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Monday Exposition Idea:The Power of Godliness(1 Samuel 9:6)

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By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice.

These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and other church leaders, both from the exposition and from the illustrative material, or simply for personal devotion.


Introduction

Dr. F. B. Meyer (1847-1929) shares,

THERE is a street in London, near St. Paul’s, which I never traverse without very peculiar feelings. It is Godliman Street. Evidently the name is a corruption of godly man. Did some saint of God once live here, whose life was so holy as to give a sweet savour to the very street in which he dwelt? Were the neighbours who knew him best, the most sure of his godliness? Would that our piety might leave its mark on our neighbourhoods, and the memory linger long after we have passed away!

A generation or two ago in the Highlands, there were earnest and holy men who were known by the significant title of the men. No great religious gathering was deemed complete without them. Their prayers and exhortations were accompanied by an especial unction.[1]

 

We read in 1 Samuel 9:6, “And [the servant] said to [Saul], ‘Look now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.’”

Dr. Meyer comments,

In such manner Samuel’s godliness was recognised far and wide. The fragrance of his character could not be concealed. And this gave men confidence in him. They said, “He is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass.” How much credit redounds to godliness, when it is combined with trustworthiness and high credit amongst our fellows!

Let us seek to be God’s men and women. Let us live not only soberly and righteously, but godly, in this present world. Let us remember that God hath set apart the godly for Himself. The godly are the godlike. They become so by cultivating the fellowship and friendship of God. Their faces become enlightened with his beauty; their words are weighty with his truth. After being for a little in their company, you detect the gravity, serenity, gentleness, beauty of holiness, which are the court manners of heaven.[2]

 

Godliness is a power trait for pastor teachers. Paul refers to pastor / teachers in Ephesians 4:11, who provide spiritual leadership for the church. 2 Timothy 3:5a reveals “the power of godliness”. Some deny it others demonstrate it.

Dr. Richard Newton (1813-1887) author of Bible Blessings (1868) called “The Prince of Preachers to the young” by no less than Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892). Dr. Newton asks and answers, “What is godliness? It is real, vital, experimental, practical religion—genuine Christianity—a religion concerning God, the great, the wise, the blessed God.” Dr. Newton continues, “When a man becomes truly godly, be becomes industrious. You never saw an idle Christian. And then the Lord will bless the man that fears Him. Then is it not true that ungodliness tends to impair and destroy life?”[3]

I. The Precept of Godliness

Paul writes in Colossians 3:12, “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering.” In Philippians 3:10, Paul confesses, “That I may know Him [Jesus Christ] and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.” After citing Philippians 3:10, Dr. Jerry Bridges comments:

[Paul] wants both Christ-centeredness and Christ-likeness. This is godliness: God-centeredness, or Christian character. The practice of godliness is both the practice of devotion to God and the practice of a lifestyle that is pleasing to God and that reflects his character to other people. . . . Godliness consists of two distinct but complementary traits, and the person who wants to train himself to be godly must pursue both with equal vigor. The first trait is God-centeredness, which we call devotion to God; the second is Godlikeness, which we call Christian character. Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.[4]

 

“The mystery of godliness” is the life of Jesus (1 Timothy 3:16). From John 14:7-11 we read,

“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, “Show us the Father”? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

 

Just as Jesus Christ is God, so is the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit delineates the essence of godliness (Galatians 5:22-23), while the works of the flesh delineate the essence of ungodliness (Galatians 5:19-21). To be filled or controlled by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18) is necessary for true godliness to become operative. There is a false godliness that does not rely upon the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Peter writes in his second epistle,

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (2 Peter 1:2-4).

 

Dr. Kenneth O. Gangel (1935-2009) shares the following in the Bible Knowledge Commentary on 2 Peter 1:3.

Christ’s divine power has provided everything believers need for life and godliness. . . All that believers need for spiritual vitality (life) and godly living (eusebeian, “godliness,” “piety”; cf. comments on 1:6; 3:11) is attainable through our knowledge of Him (Christ). An intimate “full knowledge” (epign?se?s; cf. 1:2) of Christ is the source of spiritual power and growth (cf. Phil. 1:9; Col. 1:9-10; 2:2).

