[Discernment is] a mental sense of smell that helps you notice when “something smells fishy”…How can you sharpen this mental sense of smell? How can you develop discernment? First, you need to have a spirit of obedience to Jesus Christ. If your spirit is in rebellion, your nose will be in rebellion too. Second, you need to study the Word of God and other Christian literature. We’re talking about a mental, not physical, sense of smell. In order to develop it you have to use your mind. Third, you need to practice smelling. Smell everything. Your power of discernment is like a muscle. Use it or lose it. Fourth, you need to be accountable to other believers in a healthy Christian fellowship. If you try to learn to smell by yourself, your mental sense of smell will be eccentric. You’ll be like someone who takes a deep whiff of dung and says, “Ah, roses!”
J. Budziszewski

SEA

SEA

SEA, The

  1. The gathering together of the waters originally called # Ge 1:10
  2. Great rivers often called # Isa 11:15 Jer 51:36
  3. Lakes often called # De 3:17 Mt 8:24,27,32
  4. God 4a) Created

    # Ex 20:11 Ps 95:5 Ac 14:15

4b) Made the birds and fished out of # Ge 1:20-22 4c) Founded the earth upon # Ps 24:2 4d) Set bounds to, by a perpetual decree # Job 26:10 38:8,10,11 Pr 8:27,29 4e) Measures the waters of # Isa 40:12 4f) Does what he pleases in # Ps 135:6 4g) Dries up, by his rebuke # Isa 50:2 Na 1:4 4h) Shakes, by his word # Hag 2:6 4i) Stills, by his power # Ps 65:7 89:9 107:29 5) Of immense extent # Job 11:9 Ps 104:25 6) Of great depth # Ps 68:22 7) Rivers supplied by exhalations from # Ec 1:7 8) Replenished by rivers # Ec 1:7 Eze 47:8 9) CALLED THE 9a) Deep # Job 41:31 Ps 107:24 2Co 11:25 9b) Great waters # Ps 77:19 9c) Great and wide sea # Ps 104:25 10) The clouds the garment of # Job 38:9 11) Darkness the swaddling band of # Job 38:9 12) Sand the barrier of # Jer 5:22 13) Inhabited by innumerable creatures great and small # Ps 104:25,26 14) The wonders of God seen in # Ps 107:24 15) Made to glorify God # Ps 69:34 148:7 16) SEAS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE 16a) The Adriatic or sea of Adria # Ac 27:27 16b) Mediterranean or great sea # Nu 34:6 De 11:24 34:2 Zec 14:8 16c) Red Sea # Ex 10:19 13:18 23:31 16d) Sea of Joppa or sea of the Philistines # Ezr 3:7 Ex 23:21 16e) Salt of Dead Sea # Ge 14:3 Nu 34:12 16f) Sea of Galilee # Mt 4:18 8:32 Joh 6:1 16g) Sea of Jazer # Jer 48:32 17) Raised by the wind # Ps 107:25,26 Jon 1:4 18) Caused to foam by Leviathan # Job 41:31,32 19) THE WAVES OF 19a) Raised upon high # Ps 93:3 107:25 19b) Tossed to and fro # Jer 5:22 19c) Multitudinous # Jer 51:42 19d) Mighty # Ps 93:4 Ac 27:41 19e) Tumultuous # Lu 21:25 Jude 1:13 20) The shore of, covered with sand # Ge 22:17 1Ki 4:29 Job 6:3 Ps 78:27 21) Numerous islands in # Eze 26:18 22) Passed over in ships # Ps 104:26 107:23 23) Sailing on, dangerous # Ac 27:9,20 2Co 11:26 24) COMMERCIAL NATIONS 24a) Often built cities on the borders of # Ge 49:13 Eze 27:3 Na 3:8 24b) Derived great wealth from # De 33:19 25) Shall give up its dead at the last day # Re 20:13 26) The renewed earth shall be without # Re 21:1 27) ILLUSTRATIVE 27a) Of heavy afflictions # Isa 43:2 La 2:13 27b) (Trouble,) of the wicked # Isa 57:20 27c) (Roaring,) of hostile armies # Isa 5:30 Jer 6:23 27d) (Waves of,) of righteousness # Isa 48:18 27e) (Waves of,) of devastating armies # Eze 26:3,4 27f) (Waves of,) of the unsteady # Jas 1:6 27g) (Covered with waters,) of the diffusion of spiritual knowledge over the earth in the latter days # Isa 11:9 Hab 2:14 27h) (Smooth as glass,) of the peace of heaven # Re 4:6 15:2

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