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Consider any discipline of human knowledge: a man who disbelieves the principles of astronomy or geology yet pretends to teach these sciences will find his teaching rendered useless by his own heartlessness.
First, Christ freed this ancient law from false Jewish glosses that had corrupted its meaning (Matthew 23:43-44).
The apostle Paul, when dissuading from impurity, eschewed mere physical or social arguments.
Consider the comparison: A thief who forcibly enters a strong man's house, binds him, and seizes his weapons must possess greater strength than the householder.
Yet this appeal reveals something profound: the preacher refers always back to Christ as the source of all authority and influence.
Because all members share identical stakes in eternity.
An able minister requires two foundational elements: natural endowments and spiritual qualities.
Paul renounced the "wisdom of words" because human eloquence veils the gospel's truth.
A great many cannot afford to have Christ.
Christ did not encourage this impetuous declaration but instead checked it—exposing the man's resolution as that of an unreflecting emotionalist and ambitious worldling.
First, He claims boundless power to satisfy human want and longing.
Temptation brings suffering to the regenerate soul in distinct ways.
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 covenant embraced three distinct circles of blessing.
This is not optical biology but moral vision.
Its acquisition presents such difficulties that it is seldom truly found in our age.
Nothing gives the believer such joy as fellowship with Christ.
Here stands a paradox of human nature: those nearest to salvation often reject it most vehemently.
The parable of the wheat and tares reveals a profound truth: the beauty of the righteous man remains hidden in the present age.
The tabernacle in which our soul dwells is a most frail and complicated machine.
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).
Exell identifies three distinct enemies arrayed against the believer's sanctification.
The wisdom of Solomon stands in sharp contrast to our modern systems, which often direct men's attention everywhere but inward.
Both old cloth and new cloth share the nature of cloth; similarly, old wine and new wine share the nature of wine.