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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But covet earnestly the best gifts: I would not wish you, brother, to repress your aspirations after these blessings; I am most anxious that you should earnestly desire and seek to possess a large share of all these spiritual endowments. 1Co_12:31. And yet shew I unto you a more excellent way. Which is, holding the truth in love, and walking in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If there be no love to God, and no love to man, the vital element is wanting. Whatever sound we make if the Word of God is not in us, it is a sound that has no meaning, conveys no heavenly meaning. “I am become as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. Judas had, no doubt, faith in God’s miracles, but yet he was not saved. Selfishness was his ruling motive; he had no love to God or man. How this clips the wings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Love is a matter of the- heart, and if the heart be not right with God, external acts, though they are very similar to the highest acts that flow from love, are of no service. God requires the heart to be right,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Always try to put the best construction on other people’s actions and work. Let gentleness triumph.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; Three abiding graces. Some have said that faith and hope will not be found in heaven. Why not? Why not? It seems to me there will be plenty of room for them — plenty of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the greatest of these is charity. It is the highest, the pinnacle. It is not the foundation — that is faith. Just as a rose in full bloom is greater than the stem that bears it, so, whilst faith is most needful, and hope most cheering, love is he most beautiful and brightest of the three. This exposition consisted of readings from 1...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren I declare unto you the gospel — Mark that Paul writes concerning “the gospel.” We shall see now what “the gospel” is.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; That is the central truth of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, Brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. Paul preached the gospel, his hearers received it, and also stood in it: “wherein ye stand.” It is essential to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. By which the apostle means, unless they had a false faith, a merely notional faith; or he may also mean “Unless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. What was this gospel, of which Paul thought so highly, and which he says is the means of our salvation? Did it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. What then was this gospel which Paul had preached, and which the Christians in Corinth had received,—the gospel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, Notice that the preacher does not make the gospel. If he makes it, it is not worth your having. Originality in preaching, if it be originality in the statement of doctrine, is falsehood. We are not makers and inventors; we are repeaters, we tell the message we have received....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I delivered unto you first of all that which, I also received,- The preacher of Christ must not make new doctrines. He is not to be his own teacher, he is to receive the truth first, and then to deliver it. The Christian minister takes the lamp out of the hand of God, and then passes it on to the hands of his people. Think not that any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: There are many passages in the Old Testament which describe the Messiah as dying for sinners, especially the old chapter of Isaiah’s prophecy. There are others that speak of him as being buried,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; This is the solid basis of the gospel.