Spurgeon Sermons, Complete Set - Spurgeon Gems He, that commanded thee to believe will justify thee in believing; he, cannot condemn thee for that which he himself bids thee do. We must not, I think. Have you faith to pray this moment that it may be so? Election, for instance. Beloved brother, if in your daily business you meet with none to help but many to hinder, you must live all the nearer to God, for you require a double measure of grace; but if in the providence of God you happen to be placed where there are helpful Christian companions, do not readily change that position, even though your income would be doubled thereby. "I that was God's favourite, chosen of him from before the. It is unwise for Christian people to be so busy about Christ's work that they cannot listen to Christ's words. Had it been in our day I should have thought it was one of the servants over the palings of the backyard, where they are so fond of talking; or perhaps some friend who came in, and was told the news. (Mark 1:20 .) III. Therefore, "tell him of her." Can you expect that he will save you, if you will not trust him? Entreat your Lord to come home to help you in your distress. Or perhaps some great, sad sin has defiled your child, and you may well say, "How can I expect the Lord to smile on this house? Let us give, our ears to these words which, like their author, are full of grace and, truth. I bade them, warn, exhort, and invite with all affection, but also to command with, all authority, compelling you to come in, and inasmuch as you did not, come at my command, you have added sin to sin; you have added the. Mark 1:1 Commentaries: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the This is how they speak, as an ancient poet said--. What is your, repentance? The streets of Capernaum rang that night with song of joy. It is as if they felt, "We only need to tell the case, and our blessed Lord will attend to it. Mark 5:1-20 - Overcoming Demons and Superstition Mark 5:21-43 - The Power of Jesus' Touch A. Mark 5 Commentary - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible Such a persuasion you must labour to get rid of, for it came from, Satan, and not from the Holy Spirit. I think I see a flicker, but I am not sure. there was an invitation, but it had all the obligation of a command, since those who rejected it were utterly destroyed as despisers of their, king. One remarked to me, "Supposing there really were war there, we should not sit quite so comfortably in our room with our window, open, listening to all this noise." He, does persuade men by telling and forcible arguments, which should, lead them to seek the salvation of their souls. Spurgeon's Sermon Notes-Mark. "The whole council" could be there, so early in the morning, for such an evil purpose. Revelation 4:7 describes the cherubim around God's throne as beings with four faces: a lion, a calf, a man, and an eagle. He answered, "I run away because I am not I; I am a new, man." Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary Mr 1:14-20. A glimpse of that kingdom was given in the transfiguration of Christ. He must now follow Jesus by a more open avowal, a more constant service, a nearer communion, a more attentive discipleship, a fuller fellowship in suffering; and for this he must receive an inward preparation by the Divine Spirit: he was, in fact, by the call of his Lord and Master, lifted to a higher platform altogether, upon which he would abide and learn by the Spirit what flesh and blood could never reveal. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you." a. Again, I say, in the, words of Christ, "Repent and believe the gospel." However benighted and darkened you may be, however hard-hearted, and callous you may be, you have still a warrant to look to Jesus in the, words, "Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth." Have you a repentance that leads you to look out of self to, Christ, and to Christ only? (35-40) The poor widow commended. Is there no sin at home? But oh! 2. You need not advertise your religion: live it, and other people will talk about it. The seaboard of Capernaum in which Peter dwelt is said by travelers to be a peculiarly damp, marshy, aguish, feverish place, no end of people had the fever just around the house; but Peter and Andrew did not argue that they must not tell the Lord because it was a common disease. I do not, know how it is, let us preach as we may, we cannot lead others to, think that there is any great alarm, that there is any reason why they, should think about their souls now. Abraham, in his old age, took up sword and buckler for his nephew Lot, and aged believers should look about them and seek the good of the most distant members of their families; if it were always so the power of the gospel would be felt far and wide. It was his delight to say concerning our Lord Jesus, "He must increase, but Mark:6:20 John Mark; or Haste in Religion January 17, 1907 No. Ah, brethren, I would to God he would look first on Peter, and then on Peter's