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Monday, March 31, 2025

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“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart” (Jeremiah 15:16).
What does it mean to eat the words of the Lord? Perhaps that sounds like a strange expression to you. But let us think a little about what happens when we eat. We take the food into our mouths, chew it, and then swallow it. Then our saliva, together with other digestive juices in our stomach and small intestine digest that food so that it can be absorbed into our bodies and become part of us. In this way our bodies maintain themselves, and we have energy and strength to do our work.
It ought to be the same with the Word of God. We need spiritual food as well as natural food, and that food is found in the Bible. When we read the Word of God, we ought not simply to read it and then forget what we read. Rather, we ought to think about it, meditate on it, and then make it part of us. In this way we grow spiritually, just as we grow naturally when we eat natural food.
More than this, most of us do not eat simply as a duty we have to perform. No, we get hungry and then enjoy our food. We look forward to eating. In the same way, if we are in good spiritual health, we want to read the Word of God, and it brings enjoyment to us.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

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“Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever” (Revelation 5:13).
As we saw yesterday, the Lord Jesus has the character of both a lion and a lamb. Naturally we all like the character of the lion. Even though we may feel sad when it attacks and kills other animals, yet we like to see an animal that is strong and confident, and can look after itself.
However, when it comes to praise, honor and glory, the redeemed ones all celebrate the character of the Lord Jesus as a Lamb. Whether it is saints on earth, or the angels, or various creatures, or the twenty-four elders (the heavenly saints), they all praise and honor the Lord Jesus as the Lamb of God. His power as a Lion is needed to execute judgment, but it is as the Lamb that He has put away sin, and glorified God. It is as the Lamb that He has made a way for sin eventually to be forever removed from this entire universe, and as a Lamb He has displayed the love and grace of God. It is as the Lamb that we can praise Him now, and as the Lamb we will praise Him for all eternity.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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“Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda…and I beheld, and lo, in the midst…stood a Lamb as it had been slain” (Revelation 5:5-6).
It might seem strange to us to read of the Lord Jesus being described as both a Lion and a Lamb. We can scarcely think of two animals that are so different from one another. The lion is sometimes called “the king of beasts,” for rarely will any other animal dare to attack it. It is a beast of prey that readily attacks and kills other animals. The lamb, on the other hand, is a docile animal that does not resist even when it is taken away to be slaughtered, and it is utterly defenceless against a predator.
The Lord Jesus has both characters, for when He suffered for sin, He “opened not His mouth” (Isaiah 53:7), but submitted to suffering and death so that our sins could be taken away. Even in heaven, when He is the One who reigns over all things, we will still see the marks that show us how He suffered for us.
However, He will also come in power and glory to judge this world, and to set up His kingdom. When He comes at that time, He will come as a Lion, and none will be able to resist Him. Men may laugh and scoff at God’s claims today, but when the Lord Jesus appears in judgment, all will be compelled to fear and honor Him. What a privilege we have to honor and praise Him now!

Friday, March 28, 2025

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“Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).
In two earlier verses in this chapter, the Lord Jesus says, “Behold, I come quickly” (vss. 7,12). When it is at the beginning of a sentence, the word “behold” in the Bible has the sense of “pay attention,” or, as we sometimes say in modern language, “listen up!” But here, at the end of the chapter, the Lord assumes that His people have listened, and are both waiting and watching. For this reason He simply says, “I come quickly.” When He says this, His people gladly respond, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
We want the Lord to come, but we also want more people to be saved. If it seems that the Lord is slow about coming, it is only because He is longsuffering, and God’s house must be filled. But God has always kept His promises, and the Lord Jesus will come and take us home very soon.

Thursday, March 27, 2025

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“And His servants shall serve Him: and they shall see His face” (Revelation 22:3-4).
It will be a wonderful day when the Lord comes, and we are taken home to be with Him. In that eternal day, there will still be service that we can do for Him, but most precious of all is that we shall see His face. In that connection, here is the last verse of a hymn that I have often enjoyed—
In the light of that heavenly place,
Light from His face, beautiful face:
In the light of that heavenly place,
I’ll wish I had given Him more.
More, so much more,
Treasures unbounded for Him I adore,
By and by when I look on His face,
I’ll wish I had given Him more.
Grace Reese Adkins

