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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Oh! you that say you believe tonight, beware lest tomorrow you should be scattered in unbelief and fear. Whatever faith we have is God’s giving, and if it remain with us, it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: Ah, me! these were the men who said they believed in him; yet, in his time of trial, they fled like cowardly unbelievers. God help us, and sustain us, or we shall do as they did!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. How gloriously is that blessed truth put in just here! The awful solitude that Christ was about to pass through can hardly be understood by us. It was not only that every friend forsook him, but that there was not under heaven a single person who could sympathize with him. He was going through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These poor creatures, who were so bold and so oversure, would all be runaways. If persecution were to arise in our day, I wonder how many of us would be found true men. Ah!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world. There is a blessed word of good cheer for us, everyone!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. Your Lord wants you to have peace. Come, then, ye tried ones, ye who are tossed about with a thousand troublous thoughts, it is your Master’s wish and will that ye should have peace. Joh_16:33. In the world ye shall have tribulation: You have found that true, have you not?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Christ wants his disciples to have peace. Are you fretting tonight? Are you afraid of Monday? Are you fearful about the trials of the week? Christ wants you to be at peace. Be quiet. Be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; This is in a very special sense our Lord’s prayer. What a word that is from the lips of Jesus, “Father”! This was the night of his deepest sorrow and his heaviest woe, but he begins his prayer with this tender expression, “Father, the hour is come;” the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Here the doctrines of a general and a particular redemption sweetly blend “As thou hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: The great design of Christ, all through his life on earth, was to glorify the Father. He came to save his people, but that was not his first or his chief aim. It was his object, through the salvation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: What a sight it must have been to see the Divine Intercessor in this his last great prayer before he poured out his soul unto death! We can never read this chapter so as fully to enter into its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; — That tremendous hour which was the very hinge of history, — that hour in which he must suffer, and bleed, and die, to pay up the ransom price for his people: “Father, the hour is come;” — Joh_17:1. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven,- Not his hands, as we do who are poor suppliants; but his eyes, indicating whither his thoughts went. He “lifted up his eyes to heaven,”- Joh_17:1.And said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. No mere man would have dared to pray such a prayer as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: Jesus is going forth to die, and he knows it; yet he prays to his Father, “Glorify thy Son.” There was no way of his coming to that glory except by passing through tears, and blood, and agony, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted Up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son; that thy Son also may glorify thee: Christ’s great intercessory prayer begins with his appeal to his Father to glorify his Son. Christ knew all that he would have to suffer during that “hour” to which he had looked forward from eternity,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Here we have the two doctrines of a general and a particular redemption. Through his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, thee hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: The hour has come. The most important, the darkest, the most dreadful hour of Christ’s life was come. But he had only one thought in his mind. “Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; The hour to which he had so long looked forward, the hour which he had anticipated with ardent desire: “The hour is come.” On the very night that Jesus prayed this prayer, Luke’s record tells us, “When the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Glorify thy Son that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. In these words we have both the general and the special aspects of redemption. Christ has received power over all flesh, but with this peculiar design, that he should give eternal life...