Monday, November 21, 2016

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We who are saved by God’s grace “are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” God desires “that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men,” for only by our changed lives, manifested by “showing thyself a pattern of good works,” can men see the evidence of our faith in Christ. So the daily life of the believer, whether in the home, in society, in business, or in ministry, is of the utmost importance before God and before men and is to be characterized by “sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.” Thus we obey the words of our Lord to “let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” “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.” “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”
Our works of life tell out our hearts,
And what really dwells therein,
Whether we live our lives unto Him,
Or unto self and to sin.
Titus 2:7 ~ Ephesians 2:10 ~ Titus 3:8 ~ Titus 2:8 ~ Matthew 5:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:14‑15 ~ Psalm 90:17
             
October 2016
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

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The Word hidden in the heart, hoarded up and reserved there, to be brought forth and used as “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,” not only works in us that we “might not sin against” God, it also makes us thankful to the Lord, as the context of our text verse shows. “Blessed art Thou, O Lord: teach me Thy statutes.” And with our praise and thanksgiving unto Him comes the desire to know more about His Word, and thus more about Him, for our Lord said “the Scriptures … are they which testify of Me.” The Word “hid in mine heart” emboldens us to speak of it and of Him to others, for the psalmist continues and says that “with my lips have I declared all the judgments of Thy mouth,” and thus am “not … ashamed of the testimony of our Lord … but … partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.” Moreover, the Word stored up in the heart brings joy, for “I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.” And with this joy and delight comes renewed desire and determination to have more of “Thy word … hid in mine heart,” seen in the psalmist’s declaration that “I will delight myself in Thy statutes: I will not forget Thy word.”
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart,”
That my life might show Thy praise,
That Christ might be honored and seen
Through all my earthly days.
Psalm 119:11 ~ Ephesians 6:17 ~ Psalm 119:12 ~ John 5:39 ~ Psalm 119:13 ~ 2 Timothy 1:8 ~ Psalm 119:14 ~ Psalm 119:16
             
October 2016
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

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“The fig tree … the vines … the olive … the fields … the flock … herd” represent all the natural assets of an agricultural people, among whom Habakkuk prophesied. If everything on which we depend should fail, “yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” Whatever may come, He is “the God of my salvation,” and “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” We can confidently ask Him, in times of distress and need, to “lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day.” “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Thy name.” “Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His mercy; to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: He is our help and our shield.” “If God be for us, who can be against us?”
Though every earthly source should fail,
And there be none to give aid,
Yet the Lord will care for His own,
For whom the price has been paid.
Habakkuk 3:17‑18 ~ Romans 8:32 ~ Psalm 25:5 ~ Psalm 79:9 ~ Psalm 33:18‑20 ~ Romans 8:31
             
October 2016
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November 2016
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Friday, November 18, 2016

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We are not told to rejoice in our circumstances or in our prospects. These things vary; sometimes they are favorable, and sometimes they are not. Rather, we are told to “rejoice in the Lord always.” We are calmly to delight ourselves in Him, irrespective of our circumstances. We are to cheer our hearts by our contemplation of the Lord and His grace, to “worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” Many are the blessings that are ours because we know Him as Saviour, “but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” As our Lord prayed for His own on the night before the cross, so now He prays for us in heaven, “that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” That joy must be nurtured and maintained by feeding on His Word, for He said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” “Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” Thus “with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” Never forget, dear Christian, that “the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
He fills the trusting heart with joy,
Though gloomy may be our days;
The soul that leans upon His grace
Will find calm in all his ways.
Philippians 4:4 ~ Philippians 3:3 ~ Romans 5:11 ~ John 17:13 ~ John 15:11 ~ Jeremiah 15:16 ~ Isaiah 12:3 ~ Nehemiah 8:10
             
October 2016
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

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How often it has been among God’s redeemed people that we allow ourselves to be “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life,” forgetting that “the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word.” So, when God permits earthly prosperity to come to His children, often it has to be said that “they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten Me.” And this is in spite of our Lord’s words that “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Earthly possessions in themselves do not give joy, but fellowship with the Lord does. Therefore, we have the admonition to “charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.” Nothing on earth can bring joy and pleasure comparable to the joy and pleasure of obedience to and communion with our Lord. “How excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied … and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.”
Filled with the trinkets of this life?
Or filled with His joys supreme?
Living now for eternity?
Or for this life’s transient dream?
Hosea 13:6 ~ Luke 8:14 ~ Mark 4:19 ~ Luke 12:15 ~ 1 Timothy 6:17 ~ Psalm 36:7‑8
             
