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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, — Or, warnings, for just as they were overthrown in the wilderness, so may we be, notwithstanding all the gospel privileges which we enjoy, if we are not true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. If the life of Christ is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. There was no evidence of faith in many of them, and “without faith it is impossible to please God.” Is it not a sad thing that, in a people so highly favored as they were, there should have been so large a proportion of those who had not the faith which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we — We professed Christians,— we, church-members,— 1Co_10:6. Should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. They gave way to their carnal appetites; they craved for meat when God had already given them angels’ food. Now, if we act like this, we cannot be pleasing unto God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. That is, to go through those unclean rites and ceremonies before their idols which are here called, “play.” Ah, dear friends, may God keep us from the worship of anything which we can see with our eyes, or hear with our ears!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Fornication in God’s people is peculiarly black and filthy. In the ordinary man of the world, it is evil enough; but when a man professes to be a Christian, he must flee from even the very thought of it, and keep himself chaste, for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither let me tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. I cannot stay to mention the many ways in which we can tempt Christ; but we can readily do so still. What a dreadful doom it was to be destroyed by serpents! Yet is it not very wonderful that, in connection with this great sin, and its awful punishment, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. It is a dreadful habit to get into,— that of complaining against God. Occasional murmuring is doubtless sinful, but habitual murmuring becomes a very great evil. I am afraid that there are some who cavil at God’s providence, and cavil at his Word, till they come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. We also are to take heed lest we fall, especially those of us who think we are standing securely. You have seen how terrible was the fate of those unbelievers in the wilderness, who never entered...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: They were like a ‘book in which we might read our own history in large characters. We see ourselves foreshadowed in them, and we read our happiness or our misery in their behaviour.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. For if he begins to think that he stands, it may be that it is nothing but his own imagination; there may be no real standing about it. And there is no surer sign of the falsity of a man’s estimate...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. O Lord, fulfill thy gracious purpose unto thy servants! Hold thou us up, lest we fall. We are very weak; keep us,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. I should like to see this verse put over the top of every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: It cannot be; there must be a separation between these two things. We cannot have any delight in idol-worship, and yet worship the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devil. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience? That man may not be able to do it without injury to himself, but I may, and I have liberty so to do; but yet, as a Christian man, I am to consider his want of power, and I am not to use my liberty lest I do harm to my brother.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. And if anything you might do would not glorify God, do not do it.