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9 illustrations for sermon preparation
Two essential requirements emerge for realizing this ideal.
The promise "My God shall supply all your need" (Philippians 4:19) stretches across Old Testament pledges: "They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing" and "No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." Yet...
First, Christ in us is the foundation of our hope, elected before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:3–4; 1 Timothy 1:9).
The work of Christ in us and for us does not exempt us from work.
The vast region of human sorrow appears to most a dark and dreary desert.
The term *mysterion* (mystery), used twice in this passage and repeatedly throughout the epistle, does not describe what is essentially incomprehensible, but rather what was once hidden and is now revealed.
Exell (1887) distinguishes three dimensions of this mystery.
Punishment Threatened To masters who wrong their servants: (1) By defrauding them of clothing, food, or wages; (2) By imposing labours beyond their strength; (3) By afflicting them with reproaches and unjust stripes.
First, he is a *hagios* (saint)—a separated one, taken out of the world and set apart for God's purposes.
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