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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I beseech you therefore, brethren, Paul is a calm reasoner. He is a bold starer of truth, but here he comes to pleading with us. I think that I see him lift the pen from the paper and look round upon us, as. with the accent of entreaty, he says, “I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, by God’s great mercy to you, his many...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And be not conformed to this world: Do not live as men of the world do. Do not follow the customs, the fashions, the principles of the world. “Be not conformed to this world.” Rom_12:2. But be ye transformed It is not enough to be nonconformists. Be transformed ones, altogether changed into another form. Rom_12:2. By the renewing of your mind,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Humility is sober thinking. Pride is drunken thinking. He that thinks more of himself than he should is so far intoxicated with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Hence the diversity. If the hand were made exactly like the foot, it would not be a tenth part as useful; and if the eye only had the same faculty as the ear, it would not be able to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth on exhortation: Keep to your own work; stand in your own niche. If you are only an exhorter, do not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Do not pretend to a love that you have not got. Do not lard your speech with “dear” this and “dear” that, when there is no love in your heart; and even if your heart be full of love, show it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abhor that which is evil; Be a good hater. Abhor that which is evil Rom_12:9. Cleave to that which is good. Stick to it. Hold it fast. Do not go an inch beyond it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; Hear this, ye members of the church. Endeavor to carry it out by a kindly courtesy and a real sympathy one with another. “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.” Rom_12:10. In honour preferring one another; Putting another before yourself, aspiring after the second place,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not slothful in business; A lazy man is no beauty anywhere. Rom_12:11. Fervent in spirit; Burn. Let your very soul get hot.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; When you have not anything else to rejoice in, rejoice in hope.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Patient in tribulation; The word “tribulation” signifies threshing as with a flail. Be patient when the flail falls heavily.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; When you have told your own necessity to God, then help the necessities of those who come to you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. A Christian man cursing is a very awkward spectacle. Even the Pope, when he takes to cursing, as at least the former one used to do very liberally, seems as if he could hardly be the vicar of God on earth. Our work is to bless the sons of men. “Bless and curse not.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, Do not be a wet blanket on their joys. If they have good cause for rejoicing, join in it. Help them to sing their hymn of gratitude. Rom_12:15. And weep with them that weep. Sympathize with mourners. Take a share of their burden. I really believe that it is easier to weep with them that weep than it is to rejoice...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be of the same mind one toward another. Agree together, you Christian people. Do not be always arguing and discussing. Be of the same mind one towards another. In church life very much must depend upon our unity in mind as well as in heart. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” — these help to make a good foundation for Christian fellowship.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. When we are free from scruples upon any point, and feel that there are things that we may do because we are strong, yet let us not do them if thereby we should grieve others who are weak. Let us think of their infirmities; and whatever liberty we may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. For even Christ— Our Master, and Lord, and great Exemplar: “For even Christ”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on, me. He took the most trying place in the whole field of battle; he stood where the fray’ was hottest. He did not seek to be among his disciples as a king is in the midst of his troops, guarded and protected in the time of strife; but he exposed himself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,— This is as if somebody had said, “Why, Paul, it was David who said what you just quoted” “Yes,” he replies, “I know that I quoted David, but he spoke in his own person concerning his Lord, ‘for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now the God of patience and consolation— “Comfort” is really the word he used, turning into prayer the thought which had been suggested by his use of the words “patience and comfort.” “Now the God of patience and comfort”—