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Christ is King in Zion—the sole Sovereign of His Church by the Father's appointment and ordination.
The devil seizes every advantage, working relentlessly through these vulnerabilities.
In Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence crosses the Nefud Desert—the Sun's Anvil—where no water exists for days. Men die of thirst; mirages taunt survivors. When they finally reach the well, the drinking is almost religious.
This is no mere sentiment, but the living testimony of regeneration itself.
This passage is prophetic of Christ, to whom "the path of life" was first opened.
Exell's Victorian illustration captures this paradox through a striking nautical image: a boat that has sailed the salt ocean, battered by storms and half-filled with briny water, now navigates fresh river currents.
The striking agreement between Paul's report and the eyewitness accounts of those present stands as evidence of Scripture's truth.
The Kim family lives in a basement apartment that floods with sewage. The Park family lives on a hill in architectural splendor. When Ki-taek, the poor father, asks what the rich Mr. Park's plan is, he answers: "I never make plans.
Bishop Beveridge identifies the structure with precision: the apostle Paul establishes that holiness is lived *because we are saved*, not *in order to be saved*.
The Galatian church had experienced genuine spiritual joy in their earliest faith—that *first love* which marks every conversion.
Jesus Christ proclaimed these words knowing the world's deepest moral condition.
Luther hesitated to expound such texts before congregations, fearing appearance of avarice, yet acknowledged the duty remains: believers must understand what honor and support they owe their teachers.
Yet here, God withdraws His all-vitalizing and all-blessing presence.
All persons are born in a state of ignorance and darkness as to spiritual things; therefore all young persons need instruction.
Joseph Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* identifies three categories of doubt worthy of pastoral attention.
First, the great facts of human nature—sin, mortality, the soul's hunger for God—remain substantially unchanged across the ages.
Three characteristics defined him: cruelty, determination, and worldliness.
Consider first the fact itself: admitting the power and providence of God, resurrection involves no logical contradiction.
The title "Lamb" applied to Christ appears nowhere else in Scripture save John's Gospel—this is no accident.
When Jesus enters the locked room where the disciples huddled 'for fear of the Jews,' He greets them: 'Peace be unto you!' This first peace addresses their terror—the dread that what they witnessed was mere phantom, a ghostly visitation.
Its acquisition presents such difficulties that it is seldom truly found in our age.
First, *metanoia* (repentance)—literally "to perceive afterwards"—demanded an entire reversal of opinion respecting Jesus Christ.
His enemies declared, "There is no help for him in God," when Absalom's rebellion consumed his house—the very judgment God had threatened after David's own transgression.
The Second Person appeared in human flesh; the Third Person descended as a dove; the First Person testified through voice alone, honoring the principle given to Israel: "Ye saw no shape, but ye heard a voice." The dove symbolizes Christ's...