Christ called (cf. 1 Peter 1:15) us to this life of godliness by His own glory and goodness (aret?, “moral excellence”; trans. “praises” in 1 Peter 2:9 and “goodness” in 2 Peter 1:5). Christ attracts people enslaved by sin (cf. 2:19) by His own moral excellence and the total impact of His glorious Person.[5]

 

Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895-1960) shares the following comment on 1 Timothy 3:16,

We can understand Paul’s classifying this among the mysteries which he describes in several of his writings. When the Bible speaks of a “mystery,” it is not using the term in our modern sense which applies the word to a story of crime being unraveled or of some other unknown matter being brought to light. A mystery in the time of the New Testament was a truth which had been hidden in the past and had suddenly become revealed in its most intimate details. Surely this applies to the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ. The Old Testament had many prophecies of the Lord Jesus but they are clearer to us because we are looking at them after their fulfillment and because we have the clear light of the New Testament to reveal to us their inner meanings. Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah wrote of the coming of the Messiah, but they did not see Him as we know Him, living as we do on this side of the cross and the open tomb. To take one example, Isaiah wrote of a sign that should come to Israel through the conception of a child by an almah (Isa. 7:14). It is very improbable that Isaiah or anyone else ever applied this to the Messiah until the time of Christ. Mary knew the origin of her child in reality; she knew that Jesus did not have a human father, but Mary probably did not know the theological meaning of what was happening, for she ‘pondered these things in her heart’ (Luke 2:19), and ‘marveled at those things that were spoken of him’ (Luke 2:33).[6]

 

II. The Practice of Godliness

Paul shares the following with Timothy, his son in the ministry,

If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness (1 Timothy 4:6-7).

 

Likely you have heard, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe shares the following, “John Wesley is generally credited with that saying; but it’s likely the proverb was current before his time. In fact, the way Wesley quoted it in his sermon ‘On Dress’ indicates that his listeners were already familiar with the maxim.”

Dr. Wiersbe continues, “The Jews would readily identify with the saying; in the camp of Israel, the concepts of cleanliness and godliness were so intertwined that they were almost synonymous.”[7] The Greek word translated godliness means “to worship well” and terms like reverence and piety provide a definition.

Some erroneously think godliness has no practical value, but nothing could be further from the truth. William Penn (1644-1718) states, “True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.”

Commenting upon 2 Timothy 3: 5a, Dr. Wiersbe explains,

Paul stated that these people he has just described would consider themselves religious! ‘Having a form of godliness’ (2 Tim. 3:5) suggests an outward appearance of religion, not true Christian faith; for they have never experienced the power of God in their lives. Form without force. Religion without reality.[8]

 

Dr. Wiersbe further explains about the phrase, “From such turn away” (2 Tim. 3:5b),

A faithful believer should have nothing to do with the people Paul described in this section. It is important to note that these people operate under the guise of religion: “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof” (2 Tim. 3:5). They are “religious” but rebellious![9]

 

Dr. Kenneth O. Gangel writes,

Godliness (eusebian, also used in 2 Peter 1:3 and 3:11 and 10 times [in the Gr.] in the Pastoral Epistles) refers to piety, man’s obligation of reverence toward God. The fourth-century church historian Eusebius was named for this lovely Greek word. How unfortunate that the words ‘piety’ and ‘pious’ have fallen on hard times in current usage.[10]

 

Bible students should look for keys to understanding particular books of the Bible. A key word in Paul’s pastoral letters is “Godliness” as we find the in following passages, 1 Timothy 2:2, 10; 3:16; 4:7-8; 6:3, 5-6, 11; 2 Timothy 3:5; and Titus 1:1.

According to the Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary, “Godliness means having ‘piety or reverence toward God.’ Godliness means more than religious profession and a godly conduct; it also means the reality and power of a vital union with God.”[11]

Dr. Lorne C. Sanny (1920-2005), former president of The Navigators, shares the following in an article in the April 1971 edition of the NavLog, a newsletter of the Navigators, “‘Bear’ Bryant, coach of the University of Alabama football team, said, ‘You can’t live soft all week and play tough on Saturday.’”[12]

Dr. R. Kent Hughes, Senior Pastor Emeritus of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, states,

As children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything – everything! I repeat . . . everything!

This being so, the statement from Paul to Timothy regarding spiritual discipline in 1 Timothy 4:7 – “train yourself to be godly” – takes on not only transcending importance, but personal urgency. There are other passages which teach discipline, but this is the great classic text of Scripture. . . “Gymnasticize (exercise, work out, train) yourself for the purpose of godliness” conveys the feel of what Paul is saying.[13]

 

The writer of the book of Hebrews explains,

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil (Hebrews 5:12-14).

 

Also in Hebrews 12:1-3, and 11 we read,

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. . . . Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

 

Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 9:25-27,

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

 

Bible scholars often list Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joash, Hezekiah, and Josaiah as the godly kings of Judah. Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe writes,

Instead of following in the ways of these kings, Jehoram patterned himself after Ahab. As a consequence, the people followed his bad example and it wasn’t difficult for him to make Baal worship popular in Judah, the one place where Jehovah should have been worshiped without compromise.

