Loading...
Loading...
2,805 results found
Lyth, D.D., structures this comparison across three critical dimensions.
This distinguishes His Church from every other society—without Christ present, there is no Church.
Christian discipleship originates not in human preference but in Divine initiative.
Bishop Beveridge identifies the structure with precision: the apostle Paul establishes that holiness is lived *because we are saved*, not *in order to be saved*.
First, the antecedents of healing: the diseased recognized their condition, felt genuine anxiety for restoration, and positioned themselves in the right place—near the Lord.
Christ's people are described as His "flock," a term denoting both privilege and protection.
Yet Spurgeon's commentator, John Field, clarifies what this plea was *not*: it was no prayer *to* David, nor did it suggest the dead saints intercede for us.
The *bruised reed*—a slender bulrush crushed by wind or foot, its head hanging by a thread yet not severed—represents evil in its incipient stage, a destructive process begun but still avoidable.
Temptation brings suffering to the regenerate soul in distinct ways.
This covenant embraced three distinct circles of blessing.
The 'stout-hearted'—those untouched by conviction, ignorant of sin, self-reliant and nearly defiant before God—expect rebuke and condemnation from the Almighty's lips.
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?' The unworthy members of Zion—the *sinners in Zion*—cry out in terror, supposing the prophet speaks of annihilation.
He names it twice in his opening movement (verses 1 and 4), and again when addressing the Corinthians themselves (verses 6-7).
The exiles' return to Jerusalem embodies this metaphor.
This outburst reveals the nature of evil's opposition to Christ.
First, consider the effect of the gospel truly preached.
Both old cloth and new cloth share the nature of cloth; similarly, old wine and new wine share the nature of wine.
Yet understand: there is no opposition between Christ and His people requiring conquest.
These phases repeat with such regularity that he compares them to *the white and red lights and darkness reappearing in a revolving lighthouse lantern, or figures recurring in a circulating decimal fraction*.
Christ does not merely teach about divine love—He claims to *be* its Object and its Channel.
Critics who say 'Give me his ethics, keep his dogmas' commit a fatal severance that destroys both.
The branches do not draw strength from soil or seasonal rains; they depend utterly upon the living sap flowing from the vine's root system.
Maclaren insists we grasp the profound mystery embedded in this juxtaposition: the dependent Christ.
Upon this eternal, self-existent fidelity we can repose with safety.