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Our confidence in missionary labor rests entirely upon the prophecies of God's Word declaring it His will.
All contingencies rest under the direction of God's providence.
First, in Creation, Christ's operations display order, regularity, and perfect adaptation.
Higher counsels than ours govern the issues of human conduct.
God's plan encompasses society comprehensively—threading millennia from earth's earliest dust to the emergence of new heavens and earth.
First, some contend that Elohim created all things solely for His pleasure, without external motive.
Consider God's presidency over all things in four dimensions.
Their waiting hours—like languid summer days when aspen leaves refuse to quiver and shadows barely move on the dial—mirrored the anguish of deferred hope.
The Hebrew word *shalom* here carries the force of a military commander marshaling his forces according to a predetermined strategy, assigning each soldier his proper station in the execution of a grand enterprise.
The apostle Paul supposes the concurrence of two or more events, all verging towards the good of him to whom they have befallen.
To think and to purpose are attributes of all rational beings—created or uncreated.
Stephen presents the portrait of a dying saint: he was filled with the Holy Ghost, lifted above earthly consciousness of his enemies' gnashing teeth, granted a full vision of heavenly glory and his glorified Redeemer, and embodied the spirit of...
The Biblical Illustrator (1887) expounds two crucial truths: First, God's greatness manifests in His constant governance of the world He made.
First, confidence in human means stands opposed to this truth.
The people of Israel, mowed down and removed from their native soil, lay upon the threshing floor of captivity under tyrannical rule.
Delitzsch observed that this promise extends not to Israel's senile decline, but to her yet-future history.
Yet something is required to lift the cover, to unveil reality, to expose the things we do and the persons we truly are.