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king…Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up” (Daniel 3:16,18).
Previously, these three young men had always been in Daniel’s company, and it is clear that he took the lead in being faithful to the Lord. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego followed his good example, and were faithful too. But now a new test occurs, and for some reason Daniel was not around. Now they had to face a severe test on their own, and they did so. We all know how their refusal to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image resulted in their being thrown into a furnace of fire. Yet the Lord preserved them in a wonderful way, and showed the king the power of the true God.
It is often the same for us today. As young people, we may look up to someone older who is faithful to the Lord, and who encourages us in our Christian walk. But the time comes when the Lord wants us to rely totally on Him, and not on some other person, no matter how godly he or she may be. When that time comes, we will find that the Lord will never fail us, but will honor our faith, and help us with whatever test He may send us.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).
The condition of this earth is of great concern to many people and nations today. The combination of an increasing population on the earth, together with pollution and other factors, have blended together to damage the environment and cause real alarm to many. However, we have God’s assurance that as long as the earth endures, there will be different seasons, with cold and heat, and also day and night. This is very reassuring to us, for the Lord knows how long this earth has to last to accomplish His purposes.
It would seem that they did not have seasons before the flood, and that the temperature was relatively constant all year around. Since the flood God has allowed seasons, and the farther we move away from the equator, the more pronounced are the times of cold and heat. But wherever we live, God has promised stability as to these seasons, as long as the earth endures. We do not have to get all upset at what is happening today, for God will always keep His promise.

Monday, March 24, 2025

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“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the world” (1 John 2:16).
Most of you have probably heard the term “bucket list.” It originated back in 2007, when a movie was made about two men who were diagnosed with cancer, and who set out to travel the world and visit as many places as possible before they died. The travel industry quickly adopted the term, persuading people to make a list of all the places they wanted to visit. They promoted the idea that everyone should have a “bucket list,” and encouraged people to visit exotic places such as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the Taj Mahal in India, and Machu Picchu in Peru.
It is nice to travel and see different places, but a recent account by a few people who had traveled extensively said that they were often disappointed. Either the traveling to get there was too difficult, or the area was too crowded, the site was not all that interesting, etc. There were very few times when they were completely satisfied with the experience.
It is not wrong to enjoy seeing different parts of the world, but no matter where we go or what we see, it will never satisfy us. Only Christ can satisfy fully, and not only does He satisfy, but it lasts.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

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“Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: He is risen; He is not here: behold the place where they laid Him” (Mark 16:6).
As we have seen in our verses the past few days, resurrection is a wonderful thing, and it began with the Lord Jesus. He suffered for us on Friday, and was buried that day by Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus. During all of the next day, the Jewish Sabbath, He lay in the grave. But then, on the first day of the week, He rose from the dead. That is why Christians gather together on the Lord’s day, and not on the Sabbath, as did the Jews. That is why we remember the Lord on His day—the day of His resurrection.
The women to whom the angel spoke in our verse had come to embalm the Lord with spices, and it is nice to see their desire, but those spices were not necessary. The Lord had risen from the dead, and instead of being sad, they could now rejoice.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

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“But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” (1 Corinthians 15:35).
Have you ever wondered what we will look like when we are in heaven with the Lord? Will we look just as we do now, or different? Will we be able to recognize one another? People were asking that kind of question away back in the Apostle Paul’s day, and he answered it for them.
If you had never seen a cornstalk before, and someone showed you a kernel of corn, would you be able to figure out what a corn plant looked like? No, you would not. Or if you had never seen a daffodil flower, and someone showed you a daffodil bulb, would you be able to tell what the flower would look like? Again, the answer is no. Yet each seed or bulb produces a characteristic plant that is instantly recognizable, and is distinct from other plants.
It will be the same with our heavenly bodies. They will be different from the bodies we have now, but they will be changed bodies, not new ones. Just as the disciples knew Moses and Elijah on the mount of transfiguration, so I believe we will know each other in heaven. But we will have bodies of glory, “fashioned like unto His glorious body” (Philippians 3:21). We do not know now just what they will look like, but they will be distinctive.

