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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? “You profess to have received the Spirit; did the Spirit come to you by the works of the law, or through hearing and believing the gospel?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? “You know that the Spirit of God is necessary to salvation. You have received that; did you get the Spirit through the works of the law, or by simply hearing the gospel, and believing it?” The answer comes at once if we have received the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? If the very beginning of your religion was spiritual, a work of the Spirit received by faith, are you now going to be perfected by the flesh, by outward rites and ceremonies, or by efforts of your own?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? “Did you begin right, and are you going to finish in some other way? Is the foundation laid in truth, and will you build falsehood upon it? Is the foundation Jesus Christ, the chief corner store, and is the superstructure to be wood, hay, and stubble?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? “Is this work to be partly God’s and partly your own? And if he has begun it with a basis of gold, are you to perfect it with your poor dust and clay? Are you so foolish as to attempt to do this?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Surely, the way in which the Christian life begins is the method in which it is to be sustained. “As ye have received Christ Jesus, the Lord,” the apostle says in another place, “so walk ye in him.” If you have begun in the flesh, go on in the flesh, but if you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. You had to struggle and endure much contention within your own spirit to get upon the ground of faith at all; are you going to throw all that away? Is all the experience of your past life to go for nothing, and are you now going to begin on a lower and baser platform?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. “Have you been made to suffer through conviction of sin? Have you even been persecuted for the truth’s sake? And are you going to give it up after all that?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ? They knew very well that the miracles came as the result of faith, and were an attestation and seal of the gospel of faith, and not of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. This is another pertinent question.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? He knew that they must reply that it was faith, and not the works of the law, that gave those miraculous powers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? “Have those miracles been wrought in your midst by the power of faith or by the works of the law?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? They had miraculous gifts among them as a church, and the apostle asks them whether these were works of the law, or whether they were not exercised as the result of faith. The answer is clear. It was the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. That is the old way, the way of faith. It is not here recorded that Abraham did anything, though he did much; but the one thing that was “accounted to him for righteousness” was this, that he “believed God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. That is the Scriptural doctrine, faith is counted or imputed for righteousness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. He was the father of the faithful — that is of the believing; — not of those who trust in their own works. These are only like Ishmael, who must be cast out of the chosen family; but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. He was not saved by his works, but by his faith. His faith was the means of the imputation to him of the righteousness of the Saviour who was yet to come.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Not this nation or that, as Anglo-Israelites might say; but those that are of faith, these are the children of Abraham. Abraham is the father of the faithful, the believers, and believers are all the children of Abraham. Race has nothing to do with this matter;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Those who are justified by faith in Jesus; those whose faith is counted for righteousness, they are the children of believing Abraham, — not those who are under the law of Moses.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. He was called the father of the faithful, therefore the faithful, those who believe as he did, and are full of his faith, are his children.