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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.
Little sins are peculiarly offensive to God precisely because they are little—we risk offending Him for what we ourselves care very little about and expect insignificant return from.
Both old cloth and new cloth share the nature of cloth; similarly, old wine and new wine share the nature of wine.
Spurgeon identifies four critical matters that constitute our main concern in prayer.
The Church is compared to a dove through ten striking parallels.
For thirty years, under the guardianship of the High Priest Jehoiada, the king remained faithful to his conscience and duty.
Similarly, when a musician strikes an out-of-tune instrument, he produces sound but the instrument's broken strings produce the jarring discord.
First, consider the effect of the gospel truly preached.
All contingencies rest under the direction of God's providence.
This vivid metaphor describes how God's people must guard and maintain the truths contained in Scripture through deliberate action.
The ground of the mistake lies in misinterpreting the word "remaineth": taken to point to rest after the sorrows of this life are finished.
Christ lays His hand upon every form of human love—the family bond, the marriage covenant, and the precious thing of friendship itself.
Our relation to Christ determines our relation to the entire universe.
This outburst reveals the nature of evil's opposition to Christ.
Yet his greatest difficulty arose from a faction calling themselves Christ's party—a group whose very name masked dangerous sectarianism.
The hereditary monarchy secured peaceful succession but never guaranteed continuity of godly policy.
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
Man's true wisdom is a pattern of God's wisdom.
It is not mere religious habit but your entire conduct—all you think, feel, desire, speak, do, and suffer.
Maclaren observes that 'the fugitive's cave was a good preparation for the king's palace,' a paradox that cuts to the heart of how God prepares His servants for dignity and duty.
The human mind naturally divides into two warring camps.
From infancy's peril to age's afflictions, human existence demands deliverance.
Yet he 'obeyed at once,' unburdened by ignorance of his destination.
Basil observed that these saints possessed such extraordinary courage and confidence amid their sufferings that watching heathens witnessed their heroic zeal and constancy—and turned to Christ themselves.