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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:- Somebody seemed to say to the apostle, “You talk about peace with God, and access to God; but you are troubled in mind, you are sickly in body, you are poor in estate, just as other people are;” so Paul replies, “Yes, we know that it is so, “but we glory in tribulations also:’” — Rom_5:3....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so,- There is for every child of God grace upon grace; every line of the apostle’s writing tells of more blessing: “And not only so.” Is not that enough? Justified, enjoying peace, having access into grace, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God; what can there be more? Why, there is something on the road as well as at the end of it:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And patience, experience; If you bear the trial patiently, it leaves the mark of its graving tool upon your spirit, and you thus become fashioned into an experienced Christian. Rom_5:4. And experience, hope: What God has once done, he may do again; and as he has shown us so much favor we may reasonably hope that he will show us more, and that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And patience, experience; and experience, hope: You cannot make an experienced Christian without trouble. You cannot make an old sailor on shore, nor make a good soldier without fighting. Here is that window of hope again, standing at the back of our experience, we look out of the window, and what God has done for us is a token of what God will do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And patience, experience and experience, hope: 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. Do you know what this means, dear friend, or is it all Greek to you? The Lord make it indeed plain every-day English to you! May you understand it, feel it, know it, prove it,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And patience, experience; and experience, hope: The longer we wait, the brighter do our eyes get. Our very trials when they have passed over us, leave us stronger and happier than we were before. Our experience works in us hope.
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.
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...
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...