And there, And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.-I COR. But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Do you not know that we are to judge angels?
We discern the run of the Apostle's thought best by thus omitting the intervening verses and connecting these two. No one comes to the Father except through me. And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? He was emphatically alone, and of the people there was none with Him. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. 3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. And Jesus *answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. And there …Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871, Charity and Loneliness. O If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full grown man discards the treasures of his childhood. ‣ He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. Having these we can move any form of the mountains, which was buttressed in Matthew 17:21 because most times, as recorded in 2 Corinthians 10:4, the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. Now, and ThenThere are some things which we count very precious now, which will soon be of no value to us whatever. F In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ... Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat.
‣ Of David. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it. ‣ For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. M Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Formed in the likeness of their Creator, they lived solely to reveal Him to His creation and to each other and thus to glorify Him every moment of the day.