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Yet it remains what it always was: a beast, combining antagonism to both God and humanity.
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When Elohim grants what the wicked most desire, they perish in its very embrace.
First, this voice summons every saint at the appointed hour.
Exell observed that the present world presents a paradox: philosophers from Ray Lankester to John Stuart Mill cannot agree on nature's character.
The gospel ministry operates as God's appointed means for reconciling sinners to Him.
God adorns the lilies and tulips with gorgeous apparel for a single day's duration, spun by divine providence, surpassing the tracery of the most splendid court—such magnificence that Solomon himself, with all his wisdom and wealth, could not match them.
Grace (*charis*) represents God's unmerited favor toward the elect through Christ alone (Romans 3:24), while peace encompasses multiple dimensions of restored harmony.
First, wealth itself is good—Elohim commands humanity to possess the earth and subdue it, and Scripture approves righteous acquisition.
Being "in Christ" involves three dimensions of spiritual reality.
Armed hosts from the north sweep through the land like a devastating wind, stripping the people's substance as a harvest-man gathers corn.
The vines of Palestine witnessed for centuries to the union of man with God, yet only Christ gathered these truths into one luminous discourse on the vine and branches.
Christians remain exposed to divine curse if guilty of the sins to which it appertains—not the curse of condemnation for believers, but the curse retained on record for those who practice wickedness.
We find in Scripture the recorded history and experience of God's people, permitting us to compare our own experience with theirs.
First, Christ's dismissal was coercive and indignant (Luke 4:8).
Born in Tarsus to respectable tentmakers, circumcised on the eighth day and named Saul after Israel's first king, the apostle emerged from intensely Jewish household worship.
When Judah faces annihilation, Yahweh promises: "Yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return." The remnant will be small—a *tithe* (*asirith*), God's consecrated portion under the law.
Proverbs 13:22 reveals that human happiness depends far less upon external conditions than upon personal virtues.
Here the word denotes the place itself where these chests were deposited.
When a telescope is directed towards a distant landscape, it enables us to see what we could not otherwise perceive; yet it does not create what has no real existence in the prospect before us.
As the Eternal Word took flesh from the Virgin Mary by the operation of the Holy Ghost, so are we born anew through grace.
Signs are external, visible things that declare a memorable matter otherwise imperceptible to human understanding.
First, when God's threatenings produce no alarm in us—when warnings of wrath fail to compel flight—we prove ourselves mockers.
Jesus Christ stands as the Mediator of this covenant, fulfilling the office that requires one who bridges the gap between God and man.
That was merely freedom from Egyptian bondage; this is spiritual salvation—deliverance from sin, from wrath, from everlasting destruction, and the possession of eternal life itself.