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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. All nations have their special forms of salutation, and this is the Christian’s greeting to his fellow-Christians, “Grace unto you, and peace.” How much there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians — Paul loved to associate his fellow-workers with himself when writing to his brethren and sisters in Christ. Although he had a superior experience to theirs, he put Silvanus, and Timothy, his own son in the faith, with him as his fellow-evangelists in writing to “the church...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord Jesus Christ:s grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the apostle’s usual salutation when he is writing to a Christian church. When he is writing to a minister, it is “grace, mercy, and peace,” for God’s most prominent servants especially need great mercy on account of their heavy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, We do not feel this bond as much as we ought; we often feel ourselves bound to grumble and complain, but I question whether we think enough about being bound to praise God; and if we do not thank God as we ought for ourselves, it is little marvel if we are very slack in the duty of thanking him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; What a kind of sacred network Christian love makes, intertwisting every believer in Christ with every other believer! “The love of every one of you all toward each...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, One of the clearest proofs of the judgment to come is to be found in the present sufferings of the saints through persecutions and tribulations;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye do suffer: seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, For us who believe in Jesus there is a long Sabbath yet to come, to be spent with the apostles and the other holy ones around the throne...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, This rest, then, it seems, is to be given to us mainly when Christ shall come with his mighty angels.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; I wonder what those persons, who say that it is not the duty of men to believe the gospel, make of this passage. Paul...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
“Then he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe — Which passage means, I suppose, that as Christ will be admired in his own person, so his glory, reflected in all his children, will be a subject of admiration to the whole intelligent universe. The saints of God shall be so pure, so bright, such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(Because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Therefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: Ministers should be much in prayer for their people. When John Welsh’s wife found him on the ground with his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfull all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: that the name of Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. This exposition consisted of readings from 2 Thessalonians 1; 2Th_2:1-4.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. In his former Epistle to the Thessalonians, Paul had written as if he expected Christ to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Paul believed in the Second Coming of Christ, for he beseeches the brethren “by the coming...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. In the Church of Christ, the teaching has always been that Christ is coming quickly, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. If this “man of sin”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the Son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. It has been usually...