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The tabernacle in which our soul dwells is a most frail and complicated machine.
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His words carry three essential truths for the believer.
Ancient voices—from pagan philosophy to church fathers like Chrysostom—branded her a "necessary evil" and "domestic peril." Italian, German, and English proverbs competed in contempt, suggesting women were the source of all calamity.
It refuses both the cynic's delight in exposing hidden corruption and the melancholic's despair at universal failure.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord—not because the ritual itself is defective, but because the worshipper lacks consideration.
The margin reads, "Set your heart to her bulwarks." This is no passing glance or negligent inspection; it demands wholehearted attention and deliberate investigation.
Only *sections* of these households became Christian; notably, the masters themselves remained outside the faith.
The Greek word *parakletos* means 'one who is summoned to the side of another'—a Champion clad in celestial armour, dispatched directly from God's throne.
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).
Our confidence in missionary labor rests entirely upon the prophecies of God's Word declaring it His will.
Yet he frames this through prophecy—Isaiah foretold both the sending and the incredulity.
His words, 'Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world!' are prophecy's swan-song, its final *Eureka!* uttered as it dies.
This distinguishes His Church from every other society—without Christ present, there is no Church.
First, it expresses supreme contempt—the mighty Conqueror reduced His defeated enemies to mere grapes beneath His feet, utterly insignificant before His power.
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.
This is no mere sentiment, but the living testimony of regeneration itself.
First, recognize what we desperately need: the King of Glory dwelling within.
At the base of those ancient fortifications lie five or six courses of massive, squared blocks, 'the wonders of the world yet; well jointed, well laid, well cemented.' These represent gold, silver, and precious stones—the solid verities of Christ proclaimed...
When Jesus enters the locked room where the disciples huddled 'for fear of the Jews,' He greets them: 'Peace be unto you!' This first peace addresses their terror—the dread that what they witnessed was mere phantom, a ghostly visitation.
The work of Christ in us and for us does not exempt us from work.
The material vine one might observe by the wayside becomes merely shadow; the truth resides in Him alone.
Pilate acted with limited knowledge; we possess the full light of Christian revelation streaming upon that Divine face across two millennia.
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.
Exell identifies three distinct enemies arrayed against the believer's sanctification.