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  HIS BOW ABODE IN STRENGTH
  by C.H. Spurgeon
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Summary: C.H. Spurgeon's sermon emphasizes the divine strength provided
by God to His people, particularly in times of temptation and trial,
through the covenant relationship exemplified by Joseph's experience.

Topics: "God's Covenant", "Divine Strength"
Scripture References: Genesis 49:24, Psalm 18:32, Psalm 28:7, Isaiah 41:10, Romans 8:31, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Ephesians 6:10, Philippians 4:13, Hebrews 13:5-6, 1 Peter 5:10

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C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes that the true strength given by God to His
faithful, like Joseph, is not mere bravado but a genuine, divine
empowerment. This strength enables believers to resist temptation and is
a result of God's intimate involvement, as He supports and strengthens
them like a father does with his child. Spurgeon highlights the
significance of God's covenant with Jacob, which assures Christians that
all blessings and grace flow from this divine promise. Even in the face
of adversity, believers can find assurance in their strength, as it is
rooted in the mighty God of Jacob. Ultimately, all glory must be given
to God for the strength He provides.

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That strength which God gives to His Josephs is real strength; it is not
a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but which ends
in smoke; it is true--divine strength. Why does Joseph stand against
temptation? Because God gives him aid. There is nought that we can do
without the power of God. All true strength comes from "the mighty God
of Jacob." Notice in what a blessedly familiar way God gives this
strength to Joseph--"The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands
of the mighty God of Jacob."

Thus God is represented as putting His hands on Joseph's hands, placing
His arms on Joseph's arms. Like as a father teaches his children, so the
Lord teaches them that fear Him. He puts His arms upon them. Marvellous
condescension! God Almighty, Eternal, Omnipotent, stoops from His throne
and lays His hand upon the child's hand, stretching His arm upon the arm
of Joseph, that he may be made strong! This strength was also covenant
strength, for it is ascribed to "the mighty God of Jacob."

Now, wherever you read of the God of Jacob in the Bible, you should
remember the covenant with Jacob. Christians love to think of God's
covenant. All the power, all the grace, all the blessings, all the
mercies, all the comforts, all the things we have, flow to us from the
well-head, through the covenant. If there were no covenant, then we
should fail indeed; for all grace proceeds from it, as light and heat
from the sun. No angels ascend or descend, save upon that ladder which
Jacob saw, at the top of which stood a covenant God. Christian, it may
be that the archers have sorely grieved you, and shot at you, and
wounded you, but still your bow abides in strength; be sure, then, to
ascribe all the glory to Jacob's God.

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