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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head, of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And, at this day, we Gentiles enjoy the privileges of the gospel, while poor...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: If you stumble over Christ, the chief Corner-stone of God’s building, you will be broken in pieces. If you reject him, you shall suffer serious loss. Mat_21:44. But on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. If you arouse the wrath of Christ, and the Rock of ages falls on...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. Unhappy peop1e, to reject him who alone could bless them, and yet to stand in fear of trim whom they tried to despise! Let it not be so with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Observe, that it was a king who made this wedding feast; therefore, to refuse to come to it when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again he sent forth other servants,- Perhaps, in the kindness of his heart, he thought that the first servants, whom he sent, were somewhat offensive in their manner; and that, therefore, the guests would not come; just as it may be that some of you will never receive the gospel from one minister, for you have a prejudice against his way of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, Tell them, which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. The great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the king came in to see the guests, For whom he had provided sumptuous garments suitable for the wedding,-for, as we provide what is supposed to be appropriate array for mourners at a funeral, so, in the East, they provide, on a much larger scale, suitable apparel for wedding guests. Mat_22:11. He saw there a man, which had not on a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. He could give no reply; the king’s presence awed him into silence.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. You may manage to get into the church even though you are not converted; but if you are not trusting in Christ, you are not saved, and your false profession will only make your destruction...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For many are called, but few are chosen. All who hear the gospel are called, but the call does not come with equal power to every heart. And with some, the power with which it comes is not that which saves; it only convinces the intellect, so that an outward homage is paid to the Word, and the inward obedience of the soul is not rendered to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? This is Christ’s utterance, let me remind you. Our modern preachers would not talk like this, even to scribes and Pharisees who were crucifying Christ afresh, and putting Him to an open flame. They would search the dictionary...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: Which they did; the servants of Christ were thus worried and harried all over the land.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. So they did. The destruction of Jerusalem was more terrible than anything that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. What a picture of pity and disappointed love the king’s face must have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. This exposition consisted of readings from Mat_23:29-39; and Mat_24:1-21.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. Ah, me! the rejected king took but slight interest in the temple of which his disciples thought so much. To them the appearance was glorious; but to their Lord it was a sad sight. His Father’s house, which ought to have been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciple came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. The King, having finished his first discourse in the temple,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And it was so. Josephus tells us that Titus at first tried to save the temple, even after it was set on fire, but his efforts were of no avail; and at last he gave orders that the whole...