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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Let this be our “heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel.” Sorrows upon sorrows have come to the Lord’s ancient people even down to this day; and they have been scattered and peeled, and rent and torn in almost every land. Who does not pity their griefs and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. A fault — a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Now these people had persecuted the Apostle. Wherever he went they had followed him up; they had hindered his work: they had sought his life: and yet this was the only return that he made to them — to desire and pray that they might be saved. Let us never be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. No curse falls from his lips, though they had persecuted him without mercy, hunted him from city to city, and gnashed their teeth at the very mention of his name. Yet he has no desire for them but their salvation; he utters no malediction against them, but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Paul is writing concerning: the Jews — the very people who had driven him from city to city, and who had again and again sought to take his life. Yet he could not forget that these men were his own countrymen; and, consequently, with a consecrated patriotism, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Paul had a tender heart towards all unconverted men and women, and he longed and pleaded with God that they might be saved. Have all of us this unselfish compassionate feeling? I am afraid that there are some Christians who are very deficient in it; yet, in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. They had hunted Paul from city to city, but the only feeling for them that he had was a wish that they might be saved. Such a wish as that should be in the heart of every Christian; his desire for his bitterest enemy should be that he may be saved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. The same thing over again — his deep concern for his countrymen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Desire is the mother and the soul of prayer “my heart’s desire and prayer.” These Israelites had hunted Paul about, and sought to kill him. They were his deadly enemies; but the only return he made them was to pray that they might be saved. I hope you will never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. In Paul’s day, they were most diligent in the observance of every form of outward devotion, and many of them sincerely desired to be right with God; but they did not know how to attain the desired end.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Always make allowance for anything that is good in those who, as yet, are not converted. We must not be unjust with them because we desire to be faithful to them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. There are many, in these days also, who are exactly in this condition. They are very zealous; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. The Jews of Paul’s day were zealous, but they were zealous in ignorance. And that is just what we may say, at the present time, concerning a large number of our fellow-countrymen, — those who are ordinarily called Ritualists. “They have a zeal of God, but not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. It is not sufficient for a man to be sincere in his zeal for God; sincerity must be according to knowledge if it is to be of any value. If a man travels to the North, his sincere belief that he is on the right road will not bring him to his destination in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. We should always give people credit for every good thing that there is in them: it will often enable us all the better to point out other matters in which they are deficient. So Paul put it on record, concerning the Jews of his time, that they had a zeal for God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Zeal is a good thing, but, like the horse without a bit, it becomes useless and even dangerous. Knowledge is the bridle in the mouth of zeal. Zeal is like fire, which may burn the house which it was intended to warm unless it be carefully governed. There must be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Always see all the good that is to be seen; and, when you have to reprove and rebuke begin by admitting what is good: “They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Perhaps I am addressing some who are very anxious to be right with God; they are by no means hypocrites, but are really awakened to a sense of their danger, yet they cannot get peace of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. And that is the great mischief with persons who are not saved. They are very sincere, very earnest, but they will not submit to the righteousness of God; they will not agree to be made...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Man must have a righteousness of one kind or another; and if he has not a God-given righteousness, he seeks to have one of his own making. As the spider spinneth her web out of her own...