Friday, March 21, 2025

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“Evil communications corrupt good manners” (1 Corinthians 15:33).
This verse, in this same chapter about resurrection, gives us another important warning. When I was growing up, my mother always insisted that we practice good table manners. But once in a while we would find ourselves eating with other boys who had not been so carefully taught. Then we would often begin to adopt their careless and sloppy way of eating, and my mother would have to straighten us out. I have always been thankful that she taught us good manners!
In the same way, if we listen to people out in the world, their evil communications can make us forget the importance of following the Lord. Then we may begin to think that we too can abandon the narrow way of following Christ, and begin to indulge ourselves in the things of this world, without regard to the consequences.
We should not isolate ourselves from the world, for we should bring the gospel before them, but we should not allow their evil communications to corrupt what we have learned about the pathway of faith.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

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“Why stand we in jeopardy [danger] every hour?…Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die” (1 Corinthians 15:30,32).
The Christian pathway through this world is not an easy one, and there are often dangers as we seek to avoid the pitfalls around us and walk to please the Lord. If there is no resurrection of the dead, Paul argues, why should we take such a path? Why not just enjoy ourselves, eat and drink, and then die?
If there were no resurrection of the dead, this kind of thinking might make sense, and in fact, many in this world are adopting it today. Satan has persuaded them that death is the end of everything, so why not just have a good time, and then die? But the Word of God clearly says, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). As someone has remarked, the Christian pathway is well worthwhile, even if it were much harder than it is, because it ends in glory. But the pathway of the unbeliever is not worthwhile, for he is trading a few years of enjoyment in this world for an awful eternity in hell.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

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“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22).
As children of our father Adam, the first man, we are all sinners, and are all subject to death. God had warned Adam and Eve that if they disobeyed Him and ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would surely die, and this has definitely happened. But now something wonderful has happened. If we accept Christ as our Savior, our verse today says, “All [shall] be made alive.”
The key phrase in the verse is “in Christ.” In this time of God’s grace, every true believer is in Christ. This was a special revelation given directly to the Apostle Paul; it was not known before, and believers in the Old Testament did not have this assurance. If we are “in Christ,” then we are just as fit for heaven as He is. If He is risen from the dead, then we too will rise from the dead, if we die before He comes to take us home. We cannot have more security than this! We are united to Christ, and are seen before God as being “in Christ.” As such, we have everything that He has. Again, what a wonderful thing this is!

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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“If Christ be not risen…your faith is also vain [empty]…but now is Christ risen from the dead” (1 Corinthians 15:14,20).
Resurrection from the dead is a wonderful thing, when we think of how our bodies decay and go back to dust within a few years after we die. But the Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, and the fact that He is risen is our assurance that God accepted the work He did on Calvary’s cross. God was so pleased with what His beloved Son had done that He raised Him from the dead.
Some in Corinth were preaching that there was no resurrection, and the Apostle Paul points out to them that if there were no resurrection, then Christ was not raised from the dead, and their faith was all for nothing. They were still in their sins. But Christ is raised, and because we are united to Christ, we too will be raised. Again, how wonderful this is! We will speak a little more about it tomorrow.

Monday, March 17, 2025

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“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men…and every bondman, and every free man…said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us…from the wrath of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:15-16).
Yesterday we spoke about the judgment of God, and here in Revelation 6 we see it beginning to be carried out. Many on the earth at that time will recognize clearly that judgment is coming, and that the Lord Jesus will be the One to do it. However, it is significant that they do not refer to Him as God, or as the Lord Jesus, but as the Lamb. Why is this?
The reason is very solemn. Those who are calling on the rocks and mountains to fall on them are not heathen people who have never heard the gospel. Rather they are those who live in so-called Christian countries, who know the gospel, and may have even grown up in Christian homes. They know who the Lord Jesus is, and they know that He died as the Lamb of God to put away our sins. But they never accepted Him as Savior, and now they are about to fall under His judgment.
I hope that all who read this are saved, and will never be among those who call on the rocks and mountains to fall on them, to hide them from the judgment of God.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

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“And, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat upon it…and there was a rainbow round about the throne” (Revelation 4:2-3).
Here in the book of Revelation we find God on His throne, and it is a throne of judgment. God must judge sin, and if man refuses God’s offer of mercy, He has no choice but to act in judgment. However, we notice that there is a rainbow “round about the throne.” What does this mean?
You will remember that the rainbow was first seen after the flood, when Noah came out of the ark. The Lord said to him, “I do set My bow in the cloud…and it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that My bow shall be seen in the cloud…that I may remember My everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh” (Gen. 9:13-14,16).
The rainbow is composed of beautiful colors, and was a reminder to this world that God would never again destroy the world by a flood. Here in Revelation, God is about to deal with this world in judgment, but the rainbow is a reminder that even in judgment, God remembers mercy.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

