Month: June 2024

“God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all … but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:5, 7).

We all appreciate good light, and since the discovery of electricity back in the late 1800’s, most of us have become used to good light in our homes. We simply turn the light on with a switch on the wall. But some lights are brighter than others, and if we are having difficulty seeing something clearly, we may shine a very bright light on it. The light of the sun is very bright, and we have all looked through a window and thought that it was clean, only to have the sunlight shine through it and show how dirty it really was.

It is the same way with God’s moral light, and our sinful hearts. Before we were saved, we may have thought that we were doing all right, because we compared ourselves with other people. But when we got into God’s presence, we realized how sinful our hearts really were. Our natural reaction was then to want to get out of God’s presence. We have all turned over a big stone, or an old piece of wood, and watched the little creatures living under them scurry away, because they did not want to be in the light. They know that sometimes bigger animals turn over dead wood and stones, and then eat whatever they find under them.

We cannot hide from God, however, for we all eventually have to be exposed to His presence. If we do not come into His presence now, we will have to do so in a coming day, when He judges this world. But our second verse today is very reassuring, for it tells us that every Christian can walk in the light, and not be afraid of what the light shows up. Why is this? It is because the blood of Christ has put away whatever the light shows. Our hearts may be very bad, but the blood of Christ has cleansed us from all sin. We do not have to fear, even though God cannot allow any darkness at all in His presence. What a comfort this is to us!

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“He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated” (Proverbs 14:17).

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city” (Proverbs 16:32).

Anger is a big problem in the world today, and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to deal with it. The strong, evil emotions of many people are very near the surface, and it does not take much for their anger to explode. Road rage is one indicator of how easily people can “blow up” today. In the Sunday school in the city where I grew up, we had a boy who was very difficult to manage. He was one of those who became angry very easily, and it seemed that the smallest thing could “set him off.” His older sister told us that he had the same problem at school, and that he was having to attend counseling sessions on “anger management.”

Our first verse today reminds us that those who become angry very quickly are foolish, and are like those of “wicked devices.” Some people naturally lose their temper more easily, but all of us have a sinful nature that can become angry. We who are Christians need to be on guard against this, and if we have this tendency, we must ask the Lord to help us.

Our second verse reminds us that the person who is slow to get angry is better than someone who is strong physically. The person who can rule his spirit is better than someone who can lead an army to defeat a whole city. This does not mean that we should never be angry, for we read in Psalm 7:11 that “God is angry with the wicked every day.” Also the Apostle Paul told those in Ephesus, “Be ye angry, and sin not” (Ephesians 4:26). When we see things going on that are a dishonor to the Lord, it arouses our righteous anger in us. But we have to admit that much of the time, we get angry because of something that is done to us, not because the Lord has been dishonored.

Much of the anger today is because there is a whole generation of children who have grown up without any proper discipline. They have never had anyone “cross them,” or tell them that they cannot do something. They have never been punished for losing their temper and displaying anger and violent behavior towards others. If you are growing up in a Christian home, and have parents who correct you from time to time, be thankful for it. It will save you from many problems later on.

Counseling on “anger management” is not God’s way of stopping it. Such sessions usually involve using our own human energy to control bad behavior, but our old sinful nature is too strong for us. We need a new life in Christ, and need to recognize that believers in Christ can ask the Lord to help them keep the old sinful nature in the place of death.

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“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Psalm 119:11).

“David … chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had” (1 Samuel 17:39-40).

When I was a boy going to Sunday school (that was a few years ago!), it was expected that we would memorize a verse from the Bible every week. Our Sunday school teacher would have verses printed on little pieces of paper that you could tear apart, somewhat like postage stamps. Our verse was stuck in a small cardboard folder, and we were expected to memorize it and say it to the teacher the next Lord’s day. Then the teacher would give us another one, so that we memorized quite a few verses during our time in Sunday school. Later, as we got older, our teachers would often ask us to memorize whole sets of verses, and maybe even a whole chapter. It was good for us, and impressed the Word of God on our minds.

It is much easier to memorize things when we are young. If I try hard, I can still memorize something, but it is much harder than it was when I was a boy, or when I was a teenager. It is good to hide the Word of God in our hearts, for then we have it when we need it. The Lord can bring something to our remembrance, if we have read and memorized it, but He will not bring something into our minds that we have not put there first ourselves.

