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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And patience, experience; and experience, hope: Again I cannot help observing how we seem to go through one door just to pass through another. We get into a silver chamber that we may go into a golden one; and before we can take stock of all the gold, we are ushered into a gorgeous palace of pearls and rubies and diamonds of priceless value.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hope maketh not ashamed,.... As a vain hope does, things not answering to expectation, it deceives, and is lost; but the grace of hope is of such a nature, as that it never fails deceives, or disappoints: it neither makes ashamed, nor have persons that have any reason to be ashamed of it; neither of the grace itself, which is a good one; nor...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hope maketh not ashamed; — Our hope brings us courage, no longer are we trembling and diffident, but we feel like children do towards a loving father, we are happily, restfully at home with our God. “ Hope maketh not ashamed; “ — Rom_5:5. Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. When Mary,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For where we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. What is the connection here? Is it not this: that the Holy Ghost makes us feel what a wonderful love the love of God is to us because when we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hope maketh not ashamed; Peace gives us courage, hope takes the blush out of the cheek when we confess Christ, for we remember the glory that is to be revealed in him and in us, so how can shame come in? Rom_5:5. Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. God’s love is like sweet perfume in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. What a blessed thing it is that, when troubles are shed abroad outside us, the love of God is shed abroad inside us; when we are tried without, we are comforted within; and so we are made strong, and we have no cause to fear.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. If you have the Holy Ghost given unto you, then the love of God fills your nature like a sweet perfume. As when the woman broke the alabaster box, and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment, so, when the Spirit of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For when we were yet without strength,.... The apostle having mentioned the love of God proceeds to give an instance, and which is a full proof and demonstration of it, which is, that in due time Christ died for the ungodly. That Christ died is certain; the death of Christ was foretold in prophecy, typified by the sacrifices of slain beasts, was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. That was our character. There was no good point about us. We were ungodly and we had no strength to mend ourselves or to be other than ungodly. The strength for reformation had all gone. The strength for regeneration we never had. We were without strength, and then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” What a wonderful statement! “Christ died for the ungodly.” Yet it was no slip of the pen, for the apostle takes up his own expression, and preaches the following little sermon upon it: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” When we had no power to do anything that was good, when we were strengthless and hopeless, then Christ died for us. This is a wonderful gospel expression, which ought to bring comfort to those here who have no pretence of godliness, “Christ died for the ungodly.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. He did not regard us as saints, but as actually ungodly, when he died for our redemption. It was not man’s righteousness that brought Christ from heaven; but man’s sin, and the infinite pity of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Not, “Christ died for saints, because the saints were such gracious people.” No, no; but, “when we were yet without strength,” — when we could lift neither hand nor foot to help ourselves, — “in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. And as he died for us when we were ungodly, what will he not do for us now that he has sought us as his own? He gave the highest proof of his love to us when we were most unworthy of it, so will he leave us now? God forbid!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Are not these very wonderful words? “Christ died for the ungodly.” Pick out all those who are the naturally good people, and this text has nothing to do with them; but find out the ungodly, the sinful, the wicked, and here is a text exactly suitable for them: “Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. This is one of the most surprising sentences on record. If it had not been inspired, there are many who would cavil at it. Indeed, many do cavil at it even now, for it is still currently believed that Christ must have died for the righteous. Yet thus is it written: “In...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die,.... The design of this, and the following verse, is to show that Christ's dying for ungodly persons is an instance of kindness that is matchless and unparalleled. By "a righteous man", is not meant a truly gracious, holy man; nor one that is made righteous by the obedience of Christ; but one that is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man A benevolent, loving-spirited man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And that is the glory of his love. While we were rebels against his government, he redeemed us. While we were far off from him by wicked works he sent his Son to die and bring us near. Free grace, indeed, was this — not caused...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: If a man is known to be sternly just, like Aristides, nobody would care enough for him to die for him. Rom_5:7. Yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. For a benevolent man, a true philanthropist, a lover of his race, there are some who might say that they would die for him. Yet...