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11 illustrations for sermon preparation
Yet this appeal reveals something profound: the preacher refers always back to Christ as the source of all authority and influence.
Paul describes the Christian not merely in metaphor but in literal reality as a soldier surrounded by enemies.
Yet his greatest difficulty arose from a faction calling themselves Christ's party—a group whose very name masked dangerous sectarianism.
The Apostle envisions perfection operating at two inseparable levels.
The world has perpetually revolted against two great truths of Elohim's government.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* (1887) offers a striking agricultural parable: farmers along Scotland's Sutherland coast discovered that arable land covered with shore stones—from turkey-egg to eight-pound weights—consistently produced better crops of oats and pease.
When a friend visits, we do not merely exchange outward gifts; we desire the overflow of his life into our own.
Five fortresses stand against Him: indifference ("What shall we eat?" matters more than salvation), false doctrine inherited from childhood, self-sufficiency ("I can find Him without His help"), spiritual pride ("the gospel is outworn"), and despair ("I can never know Him").
First, the *sources* of our vulnerability: the human heart harbors dormant moral propensities until outward circumstance awakens them.
The first fault—measuring oneself by oneself—springs from three sources.
Consider three profound lessons from "in journeyings often" (2 Corinthians 11:26).
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