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10,054 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Jesus Christ proclaimed these words knowing the world's deepest moral condition.
Proverbs 4:25 commands us to keep our eyes "right on" and our eyelids "straight before thee." The wise man, whom commentators identify as Solomon, exhorts careful stewardship of every faculty—each member of our nature requires vigilant guardianship lest any become...
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* offers three principles for this conquest.
The historical fulfillment is breathtaking: for three days the Cross was the occasion of their panic and despair, the apparent ruin of all their hopes.
His gaze pierced beyond mere physical suffering to discern spiritual disease—the scattered, fainting condition of sheep without a shepherd.
The circle stands as geometry's most perfect figure, and God selected it as His design for creation itself.
The commission 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature' was not spoken to the eleven apostles alone, but to all generations of Christ's Church.
Exell identifies three distinct enemies arrayed against the believer's sanctification.
Christ does not merely teach about divine love—He claims to *be* its Object and its Channel.
First, you must contend against yourself—the main battle rages within your own heart, where affections struggle for dominion.
Speech may set forth: right views of God as revealed in Psalm 40:9 and John 17:25–26; right views of personal experience as in Psalm 66:16; right estimates of character, requiring great caution in testimonials; right statements concerning the value of...
Many people attribute their deliverance to fortune or their own skill, yielding only scattered praise to God.
These unnamed men, bearing no vision, no command from Jerusalem, no precedent to guide them—only truth in their minds and the impulses of Christ's love in their hearts—solved the question that had vexed the apostles: whether salvation belonged to Gentiles.
Consider first the fact itself: admitting the power and providence of God, resurrection involves no logical contradiction.
True Christians manifest Christ's personal *presence* among men.
His counsel to leave the apostles unmolested was not born from sympathy with Christian truth, but from a shrewd political calculus: the Pharisees and Sadducees were locked in bitter theological combat over the resurrection, and these Galileans preaching *anastasis* (resurrection)...
How could the man who saw the descending dove and heard the voice proclaim 'This is My beloved Son' ever waver?
First, Christ in us is the foundation of our hope, elected before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:3–4; 1 Timothy 1:9).
Yet the psalmist's reply contains crushing power: "Our God is in heaven; all that he pleased he has done." Consider the contrast Martin Geier illuminated with surgical precision.
First, the brotherhood of souls demands mutual burden-bearing.
This is no mere coincidence of timing, but the visible sign of a profound spiritual principle: unbelief seals the mouth; faith unlocks it.
The tabernacle in which our soul dwells is a most frail and complicated machine.
Writing approximately thirty years after the event itself, Paul enumerates five distinct appearances of the risen Christ, including His manifestation to James, which aligns with the *Gospel of the Hebrews* and demonstrates an independent historical source.
Luther hesitated to expound such texts before congregations, fearing appearance of avarice, yet acknowledged the duty remains: believers must understand what honor and support they owe their teachers.
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