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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But call to remembrance the former days,- The apostle is not expecting that any of them will ever go back to where they were before; he is persuaded that they will persevere even to the end. The very warning that he gives is a powerful preventive against apostasy. Now comes the exhortation: “Call to remembrance the former days.” Some of you can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, whilst ye were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. In your early Christian days, you were pointed at, and regarded as quite singular for being servants of Christ; or, possibly,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. You must push on; you have already...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, In those early days, the Jewish believers clung as the unbelieving Jews persecuted him, to Paul just as ardently
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. Be like the brave Spartan who would never lose his shield, but would come home either with it or on it. “Cast not away your confidence.” You...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have need of patience,- Or, endurance, — Heb_10:36. That, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. To hold on, to continue to do God’s will,-this is the task. To start, and to make a spurt now and then, is easy enough; but to keep on, is trying to every spiritual muscle; and only God can enable you to do so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have need of patience,- Our supply of that virtue is often very short; it is an article of which there is very little in the market, and all of us have need of more of it: “Ye have need of patience,”- Heb_10:36. That, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. There must first be the doing of the will of God, and then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. If there be a drawing back from faith, God can have no pleasure in us; but shall we draw back? That is the question, and here is the answer: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. The drawers back-the mere professors-those who say they have been illuminated, and who have tasted, in a measure, the sweetness of religion, yet who never received Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition;- We who have believed in Jesus, we who have sincerely committed ourselves to his care, we who have been born again of the Holy Spirit, we in whom there is the real work of grace which God has pledged to carry on, — “we are not of them who draw back unto perdition:” — Heb_10:39. But of them that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we-What a consoling end this is to the chapter! It ought to comfort every believer in Christ who has been distressed by the earlier verses: “we”- Heb_10:39. Are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. May that be true of every one of us, for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elder obtained a good report. So it was written, in the olden time, that believers “obtained a good report;” and this second verse shows that they obtained it by their faith. The best part of the report about them is, that they believed their God, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, Though the “things” are only “hoped for” and “not seen” at present, the eye of faith can see them, and the hand of faith can grasp them. Faith is more mighty than any of our senses, or than all our senses combined.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, It gets a grip of what it hopes for, and holds it in its hand. Heb_11:1. The evidence of things not seen. We do see by faith. We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. A strange mystery is the simple act of faith.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. The names of those who lived in old time are handed down with commendation because of their faith. If they had had no faith, we should have had no report of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. “The elders”— that is, those who lived in the ancient times — wrought wondrous works by faith, and the “report” of them still encourages others to try to do likewise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Those of the olden time, who were men of noble character, won that character by their faith.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith — That is, belief, trust in God,- Heb_11:1. If the substance of things hoped for, It gets a grip of them, and holds them fast Heb_11:1. The evidence of things not seen, The height of what we cannot see with our mortal eyes,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. There was no pre-existent matter, the world was made by God’s word, so that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For by it the elders obtained a good report. It is noteworthy that they obtained this “good report” by their faith. Doubt gives a man an evil reputation; it is only believers who obtain such a “report” as even the Holy Spirit describes as “good.”