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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. The Holy Spirit’s being in you is your seal that you are the child of God, and the power by which you will be preserved till the resurrection; therefore, do not grieve that blessed Spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, “Kind” is a good old Saxon word; it means kinned. Be ye kind, like men who are akin to one another; look on all men as your brothers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. This exposition consisted of readings from Ephesians 4. and Eph_6:1-15.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Tenderhearted, forgiving one another, You will have something that will need to be forgiven, and your brother will have something which you will need to forgive. Eph_4:32. Even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. The Lord write all these words upon our hearts, for Christ’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even is God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. That is, very freely, very often, very abundantly, very thoroughly, very heartily: “even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you,” so also do ye.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye therefore followers of God, Or, imitators of God,- Eph_5:1. As dear children; Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; this is, therefore, a most comely and appropriate precept: “Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. What a path to walk in! “Walk in love.” What a well-paved way it is! “As Christ also hath loved us.” What a blessed Person for us to follow in that divinely royal road! It would have been hard for us to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; So far from ever falling under the power of these evils, do not even name them; count them sins unmentionable to holy cars. In what a position do we find “covetousness” placed, side by side with “fornication end all uncleanness”! In the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks. All sorts of evil, frivolous, fruitless talk should be condemned by the Christian. He should feel that he lives at a nobler rate, he lives to purpose; he lives to bear fruit; and that which has no fruit about it, and out of which no good can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath, any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. What a sweeping sentence! This is indeed a sword with two edges. Many will flinch before it; and yet, though they flinch, they will not escape, for Paul speaks neither more nor less than the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. These are the very things God hates. If, therefore, they are in you, God cannot look upon you with the love that he feels towards his children. “These things” he cannot endure, and “because of these things cometh the wrath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, Then, “these things” suited you. Eph_5:8. But now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light; Get clean away from these dark things; travel no more in the thick gloom of these abominations. God help you to walk in the light as he is in the light!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. We ought to pray that our whole life may be “acceptable unto the Lord.” We are ourselves “accepted in the Beloved; “ and, that being the case, it should be our great desire that every thought and word and deed, ay, every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. It was so with the old heathen world in which Paul lived; he could not write or speak of those abominable vices, which defiled the age. But is London any better than Ephesus?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light; Then drag them to the light! There will be a great howling when these dogs of darkness have the light let in upon them, but it has to be done.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, Not carelessly, not thinking that it is of no importance how you live; but looking all round you, “walk circumspectly,” watching lest even in seeking one good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, Buying up the hours; they are of such value that you cannot pay too high a price for them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; If you want excitement, seek this highest, holiest, happiest form of exhilaration, the divine exhilaration which the Holy Spirit alone can give you: “Be filled with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; We should have thought that Paul would have said, “singing and making melody with your voice to the Lord;” but the apostle, guided by the Holy Ghost, overlooks the sound, which is the mere body of the praise, and looks to the heart,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. That principle of maintaining your rights, standing up for your dignity, and so on, is not according to the mind of the Spirit. It is his will that you should rather yield your rights, and, for...