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28 illustrations for sermon preparation
Speech may set forth: right views of God as revealed in Psalm 40:9 and John 17:25–26; right views of personal experience as in Psalm 66:16; right estimates of character, requiring great caution in testimonials; right statements concerning the value of...
Trusting in riches is spiritually unsatisfactory and necessarily evanescent.
The world's policy, like the world itself, fluctuates and deceives—uncertain in both objects and means, it knows nothing of the steadfastness that religious principle imparts to mind and conduct.
This teaching rests upon nature's own law—that no creature exists in isolation, but all things experience mutual action and reaction within Elohim's creation.
Since He is full of mercy Himself, He delights when we exercise the same toward our fellow creatures.
In Solomon's day, famines were frequent and trade communications uncertain between nations.
The wicked man often works with great diligence and shrewdness—he is no idle profligate, but a calculating schemer.
The desire of the righteous shall be granted (Proverbs 11:23), yet wisdom often demands restraint in speech. A prudent man concealeth knowledge in six distinct circumstances. First, when it is opportune to withhold. Our Lord Jesus said, "I have yet...
Not merely those claiming natural sincerity—the apostle Paul himself believed himself righteous before conversion, yet his uprightness crumbled under God's holy light.
The term "perfect" (*tam*) means not faultless but whole-hearted, one who consciously withholds nothing from God.
Graciousness dissociated from strength carries its own formidable influence; strength dissociated from graciousness becomes mere force, bereft of those attributes which command the world's deepest confidence.
An ancient philosopher observed, "There is nothing great on earth but man, and nothing great in man but his soul." How shall we measure a soul's worth?
This political maxim assigns to human morality the determinative power over public prosperity or ruin.
Consider how a false witness operates in a criminal trial.
Man alone among creatures possesses articulate speech—the power to transmit thought from mind to mind.
This truth presents two terrible events in human history.
First, the public conscience is gratified by the prosperity of the righteous.
The wicked man must become hypocritical in proportion to his sin, for sin demands cunning concealment.
Yet the relation of the righteous and the wicked to trouble differs strikingly.
When a ruler is surrounded by wise counsellors, both he and his people are safe.
Selfish in nature, he wears the costume of benevolence; false in speech, he uses the language of sincerity and truth.
Yet this truth becomes luminous when understood through the husbandman's labor—the farmer who scatters seed receives a multiplied harvest (2 Corinthians 9:6).
Yet some members deliberately fracture this sanctuary through ill-nature, impulsiveness, falsehood, and selfishness.
Men surrender individual conviction and dissolve into the multitude's current, seeking power through collective action.
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