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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, Seem scarcely to have an existence, not worth notice, not put down in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. This is what flesh always likes to do. Proud flesh we speak of, and all flesh is such. Flesh has a great tendency to swell, to corrupt; it is easily puffed up; but God will not have it so. What is flesh to God? Did not he make all things? Shall the thing formed boast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: In fact, we have everything in Christ; we have in his prophetic office wisdom, in his priestly office righteousness and sanctification, and in his royal office, in which he paid the price of our salvation, we have redemption.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Here is room for glorifying, and it is our duty to glory in God. Let us do so more and more! This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 103. 1Co_1:25-31.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. How grateful we ought to be that there is milk, and that this milk does feed the soul — that the simplest truths of Christianity contain in them all that the soul wants, just as milk is a diet upon which the body could be sustained,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have fed you with milk, That is a blessing. 1Co_3:2.And not with meat: That is not a blessing. It is a great privilege to be fed even with the simple doctrines of grace, with the milk of the gospel; but it is a higher boon to have such a spiritual constitution as to be able to eat the strong meat of the Word.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? As ordinary, unregenerate men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? A united church, you may conclude, is a growing church — perhaps a grown church; but a disunited church, split up into factions where every man is seeking position and trying to be noted such a church is a church of babes....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollo; are ye not carnal? Instead of that, they should all have striven together for the defense of the common faith of Jesus Christ. There is no greater symptom of mere infancy in true religion than the setting up of the names of leaders or the preference for this or that peculiar form of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Is not this just how common, ordinary men would do? Where is your spiritual-mindedness if you so act?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Let God, then, have all the glory. Be grateful for the planter, and grateful for the waterer, ay, and grateful to them as well; but, still, let the stress of your gratitude be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who then is Paul, Mark, it is Paul himself who asks this question. He puts his own name here in order to show that he does not despise Apollos any more than he despises himself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that waterereth are one: and every man shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: They are pursuing the same design; and Apollos and Paul were one in heart. They were true servants of one master.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. The church is built up. God is he who builds it up — the master of the work, but he employs his ministers under him to be builders.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are God’s building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. Paul began the churches; he was the first preacher of the gospel in Corinth, and also in other places; and other preachers followed in his footsteps. When a man lays a good foundation, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. If he meant right — if he did endeavor to serve God as a worker, though he may have uttered many errors and have been mistaken — (and which of us has not been?)...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Do you know it? He says, “Know ye not?” but I might leave out the “not” and say, “Know ye that ye are the temple of God?” What a wonderful fact it is! Within the body of the saint, God dwells, as in a temple. How do some men injure their bodies or utterly...