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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, — You were dead to all that was good, but you were alive enough to that which was evil. It seems, from this passage, that dead men walk, yet not in the way of God, but “according to the course of this world,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Then you owe your very life to him. You were dead, you were like a corrupt carcass, but his life has been breathed into you. “You hath he quickened.” Then you are no longer dead, you are a living soul before the living God, and as you owe this to him, praise him with all the life you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; What a great change, then, has taken place in the people of God! It is described as being similar to the resurrection of the dead. And do you suppose that this took place without a man’s knowing it? Do you think that we are wrong in stating a wide difference between the quickened...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: These were your grave clothes. You were wrapped up in them. Nay, this was your sarcophagus. You were shut up in it, as in a great stone coffin: “Dead in trespasses and sins.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherein in time past ye walked With a terrible activity of spiritual death; Eph_2:2. According to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: He makes them to be his forge. There he blows his coals, there he fabricates his instruments. Do you not hear the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: This is what happened to us all in our unregenerate state, we were carried along by the world, loving what it loved, judging from its views, and acting according to its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of all disobedience: 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 we were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. We were not in the least better, by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Those who are not saved have a life of evil. They are dead towards, God, but they are alive towards Satan. An unregenerate man’s heart is Satan’s workshop, in which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. You were once no better than the workshop of the devil. He is the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience, as the smith works in his forge. When you hear...
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. You that now commune with God at the mercy-seat, you that are now his favored children, and have received power to become the sons of God, you were once...
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. That is the highest point to which human nature can attain; left to itself, it makes us “children of wrath.” Even those who are now most assuredly the...
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...
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...