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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. They were invited, yet they would not come; but others shall come, and fill the tables, and the great feast shall be furnished with guests. No provisions of mercy will ever be wasted. If you who are the sons and daughters of godly parents, or you who are the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there went great multitudes with him,.... From Galilee, as he journeyed from thence to Jerusalem; some for one thing, and some another, and all perhaps were in expectation of his setting up a temporal kingdom when he came there; and hoped they should share, more or less, the worldly advantages of it; for the whole nation was big with such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there went great multitudes with him: During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a king; but you must have observed that he was always faithful in speaking to the populace, he did not flatter them. He dealt in the same fashion also with those who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he turned, and said unto them, If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Do not misunderstand this passage. Our Lord does not use the word “hate” in our common acceptation of the term, for no man would hate his own life;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If any man come to me,.... Not in a corporeal, but in a spiritual way; nor barely to hear him preach; but so come, as that he believes in him, applies to him for grace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation; professes to be his, submits to his ordinances, and desires to be a disciple of his; and hate not his father and mother, and wife and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whosoever doth not bear his cross,.... All reproach, afflictions, persecutions, and death itself, cheerfully and patiently; the Ethiopic version renders it, "of his death the cross"; it signifies whatever is trying and disagreeable to flesh and blood: and come after me; bearing his cross; as Christ himself was about to do, and which doubtless he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. If there is any cross-bearing involved in Christianity, — such as the cross of holy living, or the cross of believing old-fashioned doctrines, and not being “abreast of the times,” — if there is any sort of cross which is involved in the conscientious discharge of our...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For which of you intending to build a tower,.... Taking up a profession of Christ and his Gospel, is like building a tower; which, as a tower, must be laid on a good foundation; not on carnal descent and parentage; nor on a sober and religious education; nor on a civil, moral life and conversation; nor on a bare knowledge of Gospel truths and a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Do you not think that there are a great...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation,.... Has begun to build, has taken up a profession, has submitted to ordinances, and got into a church state: and is not able to finish it; a foundation may be laid, and the building may never be finished, because the foundation is not laid right; was it, it would continue, and the building go on, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Saying, this man began to build,.... He set out well, he promised great things, and made a considerable bluster and stir, as if he would carry things at once to a very high pitch: and was not able to finish; it was all noise and talk, and nothing else: falling off from a profession of religion, exposes men to contempt and scorn; such are not only...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or what king going to make war against another king,.... Our Lord illustrates the same thing, the business of a profession, by another similitude, or parable; taking up a profession of religion, is like to two kings engaging in a war. The king on the one side, is the Christian professor; true believers are kings, they have the apparel of kings,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. If you cannot fight the world, the flesh, and the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or else, while the other is a great way off,.... Upon his march, with resolution to come up and give battle, though as yet at a distance: he sendeth an ambassage; or men, with an embassy to him: and desireth conditions of peace; greatly to his disadvantage and reproach: so to give out, and leave off fighting with sin, Satan, and the world, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So likewise whosoever he be of you,.... Let him be ever so forward to follow me, to make a profession of me and of my Gospel, and to become a disciple of mine: that forsaketh not all that he hath; when called to it, relations, friends, possessions, estates, and what not, which is an explanation of Lu 14:26 he cannot be my disciple; he is not in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. In Christ’s days, and afterwards, discipleship usually involved the absolute giving up of everything that his followers had, for those were times of persecution; and if such seasons should come to us, we must have such love to Christ that, for his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Salt is good,.... [See comments on Matthew 5:13], [See comments on Mr 10:50].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Christianity is good; but if the very life has gone out of it, what can you do with it? A dead professor is the most corrupt thing under heaven. Some there are who think that God’s salt can lose its savor, and yet get it back again. I remember one who told me that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
It is neither fit for the land,.... For the manuring of it, when it has lost its savour and spirit; otherwise it makes land fruitful, if too much is not used, and especially fixed salts have this use; though Pliny says (o), "every place in which salt is found, it is barren and brings forth nothing.'' Nor yet for the dunghill; to mix with dung, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. A dead profession of religion is utterly useless; and if it could be possible that a man should be really quickened by the Spirit of God, and yet that the new life should depart from him, he would be in a hopeless case indeed. Luk_14:35. He that hath ears to hear, let...