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32 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The ground of the mistake lies in misinterpreting the word "remaineth": taken to point to rest after the sorrows of this life are finished.
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Temptation brings suffering to the regenerate soul in distinct ways.
One Victorian writer imagined hours passing like solemn virgins in silent procession, their faces veiled, carrying caskets filled with treasures: brilliant diadems, ripe fruits, faded flowers.
Joseph Exell's 1887 exposition reveals three vital truths about the present moment.
That was merely freedom from Egyptian bondage; this is spiritual salvation—deliverance from sin, from wrath, from everlasting destruction, and the possession of eternal life itself.
Joseph Spurgeon's exegete William Gouge identified eight layers of meaning embedded in this construction: First, doubling establishes *certainty* (*betach*—absolute assurance).
The conception of a thing constitutes its first and largest half.
As the Eternal Word took flesh from the Virgin Mary by the operation of the Holy Ghost, so are we born anew through grace.
Signs are external, visible things that declare a memorable matter otherwise imperceptible to human understanding.
Working and suffering constitute the way to glory and honour.
Hebrews presents this contrast between the earthly and the heavenly, the shadow and the substance.
This is not merely future eschatology but the present reality of Christ's kingdom inaugurated at Pentecost.
They are the holy ones who stand before Elohim's throne and behold His face continually.
Exell termed a "strange silence" about matters of the soul.
First, the law could not justify or save because human weakness in the flesh rendered perfect obedience impossible (Romans 8:3).
The Hebrew Christians, like wilderness Israelites, were offered the gospel and eternal rest, yet required active faith to obtain it.
Not yet are all things in subjection to humanity, yet this sovereignty shall come.
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.
The text "made like unto His brethren" (Hebrews 2:17) presents a perfect model proposition: Christ *is* made like us, and it *behoved* Him to be so.
Jesus Christ stands as the Mediator of this covenant, fulfilling the office that requires one who bridges the gap between God and man.
In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune — the fifteenth of seventeen children born to former slaves in Mayesville, South Carolina — traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida,...