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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, There are some that never will be ruled; their very idea of being a Christian is that they shall do just as they like. It is a somewhat happy circumstance that there are sects where they can do so. There are formed now-a-days these little knots of people who will have no rule and church...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. Rejoice evermore. Here follows a string of Christian precepts a golden chain. “Rejoice evermore.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
See that none render evil for evil unto any man; Not in any case. The world advises you to pay a man in his own coin, but if he pays you bad coin, he is wrong, and if you pay him bad coin there will be two wrongs. Do not do so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. Rejoice evermore. You have always something to rejoice in; make the world ring with Christian music.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pray without ceasing. Praise and prayer are fit companions. You will soon leave off rejoicing if you leave off praying. By ejaculations, keep up your prayers while at your books. You will not disturb your avocations by continuing still in supplication and prayer. That provender hinders no man’s journey.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit. Do not despise his operations, either in yourselves or in your brethren. Do not quench him by neglect, much less by open opposition.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In every thing give thanks: Try to do so for everything, and if you cannot do it, in everything give thanks for something else — when you are in circumstances which do not excite your thankfulness just then. 1Th_5:18. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. God wills it. This moved the Crusaders to the war. Let this suffice to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quench not the spirit. Do not hinder his movements in yourself; do not try to hinder them in others. If any man hath a gift which he might use to edification, do not discourage him, but rather encourage him to get more grace. God may find him opportunities of making use of it. Quench not the Spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Despise not prophesyings. If they are vain and false, despise them if you will, but that prophecy especially which deals with the Word of God, for the Word here does not signify merely prophecies of the future — it is often used of regular preaching. Despise not anyone who speaks in God’s name. He may speak with blunders of grammar — forget them;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Not from that which other people choose to think evil, but from all real evil whatever it is — even from the very shadow that it casts and the shape which it assumes.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. That first sentence is got to be quite a proverb, but that last, I believe, is taken away, which is another instance of the common truth that half the truth is a lie. You must give it all or none. “Prove all things,” is mischievous teaching, unless you “hold fast that which is good.” And, after all,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abstain from all appearance of evil. By which is not meant as some read it, “from everything that somebody likes to say looks like evil.” This would be to mar the Christian liberty. But wherever evil puts in an appearance, when it appears to be good, when it has been dressed out — for the word may refer to a Roman spectacle, or grand procession....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Christian man there is a trinity. His nobler nature is that which he got when he was regenerated, and it is his spirit. His soul he has got, in common with other men. His body he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us. Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. Give one another a hearty shake of the hands. That is the western...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. What a word of good cheer that is. Sanctification often seems to be a thing far off, but he will do it. He that called will perfect. The work which his wisdom began, the arm of his strength will complete.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, pray for us. Because sometimes people think that those of high spiritual attainments do not need their prayers, Remember, if they have a higher position, they have greater dangers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. This was the token of friendship in the East. To attempt to import it to the West would be not only absurd, but wicked. I may properly read them, “Greet all the brethren witch a hearty shake of the hand; keep up the outward form of fellowship, for if you don’t you will soon forget the fellowship itself.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The Pope would charge you that it be read to nobody; but who is he? It seems that this Epistle was intended to be read by all the Church, and so also the whole Bible. It is said it is not safe to trust it with the brethren; it is not safe to trust them without it; it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. This exposition consisted of readings from 1Th_4:13-18; and 1 Thessalonians 5.