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“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18).
The word “changed” in this verse is the same word Greek word metamorphoomai as we saw yesterday in Romans 12:2, where the word is translated “transformed.” But here in 2nd Corinthians 3:18 it is the same thought as we had yesterday, only this time it is becoming more like Christ. Naturally we are not like Him, but if we are truly saved, we have a new life in Christ. Then, as we continually look on Christ, by faith, we gradually become more like Him, as the Holy Spirit works in us to change us.
As we see in this verse, becoming more like Christ is a process that goes on all our lives; it does not happen all at once. We will never be fully like Him until we are at home with Him in heaven. However, God is beginning that process down here in this world, and it should be our desire to be more and more like Christ.

Friday, March 14, 2025

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“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” (Romans 12:2).
What does it mean to be transformed? The Greek word that is translated “transformed” in this verse is metamorphoomai, from which we get our English word metamorphosis. If you have studied biology, you know that tadpoles undergo metamorphosis when they change into frogs, and caterpillars undergo metamorphosis when they change into butterflies. It is a complicated process, and makes quite a different animal in each case.
The same thing can happen to us as believers, when we make the decision to present ourselves to the Lord as Christians, and want to be changed from being conformed to this world, into those who can be used for the Lord. Then the Lord, by His Spirit, renews our minds, so that our whole thinking is changed. Then, instead of wanting the things of this world, we have a desire to do the Lord’s will. Of course our outward appearance does not change, as with the animals, but our outlook on life, and what goes on in our minds, definitely does change. If we are willing, the Lord will make this change in us. Tomorrow we will notice another place in the Bible where this word is used.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

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“That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence until the day of Christ” (Philippians 1:10).
The word “sincere” is an interesting word, and probably originates from two Latin words, “sine,” and “cera.” “Sine” means “without,” and “cera” is the Latin word for “wax.” So the word sincere literally means “without wax.” In the days when potters made ceramic vessels out of clay, the clay would sometimes crack when it was fired in a kiln. Instead of throwing it out, an unscrupulous potter would simply fill the crack with hot wax, let it firm up, and then cover it with a little more clay. The pot would work well as long as it held only cold liquids, but as soon as hot liquids were put into it, the wax would melt and the vessel would leak.
The Lord does not want us to be like that kind of pot, that pretends to be a good one, but has a crack in it that is filled with wax. He wants us to be real, first of all before Him, and then before others too.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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“I am like a broken vessel” (Psalm 31:12).
Have you ever felt like a broken vessel when you read your Bible? Do you sometimes find that it is hard to remember what you have read? Life is busy these days, and someone figured out recently that the average person who works in the business world today, or studies today, probably processes more information in one week than the average person processed in a lifetime 150 years ago. Wow! No wonder our minds get overloaded!
It is good to remember what we have read, and since we are indwelt by the Spirit of God (if we are truly saved), He will help bring to our remembrance what we have read. However, remember this: if you keep a leaky pot submerged in water, it will always be full, even if it leaks. If we read the Word of God every day, it will have a purifying effect on our lives, even if we do not remember all that we have read.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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“Also He hath set the world [or eternity] in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth” (Ecclesiastes 3:11 JND).
This verse shows us clearly that God created man for eternity, and not for time. Man’s heart is never satisfied with anything in this world; after a while, he wants something more. That is why the woman to whom we referred yesterday could never find lasting happiness, even though she seemed to have everything to make her happy. Our hearts are too large to be filled with anything that this world has to offer. Yet how many look to the things of this world to make them happy, instead of realizing that only the Lord Himself can fill our hearts.
King Solomon was probably more wealthy in every way than any other man in the world’s history, and it is clear from the book of Ecclesiastes that he tried to find happiness in things down here. He ended up by saying that “all is vanity (emptiness) and vexation of spirit.” He found out that only in God Himself can man find lasting joy and happiness.

Monday, March 10, 2025

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“Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he” (Proverbs 16:20).
In the last few years, a number of universities have started what are called “happiness classes.” Noteworthy among those institutions offering such courses is Yale University, with a 320-year history in New Haven, CT, U.S.A. The course is called “Psychology and the Good Life,” and the response has been overwhelming. As of March, 2021, well over three million people had signed up for the course.
The course does emphasize some good things, such as getting enough sleep, being grateful for the good things we have in life, and doing things for others instead of focusing on ourselves. One woman who signed up said, “There’s no reason I shouldn’t be happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I have two kids. I have a nice job and a nice house. And I just could never find happiness.” The course has evidently made some improvement in her life.
But there is one thing that the course does not offer, and that is a relationship with the Lord Himself. While some of the advice that the course gives may make some improvement in a person’s life, ultimately knowing the Lord Jesus as Savior, and walking in fellowship with Him, is the only way to true happiness. We will speak more about this tomorrow.

