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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. In that saying of our Lord we have an explanation of what he did by his redemption. There was a universal aspect of it: “Thou hast given him power over all flesh.” There was a special design in it: “That he should give eternal life to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Some people seem unable to see that there is perfect harmony between the general and the particular aspects of Christ’s atonement. As the one Mediator between God and men, he has absolute power over all men, to do with them as he wills,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. I think this verse is a solution of the problem about general redemption and particular redemption. Christ, by his death, has obtained power over all flesh. There is a universality about his redemption, but the object of it still was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And this is life eternal,.... That is, the beginning and pledge of it, the way unto it, and means of it, and what will certainly issue in it: that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The knowledge of God here spoken of, is not the knowledge of him by the light of nature, and works of creation; for a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. To know God, is eternal life. If you know God, if you know Jesus Christ whom he has sent, you are spiritually quickened. That knowledge has brought to you, nay, it is, in itself, the new life: “This is life eternal,” — not life for a few...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. No man has life eternal, then, who is in ignorance of God, and of his Son, Jesus Christ; but once to know God, and to know Christ, is sure evidence that we possess a life that can never die: “This is life eternal.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. This does not mean mere head-knowledge; but to know in the heart and soul the one only true God, and Jesus Christ who was sent of him to the sons of men, “this is life eternal.” God without Christ brings not eternal life, and Christ, if he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The knowledge of God, and the knowledge of the Messiah, the Sent One, — this is not only life, but it is life that can never die: “This is life eternal.” Have you, dear friend, received this eternal life? Do you know the only true God? Do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Dost thou really know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, his Son? Hast thou been brought into such familiar acquaintance with God as to accept Jesus Christ as thy Saviour? Then, thou hast eternal life, and thou mayest rejoice that thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. By this, then, dear friends, we can know whether we have eternal life or not. Do we know the Father? Do we know Jesus Christ as the Messiah the Sent One? Are we resting in that blessed knowledge? If so, he has given to us eternal life.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. So that the only way to obtain eternal life is to know God the Father and God the Son, and the best way to know them is to ask God the Holy Spirit to teach us what is revealed concerning them in the Sacred Scriptures which he inspired holy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. To know God in the sense of being acquainted with him — loving him —abiding in fellowship with him — this is life eternal. To know God in Christ Jesus is to be saved indeed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Is the knowledge of God life? Is the knowledge of Jesus Christ life? It is even so. But what a blessed form of knowledge this is! It is taught to us by the Spirit of God in a special and remarkable way. This is life eternal.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Do you know God? Do you know Jesus Christ? Are you on speaking terms, on loving terms, with them? Are they your friends? Then, you have eternal life; for “this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have glorified thee on the earth,.... This is made use of as a reason and argument, why the Father should glorify him: Christ glorified his Father personally, as he held forth and expressed the glory of his person; and verbally, by ascribing, on all occasions, praise and glory to him; and really, or by deeds, and that by various ways: as in and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Jesus regards his work as already done, although he had yet to die, to pay the ransom price for his people, yet by a leap of holy faith he says, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Here our Saviour speaks by anticipation. He foresaw that he would pass through his passion, that all the work of his people’s redemption would be fully accomplished, and in this his final prayer on earth to the Father he could truly say, “I have finished the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. This is such a prayer as never could have been prayed by a mere man and you cannot understand this prayer at all apart from the manhood and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. What a blessed thing that our Saviour was able to say this just before his death! Oh, that you and I may be able to utter some humble echo of this speech when we come to the end of our lives! This is indeed a life worth living.