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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophet, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. They pretended to have such regard for the holy men of the past that, being unable to honour them in person, they would set up monuments...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shalt slay and persecute: that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. This “Woe” is similar to that pronounced upon the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, and it was a terrible charge to be brought against them by him who could read their hearts, and who could truthfully say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he said these tidings unto them, the scribe, and Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. Thus they proved the truth of the accusations that he had brought against them; but all their plots and traps...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy, however, of a kind that was calculated to spread, like leaven. If you know that a man is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid; that shall not be known. What,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. For many a day, the hypocrite’s true character may not be discovered but there is a day coming that will reveal all secrets; and woe unto the man whose sin is laid bare in that day!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. It would be well if we all lived in such a fashion that we should not be ashamed to have everything we did placarded on the very sky. I have heard of one who said that he would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: fear him, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. And how brave we shall be if we fear God! It is well put in that psalm which we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God ? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. God does not forget the sparrows, but he regards you with far greater interest and care, for he counts the very hairs of your head. He not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So particular is the care of divine providence.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. And if he counts the sparrows, and cares for them, he certainly will not forget you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: but he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. What courage this ought to give us! In company where the very name of Christ is kicked about like a football, — where everything is respected except...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: but he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. Mind what you are at, then, you who never confess Christ before men; because, according to the connection of this passage, you are set down as having...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. This is one of the very difficult texts of Holy Scripture. We are told, in 1Jn_5:16, that “there is a sin unto death,” and I would have you very chary of ever daring to trifle with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. What is the sin against the Holy Ghost? We do not know, and I think it is a great mercy that we do not know. I will tell you one reason why I think it is a great mercy, and that is,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, — That is to say, the persecutors, — “when they bring you there, to be tried for your lives, as many have been in past ages, and some still are,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. I have often been amazed and delighted with the remarkable answers which were given to bishops and priests by poor humble men and women who were on trial for their lives. Perhaps you remember that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. He has often done this. If you will read, in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, the answers given even by unlearned, illiterate men...