We see a picture of this in what David did when he went to meet Goliath. David did not know now many stones he might need, so he chose five from the brook, and put them in his shepherd’s bag. No doubt he had used his sling many times before, and was confident that with those five stones, he could defeat Goliath.

How many stones did David need on that occasion? According to the Bible, he used only one. Yet he had five available, in case he needed more. For you and me, it is good to spend time not only reading the Bible, but memorizing parts of it. You will be surprised at how much you can remember, if you try! Then, like David, you will have the right stone available when you need it.

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“Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof” (2 Kings 13:14).

As I mentioned yesterday, here is another occasion when a man used the same words as Elisha did, when Elijah was taken up into heaven. This time it was Joash, the king of Israel, who felt bad when Elisha was sick and going to die. The king even shed tears at the time, he was so concerned about losing Elisha. It had been more than forty years since Elijah had been taken up into heaven, yet king Joash had heard about what Elisha had said at that time, and he repeated it. It sounded very good, but was the heart of Joash like the heart of Elisha? I am afraid not.

In this same chapter (1 Kings 13), it says that Jehoash (or Joash) the son of Jehoahaz “reigned sixteen years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: but he walked therein” (vss. 10-11). He admired a man like Elisha, and was very sad when he died, but poor Joash was not a godly man himself. The Lord was gracious to him and allowed him to win several battles against the Syrians, but there is no record that Joash repented of his course of evil.

All this is good for us to remember. We can respect and admire older people whom we know, and who have walked with the Lord. They have been a good example to us, and the Lord wants us to walk in the same faith. But sad to say, we can be sorry to see them go, yet not be willing to pay the price to walk in the same path they did. In Hebrews 13:7 we are told to “remember them … who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.”

In order to follow their faith, we must be willing to know the Lord, and be willing also to pay the price for faithfulness. Poor Joash was surrounded by idol worship, and he did not have the courage to get rid of it. We too can have things in our lives that we are unwilling to give up, and which prevent our following the Lord with a full heart.

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“And it came to pass, as they [Elijah and Elisha] still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof” (2 Kings 2:11-12).

The Lord had decided to take Elijah up to heaven without his having to die. He was one of two men in the Bible to whom this happened. Do you know who the other one was?

When the time came, Elijah and Elisha were walking together, and they had visited several places. They started out from Gilgal, then went to Bethel, then Jericho, then the Jordan River. They crossed the river, and then the Lord took Elijah up to heaven. But how did he go?

I have heard Christians say that he went up in the chariot of fire that is mentioned. As you know, a chariot is a coach or carriage pulled by horses. But the Bible does not say that Elijah went up by the chariot; it says that he went up by a whirlwind into heaven. It is important to see the difference, and to see what the chariot means.

When Elisha saw the chariot, he did not say, “The chariot of Elijah;” no, he said, “The chariot of Israel.” The chariot of fire was for the whole nation of Israel, and it speaks of the Lord’s protection for us in this world. It speaks of the Lord’s power on behalf of His people here, and that protection is still with us today, although we may not see it. Elijah had experienced that protection during his lifetime, but it was available for all who would follow the Lord.

The chariot of fire did not go back to heaven; it remains here for the help of God’s people. We see this later on in the history of Elisha, who replaced Elijah as the Lord’s prophet in Israel. If we go on to 2 Kings 6, we find that Elisha and his servant were in a city surrounded by the army of the Syrians. The servant was very upset, until Elisha prayed and asked the Lord to open his eyes. Then he saw a whole army with many chariots and horses of fire, round about Elisha. These were angels, and had been sent by the Lord to protect Elisha and his servant.

As I have mentioned, we can count on the Lord’s protection today, although we might not see actual chariots of fire. But many times they are there for us, even though we cannot see them.

Can you find another place in the Bible where someone says exactly the same words as Elisha said — “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof?” It is in this same book of 2nd Kings. (Don’t look now, but I will give you the answer tomorrow.)

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“And David took the spear and the cruse (glass) of water from Saul’s bolster (pillow); and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked … And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! And let one of the young men come over and fetch it” (1 Samuel 26:12, 22).

