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Christ knew what dwelt within human nature, possessed a consciousness of self that transcends our limited awareness.
The psalmist presents a full-length portrait of the unawakened sinner, drawn by the unerring pencil of truth.
Unbelief seals them shut, preventing the water of life from filling them, however abundantly Elohim pours grace around us.
The path toward Mount Zion, though it might contain hardship, remains the way of safety—and Heaven opens its doors here.
First, this voice summons every saint at the appointed hour.
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.
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.
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.
Faith trusts Elohim's providence within His natural and moral laws; presumption demands divine intervention outside them.
The conception of a thing constitutes its first and largest half.
THE PREPARATORY PRIVILEGE Christians enjoy the extraordinary consciousness that Christ Himself converses with them directly.
Isaiah 10:3 poses a devastating question: "What will ye do in the day of visitation?" Joseph Exell identifies three distinct types of divine visitation in 1887's *Biblical Illustrator*.
Lyth, D.D., observed in *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887), this love possessed three essential marks.
Similarly, Adonai possesses many treasuries and secrets shut from carnal minds, yet he who walks in fellowship with Jesus holds the master-key admitting him to all covenant blessings—even to the very heart of God.
Brute courage, born of insensitivity to danger, fails the thinking man.
By grace, all believers become Abraham's descendants through three distinct mechanisms: *imitation* (walking in his faith's pattern), *succession* (inheriting his blessing), and *spiritual generation* (Abraham's believing reception of them as children, as Romans 9:8 confirms).
What does it mean to make light of Christ's gospel?
Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word (Acts 8:4). The aggressive power of Christianity demonstrates that the Church prospers pre-eminently through...
He visits rebellious generations with four gifts: the call—spoken through prophets, apostles, and conscience itself, articulated in earthquake and storm; the stretched hands—an open path to the Father with no obstruction, no forbidding, no upbraiding; the counsel—specifically directed at those...
When stationary, they rested; when it advanced, they journeyed.
This divine knowledge produces fourfold effects: it stimulates spiritual activity, restrains from transgression, excites desire for pardon, and braces the soul in duty.
Behold the world is gone after him" (John 10:19), they unwittingly echoed the failure of infidelity itself—a prophecy hidden in their own words of despair.