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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Telling them that the source of his glory would be his death. The reason why the people would hear of him, and come to him, was that he would be hanged on the cross. The grain of wheat, when put into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. The preservation of the corn is the prevention of its increase; but the putting of it into the ground, the losing of it, the burial of it, is the very means of its multiplication. So our Lord Jesus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He knew that he must die, for his living, and preaching, and miracle working would never produce such results as his death would accomplish. He must go down into the ground, out of sight, and there...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that loveth his life shall lose it,.... The sense is, that whoever is so in love with this present temporal life, as to be anxiously careful of it, and takes all precautions to secure it; and rather than to expose it to any danger, chooses to deny the faith of Christ, and desert his cause and interest; as such an one shall not long enjoy this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that loveth his life shall lose it. If you keep yourself to yourself, you will lose yourself. Joh_12:25. And he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. Brethren and sisters in Christ, if we are really to glorify Christ on the earth, we must be willing to lose our reputation, our good name, our comfort, and indeed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; The best service you can render to Christ is to imitate him. If you want to do what will please him do as he did.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. Live for this world, and you shall lose this world and the next, too; live for the world to come, and you shall in the highest sense gain both worlds.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. To hoard your energies will be really to destroy them, like hoarded wheat which in the end becomes useless; but to give up your energies, to expend your life-forces, this is to sow the wheat, and this is the way to ensure the harvest.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that loveth his life shall lose it: and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. It is an honour to be allowed to serve Christ, but God will bestow still further honour upon those...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If any man serve, me,.... Or is willing to be a servant of Christ, and to be esteemed as such; let him follow me; as in the exercise of the graces of love, humility, patience, self-denial, and resignation of will to the will of God, and in the discharge of every duty, walking as he walked, so in a way of suffering; for as the master, so the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my father honour. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. In the 27th verse, our Saviour asked himself the question, “What...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And where I am, there shall also my servant be: You cannot expect better lodgings than that; so, as Christ had to live here amid sorrow, and sin, and shame, you must be willing to do the same; but, as Christ was afterwards exalted to indescribable honour, so shall it be with you if you are his true servant Joh_12:26. If any man serve me, him will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man serve me, let him follow me; That is the best kind of service; to do what Christ did, and to do what Christ bids you do: “If any man serve me, let him follow me.” Joh_12:26. And where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. Follow Christ, then, to the cross; follow him to the grave; follow...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in, this world shall keep it unto life eternal. His love is ruinous to his true life; but to destroy self-love, to make a sacrifice of ourselves, is the truest way really to preserve ourselves.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. This seems to be a sort of rehearsal of the dread scene soon to be enacted in Gethsemane. At...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man serve me, let him follow me; Do not let him invent some new method of service: “Let him follow me.” If you would do Christ a service, it cannot be by will-worship, or by any way of your own devising: “If any man serve me, let him follow me.” Joh_12:26. And where l am, there shall also my servant be: “He shall be with me in tribulation;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now is my soul troubled,.... At the hardness and unbelief of the Jews, and the rejection of them, when the Gentiles would be called, and converted, by which he would be glorified: and at the conduct and carriage of his disciples to him, he had a foreknowledge of; at the betraying of him by one, and the denial of him by another, and the flight of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. There was a conflict in the Saviour’s heart, — the weakness of his true manhood — striving with the strength of his infinite affection to his people, and also to his Father. We must never forget that He “was in all points...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now is my soul troubled; Or, puzzled. This hour of his glory was the hour of his passion, too. Joh_12:27. And what shall I say? Such sorrow was in his heart that he asked, “What shall I say?” Great trouble brings astonishment, amazement, bewilderment with it; and the human soul of Christ felt as ours feels when in great agony. Joh_12:27. Father,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Often, my brethren, should we be checked in prayer if we would be as wise as our Lord. “What shall I say? Shall I ask to be delivered from sickness? Shall I ask that I may not endure the troubles, which are the common lot of...