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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the band of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. It shuts you all up as in a dungeon, that by the one...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. All of us, by nature are shut up like criminals in a prison that is so securely bolted and barred that there is no hope of escape for any who are immured within it. But why are all the doors shut and fastened? Why in order...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, It whipped us to Christ, and taught us that we could not be saved except by Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster- This is an unfortunate translation; it should be, “The law was our pedagogue.” That was a slave, who was employed by the father of a family, to take his boy to school, and bring him home again. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Well do I remember when I was “shut up” in this fashion. I struggled and strove with might and main to get out, but I found no way of escape. I was “shut up” until faith came, and opened the door and brought me out into “the glorious...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. The apostle is not speaking of a schoolmaster, as we understand that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. We have outgrown him. God has given us power now to go to Christ’s school ourselves, joyfully and cheerfully. I remember, and I daresay you also do, when that pedagogue whipped us very sorely; I am glad that I am no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. The pedagogue was a slave who led the children to school, and sometimes whipped them to school. That is what the law did with us; it took us under its management, and whipped us, and drove us to Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female : for ye are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Now we go to Christ willingly, cheerfully, joyfully, trusting in him with all our hearts. The pedagogue’s work is done so far as we are concerned.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. You set forth that truth in your baptism; you then confessed that you were dead to sin, and declared that you were risen again in Christ to newness of life. Whatever you had to do with the law before, you were dead...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. We hear a great deal about the universal fatherhood of God, but it is all nonsense. There is no Scripture for it whatsoever. Those only are the children of God who are “the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. The fatherhood of God is common to all believers; but there is no universal fatherhood, as many teach it in these days.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. “He is everything to you. He covers you, he surrounds you. You do not stand before God in your own filthy rags, but you have put on Christ.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. May this be true of all of us, for Christ’s sake! Amen....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. That settles the question; if you belong to Christ, you are the children of Abraham. Come then, and, without the least...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. What a mercy it is to be in Christ, so that you yourself are not seen any more, but only Christ, and you accepted in him!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if ye be Christ’s, then ye are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. “According to the promise,” — not according to your works, or your deserts, but “heirs according to the promise.”