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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; For,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” A man’s god is like himself, and until we become like God we cannot see God; we misunderstand God until we have been trained to imitate him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; “Lest he should come short of the grace of God,” and as it were fall back. Paul is still keeping to his illustration drawn from the wrestling at the Olympic games. Sometimes, the wrestler gave his opponent a back fall, and down he went,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: The holy God can only be seen by holy eyes. He must make us like himself before we can see him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Follow peace with all men, You will not always get it, but follow it — run after it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator,- Fornication was the special sin of that age: in fact, so common was it that the heathen did not reckon it to be a sin at all. Knowing of the tendency to licentiousness in all around them, Paul specially warned the Hebrew Christians...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; Seeming to have grace, and yet not really having it Heb_12:15. Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Sin is a bitter thing and a defiling thing and unless we look diligently, it will grow in our hearts like the weeds grow in our gardens after a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Those who seek the pleasures of the flesh rather than the pleasures of a higher world are here put side by side with Esau. Now Esau sold the right to his future heritage for a present mess of pottage, and many there are who do something very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. His father could not transfer to him the blessing which he had given to Jacob.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest there be any fornicator, Fornication was far too common in the early church, but it was not thought to be sin by the great mass of the heathen; but, oh, what a defiling sin it is! Heb_12:16. Or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. He was thus guilty of spiritual fornication, preferring his meat to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought at carefully with tears. He never repented of his sin, but only of the consequences of it. He never sought pardon of God, but only sought to inherit the blessing. And there will be many, who have lived...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. He could not get his father to change his mind concerning Jacob; on the contrary, he said, “I have blessed him; yea, and he shall be blessed.” His many tears availed not, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more, I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, yet once more...