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Righteousness most effectually answers the end and design of government itself.
The believer's expectation rests not upon the shifting sands of human opinion or circumstance, but upon the immovable promises of Adonai.
The Psalmist's cry, "Let me not be put to shame" (Psalm 25:2), rests upon confidence that those who wait upon Jehovah will not be abandoned.
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.
God possesses unspeakable glory and greatness—the blessed and only Potentate sustaining all creatures and glorified in every work.
— Human conduct divides into two paths, each revealing the heart's orientation toward Elohim.
We may lawfully wish for one another extended years; this desire is no infirmity.
The question naturally arises: Is not the Christian character a provident one?
Isaiah 10:3 poses a devastating question: "What will ye do in the day of visitation?" Joseph Exell identifies three distinct types of divine visitation in 1887's *Biblical Illustrator*.
The Lord does not merely turn away; He *releases Himself* (*aphistemi*), detaches Himself, shakes off an encumbrance without righteousness.
Solomon warns that the seductress "spreads a thousand snares"; escape one entanglement only to find yourself caught by another.
First, it suggests the true measure of workers in the Church's progress.
Just as miners extract precious metals from the earth's hidden depths, believers discover spiritual wealth concealed in the shadowed places of their experience.
The conception of a thing constitutes its first and largest half.
The impulse to adorn ourselves belongs distinctly to human nature, yet moral qualities constitute the truest adornments of any person.
Faith trusts Elohim's providence within His natural and moral laws; presumption demands divine intervention outside them.
Ecclesiastes 1:26 declares that God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who find favour in His sight. But what constitutes genuine goodness before Elohim? A man may esteem himself righteous, yet remain spiritually hollow. Society may celebrate him as...
"Ye know not what ye ask," Christ replied—not to rebuke their boldness, but to illuminate their blindness.
In the quiet hush of the evening, when the world outside begins to fade, I often find myself reflecting on the weight of forgiveness. One night, I sat by my window, watching the sun dip below the horizon, and remembered...
Yahweh, the Lord in His everlasting redemptive purpose, invites Israel to *ask*—not as suppliants begging scraps, but as covenant partners speaking into the Divine intention.
The apostle distinguishes between four categories of observance: natural (the sun and moon's course), civil (harvests and commerce), ecclesiastical (thanksgiving and humiliation), and superstitious (both Jewish legalism and heathen astrology).
Where the Old Testament says *pistis* (trust), the New Testament says *faith*—yet they describe the same essential act.
First, when God's threatenings produce no alarm in us—when warnings of wrath fail to compel flight—we prove ourselves mockers.