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The guilt of forsaking God rests upon a fundamental truth: man is bound by the law of his nature to obey the Almighty Being who made him an intelligent and immortal creature.
Their prejudice—the conviction that miracles *must* conform to established precedent—nearly blinded them to Elohim's work.
Instead, He borrowed a small ship from a fisherman and preached from that humble vessel.
All three appeared equally earnest, equally resolved to return to the land of covenant and grace.
God's plan encompasses society comprehensively—threading millennia from earth's earliest dust to the emergence of new heavens and earth.
(Mark 4:21) The kingdom of Elohim expands through human agency.
Hunger and thirst are primitive, involuntary appetites that govern survival itself; Jesus elevates moral longing to this primacy.
First, to take partial views of His glorious gospel.
Though believers, Paul could not address them as spiritual persons, for they moved in the lower, earthly region of human nature, where strife and division held sway.
Stephen presents the portrait of a dying saint: he was filled with the Holy Ghost, lifted above earthly consciousness of his enemies' gnashing teeth, granted a full vision of heavenly glory and his glorified Redeemer, and embodied the spirit of...
Exell, in his 1887 *Biblical Illustrator*, unpacks this summons with Victorian precision: we must arouse the bodily powers first.
Just as miners extract precious metals from the earth's hidden depths, believers discover spiritual wealth concealed in the shadowed places of their experience.
This is not labored knowledge but native breath—religion so integrated into His nature that He prays and speaks as naturally as breathing.
These appear contradictory, yet they are essential antagonistic forces—like hydrogen and oxygen combining to form water, or attraction and repulsion functioning as complementary principles in nature.
What man could expect by prayer to make Elohim alter His decree?
This tree appears five times in the Bible, always associated with rivers or watercourses—symbols of divine provision and life itself.
Yet our feelings regarding His appearing reveal the true condition of our hearts before Elohim.
An ambassador of peace bears a threefold character: he is a minister sent of Elohim, instructed in the terms of peace, and commissioned to negotiate with sinners at war with the Almighty.
Before we can be struck down, Elohim must be wounded and overpowered.
This doubled command demands a total mobilization of human capacity for worship.
The Spirit speaking to the Church reveals three foundational truths: First, certain great moral elements alone determine the character of individuals or communities.
Across continents and centuries—from China's imperial annals recording the discovery of "bread-stones" during famine, to the West African coast where the yellowish earth called "caouac" sustains entire populations, to the banks of the Orinoco where Humboldt documented indigenous peoples kneading...
There is no tribulation—in kind or degree—that Elohim cannot comfort.
Men must comprehend when their main business is to apprehend.