The awareness of sin, a deep awareness of disobedience, and painful confession of sin used to be our shadow. Christians hated sin. They feared it, they fled from it, they grieved over it. Some of our [forefathers] agonized over their sins. A man who lost his temper might wonder if he could still go to holy communion. A woman who for years envied her more attractive and intelligent sister might wonder if this sin threatened her very salvation... That shadow has dimmed. Nowadays the accusation, 'You have sinned,' is often said with a grin and with a tone that signals an inside joke. At one time this accusation still had the power to jolt people.
Cornelius Plantinga

IRON

IRON

IRON

  1. Dug out of the earth # Job 28:2
  2. DESCRIBED AS 2a) Strong and durable

    # Job 40:18 Da 2:40

2b) Fusible # Eze 22:20 2c) Malleable # Isa 2:4 3) Of greater gravity than water # 2Ki 6:5 4) Admits of a high polish # Eze 27:19 5) Hardened into steel # 2Sa 22:35 Job 20:24 6) Of small comparative value # Isa 60:17 7) The land of Canaan abounded with # De 8:9 33:25 8) From the north hardest and best # Jer 15:12 9) Used from the earliest age # Ge 4:22 10) MADE INTO 10a) Armour # 2Sa 23:7 Re 9:9 10b) Weapons of war # 1Sa 13:19 17:7 10c) Chariots # Jud 4:3 10d) Implements for husbandry # 1Sa 13:20,21 2Sa 12:31 10e) Tools for artificers # Jos 8:31 1Ki 6:7 10f) Graving tools # Job 19:24 Jer 17:1 10g) Gates # Ac 12:10 10h) Nails and hinges # 1Ch 22:3 10i) Bars # Ps 107:16 Isa 45:2 10j) Fetters # Ps 105:18 149:8 10k) Yokes # De 28:48 Jer 28:13,14 10l) Idols # Da 5:4,23 10m) Bedsteads # De 3:11 10n) Pillars # Jer 1:18 10o) Rods # Ps 2:9 Re 2:27 11) Sharpens things made of # Pr 27:17 12) Working in, a trade # 1Sa 13:19 2Ch 2:7,14 13) An article of commerce # Eze 27:12,19 Re 18:12 14) Great quantity of, provided for the temple # 1Ch 22:3,14,16 29:2 15) Taken in war, often dedicated to God # Jos 6:19,24 16) Mode of purifying, taken in war # Nu 31:21-23 17) Miraculously made to swim # 2Ki 6:6 18) Illustrative 18a) Of strength # Da 2:33,40 18b) Of stubbornness # Isa 48:4 18c) Of severe affliction # De 4:20 Ps 107:10 18d) Of a hard barren soil # De 28:23 18e) Of severe exercise of power # Ps 2:9 Re 2:27 18f) (Seared with,) of insensibility of conscience # 1Ti 4:2