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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. If all the processes of grace fail in the case of any professors, what is to be done with them? If the grace of God does not enable them to overcome the world, — if the blood of Christ does not purge them from sin, what more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. If, after having ploughed this ground, and sown it, and after it has been watered by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But, beloved, we are persuaded better thing of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. Harsh as the apostle’s words may seem, they are not meant for you who are really believers in Christ, and in whom the Holy Spirit has wrought a complete change of heart and life; Paul is not speaking of such as you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. If you have proved by your works that the grace of God is within you, God will not forget you; he will not leave you, he will not cast you away. You know the contrast in the speech...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: Keep it up; be as earnest today as you were twenty years ago, when you were baptized and joined the church: “Show the same diligence unto the end.” Still, “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Sailors throw their anchors downwards; we throw ours upwards. Their anchor goes within the veil of the waters into the depths of the sea; ours goes within the veil of glory, into the heights of heaven, where Jesus sits at the right...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace. His very names being instructive, Righteousness...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. Melchisedec just passed across the page; he has no predecessor, he has no successor. We see him in Scripture, and we know nothing of his descent we know nothing of his death; we only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. Thus the old priesthood, the Levitical and Aaronic priesthood, did homage unto the Melchisedec...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? We read in the psalm just now, “Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec,” which proves that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. The law of the priesthood alters since the person of the priest, the character of the priest, and the very office of the priest had altered too.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar According to the belief of the Jewish people, the Messiah was to come of the tribe of Judah, yet none of the house of David or of the tribe of Judah ever presumed to present themselves as priests of the order of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. So there was an entire change of the priesthood, and of the law of priests. This exposition consisted of readings from Psa_110:1-7; Heb_7:1-14.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. That is all it did: it was a stepping-stone towards something better. “by which we draw near unto God.” “The Lord hath sworn and will not repent.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest. (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, the Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better Testament. And they truly were many priests, because...