he endure the
contradiction of sinners against himself. Never again shall he be in the hands
of Satan. Never again shall the light of God’s countenance be hidden from him.
Blessed be God, all that is finished!



The head that once was crowned with thorns, is crowned with glory now;

A royal diadem adorns the mighty Victor’s brow.

The highest place that Heaven of fords is his by Sovereign right,

The King of kings and Lord of lords. and Heaven’s eternal Light.

The Joy of all who dwell above, the Joy of all below,

To whom he manifest his love, and Grant his name to know.



http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Seven_Sayings/sayings_06.htm













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