2008-01-09T12:41:02-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/break http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=579 2008-01-09T12:41:02-05:00 The Jews were a nation of farmers, and it is therefore a common thing in the scriptures to refer for Illustrations to their occupation, and to the scenes with which farmers and shepherds are familiar. The prophet Hosea addresses them as a nation of backsliders; he reproves them for their idolatry, a http://sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21514&forum=34&0 2008-01-01T11:39:19-05:00 The brokenness of spirit which makes no resistance to the Father’s hand is a main element of fertility in souls wherein He works. It is not power He seeks from us, but weakness; not resistant force, but ‘yieldingness’ to Him. All power is His: His strength is perfected in weakness.”