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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Here you have the Trinity in a single line of Scripture, and it needs the Trinity to make an acceptable prayer. Through him (that is, Christ) we have access by one Spirit unto the Father, and now, today, the Church of God is one in prayer, whether Jew or Gentile. We come to God by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now therefore ye are no more strangers..... Alluding to the name נכרי, "a stranger", by which the Jews called the Gentiles; meaning that they were not now strangers to God, to the grace of God, the love of God, and communion with him, nor to the throne of his grace; nor to Christ, to his person, his work and office, to his righteousness, to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now therefore Another of Paul’s blessed “nows.” It was “but now” a little while ago; now he has another “now.” “Now therefore” — Eph_2:19. Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; You are not only in the kingdom, but you are in the royal household, which is better still. You are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; A part of the family of the great Householder, even God. Citizenship is well enough in its place, but citizens do not always know one another. But we are of the household of God, we are brought into an intimate relationship with one another...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; How blessedly grace annihilates all national distinction. Cowper spoke of nations which, like kindred drops, would have melted into one if they had not been divided by a range of mountains or intersected by a narrower faith. But...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God: There are many here whom we do not know. We have not seen their faces before, but if they are in Christ and we are in Christ, we are very near of kin. There is an old proverb that blood is thicker than water, and depend upon it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,.... The prophets of the Old Testament, and the apostles of the New, who agree in laying ministerially the one and only foundation, Jesus Christ; for not the persons of the apostles and prophets, nor their doctrines merely, are here meant; but Christ who is contained in them, and who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And are built You are not loose stones; you are built — Eph_2:20. Upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom You see, it is always that, in him, in Christ: “in whom” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: We are put so close together, if we are really in Christ, that we are like the stones of the temple, so united as to become one. In Christ Jesus,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: The church is a framed house. It has an architect. Some seem to think that it is a load of bricks. They have no church officers. There are none...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In whom all the building fitly framed together,.... This building is to be understood of all the saints, and people of God; of the whole universal church, which is God's building; and is a building of a spiritual nature, and will abide for ever: and this is fitly framed together; it consists of various parts, as a building does; some saints are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: There is no church without Christ, no temple without him as its cornerstone, its priest, its glory.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In whom you also are builded together,.... As the church universal, so every particular church is a building that is compact together, in and upon Christ, as the church at Ephesus was: God is the builder of it; Christ is the foundation; true believers are the proper materials; the door, or entrance into it, is Christ, and faith in him; the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. And all this hangs upon that first sentence, “You hath he quickened.” Is it so, beloved? If you are spiritually dead, nothing here belongs to you; but if he hath quickened you, you may take every single sentence of the chapter, and say, “That is mine, and glory be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. That is the most wonderful truth of all, — that God himself should come and dwell among his people and in his people, and that, being sanctified by grace, we become the dwelling place of the Most High. God grant that it may be so! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. We are not builded to stand like a carcase. It is a ghastly sight to see houses in London nearly finished, but never occupied: but it is the glory of the Church of God that it is inhabited. It is a habitation of God through the Spirit. Holy Spirit, dwell in thy...