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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; Ye did receive it once, and it was a great blessing to you. This came of the law, and the law brought you under bondage through a sense of sin, and that made you first cry for liberty, and then made you accept the liberating Saviour; but you have not received that spirit of bondage...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have yet received the spirit of bondage again to fear: but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. We did receive the spirit of bondage once. We felt that we were under the law, and that the law cursed us. We felt its rigorous taxation, and that we could not meet it. Now that spirit ‘has gone, and we have the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The spirit of bondage is the spirit of servants, not of sons; but that servitude is ended for us who are made free in Christ Jesus. We are no longer afraid of being called the children of God. We are not afraid...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; You did receive it once. You needed it. You were in sin, and it was well for you when sin became bondage to you. It was grievous, but it was salutary; but you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. Rom_8:15. But ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Spirit itself beareth witness,.... The thing which the Spirit of God witnesses to is, that we are the sons of God; which supposes the case in some sense doubtful and uncertain, at least that it is called in question; not by others, though it sometimes is, as by Satan, which need not seem strange, since he called in question the sonship of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God : What better testimony can we have than that of these two witnesses, first of our own spirit, and then of the Holy Spirit himself, “that we are the children of God”? Note that this is not spoken concerning everybody. The doctrine of the universal Fatherhood of God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Many of you make a profession of being the children of God. Can your own spirit say that it is true? And is there, in addition to the witness of the Spirit within you that it is true? If not, unless there is a witness to our testimony, it avails nothing. Our Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. It is first a quickening spirit, and then a witnessing spirit, witnessing with our spirit that we are the children of God. Now up again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: There are two witnesses, then, and in the mouth of these two witnesses the whole truth about our adoption shall be established. Our own spirit — so changed as to be reconciled to God, and led in ways which once it never trod, — our own spirit bears witness that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that toe are the children of God: It corroborates the testimony of conscience. We feel that we are the children of God; and the Spirit of God comes forward as a second, but still greater and higher witness, to confirm the testimony that we are the children of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Our spirit knows that we are God’s children and then God’s Spirit adds his testimony to the witness of our spirit that we are the children of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. Our spirit feels the spirit of adoption, and so there is a double witness, the witness of our spirit, and the witness of God’s Spirit, that we are the children of God. In the mouth of these two witnesses the whole shall be established.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if children, then heirs,.... Children, whether natural or adopted, are heirs to their parents, and according to the Roman laws, which some think the apostle here respects, whether male or female; but according to the Jewish laws (c), females did not inherit only in case of want of male issue; for though Job's daughters inherited with his sons,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Do we suffer now? Then let us wait for something better that is yet to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children, then heirs: heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; Oh that if — “if children.” There are some that get over all that. They believe in a universal fatherhood, which is not worth the words in which they describe it. This is a different fatherhood altogether. Rom_8:17. If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, Up again: — Rom_8:17. That we may be also glorified together. Oh! what a rise is this from groaning under, “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” up to this point, “That we may be also glorified together.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children, then heirs; It is not, of course, so in human families. All children are not heirs; but it is so in the family of God. Rom_8:17. Heirs of God, What a heritage! God himself becomes our heritage. We are heirs to all that God has, and all that God is. Rom_8:17. And joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children, then heirs; For all God’s children are heirs, and all equally heirs. The elder-born members of God’s family, such as Abraham and the rest of the patriarchs, are no more heirs of God than are we of these latter days who have but lately come to Christ. “If children, then heirs.” Heirs of what? Rom_8:17. Heirs of God, Not only heirs...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. It is to be all with him. With him in the suffering; with him in the glory; with him in the reproach of men; with him in the honour at the right hand of the Father. But if we shun the path of humiliation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. This would not necessarily be true of any man’s family, for he might have children who were not his heirs; but, in God’s family, all who are born into it are born “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with...