wife's mother, or Peter's child or relative, and then on the whole house, and then from the house cause an influence to stream forth and to be felt by all the neighborhood. The beginning] St Mark commences his Gospel suddenly and concisely. The four friends have come in, and no sooner are they in than they begin to speak with the Master, for the text tells us, "Anon they tell him of her," of Peter's wife's mother who lay sick. JOHN sought no honour among men. (1-12) Question about tribute. He introduces his story succinctly: "The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God" (1:1). Many a man has felt all that and has yet been lost. He went into the chamber, spoke a word, gave a touch, lifted up the sick woman, and she was restored, and the wonderful thing was she was able to rise from the bed immediately and wait upon them. He gives his promise--"He that, believeth and is baptized shall be saved"; and he adds the solemn, threatening--"He that believeth not shall be damned." Enduring Word Bible Commentary Mark Chapter 16 Have you really the hardihood to think that, he will carry you to heaven while all the while you declare he cannot, do it? I do not think that many of you will be very long with that trouble to carry when you have in that manner told it to your Lord. Many Christians are called to struggle hard for spiritual existence through having to work with unbelievers; they are not only sneered at and persecuted, but all sorts of doubts and blasphemies are suggested, and these materially hinder their growth in the heavenly life. Is there not a sick one at home? Mark 14 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Bible It, is quite certain that whatever the repentance here mentioned may be, it, is a repentance perfectly consistent with faith; and therefore we get the, explanation of what repentance must be, from its being connected with, the next command, "Believe the gospel." It will honor him to do it. They have said, "I have done much evil; there is no, hope for me; I will not hear the Word any more." The servants replied, "Alas, master, the fever rages terribly." He cometh forth fully prepared for his office, having been in, the desert, "tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin"; his loins, are girded like a strong man to run a race. Commentary on Mark 2:1-22 - Working Preacher from Luther Seminary Beloved friend, if you are yourself saved, you should cast about you and inquire, "To what house may I become a messenger of salvation?" Beloved, if he counts the hairs of your heads, if not a sparrow falls to the ground without his knowledge, depend upon it your commonest trouble will be sympathized in by him. "To-day," the gospel always cries, for if it tolerated sin a single day, it were an unholy gospel. Commentary on Mark 9:1-13 (Read Mark 9:1-13) Here is a prediction of the near approach Christ's kingdom. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. 1. He cometh up from the wilderness newly anointed, like the bridegroom from his chamber; his love notes are repentance, and faith. Now, dear friend, it may be that your dwelling, though very dear to you, is not very much thought of by anybody else; no poet or historian has ever written its annals, nor artist engraved its image. Uncles and aunts should feel an interest in the spiritual condition of nephews and nieces; cousins should be concerned for cousins, and all ties of blood should be consecrated by being used for purposes of grace. If they hear it it is, nothing to them, their hearts are hard as adamant. There is no reason except in yourself why the Lord should not make your residence in a city a greater blessing to it than the cathedral and all its clergy. Begin now, and go upstairs and take time every day to tell the Lord every bit about Jane, or Mary, or Thomas, or John. COMMENTARIES THAT CAN BE BORROWED FROM ARCHIVE.ORG Explanation - The following list includes not only commentaries but other Christian works by well known evangelical writers. You will find that you. Yet is there no reason why the Lord should not visit you and make your house like that of Obed-edom, in which the ark abode, or like that of Zaccheus to which salvation came. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. "How can I sin," says he, "that am loved so much and kept so surely? How can the commonness of an evil put it out of the list of proper subjects for supplication? If, dear friends, you have never been the subject of, these terrors do not desire them. Do not be held back by this wicked suggestion. . Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - BiblePortal The good man of the house was already saved, and his brother and companions, but by the grace of God they rose to be something more than merely saved, for they received a call to a higher occupation and a nobler service; from fishers they were to rise into fishers of men, and from rowing in their own boats to become pilots of the barque of the church. Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. If I avoid, sin to-day because I am afraid of being lost if I commit it, I have not, the repentance of a child of God; but when I avoid it and seek to lead a, holy life because Christ loved me and gave himself up for me, and, because I am not my own, but am bought with a price, this is the work, And again, that change of mind, that after-carefulness which leads me, to resolve that in future I will live like Jesus, and will not live unto the, lusts of the flesh, because he hath redeemed me, not with corruptible, things as silver and gold, but with his own precious blood--that is the, repentance which will save me, and the repentance he asks of me. You live in a lavender garden, and you ought to smell sweetly. I am going to speak of three things this morning. When mercy had once entered, let us see HOW GRACE FLOWED FORTH FROM THE HOUSE. Verse . That is a very simple type of prayer, is it not? Those who say, "Oh, as for the, past, that is nothing; Jesus Christ has washed all that away"; and can, talk about all the crimes of their youth, and the iniquitous of their riper. Too common? God's demand is the solemn reality, and if, you could but hear it as it should be heard you would escape from your. For this is the difficulty with many awakened sinners: may I, believe? He is so gentle and loving, that he is sure to do the kindest thing, and the thing which is most right to do; therefore we may be content to "tell him of her." which there can hardly be a genuine repentance. He had foreknown and chosen it of old, and had resolved to make it renowned by his presence and miraculous power. Without the, regenerating work of God the Holy Ghost, no man ever will be, obedient to this command, but still it must be published for a witness, against them if they reject it; and while publishing God's command, with all simplicity, we may expect that he will divinely enforce it in. Be it, then laid down as a great truth, most plainly, written in our text, that the repentance we ought to preach is one, connected with faith, and thus we may preach repentance and faith. in God's name I, warn you that, if, after hearing this command, you do, as I know you, will do, without his Spirit, continue to refuse obedience to so, reasonable a gospel, you shall find at the last it shall be more tolerable, for Sodom and Gomorrah, than for you; for had the things which are, preached in London been proclaimed in Sodom and Gomorrah, they, would have repented long ago in sackcloth and in ashes. That is not repentance, but a foul sin, Then, there is another spurious repentance which makes the sinner. ", I know some very excellent brethren--would God there were more like, them in zeal and love--who, in their zeal to preach up simple faith in, Christ have felt a little difficulty about the matter of repentance; and I, have known some of them who have tried to get over the difficulty by, softening down the apparent hardness of the word repentance, by, expounding it according to its more usual Greek equivalent, a word, which occurs in the original of my text, and signifies "to change one's, mind." Tell Jesus about it; and Jesus will come and sup with you, and turn the impediment into an assistance. Mark 2 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Moses, when he led the people out of Egypt, would not leave a hoof behind, nor ought we to be content to leave one kinsman a slave to sin. C.H. He asks you to believe that through the blood of Jesus, Christ, he can still be just, and yet the justifier of the ungodly. Doth God in this mode act like, Solomon, who made the taxes of his people heavy? We know some who are saved at least we hope they are but oh, how few are the fruits of the Spirit; how feeble is the light they give; how slender is their consecration; how small is their likeness to him whom they call Master and Lord. This is the only repentance we, have to preach; not law and terrors; not despair; not driving men to, self-murder--this is the terror of the world which worketh death; but. Judge not, that you be not judged: Here Jesus moved to another idea in the Sermon on the Mount. Still Peter was not rich nor famous, he was neither a ruler of the synagogue, nor an eminent scribe, and his house was not at all remarkable among the habitations which made up the little fishing suburb down by the sea-shore. Our Lord can make your dwelling the center of mercy for the whole region, a little sun scattering light in all directions, a spiritual dispensary distributing health to the multitudes around. I abhor lukewarmness from my soul, let us have done with it! The Lord himself seems changed, too, if chancre can come over him, for, from a physician, going carefully into a sick room, he comes forth a King who has subdued an enemy, and they all look upon him with wonder and reverence as the mighty Lord, victorious over invisible spirits. These are the mightier of Israel, whose joyous energy far surpasses that of the weary and faint, whose faith is feeble and whose love is cold. When they are brought into this trial in the course of providence they have need of great grace to remain firm under it. How can I be so villainous as to sin against everlasting mercy?" "Lord, we would make this household ring with thy praises, but we should make one tenant of it so angry that we are obliged to be quiet." Verse 1. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. But I think the grand reason was this, that our blessed Lord had such a sympathetic heart that he always drew everybody's grief out of them. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. 1. Mark 4:1-25 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary - Bblia Plus "Repent and, believe the gospel." Do you think it consistent with the dignity of a Saviour to save, you while you say, "I do not believe thou art a Saviour, and I will not, trust thee"? Oh that it might be so. Is it selfishness which makes a man stand at the fountain to fill his own cup, when he intends to hand that cup round for others to drink? So may it be, and may the, message of this morning gather out the elect, and make them willing, But now, lastly, this command, while it has an immediate power, has, also a continual force. We poor men are miserable hands at spreading a table, we need a Mary or a Martha to help us, or a Peter's wife, or a Peter's wife's mother. "Repent ye, and believe the gospel. an ill woman, and some little time after, she accosted him as usual. Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. Very likely this good woman, Peter's wife's mother, was herself a believer in Christ; but I venture to take her case as typical of spiritual success, not at all wishing, however, to insinuate that she was spiritually sick, for she may have been one of the most devoted of Christians. years, as if they were mere trifles, and never think of shedding a tear; never feel their souls ready to burst because they should have been, such great offenders--such men who can trifle with the past, and even, fight their battles o'er again when their passions are too cold for new, rebellions--I say that such who think sin a trifle and have never. I would sooner work with James and John for twenty shillings a week than with swearers and drunkards for sixty. Do as did the spouse of old, when he said, "I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me." I might as well expect a man to come into a house which is infected with typhus fever." "Come unto me all ye that, labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Mark 3 Commentary. "Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible". "To-, morrow," say men; but like the hind-wheel of a chariot, they are, always near to the front-wheel, always near to their duty; they still go. But while, there is this blessed reason for the gospel's being a command, there is, yet another solemn and an awful one. Now, observe further, that at this time when the Lord was about to bless the household of Peter he had been further instructing Peter about Andrew and James and John, for he took them to the synagogue, and they heard him preach. "O Lord, we would have family prayer, but we cannot: the husband will not permit it." suffer you to remain an unbelieving sinner, doubting his grace, mistrusting his love, slandering his character, doubting the efficacy of, his blood, and of his plea? This first link of grace drew on another of much greater importance, namely, that the head of the family became a convert. Dear friend, the more the Christian man, knows of Christ's love, the more will he hate himself to think that he, has sinned against such love. We have a very short time in which to bear our testimony, we shall soon be at rest; let us world while we can. The household of which Peter was master might never have known the gospel if a relative had not been converted. I tell, thee, sinner, any repentance that keeps thee from believing in Christ is, a repentance that needs to be repented of; any repentance that makes, thee think Christ will not save thee, goes beyond the truth and against, the truth, and the sooner thou are rid of it the better. Mark 13 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) - Christianity There is no anxiety on Peter's face now, Andrew is no more troubled, the skeleton in the closet has disappeared, the sickness has been chased out, and they can all sing, a gladsome hymn. Repent ye - Exercise sorrow for sins, and turn from them. Commentary on the New Testament - Charles Spurgeon - Google Books 1. I believe, if we are really lively and thoughtful Christians, our conversion is an omen for good to all our kinsfolk. Called the "Prince of Preachers," he had more . There is a direct communication between it and the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. The man was not begging, but it was wonderfully like it, and answered the purpose better than words. Peter believed and became a follower of Christ, and so the head of the house was on the right side. Tell Jesus of it. Woe unto, you, inhabitants of London! "Almost the whole city came round about the