Thursday, August 30, 2018

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“Moses … spake unadvisedly with his lips” because the children of Israel “provoked his spirit,” for “the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying … Why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?” So, instead of obeying the Lord’s command to “speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water,” Moses took honor unto himself, and Aaron, and said, “Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? … And with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly.” But “it went ill with Moses for their sakes,” and he was not allowed to enter the promised land. Let us never falsely imagine that because some circumstance or some person provokes us, God holds us less responsible for our actions or words. “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city,” and “he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” Let us, then, “be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”
Speak not when in provocation,
Lest you speak wrong things and sore;
Words that come from provoked spirits
Will bring trouble more and more.
Psalm 106:32‑33 ~ Numbers 20:3‑4 ~ Numbers 20:8 ~ Numbers 20:10‑11 ~ Proverbs 16:32 ~ Proverbs 25:28 ~ James 1:19
             
July 2018
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

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The Christian may well fear Satan, for “the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” On the other hand, as we depend upon the Lord, we need not fear Satan, for he is a defeated foe. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil,” and “greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.” Our Lord has “overcome him” and “divideth his spoils” with us, His redeemed. “Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Now, “thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” It is “through our Lord Jesus Christ” alone that we can overcome the evil one. Our response to Satan must ever be: “The Lord rebuke thee.” Then, always at the right time and in the right way, “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”
Helpless and needy do we stand
In array against our foe,
But our dear Lord is on our side,
And He helps us here below.
1 John 4:4 ~ 1 Peter 5:8 ~ 1 John 3:8 ~ Luke 11:21‑22 ~ Colossians 2:15 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:57 ~ Jude 9 ~ Isaiah 59:19
             
July 2018
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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False teachers at Colosse were saying, as they still do in our day, that our Lord Jesus Christ was not “God … manifest in the flesh,” but only a created being. But God tells us that “in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” that He “is the head of all principality and power,” and that “He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.” And it is in this blessed and glorious One, who “sitteth on the right hand of God,” that we are complete. The forgiveness of our sins is “complete in Him,” “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” Our justification is “complete in Him,” for “by Him all that believe are justified from all things.” Our acceptance before God is “complete in Him,” “to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved.” And our access to God is “complete in Him,” “by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.” Of ourselves we must say that “I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.” But in Him “dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” and “ye are complete in Him.”
“Complete in Him,” how rich I am,
Standing before God in Christ,
Freely forgiven for His sake,
Accepted and loved likewise.
Colossians 2:10 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ Colossians 2:9 ~ Colossians 1:18 ~ Colossians 3:1 ~ Ephesians 1:7 ~ Acts 13:39 ~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ Romans 5:2 ~ Romans 7:18
             
July 2018
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Monday, August 27, 2018

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“Christ in you”! Who among God’s redeemed children can fathom it! “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.” Yet God’s Word assures me that “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Our Lord promised 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. … If a man love Me, He will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” Paul’s prayer for the saints is “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith … and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” “Christ in you.” “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!”
Christ lives within me:
Oh what grace! More than my heart can comprehend;
Such knowledge fills me with His love;
I long to serve Him to the end.
Colossians 1:27 ~ Psalm 139:6 ~ Galatians 2:20 ~ John 14:16‑17 ~ John 14:23 ~ Ephesians 3:16‑19 ~ Romans 11:33
             
July 2018
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

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There can be no lack in the life of one who can truly say, because he has been redeemed, that “the Lord is my shepherd,” because “there is no want to them that fear Him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” This does not mean that we may have everything that we might desire; it does mean that we shall not lack anything that would be for God’s glory and our blessing. In all our circumstances, though they be adverse, we hear Him saying that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness,” “for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect [full] toward Him.” We may have need of prosperity or we may have need of adversity, “but my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” He who is “the God of all grace” shall “make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” Never forget that “the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly,” for “the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
The Lord Jesus is my Shepherd,
And I am one of His sheep;
No evil can hurt or harm me;
He is faithful to guide and keep.
Psalm 23:1 ~ Psalm 34:9‑10 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ 2 Chronicles 16:9 ~ Philippians 4:19 ~ 1 Peter 5:10 ~ Psalm 84:11
             
