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This text diagnoses humanity's universal condition: all are liable to sin and under its dominion.
This original uprightness required five distinct faculties working in harmony: an understanding perfectly acquainted with God's law; a memory retaining all its precepts faithfully; a conscience applying it without compromise; a heart loving that law completely; and a will obedient...
Spurgeon identifies five reasons why this upholding prayer is essential.
A son honors his father; a servant fears his master—yet Israel, the son of Yahweh, offers Him what it would not dare present to an earthly ruler.
Those who serve Elohim must continue their gleaning from morning through evening, not merely offering a morning of service before turning to pleasure.
The last king of David's line was captured on the very ground where Israel first entered its inheritance—at Jericho, where unarmed men trusting in Elohim watched the walls collapse.
The Hebrews had nicknamed Egypt *Rahab*—meaning "Stormy-speech" or "Braggart"—evoking the crocodile's monstrous reputation.
First, it was a simple, child-like dependence on the naked *rhema* (spoken word) of God—not reasoned argument or sensory evidence.
— Human conduct divides into two paths, each revealing the heart's orientation toward Elohim.
The phrase *paides tou nymphonos* (children of the bridegroom) reveals the spirit reigning in Jesus's circle—not accident or temperament, but the natural radiance of new life imparted to those joined in His society.
"In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord." The righteous person refuses to pay respect where it is undeserved and withholds it nowhere it is merited.
First, God's judgment is *correct*—according to the facts of the case, not assumption or hearsay.
Jesus spoke these words as He contemplated His earthly ministry with the urgency of one watching the sun descend toward the horizon.
Though biblical records highlight only the most striking features, Joshua's campaign likely spanned six years—not the instantaneous victory Jehovah could have granted.
When you sit before your meal, you behold a creature that once swam freely in waters or soared through heavens—now placed there by your authority.
The prophet presents three essential truths about obedience to Yahweh.
The inmost essence of the law is revealed in a single, lofty conception: 'to love Jehovah thy God.' This is the sovereign commandment, to which even the minute regulations of Leviticus are subordinate.
When we pray this petition, we acknowledge five truths.
So long as a person depends upon his own wisdom, power, and goodness, disquietude and unhappiness must follow.
The world has perpetually revolted against two great truths of Elohim's government.
Matthew 10:2 presents a roster that, examined officially, reveals Yahweh's sovereign hand in history's transformation.
First, consider what the good man loses by gaining the world's approval.
When men and women engage their ambitions with fierce determination, they unwittingly declare independence from Elohim, attempting to wrest the government of the universe from His hand.
He labours most against our faith, and therefore we should labour most in fortifying it.