October 2016
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

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Are there not times in the life of every believer when we, like Hezekiah in our text verse, find ourselves so filled with anguish and distress, and so unable to handle our situations, that we can only cry to the Lord that “I am oppressed; undertake for me”? Times of great trouble, times of perplexity, times of uncertainty, times when “my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. … I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.” There come to all of us times when we realize our utter helplessness and our need of dependence on the Lord, when, as Hezekiah, “like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.” When you come to such circumstances, “pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us.” “The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee: for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee. … He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” “And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people … and have heard their cry … for I know their sorrows.” “My hope is in Thee.”
When we are oppressed and weary,
With none to whom we may turn,
He knows our distress and anguish;
Our cry for help He’ll not spurn.
Isaiah 38:14 ~ Psalm 77:2‑3 ~ Isaiah 38:14 ~ Psalm 62:8 ~ Psalm 9:9‑10 ~ Psalm 9:12 ~ Exodus 3:7 ~ Psalm 39:7
             
October 2016
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

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God is “bringing many sons unto glory” through “the captain of their salvation,” that blessed One “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” and thus was made “perfect through sufferings” to be our Saviour. In His Person, He was never anything but perfect, for He was and is “God … manifest in the flesh.” But in order to be our Saviour, “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,” and His vicarious sufferings made Him our Saviour. He is “the captain” of our salvation, the leader, the originator. “Salvation is of the Lord.” He originated it, “even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many,” “for,” He said while here on earth, “the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” Then, “what shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.”
“The captain of their salvation,”
He leads His own safely home,
Guarding, shielding and protecting
From what would cause us to roam.
Hebrews 2:10 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ 1 Peter 3:18 ~ Jonah 2:9 ~ Matthew 20:28 ~ Luke 19:10 ~ 1 Timothy 1:15 ~ Psalm 116:12‑13
             
October 2016
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Monday, November 14, 2016

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The right answer to the above question is not only a matter of correct doctrine, but a matter that determines one’s eternal destiny. If we only believe Him to be “the Son of David,” as did the Pharisees to whom the Lord addressed the question above, “how then doth David in spirit call Him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool?” To make our Lord a man only, albeit a good man, is to make God a liar, for He said of our Lord that “this is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Then “who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Our salvation depends upon His Deity and our acknowledgment of it, for “if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” With Thomas, every true believer confesses Him as “my Lord and my God.” We humbly and thankfully acknowledge Him as God’s “dear Son: in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins,” even “God … manifest in the flesh.”
The Son of God has come to earth
To die for all men;
What have you done with Him, dear friend?
Make ready ere He comes again.
Matthew 22:42 ~ Matthew 22:43‑44 ~ Matthew 3:17 ~ 1 John 2:22‑23 ~ Romans 10:9 ~ John 20:28 ~ Colossians 1:13‑14 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16
             
October 2016
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

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Our Lord Jesus Christ has “for us entered” “into that within the veil,” “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.” But He has entered “into that within the veil” as “the forerunner.” A “forerunner” is one who goes ahead, cutting a pioneer path, like a scout, that others may follow. None could ever follow the Old Testament high priest “within the veil,” for “into the second [the holy of holies] went the high priest alone once every year.” But we who know the Lord Jesus now have “boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.” Moreover, our Lord has entered heaven in a body of flesh and bones, as our forerunner, and one day He will take all His glorified saints “within the veil,” fulfilling His promise 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,” “and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
He has entered heaven for us;
As a Man He sits in glory;
He’ll come to take us to Himself,
Completing redemption’s story.
Hebrews 6:20 ~ Hebrews 6:19 ~ Hebrews 9:24 ~ Hebrews 9:7 ~ Hebrews 10:19‑20 ~ John 14:2‑3 ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:17
             
October 2016
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Saturday, November 12, 2016

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How often Christians are guilty of answering a matter before they hear it. We hear only one side about a problem or controversy, and we form an opinion or come to a conclusion without knowing the facts. Many times we reach conclusions from hearsay, when God says that “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established,” and we do well to obey God’s word to “be swift to hear, slow to speak,” until we know the facts. “Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at naught thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.” So “it is folly and shame unto him” who “answereth a matter before he heareth it.” Rather “shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently,” and “judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” So be not one “that answereth a matter before he heareth it,” all sides of it. And even then, remember that “love covereth all sins.”
“Be swift to hear [and] slow to speak”
Whatever comes to your ear;
A faithful friend conceals the faults
Of those who to us are dear.
Proverbs 18:13 ~ 2 Corinthians 13:1 ~ James 1:19 ~ Romans 14:10‑13 ~ Deuteronomy 13:4 ~ John 7:24 ~ Proverbs 10:12
             
October 2016
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