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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. The light of the gospel is so glorious and bright that it is only hidden from those who have been blinded by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; It was not hidden under fine language and oratorical flourishes on the part of the apostles; there was a far more terrible barrier in the way of its entrance into the hearts of some who heard it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. For we preach not ourselves,-- What a miserable topic we should have if we did preach ourselves! But we do not set up ourselves as “priests” having authority to administer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In whom the god of the world hath blinded the mind of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who in the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. Hence we learn that anything like priestcraft is altogether foreign to the Bible. The “priest” preaches up himself, the extraordinary value of his ordination, the occult influences which flow from his touch, the mysterious power which dwells in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, We cannot therefore darken the gospel, or cover it up, “for God hath shined in our hearts,”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. “Christ Jesus the Lord” is to be the great theme of our preaching; and when it is so, we naturally take our right position with regard to our hearers, as Paul and Timothy did: “and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. There is the very glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, for he is “very God of very God,” and he who will but think of the wondrous mystery of the Incarnate Deity, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, The most earnest and faithful minister of the gospel must ever remember that humbling truth. He has this precious treasure of the gospel entrusted to his charge; he knows he has it, and he means to keep it safely, but,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. God might have put the priceless treasure of the gospel into the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. The original might very fairly be rendered, “We have this treasure in oyster shells,” for, just as pearls are found in the shells of oysters, so God gives to those who preach the Word the treasure of the gospel, yet they are themselves...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. If angels had been commissioned to preach the gospel, we might have attributed some of its power to their superior intelligence, and if only those had been called to preach the gospel who were men of great intellect and of profound learning, we might have considered that the talent of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. He who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; We are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; “We are troubled on every side.” There seems to be an allusion here to the Greek wrestling games. Sometimes, in wrestling, a man would be gripped by his adversary so that he could scarcely move hand...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;- He is not so far gone as that. He sees the stormy billows raging around outside the ship everywhere, and the ship is tossed hither and thither upon the waves yet she does not leak, there is no water in the hold, and the waves will not sink the ship as long as she can keep them outside; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. The apostle is here speaking for himself and all the members of the apostolic college, and also for all the early saints. They appear to have been very much troubled, and sometimes to have been very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Persecuted, but not forsaken; For there is One who, when we are persecuted, is persecuted with us, and persecuted in us, who has promised that we shall not be left desolate. He lath said, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” “Should persecution rage and flame, Still truth in thy Redeemer’s name; In fiery trials thou shalt see That, ‘as thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. The apostles were always ready to die for Christ, and therefore they were enabled to live so much like Christ, imitating his life, and being prepared to follow him even to the death whenever he called them to do so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. Thus did these apostolic saints in a very high sense die daily, and so must we, when called to suffer for the truth’s sake, bear about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So you see, brethren, to have an anticipation of death upon one is no hindrance to...