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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Here our Saviour speaks by anticipation. He foresaw that he would pass through his passion, that all the work of his people’s redemption would be fully accomplished, and in this his final prayer on earth to the Father he could truly say, “I have finished the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. This is such a prayer as never could have been prayed by a mere man and you cannot understand this prayer at all apart from the manhood and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. What a blessed thing that our Saviour was able to say this just before his death! Oh, that you and I may be able to utter some humble echo of this speech when we come to the end of our lives! This is indeed a life worth living.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. “My teaching is all done, my ministry is finished; and though there are still some arrears of suffering, yet those shall be fully discharged in due time. ‘I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. In deep humility, Jesus had laid that glory aside for a while. He had tabernacled in human flesh; and when he spoke these words, the time was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which had with thee before the world was. As Christ had carried out his Father’s will, and done the work he had been sent to do, he was but right that he should go back to the glory which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Which no other man could ever have said — not even Adam in his perfection, for his work was not finished; and, alas! how marred it was before it came near to finishing! And the most gracious man that ever died could not, in his last moments, say, “I have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou invest me to do And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: The best the clearest manifestation of the name or character of God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Jesus had laid aside his glory for our sakes, now he asks that, his work being regarded as done, his glory may be given to him again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. After the finished work, Christ was to have the glory. O worker for God, seek not glory before thy work is done! Expect not honour among men because thou hast begun the work so earnestly; plod on until it is finished, then shall the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. “Take me up from earth again, reclothe me with that glory which, for a while, I have laid aside,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. You must try and think of who it is that is thus pleading, for so you will get at least some faint idea of the intercession of our great High Priest in heaven, for after this fashion he still prays to his Father before the eternal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. “I have disrobed myself to be thy servant. Clothe me again with the garments of my majesty. Let me come back to the palace when I shall have passed through the stream of death.” So far is the prayer for himself. Now he prays for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me: and they have kept thy word. God’s people belong to him, he gives them to his Son, Christ gives them his word, and they keep it: “They have kept thy word.” Do we keep God’s word? Do we hold to it? Do we make it the guide of our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. How tenderly he speaks about them! He says the best he can of them; they were faulty, feeble folk, but he says, “They have kept thy word.” So they did. Oh, that you and I may do the came, and not be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. How gracious it was on our Lord’s part to say the best he could of his disciples! These twelve men had learned but little of the Divine Word, but they had believed what they had been taught; so Jesus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. What high praise this was of Christ’s disciples! “They have kept thy word.” Poor creatures that they were, they often turned aside from the right path, they were oftentimes very ignorant, and very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. “They were thine, my Father, under thy direct government, but thou hast transferred them to my mediatorial sovereignty, and thou hast given them up to be mine, in a very special sense, beyond all the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: They had not all of them clearly seen that manifestation. Jesus had to ask the question, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?” Still, that was not the fault of the manifestation; Christ had manifested the name — that is, the...