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This outburst reveals the nature of evil's opposition to Christ.
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
First, He claims boundless power to satisfy human want and longing.
Man's true wisdom is a pattern of God's wisdom.
All contingencies rest under the direction of God's providence.
Here stands a paradox of human nature: those nearest to salvation often reject it most vehemently.
Paul renounced the "wisdom of words" because human eloquence veils the gospel's truth.
Both old cloth and new cloth share the nature of cloth; similarly, old wine and new wine share the nature of wine.
First, as an intellectual gift, the Scriptures answer mankind's deepest inquiries about the origin and history of the world in ways that satisfy the reasoning mind.
The Victorian expositor understood this command as operating on five essential dimensions.
The abuses of the tongue are manifold, and malignity ranks foremost among them.
The accumulation of light things becomes overwhelmingly ponderous.
An able minister requires two foundational elements: natural endowments and spiritual qualities.
Because all members share identical stakes in eternity.
So too the soul suffers from inherent liability to weakness, weariness, mistrust of God, and inability to rest upon His precious promises.
Temptation brings suffering to the regenerate soul in distinct ways.
The Greeks and Romans witnessed friendships that shaped both statecraft and individual virtue—Scipio and Laelius, Cicero and Atticus, Achilles and Patroclus.
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.
A great many cannot afford to have Christ.
First, the brotherhood of souls demands mutual burden-bearing.
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.
Nothing gives the believer such joy as fellowship with Christ.
The tabernacle in which our soul dwells is a most frail and complicated machine.
Before conversion, the Galatians possessed neither natural knowledge of God—imperfect and weak as it is—nor revealed knowledge through Christ.