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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the beginning was the Word, — Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, “having neither beginning of days, nor end of life.” “In the beginning was the Word,” — Joh_1:1. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was as truly God as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the beginning was the Word. The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. “In the beginning was the Word.” The first words of this gospel remind us of the first words of the Old Testament: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Even then “the Word” was; he existed before all time, even from everlasting. Joh_1:1. And the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. We cannot describe the Deity of Christ in clearer language than John uses. He was with God; he was God; he did the works of God, for he was the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The light of Christ shone many times amid the darkness that enshrouded the world before his coming to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same was in the beginning with God. As we have been singing — “Ere sin was born, or Satan fell;” ere there was a creation that could fall, “the same was in the beginning with God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. He that hung upon the cross was the Maker of all worlds. He that came as an infant, for our sake, was the Infinite. How low he stooped! How high he must have been that he could stoop so low!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In him was life; Essentially, Eternally. Joh_1:4. And the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. It never has done so; it never will. You may sometimes call the darkness, the ignorance of men, or the sin of men. If you like, you may call it the wisdom of men, and the righteousness of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Christ is still not understood, Jesus is still not known. How should darkness understand light? It opposes light, it has to flee before light, but it does not, it cannot understand light. O God, work a miracle in our dark...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. What a descent it is from “The Word of God” to the “man sent from God, whose name was John”! Jesus himself said concerning John, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist;” yet, from the greatest of prophets, what a climb it is to get up to Jesus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. How very different is the style of this verse from the one that precedes it! How grand, how sublime, are the Evangelist’s words when he speaks of Jesus! How truly human he becomes, how he dips his pen in ordinary ink, when he writes: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” Yet that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. That is our business, too. We who are ministers sent from God bear witness of the Light, that all men through him may believe. Oh, how often we go home, and cry, “Who hath believed our report?” We...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. That John could not do, he could only bear witness to Christ, the true Light, who alone is able to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. Dear friends, if you and I know our real destiny, and are the servants of God, we are sent that men might, through us, believe in Jesus. John was a special witness; but we ought all to be witnesses to complete the chain of testimony. Every Christian...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. There was no light from John except what he reflected from his Lord. All the light comes from Jesus. Every man who comes into the world with any light borrows his light from Christ. There is no other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. If any man has saving light, true light, he gets it through Christ. There is no other light; all other light is but darkness visible. The light in which we see God comes from Jesus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was in the world, and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. Oh, what terrible estrangement sin has caused between God and man! What dreadful ignorance sin has created in the human mind! The world was made by Christ, yet “the world knew him not.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. This is a sad verse. He was a stranger in his own house. He was unknown amidst his own handiwork. Men whom he had made, made nothing of him. “The world knew him not;” did not recognize him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Strange was it that the Creator came to his own earth, and yet he was unknown. Men mistook him, they hated him, they crucified him whom they ought to have entertained with sacred hospitality, and worshipped with holy loyalty.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. To those who were chosen as “his own” out of all the nations upon the earth, to those to whom he was specially promised of old, to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, — to these Jesus came, yet they “received him not.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. That favored circle, the Jewish nation, where revelation had been given, even there, there was no place for him. He must be despised and rejected even by his own nation.