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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. And a blessed turning it has been for you, dear friends and for me.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and-as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was published throughout all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of the day; or, if not of the day, yet the chief thoughts that are upon the mind. Paul dreams about mission work, for his heart is in it. I should not wonder if some...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. In the vision, the man prayed, “Come over into Macedonia, and help us.” The best help that Paul could render to the Macedonians was “to preach the gospel unto them.” The best help you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; and from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days. Waiting to know what they were to do. In God’s work, we are not to go on in blundering haste....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; Some quiet corner, where good people were wont to gather by the brook to pray. Act_16:13. And we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. This was probably the first religious meeting of Christians that was ever held in Europe. It is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized, She seems to have become a believer in Christ, and to have been baptized at once.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. Lydia was evidently a woman of some property. The purple which she sold was an expensive article. She seems to have been engaged in business on her own account; and when Paul met with her, she...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. She professed to tell fortunes, and to speak under inspiration. She was really “possessed” by an evil spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. Here was an evil spirit bearing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the market-place unto the rulers, and brought them to the magistrates, They dragged them into the Forum, the place where the courts usually sat, and brought them before the magistrates, “saying “-what? “These men have cured a demoniac,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. They did not know that Paul himself was a Roman citizen, or they surely would not have brought such a charge as that against him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. They beat them first, and tried them afterwards. That is often the rule with those who persecute God’s people: let them be hanged out of the way, and then we will enquire what they teach.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: Another prayer-meeting, and a praise-meeting, too. There...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the prisoners heard them. Paul and Silas were in the lower prison. The sound of their prayer and praise rose up through the different tiers of cells where other prisoners were confined. Act_16:26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. For the law was that, if a jailer lost a prisoner, he was to suffer whatever penalty the prisoner would have suffered. He therefore knew that, in all probability,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Every prisoner was loosed from his bands, but not one had escaped; nor had any even attempted to escape, which was another miracle; for men who see their bands broken, and the prison doors open, are pretty sure to run away. These men did not, for a heavenly charm...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling Conscious of the supernatural, compelled to feel the hand which he had never perceived before, he hastened into the inner prison, where he had thrust the servants of Christ; Act_16:29. And fell down before Paul and Silas, Whom he had handled so roughly just now;
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, What a word to address to those who were still in his charge as prisoners!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into...