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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. That is the thing that provokes God — unbelief; not so much the unbelief of the head, as the unbelief of the heart, when the heart will not yield to the plan of salvation, when men want to be saved by their own works, or else are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But exhort one another daily,.... In order to prevent unbelief and apostasy. The phrase is sometimes rendered, "comfort one another", or, "yourselves together", as in 1 Thessalonians 5:11 which the saints may do, by discoursing together about divine things; by praying together; by instructing one another in the doctrines of the Gospel; by putting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end; Not otherwise. Again I say they who do not hold on and hold out are not really partakers of Christ, but we are made partakers...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But exhort one another daily. In opposition to their always erring, do you be always exhorting, and you cannot do that with any face unless you are always watching that you do not err yourselves; but when, walking yourselves near with God, you exhort one another, it is well. “Exhort one another daily.” Heb_3:13. While it is called Today; lest any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. If sin came to you openly proclaiming itself as sin, you would fight against it; but it is very cunning and deceitful and it gradually petrifies the heart and especially the heart of those who think that they will never provoke God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For we are made partakers of Christ,.... Being loved by him, given to him, and chosen in him before the foundation of the world; and so participate of all spiritual blessings in him; for this respects something past, and may be rendered, "we have been made". The phrase is expressive of union to Christ, which is not by faith on man's part, and by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. Not all, for there were two faithful ones. See how the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. It is not true that one act of faith is all that is required; except you will consider that one act to be continuous throughout life. If a man were a believer once, and if that were possible to cease to be so, then, of course, he is ruined; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end. You are to hold fast, to hold on, and to hold out to the end; and the grace you need in order to do this is waiting for you if you will but look for it and daily live under the power of it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
While it is said today,.... Exhort one another, and hold fast Christ and his Gospel, and faith and confidence therein; what follows is a repetition of the citation in Hebrews 3:7 in order to make a further improvement of it; which shows, that the words belong to the present times of the Gospel, and contain in them matter of moment, and great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While it is said, today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Twice over we are warned of this, to avoid hardness of heart. God save us from ossification of heart, petrifaction of heart, till we get a heart of love or a heart of stone-may God save us from this.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: There are many such, and there are no sinners who provoke God so much as there who hear the gospel. A man who never hears the gospel at all may provoke God, but the man that sins after he has heard it again...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. All but two that came out of Egypt died in the wilderness; only Joshua and Caleb were faithful among the faithless found.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For some, when, they had heard,.... The Arabic version adds, "his voice"; the law on Mount Sinai; the voice of words, with the voices and thunderings that attended it; the book of the covenant read; the whole system of laws and ordinances delivered to Moses, and by him to them; and also the Gospel, for that was preached to the Israelites in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. There were two; it was a slender remnant that were faithful.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. No, but all but two. Yes, but the Lord will not forget two. There were only a mere handful — in Sodom, but the Lord would not consume them with the wicked. They were brought out of it; and so here, if there be only two, the Holy Spirit takes care to be very accurate in the counting of God’s elect...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But with whom was he grieved forty years?.... As is said in Psalms 95:10, [See comments on Hebrews 3:10], was it not with them that had sinned; not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocations, which all men are guilty of, but by committing public sins; they sinned as a body of men; they joined together in the commission...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? God speaks very lovingly of the bodies of his saints but see how he speaks of the bodies of apostates, “whose carcases” as if they were no better than so many brute beasts, “whose carcases fell in the wilderness.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? How he speaks of them, and calls them “carcases”! He never speaks of his children so; and you remember that in the Old Testament the unredeemed man is comparable to the ass. “Thou shall not redeem him; thou shalt break his neck”;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? See how the apostle speaks of them; he does not say that their bodies were buried, but that their carcases fell, in the wilderness. Unbelief degrades us into beasts whose carcases fall beneath the poleaxe of judgment. Oh, that we...