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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this is the word of promise. At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Here were two children born at the same time; yet Esau...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. There is no unrighteousness, in anything that he does: and in the winding up of all affairs, it shall be seen that God was righteous as well as gracious.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. Paul knew very well that there would always be some who would cry out against this doctrine, that men would say that God was partial and unjust. If he had not foreseen that the declaration of this doctrine would provoke such remarks, he would not have put it so: “What shall we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not or him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. That is where it must begin. When men are condemned, what can they appeal to, but the mercy of God? Where is the hope of men,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. You know that the modern way of meeting objections to Scripture is to give up everything to the infidel, and then say that you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Paul is now going to show the other side of the same truth: “The scripture saith unto Pharaoh,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Paul knew that the doctrine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. Oh! what a splendid verse is this! Let some here who have been far from God until now, and never had a gracious thought, nevertheless, hear what he has done and will do again. “I will call them my people, which were not my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; — Though he himself had said it,- Rom_9:26. There shall they be called the children of the living God. See the splendor of this divine sovereignty, which shows itself in wondrous, unexpected acts of grace, selecting and taking to itself those who seem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. That In the very same place where their sins made it patent and palpable they were not God’s people — in that very same place shall men confess that they are the children of the living God. Oh!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Why, say this: — Rom_9:30. That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. For thousands of years they worshipped brutish idols and blocks and stones. Their philosophy was mixed with filthiness. Their lives were abhorrent to God. Even these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Israel followed after the law of righteousness with many ceremonies and external washings, and wearings of phylacteries and bordered garments. Alas poor Israel
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: I say again that there have been great attempts made, with logical dynamite, to blow up this great rock of offence, and to clear away every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone; And God is determined that they that are of the law shall not inherit it. He has made it a sovereign decree that the believer shall be justified and saved, and none else. They sought it not by faith, But as it were by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. But if they believe not on him, they shall one day be ashamed; and, meanwhile, the eternal purpose of God shall still stand, he shall still be glorious whatever men shall do, or shall not do.