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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! You see all the machinery of salvation here. God provides a gospel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How then shall they call on him in whom. they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! See...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And how shall they preach, except they be sent,.... There is no proper, rightful, regular, and lawful preaching of the word without a mission, which is either extraordinary, or ordinary; extraordinary mission was such as the apostles themselves had; who, as they were called to extraordinary service, had extraordinary qualifications, and were sent...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? Here is the great engine at the back of all the machinery, — God sending the preacher, — God blessing the Word, — God working faith in the heart of them that hear it. Rom_10:15. As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? Poor preaching. It will not be the kind of preaching that produces believing hearing, except they be sent. If God does not send the man, he had better have stopped at home. It is only as God sends him that God will bless him. He is bound to back up his own messenger when he delivers God’s own...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they have not all obeyed the Gospel,.... Who hear it, and to whom it is preached; for though ministers may be regularly sent forth, and rightly preach the Gospel in the purity of it, yet there is no success without the power of God attending it: ministers may preach, and men may hear, and yet not obey the Gospel; that is, cordially embrace the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? And what Isaiah says, many and many a preacher since has had to say. “Woe, woe to us for this.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. “But.” A sorrowful “but” is this. Oh! this is the mischief of it. The gospel, then, has an authority about it; or else the Apostle would not speak of obeying the gospel. Men are bound to believe what God declares to them, and their not believing is a disobedience. “They have not all obeyed the gospel.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Is that the reason why many do not believe,—because they have not heard the gospel? Well, it is not the reason in the case of anybody here present, for I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. That is the pity of it, — that so many have heard the gospel, but have not obeyed it. This shows that the gospel comes to us as a command, because we cannot disobey where there is no order or rule. O sinner, listen to this! When you hear the gospel, it is not left to your own choice to have it or leave it,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Ah, that is the important question! If they had not heard it, they could not be condemned for disobeying it, for the sin lies in hearing and yet not believing. “Have they not heard?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So you see that even the prophet Isaiah had the idea that salvation comes to sinners by believing. He mourned and cried to his God because men did not believe the “report” which he had been sent to deliver to them concerning that Man who was “despised...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. All who have heard the gospel have not obeyed it. Rom_10:16. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? And what Isaiah said is what we also have to say today, “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It does not ever come by seeing. Faith does not come by looking upon ceremonies — by gazing upon processions and pompous rituals. It come by the simple hearing of the Word. It is a matter...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. Oh, no; all who have beard it, have not obeyed it! There are many here who have beard it from their childhood, and yet they have not obeyed it. Notice the word “obeyed”, for the gospel comes to you with the force of a command. If you reject it, you sin against it, for it is your duty to accept it: “but they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So then faith comes by hearing,.... That is, by preaching; for the word hearing is used in the same sense as in the preceding verse; and designs the report of the Gospel, or the preaching of the word, which is the means God makes use of, to convey faith into the hearts of his people; for preachers are ministers, or instruments, by whom others...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. But I say, Did not Israel know? Did not the Jewish people have a time of hearing and instruction? Certainly they knew, and they knew also that the gospel was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. You are wise, therefore, dear friend, if you are seeking salvation to be a hearer of the Word; but mind that it is the Word of God that you hear, because the word of man cannot save you. It may delude you. It may give you a false peace; but the hearing that saves is hearing which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. With what solemnity this invests our hearing! I often hear people say, “We go to such-and-such a place of worship, to hear so-and-so preach.” That is well if the preacher is, like John the Baptist, “a man sent from God;” for “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God;”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Salvation comes by faith, and faith comes by hearing, but that hearing must be the hearing of the Word of God. Surely there is no great difficulty in understanding the gospel. This is no maze in which a man may lose himself. Here are no puzzling directions which only the learned can...