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The wise men prepared to return and tell Herod. But the angel of the Lord appeared to them in a dream, and sent them home another way.

Note 4, page 160: The Ten Commandments were the basis of the covenant the Lord made with His people. But the covenant itself was the Lord’s promise to write the law in their hearts (see Jeremiah 31:31-34 ), so that it would be their joy to obey.

… on the Lord’s side when he said, “I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” But the word of the Lord surprised him: “Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel …

The apostles’ arguments alone would not have removed prejudice. But the Holy Spirit sent the words of the apostles to their targets like sharp arrows of the Almighty, convicting the people of their terrible guilt in rejecting the Lord of glory.

Samuel listened to the people with deep sadness. But the Lord said to him, “Make them a king.” The prophet had faithfully presented the warning, and they had rejected it. With a heavy heart he left to prepare for the great change in the government.

… in the Lord's soon coming. But the Lord had not come. The believers knew that God's Word could not fail; their interpretation of the prophecy must be at fault …

… of the Lord’s command that the work be given to Solomon his son. “Now therefore,” David said, “in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing …

But the Lord has instructed His people not to join their lives with those who do not have His love living in them: “What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what …

“But the Lord said, ‘You have had pity on the plant. ... And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left?’”

But the faithful prophet was strengthened daily. “The Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome One,” he declared in faith. “Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and …