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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. If such there be,¾and there are many who think that they belong to this class,¾they bring no joy to the great Shepherd; but you who have had to mourn over your lost estate set the bells of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? Her thoughts were all concerning that one lost piece. It had not more intrinsic value than the rest, but being lost it called off her attention from the other nine. She valued it, and for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and search diligently till she find it And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, Saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. She might never have called them together to rejoice that she had ten pieces of silver, she might even have hidden them away; and the joy she had in them might have been only her own, a solitary joy;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Not joy among the angels, as some read it, though no doubt that is a truth; but “joy in the presence of the angels of God;” and what can that mean but that God himself rejoices, and rejoices so that angels perceive it; and no doubt they then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. His heart was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that faileth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. It is clear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after — For sin is very rapid in its development, and sinners are often in great haste to get away from God. The young man’s heart was wrong already, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. It was an act...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. Probably,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; There generally does arise” a mighty famine” in such cases. Famines and other miseries are God’s messengers, which he sends after his wandering children. Luk_15:14. And he began to be in want. This was a new sensation to him; he had never known it when he was at home. He did not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. A very degrading employment for him as a Jew;¾perhaps, however, the best that the citizen of that country could do for him, for there was a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And the sinner’s greatest all will be spent one day; the pleasures of sin are but for a season; the strongest sinew in an arm of flesh will one day crack; the flowers that grow in man’s garden will one day fade; man may think he has an eternity of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; And he sent him into his fields to feed swine. At the very best the comforts of this world are ignominious to a man; they degrade him; as it was a very degrading employment for a Jew to feed swine so the comfort the world can give to a man does but degrade his noble spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. Perhaps he did not want to employ him, but said that he would give him that occupation if he cared to accept it. It was small pay, very dishonouring work to a Jew, not fit employment for the son of a nobleman; yet “half a loaf is better than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How ‘many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! “I, his son, perish with hunger, when there is not only enough in my father’s house for his children, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. “He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat,” but he could not, for he was a man, and not one of the swine. Worldlings are happy in their own poor way, and I, for one, never grudge them their husks. One never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him. The prodigal cannot be brought any lower; he is made to herd with the swine, and he envies even them, because they are satisfied with the husks; he cannot eat of the same, and, therefore, he envies even the brutes. Surely, when a sinner becomes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! “My father’s day-labourers have bread enough and to spare, yet I, his child, perish with hunger.”