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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. So that all the blessings which God promised to Abraham belong to you who are believers in Christ, and you may take them, and rejoice in them; but if ye are without faith in Christ, then are ye without the one essential thing which gives you an interest in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. While the Jewish believers, like children, were under the law, they did not have such direct access to the Father as we have. They could not enter into such close fellowship with God as now we can. We who are the sons of God, really born into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. All God’s sons are, in a certain sense, his servants; but there is a sense in which servants are not sons. We, therefore, are not like those servants who have no relationship to their master, and no share in his possessions; but we are sons. Whatever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. “Be perfectly at home with me, for I am so with you. Though you Galatians have treated me very badly, yet ye have not really injured me, and I freely overlook your ill manners toward me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. He says, “Now I am just the same to you as ever I was; I wish you would have the same love to me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. He dwells upon that. They had been so enthusiastic about his teaching when he first taught them, that he feels grieved that now they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? When you said that you were happy to live in Paul’s days, glad to listen to so simple and plain a teacher.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Ah! there are many who have incurred enmity through speaking the gospel very plainly, for the natural tendency of man is towards ceremony, towards some form of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? There come times, with all God’s servants, when certain people proclaim something fresh and new in doctrine; and then the old messenger of God, who was blessed to them, comes to be despised. I have lived long enough to see dozens of very fine fancies started, but they have all come to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. They would, if they could, turn you out of our love that you might run after them. These false teachers would shut us out of your hearts that your hearts might go after them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; — By Abraham’s own strength; —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, and the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; In the strength of Abraham.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he of the freewoman was by promise. Born when Abraham and his wife were past age, — born by the power of God’s Spirit, according to promise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he of the freewoman was by promise. In the power of God, born after both father and mother had ceased to be capable of becoming parents, born in the power of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar. It is the strength of the flesh which leads to bondage.