SPURGEON AND BIBLE THOUGHTS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 07-08, 2015
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JANUARY 07, 2015, WEDNESDAY, 345 P.M.: BIBLE READING
Bible Reading: Genesis 14:17-Genesis 18:28.
My key verse is:
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Genesis 15:6 New Living Translation (NLT)
6 And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Genesis 15:6 Expanded Bible (EXB)
6 Abram ·believed [put his trust/faith in] the Lord. And the Lord ·accepted Abram's faith, and that faith made him right with God [T counted/credited it as righteousness; Rom. 4:3, 9, 22; Gal. 3:6; James 2:23].
Expanded Bible (EXB)
The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.
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Believe. This is the focus of the Bible reading today from my perspective. Believe in Jesus. Live Christ today and in every moment.
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QUESTION FOR ME TO PONDER
How am I living, each and every moment, Jesus?
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"EVENING" BY SPURGEON
He loves me fiercely and loyally.
Do I know this and live it?
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MORNING BY SPURGEON FOR JANUARY 07, 2015
This devotional is one I could read every day for the rest of my life--and probably should. I surely need it. The verse that goes with it, once again, is:
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Philippians 1:21 New Living Translation (NLT)
21 For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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There is a cross-reference which adds more meaning and depth to the verse (and vice versa):
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Galatians 2:20 New Living Translation (NLT)
20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Wow.
Speechless after reading that verse. Then, read the two together and it packs a punch and is rich.
I want to live these verses. Really live them. Let me stress this.
How can I live every moment for Jesus Christ? This needs to be the question I focus on at all times.
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I woke in the middle of the night and read some Spurgeon and he said my motto of every moment of every day, my one word should be: Christ.
Talk about profound truth.
Is any other one word more important?
Jesus.
Any questions?
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SPURGEON AND BIBLE THOUGHTS THURSDAY, JANUARY 08, 2015, THURSDAY
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MORNING AND EVENING BY CHARLES SPURGEON:
Original Source:
https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/
Morning
"The iniquity of the holy things."
Exodus 28:38
What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering of heart and forgetfulness of God, what a full measure have we there! Our work for the Lord, its emulation, selfishness, carelessness, slackness, unbelief, what a mass of defilement is there! Our private devotions, their laxity, coldness, neglect, sleepiness, and vanity, what a mountain of dead earth is there! If we looked more carefully we should find this iniquity to be far greater than appears at first sight. Dr. Payson, writing to his brother, says, "My parish, as well as my heart, very much resembles the garden of the sluggard; and what is worse, I find that very many of my desires for the melioration of both, proceed either from pride or vanity or indolence. I look at the weeds which overspread my garden, and breathe out an earnest wish that they were eradicated. But why? What prompts the wish? It may be that I may walk out and say to myself, In what fine order is my garden kept!' This is pride. Or, it may be that my neighbours may look over the wall and say, How finely your garden flourishes!' This is vanity. Or I may wish for the destruction of the weeds, because I am weary of pulling them up. This is indolence." So that even our desires after holiness may be polluted by ill motives. Under the greenest sods worms hide themselves; we need not look long to discover them. How cheering is the thought, that when the High Priest bore the iniquity of the holy things he wore upon his brow the words, "Holiness to the Lord:" and even so while Jesus bears our sin, he presents before his Father's face not our unholiness, but his own holiness. O for grace to view our great High Priest by the eye of faith!
-- By Charles Spurgeon
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Evening
"Thy love is better than wine."
Song of Solomon 1:2
Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God's gifts and God's works; but in all these separately, yea, and in all of them added together, he doth not find such substantial delight as in the matchless person of his Lord Jesus. He has wine which no vineyard on earth ever yielded; he has bread which all the corn-fields of Egypt could never bring forth. Where can such sweetness be found as we have tasted in communion with our Beloved? In our esteem, the joys of earth are little better than husks for swine compared with Jesus, the heavenly manna. We would rather have one mouthful of Christ's love, and a sip of his fellowship, than a whole world full of carnal delights. What is the chaff to the wheat? What is the sparkling paste to the true diamond? What is a dream to the glorious reality? What is time's mirth, in its best trim, compared to our Lord Jesus in his most despised estate? If you know anything of the inner life, you will confess that our highest, purest, and most enduring joys must be the fruit of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. No spring yields such sweet water as that well of God which was digged with the soldier's spear. All earthly bliss is of the earth earthy, but the comforts of Christ's presence are like himself, heavenly. We can review our communion with Jesus, and find no regrets of emptiness therein; there are no dregs in this wine, no dead flies in this ointment. The joy of the Lord is solid and enduring. Vanity hath not looked upon it, but discretion and prudence testify that it abideth the test of years, and is in time and in eternity worthy to be called "the only true delight." For nourishment, consolation, exhilaration, and refreshment, no wine can rival the love of Jesus. Let us drink to the full this evening.
-- By Charles Spurgeon
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LOOKING AT "MORNING" BY CHARLES H. SPURGEON
1239 p.m.
The key verse Spurgeon used here was:
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Exodus 28:38 King James Version (KJV)
38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
King James Version (KJV)
by Public Domain
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What a relief it is how Jesus is the one, not Aaron, who bore my sin so I could be, and am, forgiven. I can go directly to God myself because of this.
A cross-reference is:
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Colossians 2:13-14 New Living Translation (NLT)
13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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I am forgiven.
Jesus died on that cross for me and my sins before I was even born. He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and ever-present. So, He died knowing how much of a lowly sinner I am and how much I deserve the death on the cross, not Him. He knew all about me as He died and still allowed me to be born and live.
Talk about undeserving.
Talk about humbling.
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Colossians 2:13-14 Expanded Bible (EXB)
13 When you were ·spiritually dead [L dead] ·because of [or in] your sins and ·because you were not free from the power [L in the uncircumcision] of your ·sinful self [sinful nature; flesh], God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our ·sins [transgressions]. 14 He ·canceled [wiped out; erased] the ·record [certificate] of debt, ·which listed all the rules we failed to follow [L with its decrees that were against us; C the record of sins revealed through the OT law; Eph. 2:15]. He ·took it away [set it aside; destroyed it] and nailed it to the cross.
Expanded Bible (EXB)
The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.
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I am forgiven, my debt and wrongdoings have been paid and forgotten. My sins aren't even seen. I am covered like a blanket by Grace. My shame of my errors is covered.
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Isaiah 1:18 King James Version (KJV)
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
King James Version (KJV)
by Public Domain
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BIBLE READING FOR JANUARY 08, 2015
Genesis 18:28-24:20
Key verses are: Genesis 21:2 and 24:1.
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Genesis 21:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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God always has perfect timing.
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Genesis 24:1 New King James Version (NKJV)
24 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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God has surely blessed me in all things.
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SPURGEON: EVENING OF JANUARY 08, 2015
Read both MORNING AND EVENING again.
Both are devotionals to read over and over and soak them in, plus yesterday morning.
I will not diminish them with words, but... Blessings.
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