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One says of Father Adam that he knew a great deal, and it was a pity that he did not know one thing more: namely, that he knew enough. For had he known that he knew enough, he would not have eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You know enough when you believe. If you know…

A farmer plows his field, and if it brings forth no harvest, he may plow it again; but he will not always go on plowing a field that is as barren as a rock. A gardener may come to a fig tree, and if it bears no fruit, he may prune it, and dig about it, and dung it, but he will not go on doing that year…

Man must have a master. He cannot serve two masters, but he must serve one. Of all sorts of men this has been true, and it has perhaps been most clearly seen in those who were evidently made to lead their fellow men. It is specially seen in such a man, for instance, as Alexander, a true king of men,…

John Bunyan, in Pilgrim’s Progress, tells us that Christian, by the light of day, looked back on the Valley of the Shadow of Death, which he had passed through in the nighttime, and saw what a narrow path he had kept and what a bog there was on one side, and what a miry place on the other, and where…

Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…

An officer in India had tamed a leopard. From the time when it was quite a kitten he had brought it up, until it went about the house like a cat, and everybody played with it. But he was sitting in his chair one day asleep, and the leopard licked his hand—licked it in all innocence. But as he licked,…

Albert Gonzalez is a cyber-crook. He had a website that specialized in selling the data bases of stolen credit and debit card numbers. After his arrest, he accepted a deal from the U.S. Secret Service to become a paid informant. While working for the government, Gonzalez “hacked into 180 million accounts,…

2 Peter 2; 2 Peter 2:1-3 Sooner or later we all get conned at least once. Perhaps you’ve been bamboozled by a forgery or a bogus investment scheme. Maybe you lost only your spare change; maybe it was your life savings. Or perhaps it nearly cost you your sanity, as it did Christopher Edwards. Listen to…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…