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I CORINTHIANS 12? The subject, which the apostle covers in this chapter, was one most deeply needed at that time by the Corinthian saints, and is still much needed today. There is no greater forgetfulness of any part of the truth of God amongst Christians, than as to their great need of the Holy Spirit on the one hand, and as to God’s great gift of Him on the other. Here we have the truth of the church viewed as that to which God had given the Spirit of “power” (1 Cor. 12) of “love” (1 Cor. 13), and of the “sound mind” that should be shown (1 Cor. 14). The Spirit of power was there; but, whatever the energy He works in, the Holy Spirit has in no way set aside responsibility. Man cannot understand this. A divine person, His office is to be here, that He might be in the saints, the dwelling of God, and that they should have therefore an infinite resource; but, at the same time, not so that the might of the almighty Spirit of God could not be thwarted and hindered.
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We are indebted to the Reformation for the recovery of the truth of salvation through faith alone and not works. Truly, the Reformation was a glorious light after the darkness of the ages that preceded it. Nevertheless, much teaching remained clouded by the prejudices of former thinking. It remained until the 1800's before the truth of justification was brought into the full light of Scripture. Nevertheless, even today, the most common teaching concerning justification is called the "Imputed Righteousness of Christ." Unfortunately, it confounds God's righteousness with righteous conduct in man, and the law becomes the measure of Christ's righteousness. In the Pauline doctrine of justification, I now stand before God in Christ, in all the blessedness of that position knowing that my sins have been forgiven, my guilt has been put away, and I have been judicially cleared from all the consequences connected with my former life; I am "justified in Christ" (Gal. 2:17 JND). The life I once had is altogether done with at the cross.
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Memory Verse for the Week of 4/21/2024:
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
John 8:36
Memory Verse for the Week of 4/28/2024:
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
Proverbs 14:12
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Those whom the Lord calls and uses in His service are those who have willingly yielded themselves to Him as His bondmen. They are freedmen; but more than that, they are bondmen....The great fact is that the power of His love makes us willing servants.
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I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. (Psa. 16:8-9)
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh … but to the will of God. (1 Peter 4:2)
Absent as yet, we rest in hope,
    Treading the desert path,
Waiting for Him who takes us up
    Beyond the power of death.
We joy in Thee; Thy holy love
    Our endless portion is,
Like Thine own Son, with Him above,
    In brightest heavenly bliss.
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Growing in Grace
“The word of God is quick, and powerful … and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).
“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me” (Psalm 139:23-24).
When we read the Word of God, it has a cleansing effect on our hearts. It searches our hearts, and discovers what is right, and what is wrong. The word translated “discerner” could be translated “critic,” and this is what the Bible does for us. Men have thought that they had the right to criticize God’s Word, but it is God’s Word that is the critic of our thoughts. It is important to read God’s Word daily, for it exposes our wrong thoughts, and allows us to confess them and to get rid of them. In this way the Bible has a purifying effect on us.
But then we read in our second verse that David asked the Lord to search his heart, and to discover whether there was “any wicked way” in him. This is a good thing to do, for even if we read God’s Word regularly, there may be wrong things in us that we do not discover. But the Lord is able to bring them to our attention. David wanted real fellowship with the Lord and did not want anything to come between him and the Lord. We should want this same relationship with Him.
We need one little warning about this. It is good to ask the Lord to bring something to our attention, if He sees something wrong in us. But then we should let the Lord bring it before us, if He sees something. It is not a healthy thing always to be taken up with our failures, and to be constantly thinking about ourselves. Rather we should be enjoying all that Christ is, and not be thinking, How am I doing? If the Lord sees something in us that He wants us to deal with, we can rest assured that He will point it out to us. We do not have to keep thinking about our mistakes.
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The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. (Genesis 21:1)
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.1 – David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.2 – God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.3 – I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, … and am come down to deliver them. … He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.4 – There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.5
He is faithful that promised.6 – Hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?7 – Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.8 – The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.9
1Psalm 62:8 ~ 21 Samuel 30:6 ~ 3Genesis 50:24 ~ 4Acts 7:34,36 ~ 5Joshua 21:45 ~ 6Hebrews 10:23 ~ 7Numbers 23:19 ~ 8Matthew 24:35 ~ 9Isaiah 40:8
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Comfort of the Scriptures
“Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings” (Isa. 51:7).
Strange to say and sad to say, we who know the Lord are many times guilty of fearing “the reproach of men,” as if such reproach was of eternal consequence. We forget that “the fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.” Suppose that we are reproached of men because of our trust in the Lord, or suppose that we are reviled because we “walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,” is it not better to have the Lord’s approval than to have the approval of men? “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man,” even the best of men. “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” “The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me,” and “Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy presence from the pride of man: Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.” “My help cometh from the Lord.”
Kept from man’s anger, kept from his hate,
Kept by God’s power and grace,
We look above to Jesus our Lord,
With no need to fear man’s face.
Proverbs 29:25 ~ Ephesians 4:17 ~ Psalm 118:8 ~ Isaiah 2:22
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