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What distinguishes Christian righteousness from mere external morality?
Joseph Spurgeon Exell observes that this man may pray correctly with his lips while harboring two catastrophic beliefs: first, "I shall not be moved"—immunity from consequence; second, "God hath forgotten.
The body is a bad master, though it may be a good servant.
Isaiah embodied this truth through his children, whose names became living proclamations to Judah.
This breath infused intelligence in the brain and vitality in the heart, making man a moral being capable of virtue and responsible for his actions.
Exell's Victorian homiletic analysis illuminates two essential truths about spiritual sustenance.
Just as miners extract precious metals from the earth's hidden depths, believers discover spiritual wealth concealed in the shadowed places of their experience.
First, to take partial views of His glorious gospel.
This is not labored knowledge but native breath—religion so integrated into His nature that He prays and speaks as naturally as breathing.
Men must comprehend when their main business is to apprehend.
Instead, He borrowed a small ship from a fisherman and preached from that humble vessel.
The prophet addresses Judah's futile reliance upon Egypt for military aid—a covenant forbidden by Adonai and spiritually ruinous.
This command reveals three principles about Yahweh's covenant with humanity.
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.
And when thou prayest—nine things pertain to the knowledge of true prayer: I. To know what prayer is. II. How many sorts of prayer there be. III. The necessity of prayer. Four things provoke us to pray: 1. God's commandment....
As we gather this morning, let’s pause to reflect on the profound truth woven into Ephesians 2:8-9: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by...
The cross may manifest as relinquishing certain pleasures, enduring reproach or poverty, suffering losses and persecutions for Christ's sake, consecrating all to Yahweh, or submitting to the Adonai's will.
Yet his refusal revealed his true allegiance: he regarded Jehovah not as his covenant God, but merely as Judaea's territorial deity, inferior to Assyria's gods.
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.
Among all earth's creatures, man alone is the worshipper.
Heathen moralists offered counsel but omitted humility; the word itself, before Christianity, signified baseness and shame.
This creature burrows deep into the soil but journeys nightly to the sea to bathe in salt water.
The dispensation under which we live is emphatically that of night, in comparison with the dispensation to be introduced at the day of the Lord.
Most possess considerable advantages: the pure teaching of Scripture, the living voices of parents and ministers, and the Spirit of Elohim unfolding truth to conscience.