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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; When people are as they should be, it is worth while to stir them up. You do not want to stir up dirty water, but you may stir that which is pure and sweet as much as ever you like. And a good fire sometimes becomes a better one by a little...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. The Lord had told Peter how he was to die. He had told him that he would die by crucifixion: “When thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.” He knew that the day...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. When we are gone from the earth, we want the truth that we have spoken to live on after us, we want even from our graves to continue to speak for Christ. Therefore it was that Peter kept on repeating the same truth over and over again. He hit...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,- He had no retractions to make as he came towards the close of his ministry. He did not have to say that, after all, he had been greatly mistaken; there had been an advance in theology since Jesus Christ had died, and he was sorry to say that he had preached a good deal when he was young which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. There is need in these perilous times to come back to such an elementary truth as this. The truths taught us in God’s Word are not fables, myths, or merely parables, but they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he received from God the Father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. Peter was not deceived about that matter; at the time, he and his fellow-apostles had been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. They were not deceived,-neither Peter, nor James, nor John. There was “such a voice” from God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. Even the prophets themselves did not always know the full meaning of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; Can anything be more sure than that which an eye-witness sees? Well Peter says that this prophetic Book, in which Holy Scripture is stored up is better to us than if we had even seen Christ himself. If any one thing be more sure than another, it is this blessed book-revelation of the Christ of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. It is not to be kept by any man to himself. God spoke to Jacob at Bethel, and we read concerning it, in Hos_12:4,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; Surely, nothing could be more sure than the evidence presented to the apostles in the holy mount. Yet Peter thus writes to express his utmost confidence in the Word of God. Surer than the light he saw, which dazzled him; surer than the voice he heard, which he never failed to remember, and to which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. How we do rejoice in this fact! We shall never give it up. It is a disbelief of inspiration, which lies at the bottom of all the modern...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So that they sometimes spoke what they did not themselves understand; the prophecy carried its own key within itself, and the key could not be found until the prophecy was fulfilled. I believe that the prophesies in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. This is the foundation of our faith,-that this Book is divinely inspired. Suffer nobody to make you doubt concerning this matter; for you must give up Christianity itself if you give up the inspiration of this Book. You have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there were false prophets also among the people, How true that is still! Be not startled, brethren, as though some strange thing had happened to us in this generation. It always was so, and so it will continue. If there are true prophets, there will also be false prophets; and if there be the Spirit of God, there will be the spirit of evil;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. They say, “It is narrow; it is old-fashioned; it is not in accordance with the spirit of the age.” I know not what else they say; but for all that they say, it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; “If God spared not the angels that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; Which some in these days say could not be consistent with the acts of a God of love. Their imaginary deity, from whom they have taken away every glorious attribute of holiness and justice, would not have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; and delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with...