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11 illustrations for sermon preparation
This covenant embraced three distinct circles of blessing.
First, *metanoia* (repentance)—literally "to perceive afterwards"—demanded an entire reversal of opinion respecting Jesus Christ.
Though he led the assembly, Peter assumed no priestly authority.
Consider first the fact itself: admitting the power and providence of God, resurrection involves no logical contradiction.
First, its nature: deliverance FROM the guilt of sin, the power of sin, and the punishment of sin; deliverance TO acceptance with God, conquest of evil, and Heaven itself.
Acts 12:12 reveals that some believers retained their property, maintaining households with children and servants as before.
This *katanysso*—pierced, stabbed—describes conviction that wounds rather than flatters.
Exell's Victorian commentary identifies three dynamics at work.
When we trace all things to their origin, we discover that mere critical terms prove unsatisfying; we yearn for something deeper.
Charles Spurgeon observed that while one sermon explains salvation, ten are required to exhort men toward it.
Yet Exell extends the image to Christianity itself as the *helios* (sun) of our moral age.
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