Rebellion

The Sword Sharpened

This passage explains how the sword was sharpened (vv. 8-17). It is a poetic song of judgment and the theme is that God’s sword was sharpened, ready for slaughter. The song has three stanzas: The first stanza explains how God’s sword was sharpened with a whetstone to giv …

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The editor of a small weekly newspaper in a town in the West was hard put one week for copy to fill his columns. So he had his compositor set up the Ten Commandments, and ran them without making any editorial comment. Three days after the paper was published he received a l …

IllustrationJoseph Stalin as a Seminary Student Turned His Back on God

Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin, told the incredible story of how her father Josef Stalin had been a …

IllustrationHumanism is Man’s Rebellion Against God

“Humanism is man’s rebellion against and alienation from God. This is mans slavery. How can that which produced mans slavery set him free from it? All mans efforts to possess a self-contained freedom, to find the meaning of life by his own wisdom, to build a worthy human soci …

IllustrationThe Beatles rebellion against the God of the Bible goes way back for …

The Beatles rebellion against the God of the Bible goes way back for most of them! One example is the fact that John Lennon was taken to Sunday School by his Aunt Mimi. He even sang in the choir. But, by age 11, John was barred from Sunday services in his aunt’s Anglican ch …

Illustration"Today the guns are silent"

World War II had ended. On September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur spoke to the world from the Battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, “Today the guns are silent … the skies no longer rain death … the seas bear only commerce … men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight…

IllustrationSicily Dares God to Send an Earthquake

On December 25, 1908, a newspaper published in Messina, Sicily printed an article against God, daring Him to make Himself known by sending an earthquake. Three days later the city was devastated by a terrible quake that killed 84,000 people. (Today in the Word, October, 19 …

IllustrationThree People Caught For Speeding

In Greenville, Mississippi, a radar device set up in a speed zone quickly caught three persons. The first was Mayor Pat Dunne. He paid a fine and commented, “The only way to avoid fines is not to speed.” The second person arrested was a policeman. The third was a l …

IllustrationA dad drives a nail in a post every time his son rebels

Someone tells the story of a boy who was rebelling against his dad constantly. This boy was destroying his own life by his rebellion, but he refused to heed his father’s words. One day, the dad …

IllustrationHell is For the People Who didn’t Believe Right

D.A. Carson once said, “Hell is not a place where people are consigned because they were pretty good blokes, but they just didn’t believe the right stuff. They’re consigned there, first and foremost, because they defy their maker and want to be at the center of the uni …