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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:21

Proverbs 8:21That I may cause them that love Me to inherit substance.Man’s enrichment by GodI. Love--the love of God as the source of every blessing.II. The love of created being is excited by some good, real or imaginary, in the object beloved.III. Man’s individual sins, wants, and necessities.IV. Observe the way in which man is to become rich. God gives Himself--involving every good.V. God himself is to be the wealth of His family for evermore. (W. Howels.)Real substance in spiritual... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:22-36

Proverbs 8:22-36The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way.Wisdom the first creation of GodHere is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--an idea which is in deep harmony with all the best knowledge of our time--that there is nothing fortuitous in the creation of the world; the Creator is not a blind Force, but an intelligent Being whose first creation is wisdom. He is the origin of a law by which He means to bind Himself;... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:23

Proverbs 8:23I was set up from everlasting.Christ set up from everlastingDoctrine: That as Christ is the everlasting God, so, from all eternity, He was foreordained and set up for the great service of man’s redemption.I. To prove That Christ is the everlasting God.1. That He existed before the incarnation is evident from the appearance He made to our first parents in paradise.2. We find His existence and agency in the production of all created beings.3. Run up to the endless ages before the... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:30

Proverbs 8:30And I was daily His delight.The happiness of Christ antecedent to His incarnationThe delights between the Father and the Son, before His assumption of our nature, were twofold.1. They delighted in one another without communicating their joys to any other; for no creature did then exist save in the mind of God.2. They delighted in the salvation of men; in the prospect of that work, though not yet extant. The condition and state of Jesus Christ before His incarnation was a state of... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:31

Proverbs 8:31Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth.The rejoicing of WisdomI. Where did the Son of God by anticipation rejoice? “Habitable part of His earth.” “Sons of men.”1. The simple fact in itself. Of all creation this insignificant globe of earth is singled out. And of this globe its habitable part. It is with souls He would have to do. It was the empire of mind upon the earth that He in time expected to assume. This puts an honour and dignity upon our poor human nature which it is... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:32

Proverbs 8:32Blessed are they that keep My ways.The claims of Divine WisdomI. These are very simple.1. Diligently study its counsels.2. Constantly obey its precepts. The teachings of Divine Wisdom arc not speculative, but regulative. They are maxims to rule the life.II. Very important.1. Obedience to them is happiness.2. To neglect them is ruin. (David Thomas, D. D.) read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:33

Proverbs 8:33Hear instruction, and be wise.Motives for hearing sermonsContempt of God’s Sabbaths and disregard of ministerial instruction are melancholy characteristics of the age in which we live.I. The tendency of preaching and meaning the word to promote our best interest. This tendency is sufficient to enforce the duty recommended in my text. The sacred oracles are profitable. The doctrines revealed in them are not doubtful speculations, or light and trivial matters, but truths of... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:34

Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors.Attending public instruction recommendedI. The reasonableness of attending all the instituted means of our instruction. If God had never vouchsafed to men a positive revelation, we should have been obliged to feel after virtue if haply we might find it. And it is surprising to what lengths some have arrived without the help of that “grace which bringeth salvation.” But when it hath... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:35

Proverbs 8:35Whoso findeth Me findeth life.The Christian life delineated: Christ to be found in the ordinances, with the import and happy effects of finding HimI. The ordinances are the place where Christ is to be found of poor sinners 1. What are the ordinances? The Divine ordinance of meditation. Christian conference about spiritual matters. Singing of the Lord’s praises. Prayer. The Word. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.2. Confirm this doctrine. The ordinances are by Christ’s own appointment... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:36

Proverbs 8:36He that sinneth against Me wrongeth him own soul.The sinner wrongeth his own soulI. What are we to understand by a man sinning against Christ?1. To take partial views of His glorious gospel.2. When He would wreathe His gentle yoke about our necks, to kick at the restraint, and refuse it.3. To coldly hear the offers of His grace, and grieve His Holy Spirit in not fully and spiritually accepting them.II. How can we be said to hate the only being who can save us? This expression seems... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:21

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:22-36

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:23

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:30

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:31

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:32

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:33

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:34

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:35

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:36

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