door." Some parents may, when their children are ill, plead with God in a way which shows more of nature then of grace, more clearly the affection of the mother than the resignation of the Christian; but such should not be the case. together without any difficulty whatever. Do you wish to live ignoble lives? "Oh, but ours is such a low neighborhood." The gospel contemplates, I say, invitations, entreaties, and, beseechings, but it also takes the higher ground of authority. --Mark 1:15, Our Lord Jesus Christ commences his ministry by announcing its. Never mind. He endured the contradiction of sinners against himself, he loved the souls of men, and died for them; and, therefore, he can tenderly enter into the anxieties which you feel for souls rebellious and hardened in sin. One man is called by the voice of Jesus, and then another; the house wherein they dwell is consecrated by the Lord's presence, and by-and-by the whole city is stirred from end to end with the name and fame of the Great Teacher. leading commands. David Guzik commentary on Luke 18, where Jesus shares the parable of the widow and the unjust judge, and talks to the rich young ruler. I desire, before I pass to the second point, to lay great stress upon this. "Believe, on the Lord Jesus Christ" has as fully a divine authority as "Thou shalt, love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy, strength." Absurd! I will be a swift witness against you to condemn you if you, believe not this gospel; but if you repent and believe, then we shall, praise that grace which turned our hearts, and so gave us the, repentance which led us to trust Christ, and the faith which is the. The beloved author has gone to his eternal reward, he is the blessed of the Lord This poor man was beset with two great evils blindness and poverty. For a creature to believe its Creator is but a duty; altogether apart, from the promise of salvation, I say, God has a right to demand of the. I have known some sinners so, distressed with fears of hell, and thoughts of death and of eternal, judgment, that to use the words of one terrible preacher, "They have, been shaken over the mouth of hell by their collar," and have felt the, torments of the pit before they went thither. That house is under the peculiar protection of Divine Providence. And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! Enduring Word Bible Commentary Mark Chapter 1 There is something very instructive about this particular case, because we are apt to think we must not tell the Lord of the more common troubles which occur in our family; but this is a great error. Oh, I hope you can answer, "Yes, I have many times" but it is just possible you have not made a set business of it. The synagogue must not be deserted, if it be a synagogue where Christ is present. The first effect that grace produced was, it led the family to prayer. That, is, trust Christ; believe that he is able and willing to save you. Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - StudyLight.org To-morrow! Have I a right to believe? ( Mark 5:1-8) The description of the demon-possessed man. "Repent ye, and believe the gospel." I know some, brethren will not like this, but that I cannot help. ", And all this is because he murdered Christ; because his sin nailed the, Saviour to the tree; and therefore he weepeth and mourneth even to his, life's end. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Mark 1 Mark 1:14-35 Mark 1:14. We are often wishing that God would do some great thing in the world, and we look abroad for instruments which we think would be peculiarly fit, and think of places where the work might suitably begin: it might be quite as well if we asked the Lord to make use of us, and if we were believingly to hope that even our feeble instrumentality might produce great results by his power, and that our abode might become the central point from which streams of blessing should flow forth to refresh the neighborhood. This is what they did when Jesus came. Mark 1 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible - Bible Study Tools Do not grieve him by chitchat about worthless matters, but take Jesus home with you. On the other hand, have you that faith, which leads you to true repentance; to hate the very thought of sin; so, that the dearest idol you have known, whatever it may be, you desire to, tear from its throne that you may worship Christ, and Christ only? I care say while in the synagogue Peter had almost forgotten about his wife's mother, he had been so pleased with the preaching, but when he reached home the first question when he crossed the door was, "How is she now?" (41-44) Commentary on Mark 12:1-12 (Read Mark 12:1-12) Christ showed in parables, that he would lay aside the . He does invite men, and, oh, how lovingly he woos them to be wise. Mark 6 Commentary. So after John the Baptist was put into prison, Jesus came into Galilee. Sometimes a loss. It was out of Peter's house that all this mercy came.
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