The sovereign Lord rests in his own purpose and rebukes the nations in his own time.

Fornication and it concomitants are incompatible with Christian calling, Christian identity, and Christian love.

Ephraim and Syria's reliance on themselves, their alliances, and their false religion leads to disastrous judgment; but the Lord's remnant will learn through that to look to their Maker instead.

As part of his larger warning against the danger of apostasty, Paul emphasized the continuity between the Corinthian church and OT Israel, including that all Israel was baptized into Moses.

Starting from the revealed standpoint that loving parents discipline their children, the nature of rebuke as a benefit of the covenant of grace is clarified by a particular thread of special revelation.

Christian identity as God's beloved children in Christ grounds the Christian behavior of imitating God by walking in love.

Although Moab was often an enemy to God's people, Isaiah proclaimed a Gospel call that included them with heartfelt earnestness; but in pride they would not hear.

God's merciful kindness in Christ is a strong reason to lay aside all the concomitants of angry displeasure to pursue gentle usefulness and practical relief of suffering instead.

The destruction of Assyria served as proof that the predicted destruction of Babylon could also be expected, as the God of universal sovereignty continues to act to preserve his people from all their enemies.

Since preaching is an opening of the kingdom of God to believers, what does it say about our priorities in seeking first the kingdom of God when other things crowd out hearing?