Sunday, March 9, 2025

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“To Him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in His blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father: to Him be the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen” (Revelation 1:5-6 JND).
The Apostle John was so overcome as He thought of the Lord Jesus—all He had suffered, and then His glory, that he broke into this song of praise. Through His shed blood the Lord Jesus has not only washed us from our sins, but He has also made us a kingdom. We are not kings yet, but the kingdom is reserved for us, for we will inherit the kingdom when the Lord Jesus comes in judgment, and takes His place as King over all things.
However, we are already “priests to His God and Father,” for we already have the liberty to come into God’s presence at any time, and to approach Him in prayer. In the Old Testament only a priest could go into the tabernacle or the temple, and only once a year could the high priest go into the “holy of holies.” But now we may approach God at any time, for every believer is a priest.
Do your heart and mine overflow with praise, as John’s heart did? If we realize how much the Lord Jesus has done for us, our hearts will be filled with praise too.

Saturday, March 8, 2025

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“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God…and the dead were judged…according to their works” (Revelation 20:12).
In 1945, it became very evident to prominent Nazi officials that Germany was going to lose the war. A man named Paul Budin was the general manager of the HASAG company, the largest munitions company in Germany. During the war, they had worked thousands of Jewish laborers to death. Paul Budin lived in Leipzig, and as the Americans were approaching the city, he knew that he would be caught and treated as a war criminal.
Knowing that he was about to be caught, Paul Budin killed himself and many of his friends and family. He also destroyed all the HASAG company files, including the record of all those who had perished while working for them.
Paul Budin and his friends escaped being caught by the Americans and prosecuted as war criminals, but will they escape God’s judgment? No, for our verse today tells us that the wicked dead will be raised to stand before God, and will be judged for their works. We may be able to escape man’s judgment, but we cannot escape God’s.

Friday, March 7, 2025

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“Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love” (Revelation 2:4).
By the time the Apostle John wrote the book of Revelation, the assembly in Ephesus had probably existed for about 40 years, and there had been a lot of blessing there. This message was for the assembly in Ephesus. However, when John wrote Revelation, there was something wrong. They were doing everything right, but not for the right reason. They were doing it simply from a sense of duty, but not out of love for Christ.
We can all understand how important this is. Would you like it if your mother kept your house perfectly clean and orderly, and put good meals on the table, but didn’t show you any love? Or if your father provided money to give you nice clothes and other things, but never had time to show you any love? Nothing can make up for this loss, and I have known young people who never forgave their parents for not showing them love. One girl said to me, “My father was always working; he never had any time for me.”
The Lord wants us to do things right, according to His Word, but He also wants our hearts. If we realize how much He has done for us, our hearts will respond with love to Him. Then we will do what is right, and also for the right reason.

Thursday, March 6, 2025

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“I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit” (John 15:1-2).
Yesterday we saw that we cannot produce fruit for God without a new life in Christ. In today’s verses we see two types of people—some who pretend to believe, and some who do believe, but need pruning to produce more fruit. The branch that does not produce fruit is taken away, for every true believer produces some fruit for God. The branch that is taken away is not a true branch; it is someone who pretends to be a Christian, but has no new life in Christ. Eventually they will come under judgment from God.
But some believers need pruning, for while they are already producing fruit, they could produce more fruit. We may not always like it when the Lord “prunes” us, for it means cutting off certain parts, like cutting branches off a tree or a grape vine. But sometimes there are things in our life that hinder us from producing as much fruit for the Lord as we should. When the Lord prunes those things off, we can produce more fruit for the Lord.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

