Zechariah 10

1. Dependence and trust; as that like phrase imports, "I will go in the strength of the Lord God," etc. (Psalm 71:16). And that, "I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in his name" (Zechariah 10:12), at once shows us both the communication of the di…

3. The words hold out that there is an infallible certainty in this truth; we have here Christ's verdict of it — he in his reckoning counts believers so, and he cannot be mistaken. 4. There is the cause why the Bride is so strong and stately: he makes her so; and so these words,…

Worldly joys put gladness into the face (2 Corinthians 5:12); but the Spirit of God puts gladness into the heart. Divine joys are heart-joys (Zechariah 10:7; John 16:22): Your heart shall rejoice. A believer rejoices (Luke 1:47): My spirit rejoices in God.

Oh then espouse godliness! Here is reality to be had; of other things, we may say as Zechariah 10:2. They comfort in vain.

Doctrine: The meanest, and worst things of Christ (to speak so) are incomparably to be desired above all things. 1. Any thing of Christ is desirable; but to lay hold on the skirt of a Jew (Zechariah 10:23), because Christ that is with him is good. Indeed, the dust of Zion is a t…

Therefore fire cannot consume, water cannot drown the saints, except by a dispensation of the Lord. 5. Christ is not fastened as a loose nail, or as one broken or rotten wedge in the covenant: he is there as a nail in a sure place (Zechariah 10:4; Isaiah 22:23). Hang all the ves…

I would humbly desire of every minister that has thus long remained disaffected to this work, and has had contemptible thoughts of it, to consider whether he has not hitherto been like Michal, without any child, or at least in a great measure barren and unsuccessful in his work:…