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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. I suppose that he was not “an hungered” during his long fast, and this renders it a fast altogether by itself. We are here told, “He was afterward an hungered.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, See how Satan seizes opportunities. When he finds us weak, as the Saviour was through long fasting; — when he finds us in trying circumstances, as the Saviour was when hungry in the desert; — then it is that he comes to tempt us. This...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. “Thou canst do it if thou art indeed the Son of God. Thou art an hungered, therefore feed thyself, Thy Father has forgotten thee, his providence has failed thee; be thine own providence, work a miracle for thyself.” How little the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made into bread. He begins with an “if.” He tries to cast a doubt upon the Saviour’s Sonship, and this is the way that he often attacks a child of God now. He says to him, “If thou be a son of God, do so-and-so.” He challenged Christ to work a miracle for himself, — to use his divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. He had been attached as a man who was hungering, so he quoted a text which evidently belonged to man: “Man shall not live by bread alone.” It was a wilderness text; it concerned the children of Israel in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said, It is written, — That is the only sword that Christ used against Satan, — “the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” There is nothing like it; and the old dragon himself knows what sharp edges this sword has. Christ said, “It is written,” — Mat_4:4. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. “It is written.” Thus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple. And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,— Here he plays with the Word of God, for the devil can quote Scripture when it suits his purpose to do so: “It is written,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. The devil did not quote correctly from Psa_91:11-12; he left out the most important words: “He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways,” but it was not Christ’s way to cast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus said onto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Here was a plain, positive precept, which clearly forbade Christ to tempt God by such a presumptuous action as casting himself down from the pinnacle of the temple; and we must always follow the precepts of Scripture whatever the tempter may say.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. I know some people, who earn their living in employments which are very hazardous to their immortal souls. They are in the midst of evil, yet they tell me that God can keep them in safety there. I know that he can, but I also know that we have no right to go,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; Notice that these temptations were in high places. Alas! high places are often full of trial, whether they be places of wealth and rank, or of eminent service in the Church of God. A pinnacle is a dangerous...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Why, they were Christ’s already! They never belonged to Satan; and, though for a while he had to some extent usurped authority over them, it was like his impudence to offer to give away what was not his own.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Let the bribe be what it may, thou must not worship or serve either thyself or the devil. Thy God alone claims thy homage; and if the whole earth might be thine through one act of sin, thou would not be justified...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him. What a change! When the devil goes, the angels come. Perhaps some of you are just now sorely tempted and much troubled. Oh, that you might speedily come to Mahanaim, of which we read, “And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him;” that there you might be met...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Regarding it as their highest honour to be the servants of their Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: that it might he fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; the people which sat in darkness saw...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He was not afraid to give an earnest exhortation to sinners, and to bid men repent. He knew better than we do the inability of men concerning all that is good, yet he bade them repent.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son...