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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.
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.
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...
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? Sinning and not believing seem to go together. The 17th verse asks the same question as the 18th, but the answer is different. “With them that had sinned” says the 17th verse, “to them that believed not” says the 18th verse. Want of faith brings want of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. It is those who believe not who have God’s curse. If you do not rest upon Christ as your salvation, you, too, shall hear God swear that you shall not enter into his rest. This exposition...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. It was not the sons of Anak that kept them out, it was not the waste howling wilderness; it was nothing but their own unbelief. This exposition consisted of readings from Hebrews 2, 3.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. 4:1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I left out the “us” because that is inserted by the translators and should not be there. The promise is left to somebody, it does not say to us -- “a promise being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. If you avoid the very seeming of it, you will avoid the thing itself. Oh! that we were careful about this — that there was nothing that should give any reasonable fear to those who observed us, or to ourselves when we search...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it. Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of it. Oh, that we might now enter into that rest, and so clearly enjoy it that there should not even be a seeming to come short of it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. It must be mixed with faith. There are many drugs that are of no value till they are mixed with something else; and the Word preached becomes of no value to a soul until it is mixed with faith in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. They were not united to it by faith; consequently, as they did not receive the Word, it was taken away from them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. I leave out the intermediate words for the time being. “There is a rest.”