Beatitudes, Mount of the

The title given to the locale where Jesus delivered the Beatitudes during his Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5:1–12). The exact site is not known. Older tradition favored the Horns of Hattin as the precise spot. Current tradition has located the area on a hill southwest of Capernaum. A view of the Sea of Galilee...

Afflictions

1. God appoints. 2 Ki 6:33; Job 5:6, 17; Ps 66:11; Am 3:6; Mic 6:9.2. God dispenses, as He will. Job 11:10; Isa 10:15; 45:7.3. God regulates the measure of. Ps 80:5; Isa 9:1; Jer 46:28.4. God determines the continuance of. Ge 15:13, 14; Nu 14:33; Isa 10:25; Jer 29:10.5. God does not willingly send....

Deceit

1. Is falsehood. Ps 119:118. 2. The tongue, the instrument of. Ro 3:13. 3. Comes from the heart. Mr 7:22. 4. Characteristic of the heart. Jer 17:9. 5. God abhors. Ps 5:6. 6. Forbidden. Pr 24:28; 1 Pe 3:10. 7. Christ was perfectly free from. Isa 53:9; 1 Pe 2:22. 8. Saints a. Free from....