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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. He cared for nobody but himself. He was concerned about his own peace of mind. The poor woman could win, through his selfishness, what she could not get from his sense of justice, since that had no weight with him. Her importunity won for her what...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord said,.... The Lord Jesus Christ, who delivered out this parable to his disciples: hear what the unjust judge saith; and take encouragement from hence to be frequent and importunate in prayer with God; for if such a cruel, merciless, and unjust judge is to be wrought upon by importunity to do justice, who has no principle to influence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. He is unjust, but he is obliged to be just now. He is hard-hearted, but he is compelled to yield. The widow has conquered him, not by her money, but by her importunity. She is there so often that she troubles him, and he says he must give in, and grant her request.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which I cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? He is no unjust judge; he is One who is perfectly holy, and just, and true, and who appears in a nearer and dearer character than that of judge, even as the One who chose his people from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith, and shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth. God will hear the earnest, united, persistent cries of his people. His...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And shall not God avenge his own elect,.... Who are a select number, a special people, whom he has loved with an everlasting love, so as of his own sovereign good will and pleasure to choose in his Son Jesus Christ unto everlasting life and salvation, through certain ways and means of his own appointing, hence they are peculiarly his: and these he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? He may seem to be slow about it; but when his people cry to him, he will hear them ultimately if he does not at once. Do not imagine that the children of God will always be laughed at, and downtrodden. God will yet arise, and take their side....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily,.... As he did in a few years after the death of Christ, when God's elect among the Jews were singled out, and gathered in from them, and were delivered from their persecutors, and saved from temporal ruin and destruction, whilst the Roman army made sad havoc of their enemies; and so will he do in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? If anybody could find it, he would, for he creates it all, and he knows where to look for it; yet there is so little of it that even he, whose eyes can detect the faith that is as small as a grain of mustard seed, can scarcely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? If anybody can find it, he can, for he is the Creator of it; yet, when he comes, there will be so little of it in proportion to what he deserves, and so little in proportion to the lovingkindness of the Lord, that it will seem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Faith enough to make such prayers as this; faith enough to pray with importunity? Oh, if we had faith enough to resolve to have a blessing, and determined never to cease crying to God until we had it, we should have far more...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he spake this parable unto certain,.... Or with respect to certain men; having a view to them, in order to expose their pride, vanity, arrogance, and self confidence: which trusted in themselves that they were righteous; or, as if they were righteous; or because they were so in their own eyes, and in the esteem of others: the ground of their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; They were both alike in going up to the temple, but they were very different in coming back from the temple. It is a very important thing to come to the house of God in a right state of heart;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: It seems as if these two things went together, and that, as our esteem of ourselves goes up, our esteem of others goes down; the scales seem to work that way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Two men went up into the temple to pray, Which is called an house of prayer, Isaiah 56:7 the Jews had a mighty notion of praying in a place of religious worship, as in the temple, or in a synagogue; imagining that their prayers were more acceptable to God, and sooner heard by him in such a place than in private: "the prayers of the congregation,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. A tax-gatherer, one of the most hated people in Christ’s day, because none but the lowest class of Jews would collect taxes for the Romans; and as a general rule, they farmed the taxes, and greatly increased them by demanding of the people much more than was due. They were therefore held in the worst...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Two men went up into the temple to pray; It was the place that was specially dedicated for prayer; it was the place where God had promised to meet with suppliants. They did well, in those days, to go up into the temple to pray to God, though, in these days, — “Where’er we seek him he is found, And every place is hallowed ground.” It is sheer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. It is possible that this was all true; we have no indication that he was a hypocrite, and if what he said was true, there was something in it...