Put Christ’s love to the trial, and put upon it our burdens, and then it will appear love indeed. Samuel Rutherford born around 1600 in the village of Nisbet, Roxburghshire, Scotland. (See the ending paragraph for a brief overview of Rutherford’s life.) There is this line in the Return of the King the fatherly warning…
Yesterday Christ cursed a fruitless fig tree. Today, Wednesday two followers will prepare Jesus for Friday, when Christ, God incarnate is forsaken nailed upon a dead tree. (Gal 3:13, Deut. 21:23) Thursday will inaugurate the new covenant meal for the church. (Luke 22:20 and 1 Corinthians 11:23-26) Christ’s body broken for you. Wine that flows…
The crowd in Jerusalem will lionize Christ as King upon his entry. The act of taking your garment and placing it before Christ was done in the days of Jehu. “Then they hurried and each man took his garment and placed it under him on the bare steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king!””2 Kings 9:13 NASB1995 Then compare Matt 21:8 NASB 1977: And most of the multitude spread their garments in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and spreading them in the road. These two acts are separated by the fall of Israel…
Read with us: 2 Chronicles 20-21, Galatians 1:1-10 “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. I…
In the daily reading plan we read 1 Kings 15:25-34, Revelation 2:1-17 This is my mom’s Bible, and a photo she had of me when I was younger. The slip of green paper with her handwriting speaks to me today. Watchmen who stay silent in the face of an imminent attack aren’t really watchmen. The biblical account says “the sins of Jeroboam” which will be used descriptively in repeated intervals throughout 2Kings (e.g. 2Kings 15:8, 9, 15, 24, 28). Jeroboam had reshaped the priesthood to suit his rebellious ambition and political need for control over Israel. The idolatrous vein from the priestly sin of Aaron…
In the daily reading plan we read 2 Chronicles 16-17, Like 21:20-38 Rely on the Lord your God. How can we show God our reliance? I am convinced what the prophet Hanani told Asa concerning his reliance still charges us today. God has spoken in his WORD. And are you familiar with the maps? The correct understanding is needed. We need good doctrine. We have a good shepherd, who has given his life for us. And he’s given us good shepherds, bishops, to watch out for us.  Certainly the Lord watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to…
In the daily reading plan we read 1 Kings 15:1-24, Philippians 4:1-9 “The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.”1 Kings 15:14 NET Wholehearted. Asa didn’t get them all but he did destroy many of the gross idols and perverse worship. This is the function of a king. And even now, Christ is King and LORD OF ALL. His rule is real. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. (Proverbs 9:10) There is nothing God can’t do. There is no long standing idol, or stronghold God can’t tear down.…
Connecticut from the book NEW ENGLAND REVIVALS BY BENNET TYLER, (1783-1858) originally published in 1846
In the daily reading plan we read 2 Chronicles 12, Galatians 5:14-26 “Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who…
In the daily reading plan we read Proverbs 30, 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Prayer for all people is paramount and is priority. FIRST of all means first. Ya ya you might say, but we must really take the Esther approach to really actually pray and fast. When we pray to our Father it is a wonderful reliance upon the Lord’s authority. You may recall in the healing of the lame man the apostles saying, ‘why do you look at us, as if we healed this man’ IT’S IN THE NAME OF JESUS he stands. Consider the boldness of David before the…