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Daily Word - Looking to Jesus

7/6/2023

There is a constant battle in our spiritual lives ... we try to cling to our faith with all that we have ... while the enemy is relentless in his accusations that "our sins are too great ... our faith is too little ...

We continue to sin and fail ... we have not repented enough ... we are too weak to hold onto Christ ..." the list of failures that Satan casts in front of us goes on and on.

But we thank God that our salvation ... our redemption ... is not based on us ... but on Jesus Christ ... Here is a wonderful message from Charles Spurgeon on "Looking to Jesus"

“Christ is all in all.” Remember, therefore, it is not your hold of Christ that saves you—it is Christ; it is not your joy in Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not even your faith in Christ, although that is the instrument of salvation— but it is Christ’s blood and sacrifice that saves; therefore, don't look to your hand with which you are holding onto Christ, look to Christ ... look not to your hope, but to the hope in Jesus, the source of your hope ... look not to your faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul

Hebrews 12: 2

Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Daily Word - Called

7/6/2023

1 CORINTHIANS 7:24 KJV

In the eyes of the world ... society ... so often, we are judged by what
we have (our possessions) ... what we've achieved (our accolades) ...
what we've inherited (our legacy) ... what we've built (our empires) ...
but in the eyes of God, none of this matters.

Our love and obedience... our hearts seeking Him first in everything we do ... we have ... or desire ... is what we are judged on. And our judge before us is Jesus
Christ ... our redeemer and savior.

So whether we have much, or whether we have little ... whatever our
calling is ... a father, a mother, a teacher ... a carpenter ... a
janitor ... whatever it may be, we do it all ... our very best ... unto God.

1 Cor 7: 17

But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every
one, so let him walk.

1 Cor 7: 24

Brothers, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God

Daily Word - Witness

6/26/2023

2 PETER 1:20-21 KJV

Peter's account and testimony of Glory of Jesus Christ ... and our
assured confidence in scripture and the Word of God.

2 Peter 1: 16-18

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to
you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses
of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from
heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

2 Peter 1: 20-21

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of
man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Daily Word - Know

6/26/2023

There's comes a time in every believer ... that the words of the gospel
are no longer just read or heard ... but become a part of our very core
... our every belief ... our every hope

... and that WE KNOW, without doubt that what we have believed is true ... and nothing can sway or convince us otherwise ... and nothing can separate us from the love of God.

1 Timothy 1: 12

nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am
persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him
against that day.

1 John 5: 20

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an
understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that
is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal
life.

Daily Word - Hated

6/26/2023

Every day, we can clearly see more and more, that there is a growing hatred of Christianity and the message of Jesus Christ.

But we shouldn't be alarmed ... surprised or trying our best to demand justice from the people of this world leading this trend.

As we look to God's word, Jesus explains this to us in the Gospel of John ... and knowing this ... that we are not alone, but can endure all things in Christ.

John 15:19-20

If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you;

Daily Word - Adoption

6/26/2023

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior ... believe in His
death and resurrection for the redemption of our sins ... and we repent,
turning to God in our lives ... we are adopted as heirs in His
kingdom.

But that adoption ... although "signed, sealed and delivered",
awaits the day when we are finally free from our sinful flesh ... from
this world around us ... and we shall receive the full inheritance that
our adoption has for us in Christ. Amen.

Romans 8: 22-23

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together
until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first
fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body

Daily Word - God's witnesses

6/26/2023

Our faith is strengthened as we look at all the examples of God's people
... Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Elijah ... and all the
miraculous works that God did in their lives.

We can also see those which God has brought into our lives, ministering to us ... helping us... showing us God's love ... His truth ... and the gracious gift of
salvation through Christ.

We can take heart in the fact that are not alone in this race of life ... but we are one member, one part ... in the family of God.

Hebrews 12: 1

Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us

Daily Word - Substitution

6/26/2023

We typically think of a "substitution" as something less ... When we don't have an needed ingredient, we might "substitute" for another. In sports, when a starting player is injured or penalized, a substitute is placed in the game for him.

But in the light of eternity, Christ was the "Perfect Substitute". As sinners, we were all condemned to death ... but through God's love, grace and mercy ... He provided that the perfect substitute, who would take our place on the cross and reconcile all to God that believe in Him.

I Peter 3:18

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Romans 5:8

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Daily Word - The true God

6/26/2023

It is a good and humbling thing to be reminded of God ... our heavenly
Father ... and who He truly is in all wisdom, power and glory ... here
are the words of the prophet Jeremiah ...

Jeremiah 10: 10-12

But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting
king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be
able to abide his indignation ... He has made the earth by his power,
he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the
heavens by his discretion

Daily Word - Ways of Life

6/26/2023

We might think that God’s Word … scripture and the gospel of Jesus Christ … is just about our eternal life and salvation.

Of course, this is the essential message of His Word and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, but there is also a treasure of God’s wisdom and direction for us to live our lives pleasing to Him.

This is the work of the Holy Spirit and our sanctification. Let us renew our minds and our hearts by the “washing of the word” every day in our busy lives.

Acts 2: 28

You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance

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