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13 illustrations for sermon preparation
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
The Apostle Paul identifies five essential components: man's utmost happiness (salvation itself), the means to attain it (the gospel), the grace required (believing), the faculty necessary (memory), and the relationship binding them together.
Of all species of deception, self-deception proves most detrimental; it is like having a traitor within the fortress who betrays his country to the enemy.
For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet.—The reign of Christ establishes this world as His battlefield now; when this conflict ends, His reign concludes also. "He shall reign till," and no longer. Who are...
Christ's kingdom exists to bring rebels to obedience within God's government.
Not scientific philosophy occupied Paul's proclamation—only Christ's atoning death and certified resurrection.
First, some regard themselves as mere products of natural causes—biology determining destiny.
First, the *inevitably* natural: our bodies decay from birth.
This interpretation reveals three essential truths about the Church's nature.
The soul surpasses the body as jewels exceed their casket, as the tenant transcends the house.
The greatness of man becomes a terrible charge against the Almighty.
Consider first the dissolution of the human frame—that wonderful machine bearing the mark of Divine wisdom and skill.
Consider Nature itself: the earth was complete before Adonai created man in His own image.
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