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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. Those that are under the law are the children, therefore, of the bondwoman: they are born slaves.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this Hgar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. That is, of all of us who believe in Christ Jesus. We are born of the free-woman, not of the bondwoman; not born of the covenant of works, and in the strength of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. It is old Judaism coming from Sinai, “This do, and thou shalt live,” and all the children that are born under it are children of nature, and they are not the children of promise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. This is Sarah, and they that believe are the Isaac-children, the children of holy laughter, born according to the power of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. If we are God’s children, it is not by our own strength, or by the strength of the flesh, in any measure or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband, Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Make a compromise, and be friends? Let Isaac and Ishmael live in the same house, and lie in the same bed? No!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. 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
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. “You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subject yourselves, therefore, to legal principles. Do not live as if you were working for wages, and were earning your own salvation. Do not submit yourselves to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ had made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. If you begin being saved by the law, you must go through with it. You cannot take the principle of law and the principle of grace, and blend those two together. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. You have turned aside from it you are not standing with one foot upon grace and one foot upon the law but you have gone right away from grace. You must cleave to one or the other. If you take the law to be your hope, you must keep to it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love. It is not any rite, and it is not the neglect of any rite which can produce righteousness. It is as easy to trust in your non-observance of a ceremony as to trust in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? “You Galatians seemed to receive the gospel very readily, and to be very earnest in obeying it; what has caused you to turn aside to the old legal righteousness? You are very changeable, very fickle; you seemed very energetic in running the Christian race; whatever has got in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. “It does not come from God. He called you to faith in his dear Son, and to all those virtues and graces which naturally spring from the root of faith. Somebody else has called you aside, some false shepherd, who is but a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and who would destroy you if he could.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. One false doctrine very soon sours all your belief; the whole lump is leavened with it. If you have a wrong ground of confidence, you are wrong altogether.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Depend upon it, every man who troubles a church with false doctrine is amenable to the High Court above; and, sooner or later, he may expect even a temporal judgment here below.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. “The offence of the Cross” is that it sets up faith as the infinite merit of Christ’s atonement, and knocks down all confidence in outward ritual and ceremonies. Paul says that, if he had preached the flesh-pleasing doctrines of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. Excommunicated, and put out of the church; nay, it would be better if they were even dead, rather than that they should live to spread such evil even in a Christian church. Sometimes, when we think of the interests of immortal souls, we are apt to grow indignant, and rightly so, towards willfully...