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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold he is in the desert;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. When HE comes, we shall know who he is, and why he has come. There will be no longer any mystery or secret about “the coming of the Son of man.” There will be no need to ad: any questions then; no one will make a mistake...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For whersoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Judaism had become a “carcass”, dead and corrupt; fit prey for the cultures or carrion-kites of Rome. By-and-by, there will arrive another day, when there will be a dead church in a dead world, and “the eagles” of divine judgment “will be gathered together” to tear in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. That he will come, is certain. That his coming may be at any moment, is equally sure; and, therefore, we ought to be always ready for his appearing. The Lord mate us to be so!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Perhaps you can imagine how eagerly the householder watches when he expects thieves. Every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Doing whatever the Master has appointed him to do; if he be a minister, preaching the truth with all his heart; if he be a teacher, endeavoring to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. There are rewards for faithful service; — not of debt, but of grace; — not according to the law, but according to the discipline of the house of God. Oh, that we may be such faithful servants that our Lord may make us rulers over all that he has!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that, he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. There did not seem to be much difference between...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, And five were foolish. What a division this makes in the visible Church of God! Let as hope that we are not to gather from this that as many as half the professors of Christianity at any time are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: They thought that, if they had the external, it would be quite enough. The secret store of oil, they judged to be unnecessary, because it would be unseen. They would employ one hand in carrying the lamp, but to occupy the other hand by holding the oil-flask seemed to them to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Oil in their lamps, and oil with their lamps. Lamps are of no use without oil; yet the oil needs the lamp, or else it cannot be rightly used. The light of profession cannot be truly sustained without the oil of grace. Grace, wherever it exists, ought to show itself, as the oil is made to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Oh, how sadly true it is that, sometimes, true saints as well as mere professors slumber and sleep! Even those who have the oil of grace are not always wide awake to serve their Master, and to proclaim the gospel as they should. There are, alas! sleeping believers and sleeping hypocrites...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Both the wise and the foolish fell into a state which seemed alike in them both. In the case of good men, Christ’s delaying his coming often causes disappointment, weariness, and then lethargy, and even the true Church falls into a deep slumber. In the foolish, the mere professors, this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. They were suddenly awakened, and they leaped to their feet,— Upstarting at the midnight cry, ‘Behold the heavenly Bridegroom nigh!’ They all trimmed their lamps. That was the first thing for them to do,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And at midnight When things had come to the worst,—at midnight”— the coldest and. darkest hour, when everybody was asleep. Mat_25:6. There was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. That was a cry which startled everybody; none of the virgins could sleep when once it was announced that the bridegroom was coming. I wish,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. They could not sleep any longer; they were fairly startled and aroused.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. The modern rendering of this request is, “Send for the minister, and ask him to pray for us, for our lamps are gone out.” Take heed, I pray you, you who are bold professors now,— lest you should have to say at the last, “Our lamps are gone out.” It was too late...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; Ah, me! now they began to value what they had aforetime despised. They were foolish enough to think that oil was unnecessary; but now they saw that it was the one essential thing, so they cried to the wise virgins, “Give us of your oil.” And hear the dreadful reason: — Mat_25:8. For our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; test there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; — There are death-bed repentances, undoubtedly; but I fear that, in the great majority of cases, people who wake up so late will find that, while they go to...