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Righteousness most effectually answers the end and design of government itself.
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This imperative cuts deeper than His miracles over wind and waves—it exercises mastery over the highest principles of human nature itself.
This promise encompasses science, literature, arts, commerce, and above all, religion itself—all shall be renewed.
First, God is Father by relation to Christ as the eternal Son, the fountain of Deity itself.
This blessedness demands our attention to what purity truly means.
What distinguishes Christian righteousness from mere external morality?
He summoned his wife to fire one of the guns herself, demonstrating duty.
He observed that many servants labor in obscurity, their virtues unnoticed by earthly masters, yet their work is recorded in the ledgers of Almighty Adonai *—* the Lord God.
Yet even this secure fastening remains subject to removal by the Lord of hosts who placed it there.
Yet this concealed garment bore immense significance: it manifested the priest's personal purity before Yahweh, distinct from the outer vestments that bore Israel's names before the Lord (Leviticus viii.
The believer's expectation rests not upon the shifting sands of human opinion or circumstance, but upon the immovable promises of Adonai.
The Psalmist's cry, "Let me not be put to shame" (Psalm 25:2), rests upon confidence that those who wait upon Jehovah will not be abandoned.
First, *believing prayer* speaks of deliverance and help, looking to God alone as the sole source of rescue.
His selection springs entirely from His sovereign good pleasure, not from merit or deservedness.
His death reveals four dimensions of Christian triumph: First, Stephen displayed boldness in confession—his enemies could not resist the power radiating from his unwavering testimony before the council.
This creature burrows deep into the soil but journeys nightly to the sea to bathe in salt water.
The central questions remain: Does this prophecy address an imminent event in Ahaz's time, or does it exclusively concern a distant future?
Joseph Spurgeon Exell observes that this man may pray correctly with his lips while harboring two catastrophic beliefs: first, "I shall not be moved"—immunity from consequence; second, "God hath forgotten.
Adam loved life as "an unbroken walk with the Eternal"; we commonly cling to existence as a removal from His presence.
The dispensation under which we live is emphatically that of night, in comparison with the dispensation to be introduced at the day of the Lord.
First, adoption grants believers the *huiothesia* (legal status of sons), while regeneration grants the nature of children—we possess both through faith.
The Hebrew word *mashal* (similitude) carried the weight of mockery—so completely had the nation's condition deteriorated that "a miserable man" would be called "a Jew" in contempt, just as liars were branded "Cretans" and wretched slaves were named "Sardians." This...
First, the apostles felt the impulse of a new undertaking—the resurrection of their crucified Master demanded proclamation.
The human heart reveals its corruption most plainly in how it despises true Christianity while admiring false religion's pageantry.