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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. Many who, today, seem to be unlikely to be converted, those who are “last” in character, will yet be “first” in repentance; and there who are “first” in privileges, and even in hopefulness, who will be “last” in the great day of account. May we take home to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. Think of the Pharisees being concerned about Christ’s life! What an affectation of regard! Yet it was only affectation. We must always be on our guard against the foes of God even when they speak most fairly; indeed, it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Jesus called Herod a fox because he wanted to get Christ out of his territory without having the opprobrium of driving him away. So he sent this roundabout message to try to make a coward of the Lord, and to get him to go off on his own account. Luk_13:32. Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. What a sad thing for Christ to have to say! So many holy men had been murdered in Jerusalem that he roughly put it as being true, in the main, that all the prophets were martyred there, the exceptions only proving the rule.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killed the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! There was their weakness, they were like a brood of chickens; there was his power to protect them, like a hen gathers her brood under...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. There will be no true glory for Jerusalem until the Jews are converted; there will be no return of Christ to that royal city until they shall welcome him with louder...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
14:1-6. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; — This parable was by far the best part of the entertainment of the day: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be hidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. For, of course, the next room is full, and the next, and the only vacant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room, that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Note that our Saviour was not just then talking to his disciples, or else he would have given more spiritual reasons for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. There is a conspiracy of heaven and earth and hell to put down proud men, neither good nor bad, the highest nor the lowest, can endure those who are self-exalted; but if you are willing to take your right place, which is probably the lowest, you shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbor; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. Our Saviour, you see, keeps to one line of instruction. It was a feast, so he used the feast to teach another lesson. It is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. It should be your ambition to have something set down to your credit “at the resurrection of the just.” If you do someone a kindness with a view to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. Then said he unto him, — As if to prove what a privilege it is to be permitted to “eat bread” there, and that the persons who appear most likely to do so will never taste of it and that the most unlikely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. They had accepted the invitation, so they were pledged to be present but, in the meantime, they had changed their minds with regard to their intended host, and they were unwilling to grace his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. Yet it was supper time, and people do not generally go to see pieces of ground at night; and if the man had bought the land he ought to have seen it before he bought it. People...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. He pretended that he had bought five yoke of oxen without proving them, and that he wanted to prove them after he had bought them, when, of course, he could not cancel the bargain: a likely story! But, when men want to make an excuse, and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. This man did not ask to be excused; he had married a wife, so that settled the matter, of course he could not go to the feast.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Every true servant of Christ should go to his Lord, and tell him what reception his Master’s message has had. After service, we sometimes have an enquirers’ meeting; but after every sermon there ought to be a meeting of the servant with his Lord to tell the result of the errand on which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. They fetched in all the poor people, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind whom they could find, it was a great gathering, and a strange gathering, yet there was still room for more guests at the banquet.