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Ärende: God's Hornets
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Faith's Checkbook  


Charles H. Spurgeon
Apr 3, 2006

 

April 4 




God's Hornets 

"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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My Rock! 

("Solitude Sweetened" by James Meikle, 1730-1799) 

"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my Savior,  my God, my rock in whom I
take refuge, my shield,  and the strength of my salvation, my stronghold!" 
(Psalm 18:2) 

Do rocks defend me from blasts, from whatever  quarter they blow? So does my
Rock! 

Is the blast from hell? Well, He has the keys of hell and of death! 

Is it from sin? He is my righteousness! 

Is it from Satan? He has conquered principalities and powers! 

Is it from afflictions? He is my sympathizing and loving High Priest! 

Is it from losses? He is my exceeding great reward! 

Is it from crosses? He makes all things work together for good to His people! 

Is it from anguish? He is my joy! 

Is it from darkness? He is my Sun! 

Is it from doubts? He is my Counselor! 

Is it from deadness? He is my life! 

Is it from enemies? He is my shield! 

Is it from temptation? He is my deliverer! 

Is it from false friends? He will never leave me, nor forsake me! 

Is it from solitude or banishment? He is everywhere present! 

Is it from disease? He is my healer! 

Is it from death? He is the resurrection and the life! 

O glorious refuge! O sure defense! O everlasting fortress!  Here do I defy the
worst that earth and hell can do! 

Henceforth will I live by faith, in the MAN who is . . .  my hiding place from
the wind, 
my shelter from the tempest, 
my stream of water in a dry place,  my shadow of a great rock in a weary land— 
until every blast has blown over, and not a threatening  cloud appears in my
sky—until my heaven is beautified  with everlasting day, and every storm is
swept from the  air which I breathe! 

"And a MAN shall be as a hiding place from the wind,  and a shelter from the
tempest, like streams of water  in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock
in a  weary land!" (Isaiah 32:2) 




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