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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansions: You are at home in Christ even now if you are a believer in him. Wherever you are, you are your Heavenly Father’s own child; and you have realized the truth of what David wrote in the twenty-third Psalm, “I will dwelt in the house of the Lord for ever.” Usually, when we are singing that sweetly-solemn hymn,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. “You have all my heart, so I have no secrets from you. ‘If it were not so, I would have told you;’ even in going away from you, I am going away for your good.” Joh_14:2. I go to prepare a place for you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you. “Wicked men will shut you out of my Father’s house below: the temple at Jerusalem, though being still used for Jewish worship after all its ritual and ceremonialism have been abolished, will cease to be my Father’s house to you; but there is a building of God, a house...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I ye to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you, unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Jesus often keeps this promise in many senses. By his gracious spirit, he has come again, by his divine presence in the means of grace, he often comes again. By-and-by, if we die, he will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. There is no room for you on earth; there will be in heaven. If troubles should so multiply that it seems impossible to live in them, you shall be carried away where you shall live above them “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. That is the first and simplest idea of heaven, to be with Christ; and I think it is the last and sublimest idea of heaven, too,—to be with Christ: “that where I am, there ye may be also.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. And he will come again, beloved. That is our grandest hope. We are looking for his coming. It is very sweet to know that we shall be for ever with the Lord if we die before his coming; but still the hope of God’s people...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Do not tell us about a purgatory for Christ’s people, a limbo in which they are to be awhile to be prepared to share his glory. No, he will come at the right time, and take them to be where he is, and they shall have the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. “I will come to you by my Spirit. I will come to you by-and-by, if my Father shall purpose it, in the hour of death; or if not, I will come in person at my second advent; but, in any case, I will be sure to come. My dear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; “I will not send an angel to fetch you, but I will myself come for you. If you die, I will come for you in that way; but if you live on until my Second Advent, ‘I will come again, and receive you unto myself.’” Joh_14:3. That where I am, there ye may be also....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Oh! this is ground for sweet comfort, and it ought to yield it to us tonight. He has gone, but he will come again; he has not left us for ever. Space divides us for awhile; but, skipping over the mountains like a roe and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? The apostles blundered, and lost themselves in the words of their Master, instead of entering into the spirit of what he said; so we must not wonder if we often do the same. Unless we wait upon God to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. We know where Christ has gone. Every step we can follow. The way we know. It always reconciles us to a friend’s going away if we know where he has gone — know all about him. A mother tells me that she has missed her boy now for twelve months, and never heard from him. That is sorrow; but when we know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Yes, we do know where Christ has gone, and we also know the way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. “I am not going to take a leap into the dark; you know where I am going, and you also know the road along which I am going.” Ah! but sometimes sorrow forgets what it knows, and thus creates a cloud of unnecessary ignorance which darkens and increases the sorrow.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. “At least, I have taught it to you; I have explained it to you; I have told you that I am the goal of your way, and the way to your goal; that I am the end, and also the way to that end.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Ye know where Christ is gone. Ye know how to get at him. The throne on which he sits is the throne of grace. He is gone to the Father, and your prayers will find the Father. You know the way. Then frequent it; and though as yet in your bodies you cannot reach to him, yet in spirit you can. “Whither I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? There is always somebody who has not learned the lesson. I am afraid that it is not one Thomas, but a great many Thomases that still have to say, “We know not.” Although Christ himself be the teacher, we are always poor learners.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. “Ye know that I am going to the Father, and ye know that I am myself the way to the Father; I am going whence I came.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? I like to hear Thomas talk, even though his is a very unwise speech; I wonder when you and I ever made wise ones. We never do unless we borrow them, for all that comes of us naturally is childish and foolish, “for we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”...