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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Not your own sins, but the sins of your friends, so that you will not see them. Where love is thin, there faults are always thick. Wherever there is true love in the heart, we make many apologies and allowances for the weaknesses and infirmities of our friends. Often, we cannot see the faults in them;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whatever “the gift” is, whether it be money, or talent, or grace, “even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” God gives much to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Whenever saints of God traveled in those days, there were few public inns available for their accommodation, so they stayed with brethren in Christ as they went on their way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. God’s grace takes many shapes, it is manifold; and he gives to one brother one form of grace, and to another quite a different form; and, to a third, yet another form of his blessing. now, as nations increase their wealth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man speak — Let him speak thoroughly well; but, in order that he may do so, what shall be his model? 1Pe_4:11. Let him speak as the oracles of God/ As truthful]y, carefully, solemnly, as the Book itself speaks: “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.” 1Pe_4:11. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: In Peter’s day, the Christians were called, not only to what might he metaphorically termed, “the fiery trial,” but they had literally to suffer thus for Christ’s sake. Nero had multitudes of Christians brought to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; did not your Saviour say, “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. Whenever they speak against you that which is not true, they think that they shall slander the name of God by slandering you; but they do no such thing. As far as they are concerned, God is evil spoken of; but, then, that is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. A curious mixture that, — is it not? A murderer is classed with “a busybody in other men’s matters.” But, really, people of this latter sort are very obnoxious. there are some who seem as if they cannot mind their own business; I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God :- Trial and testing must begin there; we must not expect to have our religion taken for granted, and ourselves to be saved simply upon our own warranty. We must be tried: “the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? If the wheat is winnowed, what is to become of the chaff? If God casts even the gold into the fire, what is to become of the dross? If that which is really valuable yet has to be tested, what is to be done with the mire and the clay? Oh, that all who have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, — If they be saved with difficulty, — 1Pe_4:18. Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? If even men who live godly lives are often hard put to it to know whether they shall be saved or not, — if they raise the question again and again with a terrible seriousness, “where shall the ungodly and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. The whole run of the chapter is that we are to prefer any suffering of the flesh to the sin of the spirit; and we are to be prepared to endure whatever trial or pain may come upon us for Christ’s sake, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Here again, as in the first chapter, Peter links the sufferings of Christ with his glory.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. Likewise, ye younger,...