You can read this story in 1 Samuel 26, when David was running away from King Saul. Saul wanted to kill David, because he knew that David had been anointed king. Saul took a band of soldiers and went out after David, intending to find him and kill him. But David and his men knew exactly where Saul and his men were. One night while Saul and all his soldiers were sleeping, David and one of his men (Abishai) went down to Saul’s camp and took both his spear and his glass of water. The Lord had made all Saul’s men to be so sound asleep that they did not wake up when David and Abishai came to the camp. David took Saul’s spear and glass of water to show Saul that they could have killed him, if they had wanted to. But David would not do this; he waited for the Lord’s time, for him to be made king.

Then, when David and Abishai were on the top of a hill, David called out to Saul and his men, and showed them what he had done. Saul evidently felt bad, for the moment, and seemed sorry for chasing after David. But his heart had not changed; he never really repented of his attitude toward David.

But there is something very significant here. David took Saul’s spear and his glass of water. The king’s spear was usually stuck in the ground by the king when he was sleeping, as a sign that this was the king’s tent. David acknowledged Saul to be the king, and would not kill him, for God had anointed Saul to be king. David respected that, and waited for the Lord to remove Saul, so that he — David, could be king. For this reason, David asked that one of Saul’s young men come over and get the spear back.

We notice that David did not mention the glass of water. Nothing is said about giving that back to Saul. Why was that? The glass of water speaks of refreshment, and water in the Bible often is a picture of the Word of God. Unless Saul repented, there could be no refreshment for him, and later, two chapters further on in 1 Samuel, Saul actually consulted a witch. This was a very serious thing to do. Let us remember this, and be ready to confess our sin, if we have done something to displease the Lord. It is the only way back to real refreshment from the Lord.

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“And as it was in the days of Noe (Noah), so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:26-27).

These are some more very serious verses, for they talk about what is going to happen on this earth after the Lord comes and takes us home to be with Him. Somehow Satan will invent a lie to explain why millions of people have suddenly disappeared, and then the world will just continue on, for a short while. As the saying goes, it will be “business as usual.” People will eat and drink, get married, and life will go on. This is what they did in the days of Noah, while he was building the ark over those 120 years. We know that Noah preached to them, for it tells us this in 1 Peter 3:19-20. The Spirit of God was working thousands of years ago, preaching to those people through Noah, and telling them that a flood was coming on the earth — a flood so big that it would destroy everything that breathed air. But no one believed what Noah said, except his own family. Only eight people were saved; the rest all perished when the flood came.

If you read the next few verses in the chapter, you will see that the people who are left behind when the Lord comes will also buy and sell, plant crops, and build things. They did all these things in the days of Lot. You will remember that he lived in Sodom, a most wicked city, back in the time of Abraham. When the angels came to warn Lot of coming judgment, he tried in turn to warn some of his family, but they would not listen. You can read this story in Genesis, chapters 18 and 19. We can be thankful that the Lord is working now through the preaching of the gospel, to save souls from all this.

For you and me, if we know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, the Lord has told us about these things so that we will know how it will be after He has come and taken us home. He intends that we be serious about what is about to happen, and that we also be ready to warn those with whom we come in contact about the judgment that is coming on this world.

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“The rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments … then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him [Lazarus] to my father’s house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment” (Luke 16:22-23, 27-28).

This is one of the most serious stories in the Bible. Please read it in Luke 16:19-31. It concerns two men, one who was saved, and one who was not. The rich man was not saved, and he ended up in hell when he died. How awful! He was in torments, because he knew that he was there for all eternity. But he was concerned about his five brothers, and wanted Lazarus, the man who had died but who knew the Lord Jesus, to go and warn them. But this was impossible; those men needed to read their Bibles, for everything that they needed was written for them there.

I remember a true story about a man who was clearly not saved, and who had no interest in the things of the Lord. Eventually he died, and since he had never attended any place of worship, a Christian man was asked to speak at his funeral. The Christian did not know either the man who had died, or his family; he knew only that the man had not been saved.

