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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: This operation is always going on. God is continually taking away from the Church, in some way or other, non-fruit-bearers. We know that these do not truly belong to Christ, for fruit must come from vital union to him but it is a trial to the Church to have non-fruit-bearing branches. These...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean [purged] through the word which I have spoken unto you. The Word is often the knife with which the great Husbandman prunes the vine; and, brothers and sisters, if we were more willing to feel the edge of the Word, and to let it cut away even something that may be very dear to us, we should not need so much pruning by affliction....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. Give good heed to that sweet word, beloved brethren, “Abide in me.” Do not seem to get into Christ, and then depart from him. Add constancy to all your other graces.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean — Those to whom the Saviour spoke: “Now ye are clean” — Joh_15:3. Through the word which I have spoken unto you. That is the great purger. Affliction is used, but it is rather the handle of the knife than the knife itself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Dear friends, beware of a Christless Christianity. Beware of trying to be Christians without living daily upon Christ. The branch may just as well...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean-- For so it should be. Joh_15:3. Through the word which I have spoken unto you. While Christ was with his disciples he kept his vine continually pruned by the word which he spoke. That word cut off the non-fruit-bearing-branches, for we read that after that saying there were some that went back, and walked no more with him, for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Christ had so dealt with his disciples that he left them like a pruned vine, ready and prepared for fruitfulness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. That was a “word” which had sorely grieved them, and cut them to the quick, so that the Saviour had to say to them, more than once, “Let not your heart be troubled.” (See the 1st, and the 27th, verses of the preceding chapter.) They had felt the sharp edge of the pruning-knife, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abide in me, and I in you. “Do not merely find a temporary shelter in me, as a ship runs into harbour in stormy weather, and then comes out again when the gale is over; but cast anchor in me, as the vessel does when it reaches its desired haven. Be not as branches that are tied on, and so can be taken off, but be livingly joined to me. ‘Abide in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing. You know how the branch is in the vine, it is a component part of the vine; but do not forget...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abide in me, — “Now that ye are clean, do not imagine that you can do without me: Abide in me,” — Joh_15:4. And I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. It is not a transient faith, it is not saying, “I was converted so many years ago;” but it is a living faith, an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abide in me and I in you. There is the great canon of the Christian life. Hold fast to Christ. Not only live with him, but live in him. “Abide in me.” And on! let Jesus not be merely your companion now and then, on holy occasions, but let him abide in you; make your heart a temple; let him find his sweetest rest his home in you. Joh_15:4. As the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abide in me, and I in you. The pruning is nothing without the abiding in Christ. You may suffer again and again; but no good can come of it except you have vital, continuous, everlasting union with Christ. You cannot take a branch away from the vine for a little while, and then put it back again; its life depends upon the perfect continuity of its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: You are not the vine; do not think that you are; and if God blesses you, and makes you of some importance in the Church, yet do not dream that you are the Church, that you are the very root and stein of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abide in me, and I in you. The main thing is not restless activity, running here and there, and doing this, and that, and the other thing; it is abiding in Christ, persevering, constant cleaving to Christ, by virtue of a vital union with him: “Abide in me, and I in you.” Joh_15:4. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Not merely will you do very little, but you can do nothing at all if you are severed from Christ. You are absolutely and entirely dependent upon Christ both for your life and for your fruit-bearing. Do we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. “Severed from me, ye can bear no fruit whatever. Not only can ye not do much, but ye can do nothing apart from me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. The vine must either bear fruit or be good for nothing; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: This double abiding gives a double harvest. Christ in me, and I in Christ — I must be fruitful. Oh! beloved, look well to this. I am afraid we get at a distance from Christ. There is more danger of this in old professors than there is in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: Oh, what a searching word is this! Are we bringing forth much fruit? I trust, dear brethren, that we are bringing forth some fruit; but, oh! what a test is this, “He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit.” Christ expects much from those who have...