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84 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The benefit of trials is entirely lost when we despise the Lord's chastening or faint under His rebuke.
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Romans 8:29-30 presents three critical truths about this chain.
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.
The Greek word *ergastērion* (workshop) reveals where this transaction occurs—in the very matrix of falsehood itself.
Exell, in his 1887 *Biblical Illustrator*, offers a vivid comparison: as the thirsty man needs only be directed to water—"There's the water, drink"—so the anxious soul requires but one directive: "Faith cometh by hearing." Elaborate explanations about reservoirs and river...
The natural instinct binds us: enmity answers enmity, kindness answers kindness. A dog stretches its neck to be patted and snaps at a raised stick. We are creatures of reciprocal reaction. Yet Christian morality requires us to master this instinct...
He is a ruminating animal, forever chewing the cud of private joy or grief.
The Christian idea of life is founded on conscious dedication: "To the Lord we live; to the Lord we die." What all other men must do unconsciously, the Christian does with full awareness.
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.
This man holds his candle at the door to inspect his neighbors while leaving his own room dark.
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.
Before Damascus Road, Paul served God sincerely yet ignorantly.
Livingstone discovered among Africa's rudest tribes: even those without Scripture readily admit their sinfulness.
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...
The word "wages" (*opsonion*) denotes "rations"—the daily bread supplied to a Roman soldier.
We are led not as brute beasts driven against our nature, but as reasonable creatures whose wills remain intact yet transformed by grace.
First, God's judgment is *correct*—according to the facts of the case, not assumption or hearsay.
The first reading seems to permit spiritual idleness—as if mere belief without works sufficed for righteousness.
First, it is Divine in its nature—originating from Elohim Himself, not from human effort or merit.
First, consider the *blessing* pronounced: believers are "filled with joy and peace in believing" — not by human effort, but by the God of hope Himself.
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.
Hope itself consists in three elements: belief in good things to come (1 Pet.
Yet these are not equal cases—they are a contrast wrapped in similarity.