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9 illustrations for sermon preparation
God's method of punishment is not arbitrary cruelty but divine permission—He lets us punish ourselves.
The impulse to adorn ourselves belongs distinctly to human nature, yet moral qualities constitute the truest adornments of any person.
God Himself ordains the family as His constitutive institution, granting parents rank immediately beneath His own throne.
He visits rebellious generations with four gifts: the call—spoken through prophets, apostles, and conscience itself, articulated in earthquake and storm; the stretched hands—an open path to the Father with no obstruction, no forbidding, no upbraiding; the counsel—specifically directed at those...
When Elohim grants what the wicked most desire, they perish in its very embrace.
Wisdom denotes theoretical knowledge of truth—distinguishing real from apparent truths through understanding their causes and properties.
The word carries an evil connotation—recalling the serpent's cunning in Genesis 3—yet here Solomon redeems it to mean discernment rather than deception.
Judgment operates on three levels: discerning right from wrong, understanding the law and its manner, and executing consequences with authority.
These common sayings often accomplish what statute books cannot: they stir the soul to its depths and regulate life and manners with remarkable power.
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