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The Worm

Sean Michael Morris·Jun 30, 2026

God preaches divine wrath through the worm that sweetly consumes the defenseless dead: humiliation for sinners and a visible token of justice. The first death trains mortal eyes for the second, for Hell is the place “where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”

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Confusion as the Primary Affliction

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 30, 2025

Job speaks less of his physical suffering and more about his personal confusion about the situation. Job’s physical suffering is truly unfathomable without comprehending his confusion. The fact that Job feels condemned before God is the crux of the matter!

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Suicide in the Bible?

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 30, 2025

Dying men sometimes pray for death. Mortally ill people who teeter on the brink of death for a prolonged period of time sometimes give into these desires. However, even believers can be driven to this dark place through spiritual illness.

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Hardening Yourself in Sorrow

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 29, 2025

Job claims that if his grievous calamity were to be “thoroughly weighed” in a balance, so as to determine its weight, then “it would be heavier than the sand of the sea” (Job 6:3)!

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Job’s Suffering in Job 3:1-26

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 29, 2025

This spiritual condition of madness and folly is what Solomon called, “a wounded spirit” (Prov. 18:14, Eccl. 2:17) – a seemingly senseless agony where the man feels that he is imploding within, or mortally wounded inside (Jer. 15:18)

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Mortality from the Vantage Point of Angels

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 29, 2025

The angel went on to say, “they perish for ever without any regarding it” (Job 4:20), which is to say that men perish so frequently, and nearly continuously, there are people dying worldwide “from morning to evening” (Job 4:20).

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The Illusion of Rest for Sinners in Death

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 29, 2025

Somehow, someway, they become delusional in the midst of their physical suffering to think that death would grant them some sense of relief. On the physical side of things, there is some truth to this,

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The Revival of Job?

Sean Michael Morris·Jul 29, 2025

A book written about a controversy is bound to be controversial. A situation that confounded the most godly men of the Early Church will no doubt confuse readers today. Doubtful readers of the Book of Job

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Holy Angels by Rank & Position in the Worship of Heaven

Sean Michael Morris·Mar 16, 2025

Somewhere up on high, at the peak of the slopes of glory, as one is going up on the sides of the north, there sits a King who is exalted above the Stars of God (Isa. 14:13-14, Heb. 12:22).

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"The Most Fearful Slander" - C.H. Spurgeon

Sean Michael Morris·Aug 21, 2018

“There has been no single Church of God existing in England for these fifty years which has had to pass through more trial than we have done…scarce a day rolls over my head in which the most villainous abuse,

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"Seriously Count the Cost" - George Whitefield

Sean Michael Morris·Aug 23, 2018

"Sit down, therefore, I beseech you, and seriously count the cost, and ask yourselves again and again, whether you count all things but dung and dross, and are willing to suffer the loss of all things"

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"Slanders & Reproaches" - John Bunyan

Sean Michael Morris·Aug 23, 2018

“But when Satan perceived that his thus tempting and assaulting me, would not answer his design, to wit, to overthrow the ministry, and make it ineffectual, as to the ends thereof, then he tried another way.”

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"God, Send Us Prophets!" - Leonard Ravenhill

Sean Michael Morris·Aug 28, 2018

There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men,

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"The Gift of Prophecy" - A.W. Tozer

Sean Michael Morris·Aug 29, 2018

A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times. Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy.

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"Get Off the Sinking Ship" - A.W. Tozer

Sean Michael Morris·Sep 3, 2018

I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God – holy, separated and spiritually enlightened – walk out of the evangelical church and form a group of their own

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"So Send I You" - Jesus (Jn. 20:21)

Sean Michael Morris·Sep 5, 2018

So send I you to leave your life's ambition To die to dear desire, self-will resign To labour long, and love where men revile you So send I you to lose you life in Mine

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Persecuted by the Church

Sean Michael Morris·Dec 5, 2019

No matter the century or generation, Satan hasn't changed, the world hasn't changed, and Jesus Christ hasn't changed ("the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever"- Heb. 13:8) - that's the truth of the matter!

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The Doctrine of Persecution

Sean Michael Morris·Nov 17, 2020

Bury a good man in infamy, & God will raise him from the dead.

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