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20 illustrations for sermon preparation
"The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick." In this world, ruined by sin, the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.
The Nature of Rest in Christ differs fundamentally from earthly comfort.
The prophet employs the phrase "men of strange lips" to underscore the *alien* nature of this divine communication.
An ambassador of peace bears a threefold character: he is a minister sent of Elohim, instructed in the terms of peace, and commissioned to negotiate with sinners at war with the Almighty.
King Hezekiah had already stripped three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold from the royal treasury and Temple doors—a desperate ransom that bought only temporary relief.
The human heart reveals its corruption most plainly in how it despises true Christianity while admiring false religion's pageantry.
Exell observes that in the Church, Elohim is present as a great reservoir of fervid love, a storehouse of blazing affection heated seventy times seven hotter than any creatural love, pouring out its ardours for the quickening of all who...
The prophet first compares the Lord to a mother-bird hovering over her nest, wings spread protectively over helpless fledglings.
First, safe hiding-places are founded upon Christ alone, the foundation God has laid in Zion.
Consider God's presidency over all things in four dimensions.
First, when God's threatenings produce no alarm in us—when warnings of wrath fail to compel flight—we prove ourselves mockers.
Yet the original context reveals something entirely different: this verse records a drunken sneer from mockers who despised the simplicity of Isaiah's prophetic message.
Yet when a boulder interrupts this relentless current, something miraculous occurs: within seasons, a garden flourishes on its leeward side.
Jewish beds were merely mattresses laid upon the floor, covered by a sheet or carpet in which the weary person wrapped himself seeking rest.
Samaria, perched high on its hillside with luxuriant vegetation and bright flowers, wears a crown of pride—yet this garland must fade.
In February 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev sat in his study at the University of St. Petersburg, wrestling with a professor's ordinary problem: how to organize his...
The prophet identifies three critical elements of state stability: the good counsel of wise senators, a strong disciplined army, and adequate finances.
The prophet's central image is devastating: Samaria itself is a sparkling coronet, a flowery wreath twined upon the brow of its fertile hill, where revellers twist garlands in their hair during their orgies.
They reasoned: God built us up; therefore He cannot tear us down.
There exists a natural liberality, constitutional to certain temperaments.
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