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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...
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...
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...
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.
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...