Not only was Jehoram an idolater, but he was also a murderer and killed his own brothers; so the Lord would now cause him to reap what he had sown. The enemy would invade and loot the kingdom of Judah and take Jehoram’s treasures as well as his wives and sons. Then, the king would be afflicted with an incurable bowel disease that would give him great pain and ultimately take his life. Both of these predictions came true. The Philistines and the Arabs invaded Judah, robbed the palace of its treasures, and took Jehoram’s wives and sons, except for young Ahaziah, also known as Jehoahaz. The king contracted a painful, lingering bowel disease and died after two years. However, the people didn’t mourn his death, nor did they stage the traditional ‘royal bonfire’ in his honor. But perhaps the most humiliating thing was that his body wasn’t placed in a royal sepulcher, although he was buried in the city of David.

Was Jehoram’s compromise worth it? Of course not! “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Prov. 16:25, NASB).[14]

 

Generally speaking godliness brings good things. Specifically, God promises, “all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

III. The Profit of Godliness

Paul writes Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:8, “For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.”

Great gain comes from a godliness marked by gratitude not greed! Paul explains in 1 Timothy 6:3-8,

If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself. Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

 

There is a promise to the godly in the present life in time. Initially, Paul refers to those things “in this life” (1 Timothy 4:8). Dr. Richard Newton affirms,

Godliness is profitable at all period of life. It is profitable in the morning of life. Oh! How it brightens the morning and is not morning the best part of the day? And if it be bright in the morning, oh! May it not bless the noon? Then if it brighten the morn and bless the noon, how will it cheer the evening of life! Learn the inconsistency and folly of those who, while they admit the profit of godliness, make no effort to avail themselves to its advantages. Let me recommend this religion to you on the principle of self-interest.[15]

 

There is also a promise to the godly in the after life throughout eternity. Additionally, Paul refers to “the life to come” (1 Timothy 4:8). He also writes in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

 

David shares the contrast with the godly ones in Psalm 1:4-6,

The ungodly are not so, / But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, / Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, / But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 

Thomas O. Chisholm (1866-1960) begins the second stanza of his hymn titled “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” in the following way, “Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above. . .” denoting the order and regularity in the natural world. Dr. A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) comments on 1 Timothy 4:8,

Let me return to the root of this whole matter—are we Christians willing to be regular in the habits of a holy life, thus learning from the Holy Spirit how to be dependable and faithful, unselfish and Christlike? . . . God has ordained, as well, that order and regularity may be of immense value to the Christian life….[L]earn to be regular in your prayer life, in your giving to God and His work and in your church attendance. God would have His people learn regular holy habits and follow them right along day by day. He doesn’t ask us to become slaves to habits, but He does insist that our holy habits of life should become servants of His grace and glory.[16]

 

IV. The Prudence of Godliness

From Psalm 1:1a we read, “Blessed is the man / Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly. . .” Here the word translated “ungodly” could also be translated “wicked”.

In 2 Timothy 3:5a we read about the foolishness of “having a form of godliness but denying its power.” Rev. Charles Wills, M. A., author of Theology and Theologians (London, 1854) observes, “Though there cannot be power without form, there may be form without power.”[17]

Dr. James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000) explains,

Without a regular, disciplined, and practical study of the Bible, the church will always be secular. It will fall into that state described by Paul when he warned that “there will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Tim. 3:1-5). That is the secular church—“having a form of godliness but denying its power.” On the other hand, by means of the Bible, God’s people will become the opposite, for if the secular church employs the world’s wisdom, the world’s theology, the world’s agenda, and the world’s methods, the true church will invert it. It will employ the wisdom of God, the theology of the Scriptures, the agenda of God’s written revelation, and the methods that have been given to us for our exercise in the church until the Lord Jesus Christ comes again.[18]

 

In John 15:18-19 Jesus reminds us, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

Dr. Lawrence O. Richards shares the following comments on 2 Timothy 3, “People want to keep religion—but they do not want an authentic Gospel which demands they surrender their sins and make a full commitment to true godliness.” Dr. Richards later explains,

There’s really no reason for the wicked to persecute Christians who adopt the world’s basic values and seek simply to get along here. “Don’t tip the boat” is advice followed by too many modern believers. But the “godly” life Paul encourages is one of active commitment to what is right. This means it’s impossible to remain silent about evils and injustice in our society. Pornography, abortion, and the erosion of moral standards is something that Christians increasingly resist. It is this, active resistance, that brings persecution.[19]

