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10,054 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
First, He claims boundless power to satisfy human want and longing.
Spurgeon identifies four critical matters that constitute our main concern in prayer.
Paul renounced the "wisdom of words" because human eloquence veils the gospel's truth.
First, consider the effect of the gospel truly preached.
Similarly, when a musician strikes an out-of-tune instrument, he produces sound but the instrument's broken strings produce the jarring discord.
Matthew Henry observed her strategy: she calls them "simple" and "wanting understanding," inviting them to her school under pretense of refinement.
On the night of Matthew 14:24, wind descended with such fury that experienced fishermen-apostles, after nine hours of *ponos* (toiling), had advanced merely three miles against it.
For six days, Israel performed what appeared utterly useless—a silent, circular procession around an impregnable fortress.
First, the antecedents of healing: the diseased recognized their condition, felt genuine anxiety for restoration, and positioned themselves in the right place—near the Lord.
The ground of the mistake lies in misinterpreting the word "remaineth": taken to point to rest after the sorrows of this life are finished.
In Adam's family stood Cain; in Christ's family, Judas; in the earliest Church, deceivers.
His gaze pierced beyond mere physical suffering to discern spiritual disease—the scattered, fainting condition of sheep without a shepherd.
All contingencies rest under the direction of God's providence.
The 'stronger' believer—he who correctly judges that eating meat offered to idols involves no moral guilt—must nonetheless abstain if his eating becomes a *skandalon* (stumbling-block) or *proskamma* (occasion to fall) in another's path.
Maclaren insists we grasp the profound mystery embedded in this juxtaposition: the dependent Christ.
Maracleren observes that all earthly teachers—however towering—accomplish limited, transient work.
If they are driven hard one day, all the animals will die.' He did not demand that his reconciled brother match his slower journey, but instead stated his reason openly so he would not be thought unkind.
The universality of Christianity proves its Divine origin, for it alone adapts itself to the condition and wants of all humanity, coming from Him who sustains, preserves, feeds, and blesses all.
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.
This relationship unfolds across six essential dimensions: First, churches are **founded on Christ** (Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 1:2)—built upon the rock of His person.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord—not because the ritual itself is defective, but because the worshipper lacks consideration.
This vivid metaphor describes how God's people must guard and maintain the truths contained in Scripture through deliberate action.
This is not optical biology but moral vision.
Basil observed that these saints possessed such extraordinary courage and confidence amid their sufferings that watching heathens witnessed their heroic zeal and constancy—and turned to Christ themselves.
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