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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Do not let us simply read these words, but let us each one say in our hearts, “That is true; I have believed in Christ, therefore I am justified in the sight of God, and therefore I have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” There is nothing in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: This verse deserves to be printed in letters of gold. If you can truthfully say this, if it is indeed true of you, you are the happiest people under heaven. Let us read the verse again: “Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: These are matters of fact; not of fanatical delusion, but of logical conclusion, for Paul begins with a “therefore.” God’s people are justified on solid grounds, on reasonable grounds, on grounds that will bear the test even of the last great judgment day....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. This is a golden staircase, justification brings peace, and peace brings access into this grace wherein we are established; and then comes the joy of hope, and that hope fixes its eye on nothing less than the glory of God. Grace is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. When a man is at peace with God, then he has the desire to draw near to him. When he is justified, he has the right to draw near; so that, being justified, and having peace, we have access by faith; and this is not a transient privilege,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only have we peace, but we get into the favor of God, and we stand in it. This is the grace or favor which comes of being justified. We feel a freedom now to come into our Father’s presence, because he has forgiven us for Christ’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Oh, what a comfort this is, to be rejoicing, especially, to be rejoicing in hope. It is better on before, there may be clouds and darkness here, but we can see the sunlight breaking yonder; “until the day break and the shadows flee...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith — That is to say, we come near to God; we have the entry of the King’s palace; “we have access by faith” — Rom_5:2. Into this grace wherein we stand, With firm foot and confident heart, we stand in God’s presence. Happy people! Rom_5:2. And rejoice in hope of the glory of God. What a window hope is! It looks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. See what we owe to Christ, — not only justification and peace, but we have access into the grace in which we stand; for, when a man is at peace with God, then he longs to get to God, and to speak with God. Christ is the door, and Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. We are not only at peace with God, but we are permitted to draw near to him, we have access to him, we have access to his favor, to his grace. We may come to God when we will; for he is reconciled to us, and we are reconciled to him, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By whom also — What! is not that first verse all? Oh, no! there is more to follow. When you get a hold of one golden link of the blessed chain of grace, it pulls up another, and then another, and then another: “By whom also “ — Rom_5:2. We have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, We come into this grace by Jesus Christ, and to this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so,— Whenever the apostle begins to talk of the Lord’s bounties to his people, he abounds in “also’s” and in “not only so’s? As if he had not said enough already, when he had reminded us of the joy of hope in God’s glory, he says, “And not only so.” We have something in possession as well as something to hope for; we have a present...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Beloved, it is a mark of great grace to be able to acquiesce in tribulation, and to accept it with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. So that even what might seem to be the disadvantages of this present life are made...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing that tribulation worketh patience; — The more trial you have the more spiritual education you receive. You cannot learn the virtue of patience without tribulation, any more than a man can learn to be a sailor if he stops on shore: “Tribulation worketh patience;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: Another hope, or rather the same hope rising up into another form. We begin with rejoicing in the hope of the glory of God by faith, now we get a further hope which is born of experience; the things we have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so, but we glory — We hope for glory, — “the glory of God,” and we already “glory.” But in what do we glory? “ We glory” — Rom_5:3. In tribulations also: — That is the blackest thing a Christian has, — his tribulations; so, if we can glory in them, surely we can glory in anything. “We glory in tribulations also:” — Rom_5:3. Knowing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: Present trials even become subjects for thanksgiving. Surely, they have lost their sting when patience accepts them, and faith rejoices in them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, and experience, hope: and hope maketh, not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Like a sweet perfume, which enters every room, and fills every nook and cranny in the house, so does the delightful love of God fill the entire...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: Paul is going upstairs, as it were, — rising from one platform to another. There is enough of glory in Christ to wrap up all our troubles in; it makes the black white, and the dark bright. Rom_5:3. Knowing that tribulation worketh patience; A man who never suffers does not know what patience...