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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. This is a grand promise. If we dare ask in the name of Christ, and it is not everything that we could ask for in his name ¾if our petition is such that we honestly judge that we may put Christ’s name to it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. You have got some joy, but there is room for more. Brethren, has your joy ever been full yet? Full? Could not you be more joyous? Oh! there have been times with some of us when we could not be more joyous than we were. We have asked, and we have received, and we have been so glad, that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: “Ye have not yet learnt how to use my name in prayer.” Our Lord had not yet taught them so to pray; but now we know what it is to ask in the name of Christ, it is to pray with the authority of the risen and glorified Son of God. Joh_16:24. Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. See how our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: You have not been bold enough. You have asked a few petty things, but you have never fully made use of Christ’s name. How many Christians have never learned to pray in the name of Christ! They say at the end of their petition, “For Christ’s sake.” That is good as far as it goes. I may ask a man to give me...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: In short, parabolic sentences.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father A t that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. That is a very precious truth....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself teacheth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shalt ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: Though that is, indeed, what our Lord does.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: Though that be true,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Father himself loveth you,- “The Father, whom you are so apt to think of as sterner than myself, and farther off than I, the Son of man am, ‘the Father himself loveth you,’”— Joh_16:27. Because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. Have you, dear friends, love to Christ? Do you believe that Christ came forth from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Father himself loveth you, What a delightful little sentence! “The Father himself loveth you.” Joh_16:27. Because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. God’s first love to us is from himself alone. Then there is another love that grows in his heart because of our love to his Son. You love your child. The reason lies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. Jesus answered...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. Had he not clearly explained what he meant by being absent a little while, and then coming back again?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. One does not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Did you never, when reading the Bible, come across a text, that was opened up to you so sweetly that you vied out just as these disciples did “Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure- Now they can give reasons for the hope that is in them. “Now are we sure”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Listen, you who imagine that you are so strong in faith, and every grace, that you think you are almost perfect: “Do ye now believe?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. They are very positive; but notice the check that our Lord put upon all this confident assurance.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone. Whenever there is any boasting upon your lips, even though you may think that you can rightly say, “Now we are sure,” stop a bit, dear friends, stop a bit. We have not any of us all the good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? He did not feel so sure of their faith as they did. We often think we have great heaps of the gold of faith; and it glitters very brightly, but it is not the precious metal after all. So Jesus said, “Do ye now believe?”