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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Set your affection. Not “your affections.” Tie them up into one bundle. Make one of them. Col_3:2. On things above, not on things on the earth. You say that you were dead with Christ, and that you have risen with Christ. Live, then, the risen life, and not the life of those who have never undergone this matchless process. Live above.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, — You profess to be dead to the world; is that profession false? You have observed that Scriptural ordinance in which you profess to be buried with Christ; was that observance only an empty form? If there was any truth in your profession, “Ye are dead,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. The old life is dead. You are dead to it. You will not be consumed by it: you cannot be controlled by it. You have a newer and higher life. Let it have full scope.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And your life is hid with Christ in God. You have a new life now; it is up yonder, “where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Do you not feel drawings upward? Are there no longings after the high and heavenly estate where Jesus is? Come, beloved, let your soul break loose for a while; and, like a lark that, having found its liberty, ascends...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things’ sake the wrath of God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Christ was hidden while he was here. The world knew him not. So is your life. But there is to be a glorious manifestation. When Christ is made manifest, so shall you be. Wait for him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. You are hidden now, your life is veiled in him; but, at his second coming he shall shine forth in all his glory, and “then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” Beloved, seek no greatness here; ask not for any exaltation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Since you are dead, let all the lusts of the flesh be put to death. Kill those. They were once a part of you. Your nature lusted this way. Mortify them. Do not merely restrain them and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Kill all these evil things; do not let them live in you for a single moment. The command applies, not only to the grosser actions which are summed up under the head of fornication and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. “When ye lived in them” But now you do not live in them. You are dead to them. If it should ever come to pass that you fall into any of these things, you will loathe yourself with bitterest repentance that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. This was true of the Colossians, and it was true of almost all those to whom Paul wrote, for these gross evils were scarcely regarded as sins in his time, so polluted had the nations become. I hope that, in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds: And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: No lies. Such communications are filthy. But you put these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now ye also put off all these; — Put them all off, like old clothes that are never to be worn again: “Put off all these;” — Col_3:8. Anger, — It is hard work for some to pull that garment off, for it fits them so tightly. This burning coat of wrath will not readily come off; but the apostle’s command is, “Put it off! Put it off!” It does not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lie not one to another, — In Paul’s day, lying was thought to be a virtue unless the liar happened to be found out; in that case, it was considered wrong; but to lie through thick and thin, and to lie so dexterously as to deceive, was looked upon by an Oriental as an accomplishment of which he might be proud. So the apostle might well write, “Lie...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: There is nothing false or untrue in God. God is true, and in him is no falsehood at all; and if you and I have really been renewed, as we profess to have been, we shall hate the very semblance...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. In the new life there is no distinction of race and nationality. We are born into one family; we become members of Christ’s body; and this is the one thing we have got to keep up — separation from all the world...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Whenever you hear certain very wise brethren say, “Such-and-such a promise in the Bible is for Israel, not for the Gentiles,” do not you be misled in the least by their assertion; but just quote this text to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering: This is what you have got to wear, even on the outside — to put it on; not to have a latent kindness in your heart, and a degree of humbleness deep down in your soul if you could get at it; but you are to put it on. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, — Be ready to feel for others; be very considerate of their needs. Look at others as if they were your kith and kin; if you and they are in Christ, they are indeed your kin, so put on kinned-ness, or “kindness,’ — Col_3:12. Humbleness of mind, — Do not try to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Just as readily, just as freely, just as heartily, just as completely.