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William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:24

Mark 7:24 I. The Lord Jesus is not hid. The Old Testament contained one promise which like a thread of gold ran through the whole; a promise that was oft repeated, which was embraced by all believers, the blessings of which were grandly unfolded as time rolled on; and which, in the fulness of time was accomplished. It was the Messiah. The Dayspring from on high has visited us. The Sun of Righteousness has arisen with healing in His wings, and therefore the Lord Jesus is not hid. He is plainly... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:24-30

Mark 7:24-30 The Syrophenician's Daughter. Notice: I. The Girl Herself. She was "grievously vexed with a devil." Her case was very sad and strange. All the gods, helpers and physicians, in Tyre and Sidon could not set this girl free. For anything man's skill could do she was beyond all hope and remedy. The sun shines on no sadder sight than a young soul that is the willing slave of Satan. Well may the Church of Christ weep over that soul, as the Syrophenician mother wept over her darling child,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:28-29

Mark 7:28-29 Lowly-minded Perseverance in Prayer. I. Consider the example of faith we have set us here. Though Apostles were rejected entreating in her behalf, yet this woman "cries unto" our Lord, because He alone could save her. And though she had heard them say He was not sent to those of her race, yet she repeats her entreaty, as confident He could help whom He would; she did not say "Pray for me," or "Entreat for me," but "Help me," as believing the help was in Himself to bestow. But our... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:32-35

Mark 7:32-35 I. The friends brought their suffering friend to ask for him the Lord's healing hand. He did not refuse their prayer. He gave them what they asked. But He sighed as He gave it sighed, no doubt, with a sense of heaviness and pain, even while He cheered their spirits by granting the boon they asked for. They felt no doubt in asking. They thought they knew quite well that it would be a great blessing to their friend to be restored. The Lord knew more than they did, and He sighed while... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:32-37

Mark 7:32-37 The Deaf and Dumb. I. Our Lord healed the deaf and dumb man miraculously, by means at which we cannot guess, which we cannot even conceive. But the healing signified at least two things that the man could be healed, and that the man ought to be healed; that his bodily defect the retribution of no sin of his own was contrary to the will of that Father in heaven who willeth not that one little one should perish. But Jesus sighed likewise. There was in Him a sorrow, a compassion, most... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:33

Mark 7:33 I. Our Lord seems to have taken this man apart. He may have intended the multitude to follow with their eyes that which He was about, that the might that there was in the action, the might that underlay the deed, should be dwelt upon, and so should sink more surely into their spirits. As we too follow the Redeemer, may we not feel that in our lives He has taken us apart from the multitude? We have had moments awful precious moments they were when something of God's mercy has made us... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:33-34

Mark 7:33-34 The Pattern of Service. I. We have here set forth the foundation and condition of all true work for God in our Lord's heavenward look. We are fully warranted in supposing that that wistful gaze to heaven means, and may be taken to symbolise, our Lord's conscious direction of thought and spirit to God as He wrought His work of mercy. The heavenward look is (1) the renewal of our own vision of the calm verities in which we trust, the recourse for ourselves to the realities which we... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:34

Mark 7:34 I. The general study of this story would furnish several very excellent and edifying lessons suggested by our Lord's action in working this miracle upon the shore of Decapolis. (1) We might note the wide reach of the Master's zeal. Jesus had just come from Tyre and Sidon, clear across in a heathen land; He was now in the midst of some Greek settlements, on the eastern shore of the Sea of Tiberius. We see how He appears thus going upon a foreign mission. (2) We might dwell upon the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 7:37

Mark 7:37 Low Estimate of the Church's Work. Let us compare the danger, to which we are open, of taking a low estimate of the Church with the popular view once taken of the ministry of our Blessed Lord. I. There were few, when He was alive on earth, who came to Him in the spirit of Nicodemus, seeking truth. The greater number followed, like the multitude at Capernaum, not because they saw His miracle, but because they ate of the loaves and were filled. Two of the disciples owned how they were... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Mark 7:14-16

DISCOURSE: 1429THE MEANS OF SPIRITUAL DEFILEMENTMark 7:14-16. And when he had called all the people unto him, lie said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: there is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.IT is by no means uncommon to see an excessive attachment to human institutions in those who have very little regard for the... read more

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