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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which I cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? He is no unjust judge; he is One who is perfectly holy, and just, and true, and who appears in a nearer and dearer character than that of judge, even as the One who chose his people from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith, and shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth. God will hear the earnest, united, persistent cries of his people. His...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? He may seem to be slow about it; but when his people cry to him, he will hear them ultimately if he does not at once. Do not imagine that the children of God will always be laughed at, and downtrodden. God will yet arise, and take their side....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? If anybody could find it, he would, for he creates it all, and he knows where to look for it; yet there is so little of it that even he, whose eyes can detect the faith that is as small as a grain of mustard seed, can scarcely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? If anybody can find it, he can, for he is the Creator of it; yet, when he comes, there will be so little of it in proportion to what he deserves, and so little in proportion to the lovingkindness of the Lord, that it will seem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Faith enough to make such prayers as this; faith enough to pray with importunity? Oh, if we had faith enough to resolve to have a blessing, and determined never to cease crying to God until we had it, we should have far more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; They were both alike in going up to the temple, but they were very different in coming back from the temple. It is a very important thing to come to the house of God in a right state of heart;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: It seems as if these two things went together, and that, as our esteem of ourselves goes up, our esteem of others goes down; the scales seem to work that way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. A tax-gatherer, one of the most hated people in Christ’s day, because none but the lowest class of Jews would collect taxes for the Romans; and as a general rule, they farmed the taxes, and greatly increased them by demanding of the people much more than was due. They were therefore held in the worst...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Two men went up into the temple to pray; It was the place that was specially dedicated for prayer; it was the place where God had promised to meet with suppliants. They did well, in those days, to go up into the temple to pray to God, though, in these days, — “Where’er we seek him he is found, And every place is hallowed ground.” It is sheer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. It is possible that this was all true; we have no indication that he was a hypocrite, and if what he said was true, there was something in it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. So it is evident that he noticed one person who was there, though I do not find that the publican took any notice of him. We can tell by this remark that the mind of the Pharisee was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. There his prayer ended, and he stood in a most enviable state of contentment, delighted with himself, lost in the contemplation of his own ineffable purity. I think I see him in all his glory, yet I quickly turn to the other part of the temple, further away from the most sacred place,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. Observe that there is no prayer in all that the Pharisee said. There was a great deal of self-righteousness and self-congratulation; but nothing else. There was certainly no prayer at all in it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the publican, standing afar off, — Not afar off from the Pharisee only, but afar off from the sacred shrine, the innermost temple, as if unworthy to be there at all: “the publican, standing afar off,” — Luk_18:13. Would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, — That throne of the Highest, — as if even a glance from his unholy eyes might...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. The great Lord and Master acts as he would have his true servants do. It was said of some of them that they turned the world upside...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the publican, standing afar off, — Just on the edge of the crowd, keeping as far away as he could from the most holy place, — Luk_18:13. Would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. That was all prayer; it was a prayer for mercy, it was a prayer in which the suppliant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. “The sinner,” it should be; it is so emphatically in the Greek. There is a Pharisee, the righteous man according to his own estimate, and all the rest were sinners. Here is the publican, he is...