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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. If your life is guided by the Spirit of God, — if you are spiritual men, and your actions are wrought in the power of the Spirit, “ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,.... By "flesh" is meant, not the carnal or literal sense of the Scripture, which is Origen's gloss, as militating against the spiritual sense of it; nor the sensual part of man rebelling against his rational powers; but the corruption of nature, which still is in regenerate persons: and is so called...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. You are pulled about by two contrary forces; you are dragged downward by the flesh, and you are drawn upward by the Spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. How often that is the case! Ye would be perfect, but “ye cannot do the things that ye would.” We would, if possible, escape from every evil thought; we would not even hear of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: They will never agree; these two powers are always contrary one to the other. If you think that you can help God by getting angry, you make a great mistake. You cannot fight God’s battles with the devil’s weapons. It is not possible that the power of the flesh should help...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. The law is ever to you the blessed rule by which you judge your conduct, but it is not a law of condemnation to you, neither are you seeking salvation by it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if ye be led by the Spirit,.... That is, of God, who is the guide and leader of his people. It is a metaphor taken from the leading of persons that are blind; as such are before conversion, and whom the Spirit of God leads in ways they knew not, and in paths they had not known: or from the leading of children, and teaching them to go; so the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye be led of the Spirit ye are not under the law. The Spirit never brings the soul into bondage, the terrors and the fears which come of legal slavery are not the work of the Spirit of God. Where he works, holiness is delight, and the service of God is a continual joy. Oh, that we may be thus led of the Spirit!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Any kind of sensual indulgence — whatever it may be — a lustful glance, the cherishing of an unclean desire,— the utterance of a foul expression, all this is condemned, as well as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the works of the flesh are manifest,.... By "flesh" is meant corrupt nature, as before, and by the works of it, not only external acts of sin, but inward lusts; for such are here mentioned among its works, as "hatred", "wrath", "envyings", c. and both external and internal acts are so called, because they spring from the flesh, or corrupt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, They are clear, plain, self-condemned.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelling, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like: A black catalogue, but sin is very prolific. We must take care that we avoid each one of these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: The list is always too long to be completed; we are obliged to sum up with a kind of et...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Idolatry,.... Which some understand of covetousness, which is so called; but rather it means the worshipping of other gods, or of graven images: witchcraft; any real or pretended league and association with the devil, seeking to converse with familiar spirits, to gain unlawful knowledge, or to do hurt to fellow creatures; which, as it is doing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, Is drunkenness actually put by the apostle after murder, as though it were something worse than that terrible crime? Or is it not, oftentimes, the case that drunkenness lies at the bottom of the murder?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Envyings..... Uneasy distressing tortures of the mind, grieving at the good of others, that any should be in an equal, or in a better condition than themselves: murders, destroying of men's lives, which is often the consequence of the above evils: drunkenness; excess in drinking of wine or strong drink, whereby the stomach is overcharged, the mind...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Read over the list. Put the question to conscience, “Am I guilty of such things?” If so, do not suppose that the holding of orthodox doctrine will save you, or that any kind of religious ceremony will save you....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Paul never said, nor ever thought of saying, that a man might live in sin, that grace might abound. No, no; these evil things must be given up. Christ has come to save us from every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. A very solemn, searching, sweeping declaration. Let each man judge himself by this test. “The fruit of the Spirit” — is equally manifest, as the apostle goes on to say,