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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul is very full of Christ. His heart is full of love to God our Father, and, therefore, it is that twice over in as many lines he mentions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. Paul had a very high opinion of the Church in Thessalonica, and no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. Paul never had a happier time in preaching, it would seem, than when he preached to these Thessalonians. He felt a power resting upon him. He spoke the gospel with great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: Ah! dear friends, we read of one that he was more honourable than his brethren because his mother bore him with sorrow. And so when faith is born in the heart in the midst of affliction, it is a very precious faith. It is faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. Brethren, let us not only be Christians, but let us be samples of Christians. They are sure to pick out the best for a sample. Oh! that we might be such that, if God himself were to select Christians to show what they are like, he might select us to be samples.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak anything. For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. You cannot help sorrowing, for you miss your dear ones so much; but you do not sorrow like the heathen who believe their departed friends to be extinct and annihilated. You have a glorious hope concerning...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. There is such a union between Christ and his people that they never can be divided from him. In life, they live in him, in death, they sleep in him; and when he comes again, he will bring them with him. Christ cannot be without his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. We shall have no preference over the saints who are sleeping in Jesus, we shall not go before them, we shall be on a blessed equality with them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Whatever ideas we have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. This exposition consisted of readings from 1Th_4:13-18; and 1 Thessalonians 5.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. The great point is that it comes — will certainly come, and it will come when it is least expected. There are certain signs given, by which the righteous shall know of its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. That is, most unexpectedly to an ungodly world. Even they who are watching for Christ’s coming may be to some extent surprised at his appearing, as the most watchful person may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. It will be a great surprise to the wicked. It will take them at unawares. Just at that moment when they least expect it will Christ come; and as the thief comes to destroy and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. Sudden and acute shall be the terror of the ungodly when the Lord Jesus in flaming fire shall be manifested.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. Let no ungodly man dream that he will escape. Apart from vital union to Christ, there will be no escaping for any one of us in that tremendous day of the Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. A terrible text that “They shall not escape.” They shall not escape by their own power or force or wisdom. They shall not escape even by the annihilation which they might well desire, but which shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are brought out of darkness into his marvelous light. Your element is light. “Ye are all the children of light”; “ye are not in darkness that the day should overtake you as a thief.” You know the signs, and, being watchful, you will observe them when the hour...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You who truly know the Lord, you who are saved through his first coming, and are expecting his second coming, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You know that Christ will come. You expect the dissolution of this present state. To you therefore, it will come as one who calls at daytime. You cannot know the hour. You must not know it; but since you know that he will come, and come to your joy; and since you...