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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them. It is very hard to kill unbelief, it has more lives than a cat is supposed to possess. There is no end to it, and if men sit down and indulge in it, and look upon it as an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them. Unbelief is not easily driven out of even true disciples; but let none of us ever harbor it in our hearts. As we see how unbelieving these disciples were, and know how wrong...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. The story of our Lord’s appearance to the disciples is more fully told by Luke in the twenty-fourth chapter of his Gospel, to which let us turn. This...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, — Christ is full of love to them, yet he must upbraid them, he loves them, but he loves not their unbelief; nay, he is more vexed with unbelief in them than in other people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. That commission of our Lord makes me smile, for it seems such a curious cure for unbelief, yet I have proved the usefulness of it many a time. There have I been sitting down, fretting and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. This is a weighty message for us to carry, and we have need to carry it with due solemnity, with our hearts on fire with love.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. The apostles and the early Christians had these miraculous signs, there was no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. The disciples were not at once received up into heaven, though they might have been if God had so willed it, there was work for them to do here below, so Christ alone “was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God;” and as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. These last verses of Mark’s Gospel have, as some of you know, been questioned as to their inspiration and authenticity, but they are so like Mark that you cannot read them without feeling that they are part and parcel of...