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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. The two things go together. When we love God, we long for the glory and the appearing of his Son. The most loving spirits in the world have had most an eye to that glorious coming. Note Enoch who walked with God and prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. Paul had been to Thessalonica, and had given oral teaching, and now he commits to the book what he had spoken; but he bids them take care not to associate...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. The apostle had a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. A very capital rule, indeed. There are some so very spiritually minded that to soil their hands is also to soil their conscience. They are afraid of hard work. They think it is unspiritual; whereas there is nothing in the world, next to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Not doing their own business, and therefore putting their noses into everybody else’s business. If they had minded their own affairs, they would have left other people alone. There are such people alive now. We must not be surprised if we meet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. The best bread and the sweetest, is our own. We are to work for it. We are to work with quietness. I suppose to some that is very hard work, but they must labour after it, for quietness is a Christian grace, it is indeed a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. This kind of Christian discipline ought to be carried out still, in reference not only to this one ease of busybodies, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. What a sweet benediction! And how he heaps the words together, as if peace was one of the greatest blessings a church could have. Indeed, dear brethren it is the essential to all other blessings. I am quite certain that we never should have enjoyed here the long years of perpetual...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord be with you all. The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write. I suppose he always wrote a part of each epistle. Probably through the failure of his eyesight he was unable to write the whole of it with his own hands, but employed some one of his brethren to be his amanuensis. But, in order...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. So with great courtesy and a comprehensive prayer he finishes his letter.