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Though believers, Paul could not address them as spiritual persons, for they moved in the lower, earthly region of human nature, where strife and division held sway.
Man, as a fallen being with alienated affections and distorted views, requires precise Divine direction.
First, the apostles felt the impulse of a new undertaking—the resurrection of their crucified Master demanded proclamation.
The body is a bad master, though it may be a good servant.
Spurgeon identifies five reasons why this upholding prayer is essential.
There’s a story that comes to mind from our own community—a story of a young mother named Lisa who found herself in a storm of life. She was juggling a job, raising two children, and dealing with the illness of...
This prohibition teaches three vital truths about worship.
The word *purse* (*zone*) referred to the hollow girdles Jews wore to carry money—yet the disciples were sent out stripped of such security.
When we pray this petition, we acknowledge five truths.
Yet God commanded Gideon to steal into the enemy camp on the very night his army felt their weakness most acutely.
Isaiah embodied this truth through his children, whose names became living proclamations to Judah.
The wicked man often works with great diligence and shrewdness—he is no idle profligate, but a calculating schemer.
But what constitutes a true prophet worthy of reception?
The Hebrews had nicknamed Egypt *Rahab*—meaning "Stormy-speech" or "Braggart"—evoking the crocodile's monstrous reputation.
As sap flows from roots through trunk, branches, and the remotest leaf, so genuine piety pervades the whole life of the godly man, imparting its spirit and character to everything he does.
Their repentance was fundamentally defective—a *nostos* (return) of behavior without a *epistrophe* (turning toward) Adonai.
Righteousness means God cannot deviate from what is right and just—He is the eternal standard of moral perfection.
The lowly afflicted bear a yoke of trial chosen by God—their particular crook in the lot.
Some approached without special interest, moved merely by custom.
When you restrain prayer before God, you act in opposition to your own conscience and confession of what is right.
First comes the duty—"I have declared my ways"—the believer's solemn responsibility to make known his experience of God's Word to others.
Maclaren observes with penetrating clarity: 'All sins are attempts to break the chain which binds us to God—a chain woven of a thousand linked benefits.' This is no abstract moral law, but a relational rupture.
When stationary, they rested; when it advanced, they journeyed.
Yet the passage reveals profound truth about Elohim's character toward those who trust Him genuinely.