When he asked the Lord for the right message, the Lord laid this story on his heart. As you may imagine, he was reluctant to speak on this story, and asked another believer about it. The other believer gave good advice; he said, “If the Lord gave you this story to preach from, you had better do it.” So he preached the gospel, and faithfully warned all those at the funeral about the seriousness of dying without Christ.

He did not know that the man who had died also had five brothers, all of whom were sitting there at the funeral. The message made a tremendous impact on them, and all five of them got saved that day. Even though it was a very solemn message, they were all thankful that the preacher was faithful with them.

Sad to say, today there are some preachers who will not preach this way, but pretend that everyone goes to heaven. Or they avoid the matter entirely by speaking only about the person, how good he was, how much he did in this world, etc. They avoid the question of sin, and God’s judgment of it.

If you are not saved, I hope that this story speaks to you too. And if you are saved, do not be afraid to talk to unbelievers about hell and what it means. They need to be warned.

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“And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing” (Leviticus 5:5).

You might be surprised that we are using this verse today, but it contains a very important lesson for us. Back in the Old Testament, the children of Israel were told to offer certain sacrifices, or offerings, to the Lord. One of these was the trespass offering, which we find in Leviticus, chapter 5. This offering was to be made when someone had broken a known commandment.

We are not going to go into the details of this offering, but only to notice that when the man was guilty, he had to admit that he had sinned “in that thing.” He could not say, in a general way, “I am a sinner,” nor could he say, “Well, others have sinned too.” He could not blame others for what had happened. The matter concerned him, and him alone, and he had to confess the exact sin that he had committed.

This is often hard to do, for none of us wants to admit that we are wrong. We will invent every excuse possible to avoid saying, “I was wrong for …  … .” This problem has gotten worse in this world over the past few years, so that people who have done wrong will defend themselves, blame others, and even tell lies, to avoid having to admit that they are wrong.

We may be able to get away with this with others, but before God, only confession of our sin will bring forgiveness. When we get saved, we cannot confess all of our sins, for we have forgotten most of them; the Lord knows them, and “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). But if we sin after we are saved, we must confess it in order for the Lord to forgive us, and restore us to happy fellowship with Him. King David went through this experience, and had to say, “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me” (Psalm 32:3-4). Finally he says, “I acknowledged my sin unto Thee … and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin” (v. 5).

Keeping quiet and not confessing the sin only resulted in the Lord’s hand being on him, for the Lord wanted him to confess. When he finally confesses the sin, forgiveness is immediate. Let us remember this important lesson.

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“Be sober, be vigilant? [on guard]; because your adversary [enemy] the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

Perhaps you have never heard the roar of a lion. I have heard it only once, and the lion who was roaring was in a zoo. It was almost deafening, and would be very frightening if that lion were after you. We do not have lions in most western countries, but we have other animals that can be quite frightening, although most of them rarely attack humans.

We have one animal in our area called a fisher. It is not very big, and is a member of the weasel family. It is extremely ferocious, however, and will kill and eat animals larger than itself. It has been known to attack foxes, and even small deer. It can even attack and kill a porcupine, and almost no other animal can do this. The porcupine normally puts its nose against something like a tree, and then thrashes its tail if anything comes to attack it. Most animals who dared to attack it would get only a noseful of sharp quills. But the fisher knows how to climb the tree, then come down face-first and bite the porcupine on the face. It is very nimble, and eventually outwits the porcupine and gets at its belly, where there are no quills. It is also small enough to go down holes that animals like ground hogs usually make, and where they go for protection.

Satan is like that. He is very clever, and is watching you and me, ready to attack us. He knows that he cannot take away our salvation, but he can outwit us if we are not walking with the Lord. If Satan tries to get us to sin, what are we to do? In the wilderness, if you are attacked by some animals (like a grizzly bear!), it is better to “play dead” than to fight. You will never win a fight with a grizzly bear, unless you have a gun. But with other animals (like a mountain lion), it is better to fight hard — throw stones, use a heavy stick, etc. With Satan, we are to resist him, although we cannot fight him in our own strength. But Satan knows that he has been defeated at the cross, when the Lord Jesus died. If we resist him, he will “flee from us,” as a mountain lion will sometimes do, if we resist him.

The important thing is to be on our guard. Avoiding an attack is the best, and we are safe when we are walking with the Lord.

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