Comfort of the Scriptures

“Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds,” “all Thy commandments are faithful,” and “God is true” and worthy of all our confidence and trust. “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?” “There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” But suppose that we who know Him do not take His “way to escape,” and we yield to the temptation? Even “if we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.” And “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” This “God, that cannot lie, promised.” “But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.” “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.” “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.”

He is faithful and true to His Word, Our God in heaven above; His ways are tempered with kindness; His dealings are all in love.

Zephaniah 3:5 ~ Psalm 36:5 ~ Psalm 119:86 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:18 ~ Numbers 23:19 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13 ~ 2 Timothy 2:13 ~ 1 John 1:9 ~ Titus 1:2 ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ~ Isaiah 40:8 ~ Lamentations 3:22‑23

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From start to finish, our “salvation is of the Lord.” He died for us on the cross, he lives for us in heaven, and He is coming to receive us unto Himself. “Christ died for our sins.” “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,” for “all we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Yes, “Christ … died, yea rather … is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” He has “entered into … heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” “Wherefore 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.” And we have His sure promise that “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.” “Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: Thy blessing is upon Thy people.”

His blood has washed away my sins, And now He liveth for me, And He shall come to take me home, Forever with Him to be.

1 Corinthians 15:3 ~ Hebrews 9:24 ~ Philippians 3:20‑21 ~ Jonah 2:9 ~ 1 Peter 3:18 ~ Isaiah 53:6 ~ Romans 8:34 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ John 14:3 ~ Psalm 3:8

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God desires for His children that we “walk worthy of the Lord” in our daily deportment, being “fruitful … and increasing in the knowledge of God.” A yielded “walk” with the Lord will cause us to be “fruitful” and to hunger for an “increasing … knowledge of God.” “Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” “We also should walk in newness of life,” “worthy of God, who hath called you unto His kingdom and glory,” “being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” Such a Christian will “be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” Our Lord said that “herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” A disciple is a learner, and the fruitful Christian will be “increasing in the knowledge of God.” “Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” and “desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”

A walk that shows that we know Him, And fruit borne for His glory, An “increasing … knowledge of God,” Tell forth the blessed story.

Colossians 1:10 ~ Ephesians 4:1‑2 ~ Romans 6:4 ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:12 ~ Philippians 1:11 ~ Psalm 1:3 ~ John 15:8 ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ 1 Peter 2:2

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Our love for the Lord seems so small and feeble compared to His love for us. To His own He says that “I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee,” and “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” He “who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved),” and now, being redeemed, we have “the love of God … shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” But little as our love may seem compared to His, we do “love Him, because He first loved us,” and we say with David, “I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.” “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again,” and “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” Our Lord said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments.” “Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.”

“We love Him because … He loved us,” And gave His live to prove so; “The love of Christ constraineth us” To take the place that is low.

1 John 4:19 ~ Jeremiah 31:3 ~ Romans 5:8 ~ Ephesians 2:4‑5 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ Psalm 18:1 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:14‑15 ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 ~ John 14:15 ~ Ephesians 6:24

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God wants His children to be different from those who do not know Him, “that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,” and “our Lord Jesus Christ … gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.” God has told His children to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” “Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord,” “as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,” and “be not ye therefore like unto them,” “but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.” For “our Savior Jesus Christ … gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

God wants our lives to be different From those who know Him not, “Transformed by … renewing of … mind” That His name we may not blot.

Romans 12:2 ~ Ephesians 4:17 ~ Galatians 1:3‑4 ~ Ephesians 5:11 ~ Romans 6:1‑2 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:16 ~ Isaiah 52:11 ~ 1 Peter 1:14 ~ Matthew 6:8 ~ 1 Peter 1:15 ~ Titus 2:13‑14

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When God looks upon His redeemed people, He does not look for success or wealth or fame or popularity with men. Rather, He looks for Christ-likeness in our lives, that Christ-likeness of life and character which comes to us as we look upon Christ as He is revealed in the Word of God, “with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.” God’s ultimate purpose for the saved is that we may be “conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren,” and “we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is,” “and as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” So in our lives now, God desires to impart “the meekness and gentleness of Christ,” who is “meek and lowly in heart.” “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,” enabling us to “show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

Called to reflect the Lord Jesus, And called to show forth His praise, Called to behold Him in His Word, And walk with Him all our days.

2 Corinthians 3:18 ~ Romans 8:29 ~ 1 John 3:2 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:49 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:1 ~ Matthew 11:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 Peter 2:9

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Where is “the Spirit of the Lord” in this present day? For “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” He is in us who have believed on Christ as Savior, all of us. “What! Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” This is in fulfillment of our Lord’s promise that “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth,” and “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” And the Spirit in us gives us “liberty,” even freedom from sin’s dominion, from the yoke of the law, and from self-centeredness. “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.” “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Our Lord Jesus said that “if ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.”

Liberty to serve the Lord, Liberty to live for Him, Made free by His redemption From the dominion of sin.

2 Corinthians 3:17 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19 ~ John 14:16‑17 ~ Romans 8:9 ~ Romans 6:18 ~ Galatians 5:1 ~ John 8:31‑32 ~ 1 Corinthians 8:9

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Every true Christian has the potential, and also the responsibility, to “comfort” and to “edify” other Christians, both by word and life. We are told to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” and to “exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others,” “submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers,” “for, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another,” “that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.” “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; … be pitiful, be courteous.” “Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.”

How can I help my dear brother, Who is bowed beneath his load? I can speak a word of comfort, Instead of a word to goad.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ~ Hebrews 10:24 ~ Hebrews 3:13 ~ Philippians 2:3‑4 ~ Ephesians 5:21 ~ Ephesians 4:29 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 Peter 3:8 ~ Romans 15:5

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Genuine love (charity) is both long-suffering and kind. It “is kind” in the times when it “suffereth long,” for genuine love in the Christian’s heart is “the love of God … shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us”; it is “love in the Spirit.” God’s love, though tested and tried and trampled on by men, still is both long-suffering and kind, “for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil,” “He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” “Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,” “and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you,” “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” We are called upon to manifest our Lord to others “by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned.” “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.”

We ought long-suffering to be, And kind while we are at it; It takes God’s grace to make us so; He alone can make us fit.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ Colossians 1:8 ~ Luke 6:35 ~ Joel 2:13 ~ Jonah 4:2 ~ Ephesians 5:1‑2 ~ Ephesians 4:32 ~ Ephesians 4:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:6 ~ Romans 12:10

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In all our service and witness for the Lord, let us remember that if it is to count for Him, it must be “according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.” It cannot and must not be by human strength or wisdom. Nevertheless, our whole heart must be in it, for “I also labor, striving according to His working,” “for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” He does His work in our hearts and directs and empowers our service by His Word. Thus Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that “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.” “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” “If a man therefore purge himself … he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work,” “fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.”

If we would be pleasing to Him In all our works and our ways, We must draw grace from Him each hour; His strength will be as our days.

Colossians 1:29 ~ Philippians 2:13 ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ~ Hebrews 9:14 ~ 2 Timothy 2:21 ~ Romans 12:11

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