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41 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Exell identifies three distinct enemies arrayed against the believer's sanctification.
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This is no arbitrary decree, but a solemn declaration to which all holy spirits give their willing assent—an ordinance whose justice even the excluded themselves shall admit.
Many professing Christians require conversion; many churches require Christianization.
This ancient adversary possesses characteristics we must understand clearly.
First, you must contend against yourself—the main battle rages within your own heart, where affections struggle for dominion.
The title "Lamb" applied to Christ appears nowhere else in Scripture save John's Gospel—this is no accident.
Exell's Victorian homily isolates four charges against this congregation, each applicable to contemporary faith communities.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.—The Guest of the heart. I. THE STRANGER-GUEST WANTING TO COME IN. When a stranger comes to your door, it matters greatly whether he be mean or great. Who is this Visitor? He...
This promise encompasses science, literature, arts, commerce, and above all, religion itself—all shall be renewed.
Yet our feelings regarding His appearing reveal the true condition of our hearts before Elohim.
First, Yahweh operates through dual instruments: the judgments of God's mouth and the judgments of God's hand—the word and the work of God.
The Spirit speaking to the Church reveals three foundational truths: First, certain great moral elements alone determine the character of individuals or communities.
This posture teaches a fundamental principle: those called to the Lord's service must wait for His vocation rather than rushing ahead unbidden.
First, her frailty: Scripture compares the church to vulnerable creatures—a vine requiring constant support, a lily without defense, a dove without gall, sheep amid wolves.
Repentance (*metanoia*—a turning around of the mind) in Scripture holds three distinct meanings.
When Abram fled Ur of the Chaldees, renouncing idolatry in a pagan land, westward distance became his sanctuary.
Night is the season of repose, yet also the time chosen for deeds of darkness and sin.
This final biblical reference to Christ's Cross corresponds with the recurring phrase in *Revelation*, "the Lamb slain" (*arnion sphazō*), reaching backward to Genesis 3:15's promise of the bruised heel.
The angel rebuked him: "See thou do it not" (Revelation 22:8-9).
First, this voice summons every saint at the appointed hour.
The first is the "great red dragon" of Revelation 12—Satan himself, bearing seven heads and ten horns, the ancient serpent who wars against heaven and hungers for the saints' blood.
Exell observed that the present world presents a paradox: philosophers from Ray Lankester to John Stuart Mill cannot agree on nature's character.
First, the phrase "If any man have an ear, let him hear" signals that spiritual discernment is required to grasp this mystery.
In our present state, night brings necessary rest to weary bodies and overburdened minds.