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“When they were come from Bethany, He [the Lord Jesus] was hungry: and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came, if haply [perhaps] He might find any thing thereon: and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves” (Mark 11:12-13).
Have you ever seen a fruit tree in summer with nothing but leaves, and no fruit on it? As I may have told you before, I grew up on a fruit farm, and occasionally we would have a tree like this: it would have plenty of leaves, but no fruit. This was disappointing, for the fruit was what we could sell and earn our money. A tree with plenty of leaves was nice to look at, but not much practical use. Sometimes the tree had a problem that we could correct, but sometimes we had to remove the tree, and replace it with another one.
This fig tree is a picture of what we are before God, if we are not saved. We may do a lot of things that we think are good, such as keeping many of the ten commandments, doing our work well, helping our neighbors who may be in trouble, and as this world would say, “being a good person.” But before God these things are just leaves; they are not real fruit for God.
To produce fruit for God we must have a new life in Christ, for it is only our new life that can do something that God values. He cannot accept the good works of those who are not saved. First of all, we must come to the Lord Jesus, admit that we are sinners before God, and accept Him as our Savior. Only then can we produce real fruit for God.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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“Keep yourselves in the love of God” (Jude v. 21).
At first glance, this might seem to be a rather strange verse. We know that God loves us, and sent His Son to die for us. Doesn’t He always love us? How do we keep ourselves in His love?
Yes, it is true that God always loves us, but the question is, Do we always enjoy that love? Sometimes we can get away from the Lord in our life, and perhaps the difficulties and problems of life fill our thoughts. Or perhaps the pleasures of this world fill our hearts, and we forget about the Lord. Then we do not enjoy His love. As the world gets more wicked, and moves more and more away from the principles of God’s Word, we need more and more to enjoy His love. It is like going out of the shade into the sun, and feeling its warmth. If we live every day with a sense of His love, it will warm our hearts, and keep us from dishonoring the Lord in our life.

Monday, March 3, 2025

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“Call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me” (Psalm 50:15).
A few days ago, we woke up in the morning to find that our house was very cold, and when we checked into it, we found that our propane tanks were empty. Since the propane company had billed us for filling them up only about two weeks before, we were very surprised. Later it turned out that the delivery two weeks before had mistakenly been sent to the wrong house.
When I telephoned the propane company and told them what had happened, they were very unhelpful, and the woman who answered the telephone said, “We can probably get our truck out to you within a day or two.” Since it is still winter where I live, and the outside temperatures are usually about minus 10-15 degrees C. (about 5-14 degrees F.), I was a little upset. After several more phone calls to various people in the company, we finally got our propane early in the afternoon.
But when we are in trouble, and call upon the Lord, He does not treat us like that. The Lord listens to our prayers at any time, day or night, and loves to answer us when we are in trouble. He never says, “I am too busy right now.” When we pray to the Lord, we never get a recording asking us to leave a message; He is always there for us.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

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“My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?…My God, I cry by day, and Thou answereth not; and by night, and there is no rest for Me: and Thou art holy, Thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel” (Psalm 22:1-3 JND).
You are all familiar with the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, where the life of the Lord Jesus on earth, His rejection, and His crucifixion, are all recorded for us. In these books of the Bible we get the actual record of our Lord’s life, but in the Psalms we get more of His feelings and emotions during it all.
By inspiration, David was able to voice many of the feelings of our Lord Jesus while He was on earth, and in Psalm 22, we get His feelings on the cross during His sufferings at the hands of God. These were the sufferings for sin, when He bore all the judgment of a holy God.
The exact words of the Lord Jesus at the end of these sufferings are given to us here—“My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” God could not answer Him, for as we read in verse three, “But Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” During those hours of darkness, the Lord Jesus was made sin for us, and at that time God in His holiness could not look upon sin, or answer Him.
The Lord Jesus felt it very much that He was forsaken of God, and cried out at the end of His sufferings. How we should thank Him for all He suffered for us!

Saturday, March 1, 2025

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“I [the Apostle Paul] became minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given me towards you, to complete the word of God” (Colossians 1:25 JND).
This is an important verse, for it shows us that there was no new truth revealed after the revelations given to the Apostle Paul. Some New Testament writers, like John, wrote after Paul, but they only filled in some of the details as to prophecy, and gave a different look at what had already been revealed. They did not bring out any new truth, for the truth of the assembly was the last new truth God gave to man.
If anyone comes to you, and tries to tell you that God has revealed some new truth to them, it cannot be true. Many people have done this, such as Mohammed, who founded Islam, and later men like Joseph Smith, who founded Mormonism. There have been many others. All have claimed that they received some new truth from God. But God’s Word as we have it is complete, and God has given solemn warnings to those who try to add to it.
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