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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. “Bring in highway-men and hedge-birds, those that have no place whereon to lay their heads; fetch them in by force if necessary, ‘that my house may be filled.’”
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. The Pharisees and scribes formed the outside ring of Christ’s hearers, but the inner circle consisted of the guilty, the heavy-laden, and the lowly. They pressed as near to Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered around him. They knew who it was that smiled upon them, and who would fain uplift them; so they came clustering around him, like bees fly to the flowers: “Then drew...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then drew near unto him and the publicans and sinner, for to hear him, and the Pharisees, and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake this parable unto them, The deepest feelings of our Saviour’s heart seem to have been brought out by the two classes of persons here mentioned, his pity and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. Where bees come, wasps often come, too. This murmuring of the Pharisees and scribes was after their nature; they were so proud, so wrapped up in themselves, they thought so contemptuously of everybody else, that they dared even to despise him whose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto them, saying, There are three parables here; but, inasmuch as it is called “this parable”, it is really only one. It is a picture in three panels, representing the same scene from different points of view.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto them, saying, This is really a picture in three panels,¾a parable with three variations.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, what man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing: And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friend and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? It has a new importance in his eyes, for it is lost. Before, it was only one of a hundred in the fold; but now it is one distinct and separate from all the rest, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. No doubt he was glad that the other sheep were not lost; but that joy was, for a while, quite eclipsed in the more striking and...