 

Dr. Wiersbe shares,

If believers today would read John Bunyan’s [1628-1688] Pilgrim’s Progress, they’d meet Mr. Hold-the-World, Mr. Save-All, and Mr. Money-Love; they’d discover what Bunyan thought about Demas, the onetime associate of Paul who fell in love with “this present world” (Col. 4:14; Phile. 24; 2 Tim. 4:10). While it isn’t a sin to be wealthy—Abraham and David were both wealthy men and yet godly men—it is a sin to want more than we really need and to keep what we ought to give. Covetousness is like cancer: It grows secretly and robs us of spiritual health, and the only remedy is to cut it out.[20]

 

V. The Privilege of Godliness

Jesus says in Matthew 10:24-25, “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master.”

In the words of Esther Kerr Rusthoi (1909-1962), “It will be worth it all when we see Jesus, / Life’s trials will seem so small when we see Christ; / One glimpse of His dear face all sorrow will erase, / So bravely run the race till we see Christ.”

John writes in his first epistle,

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure (1 John 3:1-3).

 

After a careful reading of Genesis 3:1-12 we lean about the first temptation and our temptations as well. Please note the serpent tempted Eve to “be like God” (Genesis 3:5). This is the essence of attempting to be like God in an ungodly way. While we are to become like God, we are not to attempt to be God.

Saul of Tarsus attempted to be like God without repenting of sin and believing the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. He recounts his life before Christ and after Christ in Philippians 3:2-11, where we read,

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

 

Paul writes in Romans 8:28-30,

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

 

Conclusion

Again from 1 Samuel 9:6, we read, “And [the servant] said to [Saul], ‘Look now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.’”

Samuel founded “schools of the prophets” and provided spiritual leadership at the end of an era. Oh, to be known as a man of God, that others would seek us out for guidance! To realize the benefit of being a godly man it is imperative for us to know the way, go the way, and show the way.

May you and I truly know the power of godliness!


[1] F. B. Meyer, Our Daily Homily, vol. 2, 1 Samuel-Job (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott,1898), Homily 9.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Joseph Samuel Exell, 1 Timothy, The Biblical Illustrator (London: James Nisbet, 1886), 188-201.

[4] Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness: Godliness has value for all things (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1983), 66, 69.

[5] Kenneth O. Gangel, 2 Peter, Bible Knowledge Commentary: New Testament Edition: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty, eds. John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck (Victor Books. n.p., 1983), Database © 2003 WORDsearch Corp.

[6] Donald Grey Barnhouse, God’s Covenants: Romans 9:1-11:36 Expositions of Bible Doctrines Taking the Epistle to the Romans as a Point of Departure (n.p.: The Evangelical Foundation, 1963), Database © 2007 WORDsearch Corp.

[7] Warren W. Wiersbe, Pentateuch, The Bible Exposition Commentary (Wheaton: Victor, 2001), 265, Database © 2007 WORDsearch Corp.

[8] Warren W. Wiersbe, New Testament, vol. 2, The Bible Exposition Commentary Commentary (Wheaton: Victor, 2001), 250, Database © 2007 WORDsearch Corp.

[9] Ibid., 249.

[10] Walvoord and Zuck, Database © 2003 WORDsearch Corp.

[11] Herbert Lockyer, Sr., “Godliness,” Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1986), 429.

[12] Lorne C. Sanny, “Don’t Take It Easy,” NavLog, a Newsletter of the Navigators, April 1971.

[13] R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man (Wheaton: Crossway, 1991), 15-16.

[14] Warren W. Wiersbe, History, The Bible Exposition Commentary (Wheaton, Victor, 2003), 537, Database © 2007 WORDsearch Corp.

[15] Exell, 188-201.

[16] Aiden Wilson Tozer, “June 29: The Habits of a Holy Life,” Tozer on the Holy Spirit (n.p.: n.p., n.d.), Database WORDsearch Corp.

[17] Exell, 257.

[18] James Montgomery Boice, John, vol. 4, Boice Expositional Commentary: An Expositional Commentary (n.p.: n.p., 1985, 1999), 1304, Database © 2007 WORDsearch Bible Corp.

[19] Lawrence O. Richards, Bible Reader’s Companion (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 1991), Database WORDsearch Corp.

[20] Warren W. Wiersbe, Wisdom and Poetry, The Bible Exposition Commentary (Wheaton, Victor, 2004), 462, Database © 2007 WORDsearch Corp.

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