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78 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
How long shall I be with you?"—reveals not divine anger but infinite pain.
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First, faith means taking God at His word about things unknown, unlikely, and untried—trusting your soul to His care, your sins to His cleansing, your life to His keeping.
The Biblical Illustrator identifies this legion as anger, malice, intemperance, murder, impurity, unfaithfulness, dishonesty, hypocrisy, ingratitude, disobedience, envy, covetousness, blasphemy, and atheism.
(Mark 4:21) The kingdom of Elohim expands through human agency.
Mark records their astonishment at His doctrine, for it bore the unmistakable stamp of divine power.
Our Lord justifies His parabolic teaching method on the principle that immediate revelation is not always desirable.
Rees preached last in North Wales, a friend said to him—one of those who are always reminding people that they are getting old—"You are whitening fast, Dr.
The truths requiring cordial belief are these: all have sinned; I am a guilty sinner exposed to just punishment; Jesus Christ, having died for all, is Saviour to those who truly believe on Him.
A superficial glance at our Lord's mission suffices to show that His work was for the sinful.
The Paschal moon flooded the landscape nightly with splendor as pilgrims from across Palestine and beyond arrived in Jerusalem in family groups and bands, filling the city to overflowing.
The gospel of Jesus Christ inaugurates what all Scripture converges toward and radiates from.
Capernaum, meaning "field of repentance" or "city of comfort," sat on the western shore of the Galilean Lake, a prosperous junction where the Damascus-to-Accho highway brought commerce and wealth.
Mark 13:11 reveals three essential principles for disciples facing trial.
Men must comprehend when their main business is to apprehend.
Their prejudice—the conviction that miracles *must* conform to established precedent—nearly blinded them to Elohim's work.
They "belong" to Christ—they are peculiarly and emphatically His.
Herod's sorrow when Salome demanded John the Baptist's head reveals a critical spiritual truth: not all tears flow from godly conviction.
This convergence illustrates the manifold ways souls approach the Saviour.
Yet John had been executing the very purpose Elohim ordained for him.
The true child embodies six essential qualities that reprove adult ambition.
Calls to holy living are constantly sown; yet people respond with either sudden rejection or gradual forgetfulness.
That ordinary crowing became extraordinary, ordained by Elohim for specific ends: to remind Peter of his broken promise, to witness to Christ's words Peter refused to believe, to reprove his sin, and to accuse his own conscience.
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, Gregor Mendel knelt in the garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating nearly twenty-eight thousand pea...
Exell's 1887 exposition clarifies what this metaphor demands of Christian ministers.