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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. No difference by nature between the brightest saint in the church of God and the blackest sinner of the camp of Satan all fallen, all desperately...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Not children of God, even as some profanely assert when they talk about the universal fatherhood of God. Ye were children of wrath, even as others. And...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But God, who is rich in mercy,.... Mercy is a perfection of the divine nature, and is essential to God; and may be considered with respect to the objects of it, either as general, extending to all men in a providential way; or as special, reaching only to some in a way of grace; for though mercy is his nature, yet the display and exertion of it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, God loved us even when we were dead in sins. His love does not depend upon what we are; it flows from his own heart. It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. Here you see the greatness of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,-- Again let us praise the Lord with all our hearts for what he has done for us. It is truly wonderful that he should have loved us when we were “dead in trespasses and sins,”-with no feeling, no holy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) This is a wondrous truth, that God loves the sinner even while he is dead in sin. This love is not caused by any goodness in him, for he is dead, he is wrapped up in the cerements of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) “By grace ye are saved.” I know that you feel that it is so. Our quickening out of our death in sin must have been by grace; and as God has done it, unto him must be ascribed all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, Wonder! The life that quickens. Christ quickens all the members of his mystical body, and this has come to us through the riches of God’s mercy. Whatever God has, he has in abundance, but of his mercy we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Even when we were dead in sins,.... [See comments on Ephesians 2:1]. Hath quickened us together with Christ: which may be understood either of regeneration, when a soul that is dead in a moral or spiritual sense, is quickened and made alive; a principle of life is infused, and acts of life are put forth; such have their spiritual senses, and these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hath quickened us together with Christ, Ah! That accounts for everything: “together with Christ.” When we get “together with Christ”, then are we made alive, then are we saved. Are you, my dear hearers, “quickened together with Christ”?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(By grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. See how Paul’s language grows and swells and rises as he proceeds! Just now, we read of “God, who is rich in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(By grace ye are saved.) Not by human merit, not by the energy of our own will; but, “by grace ye are saved.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(By grace ye are saved;) See, Paul puts that in a parenthesis. It was not necessary to the sense, but he knew that there would come a time when men would not like this doctrine, so he puts it in, “by grace are ye saved.” They cannot bear it, and therefore they shall have it. They shall have it when the sense does not seem to demand it. To make it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hath raised us up together,.... Which refers either to a spiritual resurrection, to a resurrection from a death in sin, to a spiritual life; and which is the effect of almighty power, and of rich grace and mercy; and in which Christ is concerned: he is the efficient cause of it, he raises the dead in this sense, and quickens whom he will; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus We are not only alive, you see, but we are elevated into the highest position of the new life,-made to live with Christ, and in Christ,-made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. That great truth was put, in the 5th verse,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly place, in Christ Jesus: It is all in him, and it has a sevenfold sweetness about it because it is in him. To live unto God is a wondrous mercy, but to live together with Christ is an unspeakable honour. To be raised up into the heavenly places would be a surpassing blessing, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We are not only raised from the dead with Christ, but we are spiritually raised into the heavenly places with him. It is a great thing when a man learns to look up from earth to heaven. It is a greater thing when he learns to look down from heaven upon...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That in the ages to come,.... This is the end of God's permitting sin, in which men are morally dead; and of his suffering them to go on in sin, in a state of unregeneracy; and of his quickening them with Christ, and raising them up, and causing them to sit together with him: namely, that he might show the exceeding riches of his grace: riches...