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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. We were in bondage, and we have come out in a measure into the liberty of the children of God. Now...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Everything here is blighted, and subject to storm, or to decay, or to sudden death, or to calamity...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. We groan in unison with a groaning creation, and we shall not at present...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
and Rom_8:1. For I delight in the law off God alter the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. The soul has obtained its redemption. Therefore, our heart is glad, and our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Deep groans are in the world. Have you not heard of earthquakes? Do you not know how the whole world is in a tremor? There is something coming, and all the world is groaning for that coming. God makes the universe to be like an instrument of music played upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. The birth-pangs of the creation are on it; the living creature within is moving itself to break its shell, and come forth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. This is what we are looking for. Our manhood is not all soul: it is body, too. And here, as yet, this poor body seems to lie outside the gate, like Lazarus, while...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Of course, we do groan within ourselves. Who said. we did not? And those brethren who say they never groan, I wish they would learn better. It is one of the signs...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. As yet the body is under bondage. The body is dead because of sin: hence those headaches — this palpitation of the heart — this heaviness of the day which incases...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Our soul has been delivered from the curse. The redemption of the soul is complete, but not yet that of the body. That must suffer pain and weariness, and even...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. That is our state now; at least, it is the condition of the most of us. Some of our brethren have gone ahead so tremendously that they have passed out of the world...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. That is what we are waiting for: “ the redemption of our body; “ and we shall not wait in vain for it, for Christ is the Saviour of our body as well as of our soul,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are saved by hope: As yet we are saved by hope.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doeth 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 which cannot be uttered....
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. 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...