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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Provoking one another, envying one another. If each would strive who should do the greatest deeds of love, and each were willing to take the lowest place, then this evil would never be known again. This exposition consisted of readings from Gal_4:12-31; Gal_5:1-4; Gal_5:19-26; Gal_6:1-11.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us not be desirous of vain glory,— Do not let us want to be accounted as somebody; for, if we do, we prove that we are really nobody. Nobody is anybody till he is willing to be nobody; as long as he wants to be somebody, he is nobody and nothing. Gal_5:26. Provoking one another, envying one another. God save us from that and every other form...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, — If he travels so slowly that his faults catch him up, and knock him down: “If a man be overtaken in a fault,” — Gal_6:1. Ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; Set his bones for him if they have been broken; put him in his proper place again. Gal_6:1. Considering...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault,— He is a slow traveler; he is not speeding swiftly on the way to heaven, so the fault overtakes him. Had he been quicker of pace, he might have outstripped it; but he is “overtaken in a fault.” What then? Turn him out of the church? Have done with him? No. “If a man be overtaken in a fault,”— Gal_6:1. Ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. When Christians fall into a fault, it is on account of their traveling slowly on the road to heaven. Hence the expression, “If he be overtaken with a fault.” He would not have been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and fulfill the law of Christ. This exposition consisted of readings from Gal_5:13-26; and Gal_6:1-2.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Help your brethren. If you see that they have more to do than they can accomplish, take a share of their labour. If they have a heavier burden than they can bear, try to put your shoulder beneath their load, and so lighten it for them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Help each other. If you have a light load. take a part of somebody else’s.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Paul does not say, “He deceiveth other people;” no, “he deceiveth himself.” As a general rule, other people find him out, they learn what he really is, but “he deceiveth himself.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Mainly deceives himself. Other people generally find it out. It is no use estimating your fortune at so many millions, for it will not make it so; and it is of no use estimating yourself at a very high price, because it does not make it so. “He deceiveth himself.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. There is, after all, a burden which we cannot carry for others, and which we cannot shift upon others. There are burdens of care, and sorrow, and trouble, which we can take from other men’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let every man prove his own work, and then, shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. There are burdens of care and sorrow which we can help others to bear; but the burdens of responsibility each man must carry for himself. The load of service for the Master must be carried...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Those who are taught, should maintain those who are their teachers as far as they are able to do so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. If he gives you spirituals, do not suffer him to lack for temporals.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Paul puts that in connection with the support of those who are teachers of the truth, and I have sometimes thought that, in certain churches where God’s ministers have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. That is true under the gospel as well as under the law.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not deceived: God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap What the flesh always comes to by-and-bye.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; That is what always comes to the flesh; it decays and corrupts. Gal_6:8. But he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. No corruption shall come to that which belongs to the Spirit: “He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit By faith in Christ — by being led of the Spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, it we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. They have a first claim upon us. They are nearest of kin. They are our brethren in Christ. Let...