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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Ah! brethren, if we could be all we should like to be, there would then be no room for the exercise of hope. If we had all that we are to have, then hope, which is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Far we are saved by hope: As yet.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. What a lesson that is, and how seldom do we learn it! Oh! in this present state our main duty is, “Then do we with patience wait for it.” You want to have your cake and keep it. but you cannot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. This is our attitude and our condition now, — waiting for the glory which is to be revealed in us, and accepting the sorrow which is appointed to us as an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: Hope contains the major part of our salvation within itself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: That same Spirit who gave us the spirit of adoption, that same Spirit who set us longing for something higher and better, “also helpeth our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it? This is our present position, patiently waiting for “the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,” patiently waiting for “the manifestation...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if we hope for that we see not,.... Whether it be the hour of death, or the second coming of Christ, or the resurrection of the dead, and eternal glory; all which are unseen by us, and to be hoped for: then do we with patience wait for it; as that which is certain and real, as something valuable, which will be satisfying, and be received with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities,.... The Spirit of God which dwells in us, by whom we are led, who is the spirit of adoption to us, who has witnessed to our spirits, that we are the children of God, whose firstfruits we have received, over and above, and besides what he has done for us, "also helpeth our infirmities"; whilst we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: And especially our infirmities in prayer, for there is where infirmities are mostly seen. Rom_8:26. For we knew not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. I should have thought that it would have read, “But the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; Especially our infirmities in prayer. I think that if anywhere our infirmities come out, it is in prayer: even the strongest are, on their knees, comparatively weak. How few there are among us that prevail with God. as Elias did! We ought to do so. We need, none of us, stop short of the fullest...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. You must, I am sure, as children of God, often have felt that Spirit within you groaning in prayer what you could not express. How often have you risen from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. There seems to be a good deal of this groaning; it is only in heaven that there are- “No groans to mingle with the songs which warble from immortal tongues.” But down here a groan is sometimes the fittest...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. There is much in this chapter about groaning, and that is but natural, for it so largely concerns our present imperfect state; but, by-and-by, there will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Groanings, then, are prayers, and prayers which the Spirit of God most certainly hears. And those desires which altogether exhaust language, or which cannot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: Our weaknesses, our insufficiencies, our inabilities: the Spirit of God comes in to be a helper to the children of God. Rom_8:26. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought: We do not know our own infirmities. Perhaps we think that we are strong, where we are exceedingly weak. The Spirit...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: Oh, how many these are! Want of memory, want of faith, want of earnestness, ignorance, pride, deadness, coldness of heart, — these are some of our infirmities; but, thank God, we have the omnipotent Spirit of God to help us. Rom_8:26. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that searcheth the hearts,.... This is peculiar to God, and a "periphrasis" of him; angels, neither good nor bad, can search into the hearts of men; one man cannot know the heart of another, nor any man fully know his own; this is the prerogative of God: and he knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit; not the spirit of men, but of God: that...