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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The diseased crowded for healing; the teachable gathered for celestial wisdom; the curious witnessed stupendous miracles.
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Because all members share identical stakes in eternity.
Exell's Victorian exposition illuminates two critical spiritual failures.
Nothing gives the believer such joy as fellowship with Christ.
It is not mere religious habit but your entire conduct—all you think, feel, desire, speak, do, and suffer.
From infancy's peril to age's afflictions, human existence demands deliverance.
The human mind naturally divides into two warring camps.
To eat and drink unworthily means partaking of the sacramental bread and wine contrary to Christ's institution, not discerning the Lord's body in the ordinance.
Yet Spurgeon's commentator, John Field, clarifies what this plea was *not*: it was no prayer *to* David, nor did it suggest the dead saints intercede for us.
The promise "My God shall supply all your need" (Philippians 4:19) stretches across Old Testament pledges: "They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing" and "No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." Yet...
In Palestine, the Passover coincided with harvest's first fruits—*aparche*—ready for Temple presentation.
The Holy Spirit recorded a mystery of consolation: healing came through the *pistis* (faith) of others.
When believers emerge from great temptation and trouble—their faith tested and drawn thin—deliverance brings more than relief from that particular circumstance.
The wisdom of Solomon stands in sharp contrast to our modern systems, which often direct men's attention everywhere but inward.
By virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, Christians obtain the grace of a new life.
It is not a kingdom of earthly splendour.
He bore the penalty of his transgression against the Lord at Kadesh, excluded from Canaan's rest.
He invoked the risen Jesus directly: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." This prayer reveals a cardinal truth that transcends doctrinal assertion—it emerges from the believer's lived experience.
Joseph Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* identifies three categories of doubt worthy of pastoral attention.
While Peter, James, and John lay *drunken with sleep* during the earlier communion between Christ and the two mighty dead, they heard nothing.
Similarly, when a musician strikes an out-of-tune instrument, he produces sound but the instrument's broken strings produce the jarring discord.
Canon Liddon identified three marks of our Lord's words: the divine authority that speaks through them, their elevation above earthly discourse, and their awful depth that pierces the soul.
Temptation brings suffering to the regenerate soul in distinct ways.
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.