Saturday, October 31, 2020

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Men have taken the doctrine of predestination and made it teach something entirely foreign to Scripture, namely, that God has predestined some people to be saved and some to be lost. Predestination, which means “to mark out the destiny beforehand,” is never mentioned in the Bible in connection with the unsaved. Always it is used to speak of that destiny of glory which God has marked out for those who have trusted His Son as Savior. He has “predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself,” that is, we are predestinated unto the full son-place, and we are “waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.” In Christ “we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will.”
Marked out to share His glory,
To inherit all with our Lord,
To receive with Him the son-place,
Promised to us in His Word.
Ephesians 1:5 ~ Romans 8:23 ~ Romans 8:28‑30 ~ Ephesians 1:11
             
September 2020
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Friday, October 30, 2020

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“The valley of Baca” means “the valley of weeping.” Most people feel that tears are a sign of weakness, not of strength. But “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” So God uses weeping and tears in the lives of His people to cause them to “go from strength to strength.” “His anger endureth but a moment; in His favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning,” and “though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” Like Paul, we hear Him say to us by His Word that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” And with Paul let us answer, “Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” “Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee.” Such “go from strength to strength.” And, beholding in the Word “the glory of the Lord,” they “are changed into the same image from glory to glory.”
God uses tears in His people
To cleanse their spiritual sight,
That they may behold His glory
And live lives filled with His might.
Psalm 84:5‑7 ~ Isaiah 55:8‑9 ~ Psalm 30:5 ~ Lamentations 3:32‑33 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18
             
September 2020
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Thursday, October 29, 2020

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God no longer sees the believer in Christ “in the flesh, but in the Spirit.” This is our position in Christ, “to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved,” His own beloved Son. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.” God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” But though we are “in the Spirit” positionally before God, we are to translate this into everyday experience. “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
The Spirit and the flesh war
For control of our daily life;
If we will follow the Spirit,
He delivers from fleshly strife.
Romans 8:9 ~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17‑18 ~ Ephesians 2:6 ~ Galatians 5:16‑17 ~ Romans 8:12‑13
             
September 2020
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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When we received the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and were thus born again, we were then made “partakers of the divine nature” and “escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” Nevertheless, we need, in our daily walk in this world, to be, in practice, “partakers of the divine nature” and thus escape “the corruption that is in the world through lust,” and this we do by God’s “exceeding great and precious promises” given to us in His Word. “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.” As we go continually to God’s Word for help, claiming His promises, we learn by experience that “all the promises of God in Him [Jesus Christ] are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” It is “through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue” that we have “given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.” Never be afraid, dearly beloved, to trust the promises “which God, that cannot lie,” promised.
God has given us great promises
For needs of each passing hour,
Guaranteed by Christ our Savior,
Who has been given all power.
2 Peter 1:4 ~ Psalm 19:7‑8 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:20 ~ 2 Peter 1:3 ~ Titus 1:2
             
September 2020
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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How very much and how very often we Christians need encouragement. And how very gracious is our Lord to encourage His own. He says to us, “Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord,” and “be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee, He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” Our discouragement is often caused by fear: fear of people, fear of circumstances, fear of the future. But “the Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” There may be adverse circumstances, but “in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” The future may look bleak and foreboding, but “the Lord, He it is that doth go before thee: He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.” “Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law. … Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. … Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
The Lord has never failed His own;
He helps them from day to day;
Take courage today, dear pilgrim,
Along your burdensome way.
Psalm 27:14 ~ Psalm 31:24 ~ Deuteronomy 31:6 ~ Psalm 27:1 ~ Romans 8:37 ~ Deuteronomy 31:8 ~ Joshua 1:7 ~ Joshua 1:9
             
September 2020
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Monday, October 26, 2020

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“Religion” is not salvation, but refers rather to outward ceremonies and observances. Thus one may be “religious” without being saved. Paul testified that, before he ever knew the Lord Jesus as Savior, “after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee,” and “in time past in the Jews’ religion … that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: and profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation.” Nevertheless, after we are saved, the Lord wants our outward lives to be right, and “pure religion and undefiled” is “to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.” God has special concern for the “fatherless and widows,” those who are bereft of the fathers and husbands who would ordinarily care for them. “A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.” We therefore have a responsibility to look out for and to relieve such “in their affliction.” What our Lord will say in a future day to those Gentile believers of the tribulation period who have befriended His Jewish brethren is applicable to us: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these … ye have done it unto Me.”
God sees the orphans and widows,
And they are His special care;
His Word to us is to help them,
Seeking their burden to share.
James 1:27 ~ Acts 26:5 ~ Galatians 1:13‑14 ~ Psalm 68:5 ~ Matthew 25:40
             
September 2020
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Sunday, October 25, 2020

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“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” Nevertheless, our Lord’s word to His own is, “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” “Yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” He said that “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” So “we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.” His word is, “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be,” and “behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” “Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” “Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
He shall come with trumpet sound,
To gather home His own,
Washed by His own precious blood,
To stand before the throne.
James 5:8 ~ 2 Peter 3:3‑4 ~ Revelation 3:11 ~ Hebrews 10:37 ~ John 14:2‑3 ~ Philippians 3:20‑21 ~ Revelation 22:12 ~ Revelation 22:7 ~ Romans 13:11
             
September 2020
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

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In the “prayer of David” found in Psalm 86, much is said about the attributes and character of God. He is “good,” that is, He is kindly disposed. “The Lord is good to all and His tender mercies are over all His works,” and He has designed that “the goodness of God leadeth … to repentance.” And to those who turn to Him He is “ready to forgive,” “because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.” He is also “plenteous in mercy.” “The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.” It is further stated of our Lord in Psalm 86 that “Thou … art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.” Not only is “the Lord … long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,” but also His “long-suffering” continues toward us after we have “come to repentance” and have been saved. He patiently leads and guides us, and forgives and restores us. Further, our psalm tells us, “Thou art great, and doest wondrous things: Thou art God alone,” for “who is like unto Thee, O Lord … who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.” And “this God is our God forever and ever.”
Tender and gracious is our God;
He lovingly guards His own;
Day by day He watches over them,
And will till we’re safely home.
Psalm 86:5 ~ Psalm 145:9 ~ Romans 2:4 ~ 1 John 2:12 ~ Psalm 145:8 ~ Psalm 86:15 ~ 2 Peter 3:9 ~ Psalm 86:10 ~ Exodus 15:11 ~ Psalm 48:14
             
September 2020
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Friday, October 23, 2020

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“The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ.” “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” “By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.”
God works in the hearts of His own
To cause them to will and to do
That which will honor the Savior,
And refresh with heavenly dew.
Philippians 2:13 ~ Hebrews 13:20‑21 ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ~ Romans 12:2‑3 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:10 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:5
             
September 2020
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

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Our Lord Jesus, after His death and resurrection, left this earth with His hands uplifted in blessing upon His own, “for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us,” where “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Our Lord’s high priestly prayer on the night before the cross gives us a picture of His present intercession by which His own are continually blessed. He said, “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. … Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, as We are. … I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” So now, up in heaven, He continually blesses us. “The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.”
He lives for us up in heaven;
He lives to bless His own;
Our names engraven on His hands,
We are loved by God’s dear Son.
Luke 24:50‑51 ~ Hebrews 9:24 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ John 17:9 ~ John 17:11 ~ John 17:15 ~ Numbers 6:24‑26
             
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