The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 9:29-30
Exodus 9:29-30I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God.Lessons1. Gracious souls are willing to yield to vilest persecutors to help them though they deceive them.2. Time and place convenient, God’s servants take to answer the desires of the wicked.3. Heart and hand do God’s saints lay out in prayer to God for their enemies.4. Under God’s revelation his ministers may assure the wicked of His mercies.5. Such discoveries are made to wicked men that they might acknowledge His propriety and... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 9:27-28
Exodus 9:27-28I have sinned.Pharaoh’s “I have sinned”There are no more beautiful words ever spoken on this earth--none to which an angel listens more complacently--none which wing their way more surely to heaven--none which more surely enter into the ears of the Lord God of Sabaoth--than those three--so personal, so true, so simple, and so full, “I have sinned.” They occur nine times in the Bible; and of the nine we may except two. For where they stand--in the seventh chapter of Micah--they are... read more