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14 illustrations for sermon preparation
When Herod sought the young child's life, evil demonstrated its relentless persistence against innocence itself.
This contrast illuminates how Elohim accommodates His truth to each person's capacity to receive it.
First, the natural seed of Israel—*sperma* (offspring)—recalls the nation called out of Egypt under Moses.
All work and labor possess their worth in gold.
He demands *karpos* (fruit)—genuine spiritual productivity, not mere profession.
Herod's character bore five destructive marks: blindness to spiritual truth, luxurious indulgence, vengeful anger, susceptibility to flattery, and habitual sin.
When we grip our own opinions with rigid hands, refusing the gentle correction of wise counsel, we chart a course toward destruction.
Walking through an orchard one summer morning, I encountered a tree bearing neither leaves nor fruit.
Both inquired diligently, yet their motives revealed the condition of their hearts.
The Jews could boast of their national lineage.
Yet something is required to lift the cover, to unveil reality, to expose the things we do and the persons we truly are.
Exell's Victorian analysis unfolds the nature of Messiah's government in three essential movements.
They studied the law with meticulous precision, yet remained practical strangers to its transformative power.
The scene required protection from popular commotion that would have hindered the gradual development of the Redeemer's ministry and its attendant evidences.
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