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12 illustrations for sermon preparation
This is no mere sentiment, but the living testimony of regeneration itself.
It is the shepherd's mark distinguishing the flock of the Lord Jesus from the rest of the world.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
The apostle Paul grounds predestination in God's eternal foreknowledge—a decree that turns all things to the good of those called according to Elohim's plan.
Romans 8:29-30 presents three critical truths about this chain.
We are led not as brute beasts driven against our nature, but as reasonable creatures whose wills remain intact yet transformed by grace.
The believer's endowments are extraordinary: not merely heightened mental powers, but the rudiments of a Divine nature itself, fitting us for communion with a holy God and fellowship with the pure intelligences of heaven.
The apostle Paul supposes the concurrence of two or more events, all verging towards the good of him to whom they have befallen.
Romans 9:13 presents a paradox that troubled even Paul himself: "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." The writer acknowledges this appears to contradict God's righteousness, yet immediately restrains such questioning (v. 14). Consider the biographical contrast. Esau...
We are debtors—not to the flesh, but to Adonai and to one another across the ages. This threefold obligation structures the Christian conscience. First, we owe debts to *all times*. To the past, we are indebted to those who preserved...
Note three truths: First, Elohim hath already given the very greatest thing to set before salvation: what every parent who had but one beloved son would surely feel as the greatest of his treasures.
His spirit had ascended—climbing Jacob's ladder toward glory and immortality—only to descend again into the melancholy fact of his countrymen's spiritual expatriation.
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