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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. Whatever Our gifts as a church, or as individuals, may be, they all come from the selfsame Spirit. This should tend to promote unity amongst us. Let us all trace whatever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. That, is to say, Christ visible—the Church of Christ. We are members of his mystical body. He is the Head; but all who are quickened by the Spirit of God are one with him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Oh, what a sacred oneness that is which subsists between...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. By the way in which some people act, you might almost imagine that the body was one member, and that the one member was a tongue; but it is not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? Do not get comparing yourself with others, and saying, “Ah! if I were such-and-such a person, I might then think myself to be part of Christ’s body.” No, you might not; if you were just like him. As...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? Where are you, dear child of God, who are in the position of the foot? Have you been comparing yourself with some eminent Christian, who did much in his Master’s service; and have you sorrowfully asked, “Why can not I do what he did? I am only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? Oh, by no means! The ear has its proper purpose to fulfill; it is designed for a special service in the body, which no other member can render. We must never compare ourselves among ourselves, and wish to be somebody else. You are bad enough...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If we were all preachers, if we could all see into God’s truth, and set it forth in a public manner, where should we get our congregations?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. That is the best rule for each part of our body: “as it hath pleased him.” Could any of you suggest a better place for your eyes than where they are? We...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? There must be different members to fill different offices. If we were all so one that there was no distinction whatever, if we were all of one rank, all of one age, all of one standing, the body would be incomplete.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Brethren, you sometimes think there are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if they were all one member, where were the body? There would be no body at all
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: You know how very quick the hand always is to go up to the eye when it is in danger You do not have to wait to tell it what to do; but, in an instant, the hand is up, for there is a fellow feeling between the members of the same body....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. They are covered and concealed; and so we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need but God both tempered the body together, having given more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: Here is a lesson for us with regard to church-fellowship,—always to take most notice of those who are the least noticeable, and to be most gentle with those who require the most tenderness. You know that there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That there should be no schism in the body; That is, no division, no rent in the body.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. I am afraid that this second half of the verse refers to a duty which is more neglected than is the other. It is an easier thing to suffer with those that suffer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. We have heard this text urged by some who are in the Church of England as a proof that we are wrong in departing from it. They tell us that there should be no schism in the body; we beg to tell them that there is no schism in the body that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; Is that true of our churches? I am afraid not. The members of the one Church of Christ have not been brought to that unity of feeling and sympathy which they ought to have.