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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. Do not believe one thing today, and another thing tomorrow; be not carried about, like the thistledown in the wind. Have a faith of your own, know what you believe, and stand to it firmly.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines,.... The word "divers" may denote the variety and multitude of other doctrines; referring either to the various rites and ceremonies of the law, or to the traditions of the elders, or to the several doctrines of men, whether Jews or Gentiles; whereas the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. Do not put yourself into every man’s hand to let him play with you as he pleases. The fish that never nibbles at the bait is not likely to be caught by the hook, and he who will not give heed to “divers and strange doctrines” is not likely to be carried away in the net of heresy. Heb_13:9....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. We have an altar, Yes, true religion cannot exist without an altar, but what kind of altar is it? Is it a material altar? Far from it; but “we have an altar,” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We have an altar,.... By which is meant, not the cross of Christ, on which he was crucified; nor the Lord's table, where his flesh and blood are presented to faith, as food, though not offered; but Christ himself, who is altar, sacrifice, and priest; he was typified by the altar of the burnt offering, and the sacrifice that was offered upon it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. Those who cling to the external and ceremonial observances of religion have no right to the privileges which belong to those who come to the spiritual altar; they cannot share that secret.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. They have nothing to do with it, for they are still under the old ceremonial law; and those whose religion consists in outward rites and ceremonies can never eat of the spiritual altar whereat spiritual men eat, for they do not understand the scripture, and they still serve the Mosaic...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the bodies of those beasts,.... Not the red heifer, Numbers 19:1 nor the sin offering in general, Leviticus 6:30 nor those for the priest and people, Leviticus 4:11 but the bullock and goat, on the day of atonement, Leviticus 16:11 which were typical of Christ, in the bringing of their blood into the most holy place, by the high priest, for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Outside the gate, was the place of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore Jesus also,.... In order to answer the type of him; that he might sanctify the people with his own blood: by "the people" are meant the people who are the objects of divine love and favour; a chosen and covenant people; a distinct and peculiar people; Christ's own special people, by the gift of his Father to him: and the sanctification...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,.... Either of legal ceremonies, which are to be quitted; or of this world, which may be compared to a "camp"; for its instability, a camp not being always in one place; and for its hostility, the world being full of enemies to Christ and his people; and for the noise and fatigue of it, it being...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For here have we no continuing city,.... Neither for religious worship, the city of Jerusalem being quickly to be destroyed, nor for civil life to dwell in; and so may have a peculiar regard to the Hebrews, whose temple and city would, in a short time, become desolate; though it was the general case of the saints, in those times, to be obliged to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. We cannot stop in the condemned city; we must be outside its walls. Our Lord went out of the city to die, and we must go without the camp to live.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise,.... For temporal and spiritual mercies; particularly for sanctification, or expiation of sin, by the blood of Christ; and for heaven, the continuing city, that is to come: this sacrifice is not a proper, nor a propitiatory one, but spiritual and evangelical; it is enjoined by God, is well...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. If you are believers in Christ, you are God’s priests, and this is the sacrifice that you are continually to offer, — the fruit of your lips, giving thanks to God’s name.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Christian people should be always doing good. As God is ever doing good, so we can never say we have done all we ought to do...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But to do good and to communicate forget not,.... Which is to be understood, not of doing good works in general, but of acts of beneficence, or communicating to "the poor", as the Syriac version renders it: the apostle proceeds to take notice of another sort of sacrifice, which continues under the Gospel dispensation; and that is, alms; which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. We are to do good to others, to communicate of our own good things to those who need them, and to do this at some sacrifice to ourselves, “for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Obey them that have the rule over you,.... Not the ecclesiastical rulers among the Jews, for to these they were no longer obliged, they being no longer under such tutors and governors; nor civil magistrates, though it was their duty to obey them, even Heathen ones; for as for Christian magistrates, as yet there were none; but their spiritual...