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10 illustrations for sermon preparation
First, the law could not justify or save because human weakness in the flesh rendered perfect obedience impossible (Romans 8:3).
Joseph Spurgeon's exegete William Gouge identified eight layers of meaning embedded in this construction: First, doubling establishes *certainty* (*betach*—absolute assurance).
When the Macedonian emperor sat for his portrait, the painter faced a difficulty. A sword-wound had left a terrible scar across the monarch's right temple—a mark of battle and suffering. Yet the master craftsman possessed wisdom. He positioned the emperor...
Exell's nineteenth-century homilists grasped a truth worth recovering: God's promises operate on His timeline, not ours.
Every generation has fashioned its own conception of perfection, and Christ has failed each one.
First, to the *uttermost* depths of guilt—the greatest sinners may be pardoned and sanctified through His grace.
Jesus Christ stands as the Mediator of this covenant, fulfilling the office that requires one who bridges the gap between God and man.
The conception of a thing constitutes its first and largest half.
Hebrews presents this contrast between the earthly and the heavenly, the shadow and the substance.
Two forms exist: assertory oaths affirm or deny past and present facts; promissory oaths pledge future action, becoming vows when made directly to Elohim, or covenants when between persons.
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