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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*.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord—not because the ritual itself is defective, but because the worshipper lacks consideration.
Christ is King in Zion—the sole Sovereign of His Church by the Father's appointment and ordination.
To apprehend God's loving-kindness means to duly perceive it, believe it with persuasion, esteem it above all treasures, and consider it with serious remembrance.
Exell's Victorian illustration captures this paradox through a striking nautical image: a boat that has sailed the salt ocean, battered by storms and half-filled with briny water, now navigates fresh river currents.
Jesus Christ proclaimed these words knowing the world's deepest moral condition.
It is not mere religious habit but your entire conduct—all you think, feel, desire, speak, do, and suffer.
First, the gospel illuminates what was previously hidden.
The accumulation of light things becomes overwhelmingly ponderous.
Yet Scripture is unambiguous: the heart (*leb* in Hebrew, the seat of will and intention) cannot be good while its practice remains evil.
It is the shepherd's mark distinguishing the flock of the Lord Jesus from the rest of the world.
The Victorian preacher recognized winter as uniquely perilous—not merely because of physical suffering, but because lengthy evenings create moral vulnerability.
This is no mere sentiment, but the living testimony of regeneration itself.
The prophets have sung of a golden age, the saints have prayed for one, and the Bible distinctly teaches that one will come.
The abuses of the tongue are manifold, and malignity ranks foremost among them.
Our Lord exhorts His disciples to cultivate strength of character—but never at the expense of brotherly love.
Its acquisition presents such difficulties that it is seldom truly found in our age.
The apostle Paul, when dissuading from impurity, eschewed mere physical or social arguments.
The wisdom of Solomon stands in sharp contrast to our modern systems, which often direct men's attention everywhere but inward.
Little sins are peculiarly offensive to God precisely because they are little—we risk offending Him for what we ourselves care very little about and expect insignificant return from.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* offers three principles for this conquest.
The diseased crowded for healing; the teachable gathered for celestial wisdom; the curious witnessed stupendous miracles.
Exell's Victorian homily isolates four charges against this congregation, each applicable to contemporary faith communities.
To eat and drink unworthily means partaking of the sacramental bread and wine contrary to Christ's institution, not discerning the Lord's body in the ordinance.