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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. That is our main business; whether we live or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. Happy Paul who, as a preacher of the gospel, could write, “If you say that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. The true-hearted Christian judges himself to have died when Christ died, and, henceforth, he feels...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. He is gone back to glory, so our object is not to win a kingdom for him anywhere upon earth. Our aim now is spiritual, the proclamation of his truth, the winning of a kingdom for him in the hearts of men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. As if Christ himself stood here, and pleaded with you, he bids his ministers plead on his behalf. In the name of God, he bids us beseech you to be reconciled to God. Ambassadors do not generally beseech men; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. God’s servants are called to take many different positions. They are ambassadors under one aspect; they are workers under another. As ambassadors, they are ambassadors for Christ, as workers, they are workers together with God. Oh, how much it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) I trust that, if I am addressing any who say that it is too late for them to be saved, and that their sin is too great to be forgiven, this text will drive away that unholy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, As those early servants of the Lord really did.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastinqs; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. If they were not saved, it was not because Paul did not open his mouth to speak to them, and to warn and invite them, nor because he did not open his heart, and feel, in his very bowels, the movements of a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now for a recompence in the same, There must be some wages for this blessed work. The apostle wisely puts it on that footing, as if, surely, they were indebted to him, but the payment that he seeks is, of course, no personal gain to him; he only puts it in that form, but it is a gain to them. 2Co_6:13. (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: Not in any way, — neither in marriage which is the chief of all forms for yoking, nor yet in business or other partnerships. 2Co_6:14. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? You must be in the same world with them, but keep...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; That is a quaint old expression, “We do you to wit.” It means, “We would let you know, we would tell you, we would inform you of what the Macedonia saints have done;” and he does not at first say, “We would let you know of the liberality which the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit Or “we make you to know.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. It is good to stir one Christian up by the example of another, and Paul excites those at Corinth by the example of the churches in Macedonia —especially,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of the joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. They were very poor people in Macedonia but they loved God so much that they abounded in liberality. Considering how little they possessed, and how much they were tried and persecuted, they had been wonderfully...