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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. “I have explained...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. You cannot be his friends if you are disobedient to his commands. An act of disobedience is unfriendliness; ay, and the omission of obedience is unfriendliness to Christ. I wish we would always remember that every sin either of omission or of commission, is an unfriendly act towards our best...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, “That is where the love began, — not with you, but with me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. The law made man do this and that, but it communicated very little of the secret counsels of God; but there is a holy familiarity between Christ and his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. The servant works in a building, and it is enough for him that he is laying part of a line of brick or stone. Perhaps he has never seen the design of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that their fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Fruitfulness, perseverance, and power in prayer, these are the priceless boons that come to us through our being one with Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: There are some people who are very fond of quoting the first part of this verse, they are very glad to hear a sermon upon the free, sovereign grace of God. They cannot too often repeat the words, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you;” but they do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. There you see divine election leading on to fruit-bearing, and perpetuated in perseverance: “that your fruit should remain.” It brings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. Jesus! send us this spirit of love, we pray thee. Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. As if there were many things in one in that command; It is but one command, but it is so comprehensive that all the commandments are fulfilled in this one: “that ye love one another.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. Our Lord repeated the command, for he knew how prone even his disciples would be to disobey it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. O you professors, who have no love to one another, you are breaking the King’s commandment! You are living in direct violation of a plain command that is most dear to his heart. Oh, that we might constantly hear it and obey it! “These things I command you, that ye love one another.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. So you need not be at all surprised if the world hates you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. It is no new thing for the ungodly to hate the godly, so let us not be surprised if that is our portion.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. That is what you have reason to expect, and you may feel honoured if they treat you as they have treated your Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Therefore expect it, in some form or other, for you will be sure to meet with it. The seed of the serpent never will love the seed of the woman.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had...