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

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When God’s Word tells us to beware of something or someone, we do well to take heed and to be very cautious. We do well as Christians to beware of that fondness for so-called wise things, that philosophical view of things that can cause us to think that wisdom is spirituality, when God has told us to “be not wise in your own conceits,” since “the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” This is not the humble desire for more knowledge of God and His Son from the Word of God, but rather “after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Our Lord warned of such men when He said to “beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Peter warns us that “there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you.” We do well to “beware of dogs [unclean false teachers], beware of evil workers [who teach salvation by works], beware of the concision [who teach salvation by ordinances].” So “beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.”
Beware of all that which takes away
Honor and glory from the Lord,
Which exalts man’s wisdom above
What God has told us in His Word.
Colossians 2:8 ~ Romans 12:16 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:19 ~ Matthew 7:15 ~ 2 Peter 2:1 ~ Philippians 3:2 ~ 2 Peter 3:17
             
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Friday, August 24, 2018

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God’s grace “abounds” toward His own, there is an “abundance” of it, and “if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” How much grace does God have? How much is “abundance”? The same word that is translated “abundance” is also translated “enough and to spare,” and “over and above.” God has for His people grace “enough and to spare.” He has “over and above” that which all His people will ever need. No wonder that He says that “My grace is sufficient for thee.” Since He “is able to make all grace abound toward us,” we are assured of “always having all sufficiency in all things.” “And of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.” “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.” “We then … beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.” “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”
His grace is abundant and free
For all the needs of our lives;
Let us draw upon it daily;
It will make us strong and wise.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ Romans 5:17 ~ Romans 5:20 ~ Luke 15:17 ~ John 6:13 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ John 1:16 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:10 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:1 ~ 2 Timothy 2:1
             
July 2018
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

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This is not a verse telling people how to be saved, for it is in a letter “written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” So “if we [believers] confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” What a blessed promise, needed by all of us who know the Lord, for “if we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” But many times, especially when we are cast down because we have sinned and failed the Lord, Satan causes us to think that the Lord has not really forgiven us and that we must continue to confess the same sin over and over. Such doubt dishonors God, for “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” If He instructs us to forgive each other “until seventy times seven,” will He do less for His own? So when we truly repent of and confess our sins, let us remember, thankfully, that “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.”
We must confess to Him our sins
If His fellowship we would share;
He’s faithful to forgive and cleanse,
With mercy enough and to spare.
1 John 1:9 ~ 1 John 5:13 ~ 1 John 1:10 ~ Matthew 18:22 ~ Psalm 51:17
             
July 2018
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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A Christian’s prayer life is a reliable barometer of his spiritual condition. The neglect of prayer indicates that the soul is at a low ebb of spiritual power, for God’s Word tells us to be “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” The believer’s attitude ought always to be that “I give myself unto prayer,” for “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much,” and, moreover, “the prayer of the upright is His delight.” “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty,” and we are told to “be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” “My voice shalt Thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up.” “As for me, I will call upon God. … Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice.” Let us, like Epaphras, be “laboring fervently … in prayers.”
Prayer is a struggle and battle,
That must come from the very heart,
As we pray for those about us,
To have help to quench Satan’s darts.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ~ Ephesians 6:18 ~ Psalm 109:4 ~ James 5:16 ~ Proverbs 15:8 ~ 1 Timothy 2:1‑2 ~ Philippians 4:6 ~ Psalm 5:3 ~ Psalm 55:16‑17 ~ Colossians 4:12
             
July 2018
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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

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This is the right way to measure “whatsoever ye do,” whether it be “in word or deed.” How may the Christian know whether it is right to do a certain thing, or whether it is wrong? Whether to say certain things, or to refrain from saying them? We can know, if we are willing, whether or not our words and actions will honor the name of the Lord Jesus. “Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.” Then “only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ,” “that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever.” So “whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” This principle will settle many a problem for the willing heart who desires “that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.” “Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him.” So “whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.”
Our words and our actions show us
If our aim is to please the Lord,
Or whether our life is for self
In disobedience to the Word.
Colossians 3:17 ~ Philippians 1:27 ~ 1 Peter 4:11 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:31 ~ 2 Timothy 2:4 ~ Romans 14:17‑18 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:9 ~ Colossians 3:23
             
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