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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, Peter was pleased to be able to write those words. There was a time when he had thrice denied his Master, but now he is glad to call himself “a servant of Jesus Christ.” Once he had said, “I know not the man,” but now he claims that he has been sent out by that glorious Lord to be his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Peter here uses both his names,-Simon or Simeon, which was his first name, and signifies “hearing with acceptance,” and happy are they who have the hearing ear and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you- You have some measure of these choice blessings; may you have a great many times as much! When we go to the multiplication table, we not only multiply by two and by three, but we can multiply by a hundred, we can multiply by ten thousand. Oh, that God would thus multiply to us the grace and the peace that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: It is through knowing God that we realize that “his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,” for all these things are in him; and as we know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. See what is God’s great object in giving us these “exceeding great and precious promises.” It is that we may become morally and spiritually like himself,-just...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And beside this, giving all diligence,- For we cannot expect to go to heaven asleep. We are not taken there against our wills. It is not our will that accomplishes our salvation; but still, it is not accomplished without our will. “Giving diligence,” yes, but more than that, “giving all diligence,”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; It is ignorance that is intemperate and rash.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Giving all diligence,- It is not man’s effort that saves him; but, on the other hand, grace saves no man to make him like a log of wood or a block of stone; grace makes man active. God has been diligently at work with you; now you must diligently work together with him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. As you have seen the mason take up first one stone, and then another, and then gradually build the house, so are you Christians to take first...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness’ brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. What Christian ever wishes to be barren or unfruitful? Is it not the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am sure you do not wish to be barren; I cannot imagine that any of you will be content to be unfruitful; so seek after all these virtues, and may God help you to give diligence to the attainment of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: He who is diligent in seeking these graces is kept from falling. Every Christian is safe...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, He is short-sighted; he has some light, and some physical sight, but he cannot see to a distance; spiritually, he is blind. 2Pe_1:9. And hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. It is a great mercy not merely to see men as trees walking, but to have clear spiritual...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall: This is the second time that Peter writes about giving diligence. We are told not to be slothful in business, and this matter of which Peter writes is the most important of all business. To prosper in this world may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In this life you can enjoy all the privileges of the inheritors of the kingdom of heaven; and in the life to come you shall go into the harbour of eternal peace like a ship with all her sails full, speeding before a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. You shall get far into the kingdom, you shall know the innermost joys of it. You shall get near the King, and you shall become like the King; and when you come to die, you shall not be tugged into the harbor like a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of the things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. We are not merely to preach new truths which people do not know, but we are also to preach the old truths with which they are familiar. The doctrines in which they are well established are still to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things,- He who exhorts others to be diligent must not himself be negligent, and Peter most appropriately writes, “Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things,”- 2Pe_1:12. Though ye know them, and be established in the present truth....
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; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. In the last chapter of the gospel according to John, it is recorded how Christ prophesied concerning the death of Peter, that when he was old,...