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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: There is the greatest possible affection between the preacher and his convert. This is a relationship which even death will not destroy. They neither marry nor are given in marriage in the Heavenly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I would again remind you, as I have often done before, that the apostle Paul, when he is writing to a minister, invariably begins...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, Paul takes high ground. He is not an apostle by the will of the Church, but an apostle by the will of God. God’s will is the great motive power in the Church of God. Some talk a great deal about man’s will. What think you of God’s will,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord. It is not a little remarkable that, when the apostle writes to churches, he usually wishes them “Grace and peace”; but when he writes to a minister, he generally prays for “Grace, mercy, and peace”, as if we needed more mercy than other Christians. Having so great a work to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Son in the faith. When all the ties of natural descent shall be forgotten. sonship in Christ will continue. I do not doubt that in heaven Timothy is still Paul’s son; Paul is still father to Timothy, for the relation is of the Spirit. 2Ti_1:2. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; At that time, Timothy was very specially laid upon the apostle’s heart and he did not seem to think of anything without young Timothy’s image rising up before him “night and day.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; Thank God that Paul had such a sympathetic spirit, and that Timothy’s needs so continually rose before his supplicating eye, and that Paul was able to pray for Timothy, not with anxiety, not in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; For this Paul thanks God. He never forgot to pray for Timothy, and it is a matter of thankfulness. When we feel moved to pray, though it be for another, the spirit of prayer is essentially the same,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; Paul had seen Timothy’s tears when he parted from him. He remembered, perhaps, his tears when under conviction of sin, his tears of joy when he found the Saviour, and the tears he shed in his early preaching, when the gracious youth touched the hearts of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; I suppose that Timothy was very tender-hearted, and that he had been grieved because of Paul’s many afflictions; and, on his part, the apostle greatly missed his dearly-beloved son in the faith. In the latter part of this Epistle, Paul writes, “Do thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; What were those tears? Tears of holy men and women are as precious as diamonds. Paul had noticed the tear twinkling in brother Timothy’s eye — the tear of repentance, the tear of gratitude, the tear of fervent desire. He had noticed that, and, being mindful of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. There is no transmigration of souls, but there is a kind of transmigration of faith, as if the very form and shape of faith, which was in Lois and Eunice, afterwards appeared in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. Grace does not run in the blood, but it often runs side by side with it. The “grandmother Lois” and the “mother Eunice “ had the true grace of saving faith dwelling in them, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. Happy son who has grandmother and mother before him in the faith. Unhappy young man who has quitted the faith of his fathers, and has turned altogether aside. If such be here, we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. The fire needs stirring every now and then; it is apt to die out if it is not stirred.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance- Paul had been speaking of his own remembrance of Timothy, and of Timothy’s faith, and now he says, “Wherefore I put thee in remembrance”-- 2Ti_1:6. That thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. The best of fires need stirring sometimes; and the best gift of God, even the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. Stir up your gifts like a fire. It will not burn without poking sometimes. Stir it up. And every now and then it is a good thing to have our heart stirred up, aroused, quickened, brought to a higher diligence. We must try to do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God; Timothy, never be ashamed of the gospel of Christ, and never be ashamed of Paul when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. What a boon this is to all who can truly say, with Paul, “God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Neither Paul, nor Timothy had a craven spirit. They were none of them afraid. God had taught them his truth, and they knew it, and they held it, defying all opposition.