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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. The seed cannot grow in such soil as that. The man is too busy, or he is wholly taken up with pleasure; the women are too proud...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty fold, some sixty, and some an hundred. All converts are not equally good. I am afraid that, in our churches, there is a large number of the thirty-fold people. We are glad to have them, but they are not very brilliant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? So this wheat, then, is meant to be sown; the Word of God is intended to be spread. “Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed?” If it were put under a bed, it would set the bed on fire; and so, if you have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
, For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Tell out, then, what God has told to you; and let everybody hear from you the truth as you yourself have heard it. See the compound interest that there is to be in this blessed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. When the gospel is not received, when a man refuses it, it becomes a positive loss to him....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude,-- Telling them that Christ would give them no more instruction that day, and that they had better go back to their homes. There are some preachers who have great gifts of dispersion, it does not take them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They took him even a he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. Christ was Lord High Admiral of the Galilean lake that night, and he had quite a little fleet of vessels around his flagship.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there arose a great storm of wind,-- Our friend, John Macgregor, “Rob Roy,” tells us that the lake is subject to very sudden and severe storms; it lies in a deep hollow, and down from the surrounding ravines and valleys the air comes with a tremendous rush seldom experienced even upon a real sea; for this was, of course, only a lake though...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he waves in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: He was quite at home upon the wild waves,-“Rocked in the cradle of the deep,”-for winds and waves were but his Father’s servants, obeying his commands. “He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow;” doubtless weary and worn with the labours of the day. We do not always...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind,-- It was boisterous and noisy, and he bade it obey its Master’s will;
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said unto the sea, Peace, be still. Can you not almost fancy that you can hear that commanding voice addressing the raging, roaring, tumultuous winds and waves? Mar_4:39. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Not only was the wind quieted, and the sea hushed to slumber, but a deep, dead, mysterious calm transformed the lake into a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto them,- When he had calmed the winds and the waves, he had to speak to another fickle set, more fickle than either winds or waves: “and he said unto them,”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly,-- They went from one fear to another, but this time it was the fear of awe-a hallowed dread of what might happen to a ship which had “oh a mysterious Person on board. Though there was probably in their minds no fear of death, it seemed to them a fearsome thing to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? Blessed God-man, we worship and adore thee!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. Our Lord crossed the Sea of Galilee on purpose to rescue this poor man from the power of the unclean spirit that possessed him. He knew that there were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. They had had a very eventful passage across that small but stormy sea, and Christ had proved himself to be the Lord High Admiral of the seas; but now that he steps ashore they are to see his power quite as distinctly displayed as upon the stormy wave.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Those ancient graveyards were in remote places, for the people were too wise to bury their dead inside their cities. Very often, the tombs were hewn in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains; because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. See how the world deals with furiously guilty men. It tries to fetter them, or else to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. Poor creature! His howlings must have made night hideous...