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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Those that have never been born again, so as to be “in the Spirit,” are still just as they were born “in the flesh,” so they cannot please God. Do what they may, there is an essential...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. We must be born again then. It is no use improving the flesh. The taking away of the filth of the flesh was the old law, but the burying of the flesh, that is the new. The plunging of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because the careful mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The old nature is hopelessly bad. There is no mending it. It is enmity, not merely at enmity; but it is absolutely enmity. It is not subject to God’s law, and you cannot make it so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. No man “in the flesh” can please God. Oh, what a sword this is,-a sharp two-edged sword against many of you, my friends! Some of you who regularly attend this house of prayer, and others of you who stray in here in the evening, you “are in the flesh,” and you “cannot please God.” Perhaps you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh — Those who are still in the old nature, living for it, living to it, — Rom_8:8. Cannot please God. Men may wash this old nature, they may clothe it, they may decorate it, they may educate it, but there is no evolution which can produce grace out of nature. The child of nature may be finely dressed, but it is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Christ does not own any that are not indwelt by his Spirit. They may wear the Christian name; they may perform some acts which look like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh — That is, those who are under its condemnation and power —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. So that although Christ dwells in a man, he must not reckon that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. So long as we are under the dominion of the old nature, the depraved and-fallen nature, there is no pleasing God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any may have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. O beloved, we have need each of us to put ourselves in this scale! Come, preacher, be not too sure of thine own salvation. Come, church-member, do not be too certain of thine own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Ye saints of Rome to whom Paul was writing, and ye who believe in Christ now: “Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.” Rom_8:9. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. If Christ’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. It does not matter what he calls himself; he may be a preacher, he may be a bishop; but if he has not the Spirit of Christ, “he is none of his;” and if he has the Spirit of Christ, though he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because off sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. That is why we have aches and pains, and infirmities, because the body is dead;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Oh! this is a very wonderful fact, that the Spirit of God should dwell in us. I have often said to you that I never know which of two mysteries most to admire — God incarnate in Christ, or the Holy Spirit indwelling in man; they are two marvelous things,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. The regeneration of the body, so to speak, is not performed in this life; Resurrection is tantamount to that. The body is still under the old law of death, and so we have pain...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Hence the body suffers, the body is sick, the body decays, the body is under the dominion of death because of sin, but the Spirit is full of life because of righteousness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; The grace of God has not changed that body; it still remains earth, dust, worms’ meat, and it must die unless Christ should come, and transform it by his coming. “The body is dead because of sin;” and hence come those aches and pains, that heaviness, that weariness, that decay, those...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; Therefore, it suffers disease and pain, for the soul is regenerated, but not the body. If I may so speak, the regeneration of the body happens at the resurrection. It is then that it will receive its full share of the blessed work of Christ. “The body is dead because of sin.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. So there is a complete deliverance provided for body, soul, and spirit. As Moses said to Pharaoh when he agreed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. You believers may have a good hope concerning your bodies: “He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies.” Wait a while,...