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27 illustrations for sermon preparation
The text, "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
First, He claims boundless power to satisfy human want and longing.
All persons are born in a state of ignorance and darkness as to spiritual things; therefore all young persons need instruction.
These are the stations of grace where His people seek Him, knowing where He is to be found.
Among all creation, this insignificant globe was singled out as the stage for redemption.
Thomson illustrated through his experience managing laborers in Palestine.
Exell notes the critical distinction: it is not the place itself, but the way to it.
Solomon warns that the seductress "spreads a thousand snares"; escape one entanglement only to find yourself caught by another.
The ancient preacher Francis Taylor, B.D., explicates this metaphor with Victorian clarity: lawful children flow forth like streams blessed by Elohim Himself.
"If he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry" (Proverbs 6:30). Joseph S. Exell's 1887 treatment exposes sin's cunning architecture. Before transgression ripens into external action, sin deploys imagination, invention, and reason itself to justify the forbidden object—representing...
The contempt of God's Sabbaths and disregard of ministerial instruction mark our age as spiritually perilous.
God announces Himself the witness and judge of all mankind.
First, to take partial views of His glorious gospel.
Most possess considerable advantages: the pure teaching of Scripture, the living voices of parents and ministers, and the Spirit of Elohim unfolding truth to conscience.
The Preacher employed a single lamp to illuminate the young man's delusion about the strange woman's house: the lamp named "At the last." This is no ordinary light but Ithuriel's spear itself, which according to Milton's *Paradise Lost*, dispels all...
Had Elohim never vouchsafed positive revelation to mankind, we should feel after virtue as one groping in darkness.
This divine knowledge produces fourfold effects: it stimulates spiritual activity, restrains from transgression, excites desire for pardon, and braces the soul in duty.
Strangers with thee *in life*: Those united in Christ alone are united in truth; all other bonds fracture under ultimate scrutiny.
In these proverbs of purity, the wise man personifies wisdom's rival standing in earth's great thoroughfares, bidding simple youth to shameful pleasures along the broad and crowded way.
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
William Hayley, M.A., observed that true and substantial happiness depends necessarily upon morality and religion.
He stands at the dim verge of existence, a beacon light to all who live without Elohim.
The wise man offers five devastating consequences of adultery: it impoverishes men, threatens death, debauches the conscience with guilt, ruins reputation with perpetual infamy, and exposes the adulterer to the jealous husband's rage.
The imagery is deliberate: "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well." Every person possesses independent spiritual resources.
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