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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For every house is builded by some; — By someone or other; — Heb_3:4. But he that built all things is God. And Christ is God; and he is the Builder of all things in the spiritual realm, — ay, and in the natural kingdom, too, for “without him was not anything made that was made.” So he is to have eternal honour and glory as the one great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. You see, then, that the apostle had first made a distinction between Christ and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. We are the house in which he dwells with delight — in which he finds comfort and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whose house are we, Christ built the house; he laid us together like stones upon the great foundation, Moses is but a caretaker in the house. Heb_3:6. If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope from unto the end. Final perseverance is an absolute necessity of a child of God. We do not prove ourselves to be a part of the house if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: You are his house, give him rest, do not provoke him. If you belong to him be holy, do not grieve him. If you are his house be not defiled: surely he should dwell in a holy place.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore — Now comes a long parenthesis: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(As the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, today if ye will hear his voice. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. That was a house in which it was hard to dwell. It had been Moses’ prayer, “if thy presence go not with us, carry us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Oh, children of God, you have some of you been more than forty years now in the Lord’s service: do not vex him. You have been long called out of Egypt and brought into the separate place in this wilderness world: be careful to be fit for the Divine indwelling.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) God grant that none of this congregation may be of that mind, who having named the name of Christ and being known as his people, continue to grieve him one way and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. They do err; they did always err in their heart. God is very tender to errors of judgment — errors of the head. But to err in the heart — this is the heart of erring, and very provoking to the Most High; and for it always to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) What a dreadful warning this is to us! If God has had forty years’ patience with you, take heed, sinner, take heed, lest he swear in his wrath that ye shall not enter into his rest, for your entrance into that rest depends upon his good will and pleasure. He will have mercy on whom he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. There was that “evil heart” in the Israelites, is there not a danger that it may be in you also who are partakers of the like nature?
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. Here the charge is not to the outside world but to those whom he had called “holy brethren.” He drops the word “holy” for there are some brethren so called who would not deserve that name, and to them he speaks very pointedly, “Take heed,...
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. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Watch over each other as well as over yourselves. Take heed lest sin hardens you before you are aware of it; even while...
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...
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...