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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; as also ye have acknowledged us in part,— Some of them disputed his apostleship; but most of them did not,—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That, we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. What a happy condition of things it is when the teacher and the taught mutually rejoice in each other; when the teacher is the joy of the flock, and when he can rejoice in his people! This is profitable to all; but when there are discards, and fault-findings, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. He had planned to see them in his going, and also in his returning; but he could not carry out the idea which was in his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? “Did I make up my mind hastily, and then did I change it all of a sudden without good reason? Had I never thought before I decided, and therefore did I find it necessary to revoke my promise?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. He binds up his own ministry with himself, and he says, “You charge me with being fickle, but you know better; you are well aware that I am not one who says one thing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Paul loved to turn from some lower subject to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. He declares that he preached the truth straightforwardly and consistently, and that he did not say one thing one day and another thing a few days later.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Christ is no quicksand, slipping and sliding away, and so ruining those who cling to him. He is the Rock of ages, and he stands fast for ever. His gospel is one and the same at all times. You see that, as Paul grows warm, he advances in his argument. If the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. “If I had come, I should have been obliged to rebuke you and reprove you. I should have had to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. (See Chapter 2.)
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; It is a very high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry, and when the minister remembers what great mercy he has himself received, what sins have been forgiven, what favors have been bestowed, he has the very best incentives in all the world to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;-- We are sometimes ready to faint, but we cast our fainting spirits into the arms of God, and our strength is again reserved at times, the very importance of an errand first weighs down the spirit of the messenger, yet afterwards it seems to impel him to more than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. Paul’s description of his own ministry and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; Stern was the labour of the apostles, but they felt that their work was so all-important, so divine, that they must not grow weary of it, though they were, doubtless, often weary in it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. There have, alas! been many preachers who have handled the Word of God in the manner described by the apostle. They have out...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. Far be it from the teacher of truth ever to use words in a non-natural sense, or to dissemble or equivocate, saying to the ear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. It is no part of the business of Christ’s ministers to modify the truth which he has entrusted to them, or to put new meanings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. Without light from above, no man can perceive the beauties either of the gospel or of Christ himself. Until God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: It is not hidden under the flowers of our oratory, not hidden under the darkness of our speech, not hidden through the fog of our philosophies; if it be hidden at all, it is hidden “to them that are lost.” If they had any spiritual perception or apprehension at all, if they were not...