Day: January 16, 2017

“I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved”~ John 10:9 “The soul that believes God’s testimony to the truth of salvation by Christ alone, at once enters God’s presence. But mark the definite article: “I am THE door.” There was only ONE door into the ark in which Noah and his family found shelter from the flood. There was only ONE door into the Tabernacle, which was Jehovah’s dwelling-place. So there is only one “door” into the presence of the Father—”Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven, …

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Monday, January 16, 2017 Pete Garcia Imagine if you will, that World War II did not end in an Allied Victory with tickertape parades and sailors kissing nurses. What if the Third Reich had pulled us into a stalemate by not invading the Soviet Union, but focusing their entire energy and inventories into Western Europe first? What if they had managed to create a breakthrough in atomic energy ahead of the US? What if they effectively blockaded Great Britain’s coastline with mines and submarine warfare and holding the tiny island nation hostage? Imagine what Hitler would have done with the …

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Blessed be his name, there was no cause of death in him. Neither original nor actual sin had defiled him, and therefore death had no claim upon him. No man could have taken his life from him justly, for he had done no man wrong, and no man could even have lain him by force unless he had been pleased to yield himself to die. But lo, one sins and another suffers. Justice was offended by us, but found its satisfaction in him. Rivers of tears, mountains of offerings, seas of the blood of bullocks, and hills of frankincense, could …

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This morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: “I will help thee.” “It is but a small thing for me, thy God, to help thee. Consider what I have done already. What! not help thee? Why, I bought thee with my blood. What! not help thee? I have died for thee; and if I have done the greater, will I not do the less? Help thee! It is the least thing I will ever do for thee; I have done more, and will do more. Before the world began I chose thee. I made …

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During times of adversity, realizing that God is ultimately up to something good can bring inner peace. James 1:2-4 2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. “Why would a loving heavenly Father allow His children to go through terrible trials and experience sorrow?” We can understand the reason that this is a common question—it can be baffling when the all-powerful God of love seems to stand …

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Reflections From the Psalms Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. (Ps. 8:2) Many Christians have been taught that if we have grown in Christ, and have built Christian character that we will be, as it were, spiritual giants. But the Bible tells us that the most mature among us will be as little children. The picture is one of complete dependence upon God as our Heavenly Father. Strength in Christ is directly related to our weakness in ourselves – but only …

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Reflections For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Rom 8:14) Paul is not here talking about LEADINGS. He is not saying that if you are a child of God that God is going to continually feed you information and directions. It isn’t that God never speaks to us, or that God doesn’t lead us, but this isn’t what Paul is talking about. The translation should be, “For as many as are GOVERNED by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” To be governed by the Spirit of …

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