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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? I do not know what worse names they might give to us than they gave to our master,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? The name, Beelzebub or Beelzebul, meaning the god of filth, or as some say, the god of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
]f they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? But they cannot call them any more or any worse. They have given our Master the blackest of all the epithet, and any hard and opprobrious titles that can ever be applied to us must fall short of these which were applied to him. Surely we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. When men slander you, they cannot take away your good name before God. There will be a resurrection of reputations as well as a resurrection of bodies; and good men, though their good names lie deeply buried, will certainly have a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. They may cover your name and character with temporary dishonour, but the covering will break off soon. Like fire hidden under autumn leaves, it will burn up by-and-by, and there will be a resurrection of reputations, as well as of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. “They will misrepresent you, slander you, and speak evil of you; but if your good name be covered up now, it shall be revealed one of these days, perhaps in this life; but if not in this life, certainly at the day of judgment, when the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. There must first he that quiet lonely hearing,-that calm still sitting at the Master’s feet to learn the lesson; and then afterwards must come the brave telling of it out,-speaking out though kings should hear, and never being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. There is a secret learning, but there must be a public teaching. Christ takes us aside to reveal himself, that afterwards we may boldly go forth to others, and tell them what we have learned in private. Oh! child of God, if you have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. This is what we are to preach, what Christ tells us, and this is how we are to get the matter of our discourses, be alone with Christ, let him talk to us in the darkness, in the quietude of the closet where we commune with him in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Oh! fearful destruction! This is what we may well fear — both body and soul, to undergo everlasting ruin, broken in pieces and destroyed as to all excellency, and happiness, and peace,. This we may fear.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. A philosopher — Anaxarchus, I think it was, — was wont to say when a certain tyrant had threatened to kill him, “You cannot kill me; you may crush this body, but you cannot touch Anaxarchus.” So fear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. He over-rules all things, the least as well as the greatest. We see his hand in the tempest, and we look at the black wing of the storm and see that God rides it. But the wing of the tiny sparrows, so insignificant in value, is equally...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So, then, God takes more care of us than we take of ourselves. You never heard of a man who numbered the hairs of his head. Men number their sheep and their cattle, but the Christian is so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Minute is the providence of God, taking care of you, even as to that part of your person which is not vital, and without which you could still live on. “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” The tiniest and most insignificant benefits are all ordered by ,his eternal purpose.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows, Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, And you see from the connection, that here the denying means not confessing. “Whosoever shall deny me before men.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. What a glorious promise is this! “I will confess him to have been bought with my blood, I will confess him to have been my faithful follower and friend I will confess him to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. You own Christ here, and Christ will own you there. Dare to bear reproach for him, and you shall be glorified together with him by-and-by,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. The attempt, therefore, to avoid all publicity in religion — to endeavor to slink into heaven by the back gate — to somehow or other find an underground road to salvation, is a futile attempt. Christ requires that we should own him, seeing that he so graciously owns us. He puts it as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Not to confess Christ is practically to deny him, not to follow him is to go away from him; not to be with him is to be against him. Looking at this matter of confessing Christ in that light, there is cause for solemn self-examination by all who...