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186 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
When Yahweh commanded the Twelve to take neither two coats nor extra provisions, He was not imposing arbitrary hardship. Scholar W. M. Thomson, D.D., observed the cultural context that made this instruction spiritually wise rather than materially cruel. In the...
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To honour parents (*timao*, to show respect and value) comprises five essential elements: filial love, reverence and esteem, obedience and submission, succour and help, and the protection of their reputation through righteous conduct.
See here the woeful effects of refusing Elohim's free offers of grace.
Christ quoted Hosea 6:6 to challenge the Pharisees' misaligned devotion.
This blessedness demands our attention to what purity truly means.
What distinguishes Christian righteousness from mere external morality?
And when thou prayest—nine things pertain to the knowledge of true prayer: I. To know what prayer is. II. How many sorts of prayer there be. III. The necessity of prayer. Four things provoke us to pray: 1. God's commandment....
The cross may manifest as relinquishing certain pleasures, enduring reproach or poverty, suffering losses and persecutions for Christ's sake, consecrating all to Yahweh, or submitting to the Adonai's will.
Among all earth's creatures, man alone is the worshipper.
This creature burrows deep into the soil but journeys nightly to the sea to bathe in salt water.
The dispensation under which we live is emphatically that of night, in comparison with the dispensation to be introduced at the day of the Lord.
Yet Christ's call came sovereignly, without miracle or earthly inducement—only the attraction of personal authority and divine grace.
The preciousness of Christ's sympathy with our infirmities lies in His actual and personal union with our nature.
This distinction cuts to the heart of His redemptive mission.
He assumed real humanity—not fictitious—that we might recognize our kinship with Him in nature and sympathy.
Thomas Manton, D.D., identified seven purposes in temptation's discipline.
The question naturally arises: Is not the Christian character a provident one?
The disciples faced extraordinary demands: sacrifice of domestic ties, loss of property, surrender of their livelihood, and certainty of ridicule and persecution.
First, the *euangelion* (good news) is not merely generic proclamation but a kingdom-specific message.
All work and labor possess their worth in gold.
Yet the cross became a threshold of transformation for one man while confirming the other's damnation.
Many religionists, as Spurgeon observed, attend to religion without ever truly understanding it.
The real hindrance lies not in legality but in morality—in the human will itself.
He began with doubt: "If Thou be the Son of God," targeting the very foundation of our Lord's identity and Sonship.