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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? See, brethren, our position as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? This world is the place of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. Do you take off your hat to your servants, and say, “I am very grateful to you for doing your duty”? Not so. And even be who serves God best, may he expect honour as his due? Ah! no; he shall have honour because of the grace of his Master; but it is not his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. When the serving-man has done his day’s work, his master does not say, “I am very grateful to you, John, for what you have done for me.” He will have his wages, they will be his master’s thanks.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. And who shall praise us for that? The most self-denying servant of the Saviour, the most ardent labourer for the Lord, will expect nothing of God except to be blessed by his abounding...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. “When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you.” Ah! but we have not come anywhere near that yet; even if we had, we should still be “unprofitable servants.” In our mind...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: Lepers were allowed to enter villages, but not to go into the large walled towns. They were, however, commanded to stand at a certain distance...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. There is but One of whom we will think tonight, our divine Lord, who was on his way to Jerusalem. Passing along the frontiers of Samaria and Galilee, he had the Jews on one side of him, and the Samaritans on the other. He took a middle course, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers which stood afar off: Leprosy was very common in Palestine in Christ’s day. How thankful we ought to be that, in this country, at any rate, it has almost entirely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, Oh, the abundance of human misery that met the Saviour’s eye: “ten men that were lepers”! I was reading only yesterday of what happened in Westminster, many years ago. When the king went along the highway, there were crowds of poor lepers on either side of the road,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, go show yourselves unto the priests. There was a tacit promise in that they should be healed, for, of course, the showing themselves to the priests was not that they might be pronounced unclean, for they were so pronounced already...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they lifted up their voices, Not much of voices were they likely to have, for the leprosy dries the throat, and the voice is low and husky, and when lepers cry, “Unclean, unclean,” it is an awfully sad sound, but very weak. These ten lepers lifted up their poor voices. Luk_17:13. And said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. They raised a plain...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. For no man could be pronounced clean even if he were healed, until he had undergone the ceremony prescribed in the Mosaic law. These lepers were to go to the priests just as they were, so their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. He was probably the only one out of the ten that was a Samaritan. Though Jews and Samaritans did not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw them, Even before he heard them, he saw their pitiable condition. Luk_17:14. He said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. That is all Jesus said to the lepers: “Go shew yourselves unto the priests.” They were not to go to the priests till they were clean, for the priests could not heal them. It was the healed man who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. What a wonderful thing that must have been!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, They all saw that they were healed, and they all must have felt extremely glad. Oh, the happiness of feeling the hot blood cooled, and full health taking the place of languor and disease! Luk_17:15. Turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God. This was a sure sign that he was healed, that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. One of those off-casts and out-casts that the Jews would not own, — one of the men that they said were of a mongrel breed, — only half Israelite and half idolater. “O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fell down, on his face at his feet, giving him thanks When I read these words just now, I thought, that is where I would like to be, and that is what I would like to do, all my life, to fall down, “at his feet, giving him thanks.” Luk_17:16. And he was a Samaritan. Ah, me! nine of the seed of Israel were ungrateful, and only one poor outcast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save the stranger. Often those who are thought to be the worst of people turn out the best. Many of the most precious pearls have been found in the deepest sea; and some of the most grateful hearts have been...