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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: Both the salvation and the faith that makes it ours are the gift of God. Twice over, the apostle tells us that we are saved by grace,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That in the age 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; — It must be all of grace because of the greatness of the favor bestowed. A man dead in trespasses and sins cannot deserve to be made alive; and when he is made alive, he cannot deserve to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Brethren, we are to be a show, an exhibition case, in which God will exhibit the riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Angels will count it a high joy to study the life of a regenerate man, to see...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For by grace are ye saved,.... This is to be understood, not of temporal salvation, nor of preservation in Christ, nor of providential salvation in order to calling, and much less of being put in a way of salvation, or only in a salvable state; but of spiritual salvation, and that actual; for salvation was not only resolved upon, contrived and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For by grace are ye saved through faith; We have this expression, “by grace are ye saved,” twice over in this chapter. Paul knew that he needed to repeat himself, or people would forget what he taught. At bottom, all the wanderings from the faith at the present day amount to this, salvation by works instead of salvation by grace. The battle of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that not of yourselves: it is a gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. “Oh!” said one to me just now, “the man who is saved by his own righteousness cannot do much in the line of praising.” “No, my dear brother,” I replied, “except he praises himself; and he can generally do that pretty well.” Your self-made man usually worships...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: “Not of yourselves.” What do those people mean who keep on crying up the power of the human will, the wonderful dignity of human nature, and all that kind of foolish talk? Salvation is not in ourselves; “it is the gift of God,” not a reward which we have earned, but a free gift which God bestows...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For by grace are ye saved Not by your own merits, not by priestcraft, not by your own free will. “By grace are ye saved.” This is the great summary of the gospel. Let this doctrine be preached, and we shall soon see the errors of Rome fly before it. “By grace are ye saved.” Eph_2:8. Through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For by grace are ye saved There it is again. Paul rings that silver bell in the deaf ears of men. “By grace are ye saved.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. We should be sure to boast if we could. We are a boasting people. Man is a poor mass of flesh, and he is largely given to the corruption of pride, He will boast if he can.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Not of works,.... Of any kind, moral or ceremonial, before or after conversion, done without faith or in it, nor of these in any sense; works are neither the moving causes, nor the procuring causes, nor the helping causes, nor "causa sine qua non", or conditions of salvation; the best works that are done by men, are not done of themselves, but by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship,-- If we have good works, as I trust we have, yet even they are the production of God’s grace; praise and glory for them belong to him, and not to us: “For we are his workmanship,”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not of works, lest any man should boast. God cannot endure boasting, and one great object of the plan of salvation by grace is to extinguish boosting, to shut it out. It is intolerable to God, he cannot endure it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not of works, lest any man should boast. God will not have a boaster in heaven. He will not have the creature exalting himself in his presence. The command, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;” is backed up by this reason, “for I am God, and there is none else.” Therefore unto God himself must be the praise and glory for all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, No good man can boast of his works, because those works are the work of God. Without him we could not perform good works, so that even when we possess them, we are his workmanship. Shall the vessel on the wheel exalt itself as if it made itself? No, the potter must have the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For we are his workmanship,.... Not as men only, but as Christians; not as creatures merely, but as new creatures; the work of grace upon the soul seems chiefly designed, which like a poem, as the word may be rendered, is a very curious work; the king's daughter is all glorious within, for this is an internal work, and is a good and excellent one;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus Nothing without Christ Jesus, you see. The mark of the pierced hand is on everything: “We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.” Eph_2:10. Unto Good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. God has decreed that he will have a holy people. This is his purpose, his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. This is the great object of our election; we are elected that we may be holy, and ordained that we may walk in good works;-who can rightly quarrel with such a divine purpose as this?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are his workmanship, If we have anything good in us, it was all made by him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Created in Christ Jesus unto good work, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of...