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15 illustrations for sermon preparation
When Christ lived without sin, He exposed sin's nature.
Exell's Victorian illustration captures this paradox through a striking nautical image: a boat that has sailed the salt ocean, battered by storms and half-filled with briny water, now navigates fresh river currents.
Lyth, D.D., structures this comparison across three critical dimensions.
The term signifies the outward expression of exultation, especially in speech and declaration.
In the first, one offense brought condemnation upon all mankind by a just and inevitable law.
These are few, extraordinary, and universal in scope.
The benefit of trials is entirely lost when we despise the Lord's chastening or faint under His rebuke.
The word "wages" (*opsonion*) denotes "rations"—the daily bread supplied to a Roman soldier.
Yet these are not equal cases—they are a contrast wrapped in similarity.
Similarly, Adonai possesses many treasuries and secrets shut from carnal minds, yet he who walks in fellowship with Jesus holds the master-key admitting him to all covenant blessings—even to the very heart of God.
He possessed dominion over all terrestrial creatures and stood in a state of perfect communion with his Maker.
In 1845, Victor Hugo began writing a novel about a convict named Jean Valjean — a man imprisoned nineteen years for stealing a loaf of...
Sin is a tyrant usurping dominion where it was never meant to rule.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing the number 42 on his Dodgers jersey....
In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch retaliated by selecting ten men from Block...
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