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Christ teaches that false messiahs will arise, claiming "Lo, here is Christ" or "There!" yet believers possess sufficient tests to unmask pretenders.
The upright man bequeaths his heirs three precious gifts: (1) His example—a living testimony that sons and daughters may trace throughout their own success.
Many professing Christians require conversion; many churches require Christianization.
To pray is to *ask* (*aiteo*) of God; the more childlike the asking, the better.
First, in Creation, Christ's operations display order, regularity, and perfect adaptation.
For that indeed a notable miracle hath been done ...
Almighty God can and often does overrule evil actions toward His own glory and to cause bad means to conduce to a good end.
This ancient custom illuminates Psalm 24:8—"Who is this King of glory?
Christ was the reputed son of a village carpenter, a poor despised Nazarene—yet His fame spread abroad.
This narrative reveals the desperate calculus of faith.
The feather drifts through the opening and closing of Forrest Gump—carried by winds it cannot control, landing where it will. Forrest wonders: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on...
Rather, He presented moral pictures to His hearers' minds with such vividness and power that truth could not be perverted or forgotten.
The ground of the mistake lies in misinterpreting the word "remaineth": taken to point to rest after the sorrows of this life are finished.
Paul describes the Christian not merely in metaphor but in literal reality as a soldier surrounded by enemies.
Exell observed in *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887), "All help is dangerous for any of us when there is absence of mutuality." Consider a household where one daughter bears all the work while others remain idle; such arrangement breeds neither health...
Yet Maclaren observes that "as they abode together and worked at their trade, there would be many earnest talks about the Christ, and these ended in both husband and wife becoming disciples." The mundane labor of their craft became the...
When believers emerge from great temptation and trouble—their faith tested and drawn thin—deliverance brings more than relief from that particular circumstance.
Yet he frames this through prophecy—Isaiah foretold both the sending and the incredulity.
Yet here, God withdraws His all-vitalizing and all-blessing presence.
When Christ lived without sin, He exposed sin's nature.
Consider first the fact itself: admitting the power and providence of God, resurrection involves no logical contradiction.
This image reveals two dimensions of His fastening hold upon humanity.
The prophets have sung of a golden age, the saints have prayed for one, and the Bible distinctly teaches that one will come.
First, the *phobos* (fear) of preparation for judgment itself.