Lord, hear our prayer:
Father, we praise you that when sorrow, loss, anguish or despair might have overwhelmed us, the love and compassion of Christ has held us and healed us. We thank you that there is no darkness too deep, no brokenness too painful and no loss so final that he cannot reach down and change us. May the joy of Christ’s love and mercy fill us with thankfulness for ever.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
He who searches hearts. – Romans 8:27.
It is not the gilded paper and good writing of a petition that prevails with a king, but the moving sense of it: and to the King that discerns the heart, heart-sense is the sense of all, and that which He alone regards; He listens to hear what that speaks, and takes all as nothing where that is silent. All other excellence in prayer is but the outside and fashion of it; that is the life of it.
~ LEIGHTON
Friday February 16, 2024
1 Corinthians 13:13
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
If faith is the power to live right, love is the right way to live.
Yes, love is, without a doubt, life itself.
God is love, as we know. And God is life. Of us it is said that we are dead until this life of love has been planted within us.
Love is as much a mystery as life itself is. No one can tell what love is.
But it can be experienced. God be praised!
And this is the joy of life. Yes, eternal bliss itself consists in this that in heaven we shall love perfectly, that is, live exclusively in love.
Love expresses itself first, and in its most essential aspect, in our wills. To love is a definite way of willing. As soon as the will begins to function in this manner, then the feeling of happiness is also awakened within us.
Love would live for others. Perfect love knows no other joy than to make others happy.
Only one has lived His life in this way, namely, Jesus.
All the rest of us think instinctively that the meaning of life is to live for oneself, for one’s own happiness, enjoyment, advantage, and comfort. Only after we have experienced the miracle, the miracle of the new birth, does it dawn on us that the meaning of life is to live for others.
And a whole long life lived after this miracle takes place cannot remove the vestiges of our old selfish life. Not until we reach heaven will our old life be completely obliterated. There we too shall say: “My meat is to do the will of God.”
Often, when we focus too much on our own failures, we don’t reach the point where grace changes us. That’s why the parable of the Prodigal Son is so comforting for people who are caught up and brought down by their failures. In this parable it’s not the younger son’s humility or the elder brother’s jealousy in the limelight. It’s the father’s pursuit of both his sons.
After living selfishly and squandering his inheritance, the younger son realized how foolish his actions had been. He realized that even his father’s hired hands received more love and attention than he had received after leaving his father’s house. Deciding to plead for mercy, the younger son rehearsed his request to the father:
“I will set out and go to my father and will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight! I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.’ ” (Luke 15:18-19).
But his plan was interrupted. Before the son even finished his request, his father kissed him, put a robe around his neck, and ordered the fattened calf to be killed. And then the father repeated this action. When the elder son refused to attend the party in his brother’s honor, the father again went out to meet his son, imploring him to rejoice as well (Luke 15:28, 31-32).
God pursues failures of all types. It’s His grace extended to us that works in our hearts to prompt change in us. Even when we neglect Him, He pursues us. Even when we don’t return His attentions, He pursues us. Instead of focusing on our failures, then, we should focus on His love.
From Last Lesson: There is no real and sincere wisdom, righteousness or true love among men unless it comes from Him who so loved His creation that He was willing to be forsaken of His Father for each of us.
There are among us some churches that would make men believe that the work of Christ was not yet finished when He spoke those words on the cross.
My prayer for each and everyone who reads this may be able to say to themselves, “It is finished” for me personally. Jesus, my Savior and Redeemer bore the penalty that was due to me, the wages I had earned for my sin, for my transgression, for my iniquity. Christ Jesus has sent His Spirit to testify with my spirit that I am now a child of God, reconciled to the Father, a fellow-heir with Christ of eternal life.
Satan will still try to sift each of us as wheat as he sought to sift Peter. He would have you imagine and believe that, even though we are not all were we ought to be at this point in life, loving the world, having our own way, doing what we want to feel good, if we are “good” enough then we are still able to escape from it all at the end into a better life, a life of which God will still approve.
I don’t mean to be harsh, but if this is your feeling today, then you are like someone adrift in a leaky row-boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You may recite all the modern-day mantras that tell you are safe and loved, because God loves everyone and a loving God wouldn’t demonstrate His wrath on His own creation. You may even convince yourself that you are a good enough person in and of yourself and therefore you are not a sinner and thus a loving God will not punish you.
Don’t let Satan deceive you. Don’t deceive yourself. Look at Jesus as He hung on the cross accomplishing the work that we couldn’t begin to accomplish. Say to Him as did one of the criminals hanging at His side: “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom” (Luke 23:42), and you will be saved. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you to sincerely cry out to Him, “Lord, be merciful to me a sinner. I deserve to be cast forever out of Your presence, but Jesus, by Your Spirit help me to realize and say that You, Lord, were made a curse for me because of Your love for me. I accept that truth and I accept Your gift. Now I am redeemed from the curse of the law. Now I am Yours and You Lord, are mine.”
Lord, hear our prayer:
Father, we thank you that he shared in the joy of that celebration, and that his presence brought an end to disappointment and the beginning of a discovery. We are filled with gratitude every time we remember that Christ’s coming transforms the waters of existence into the sparkling joy of life filled with the Spirit. We thank you that there is no situation, no experience, no frustration that is beyond his power and presence. May the peace that passes understanding fill us with thankfulness for ever, in Christ Jesus.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
For the wages of sin is death. – Romans 6:23.
A certain tyrant sent for one of his subjects, and said to him, “What is your employment?” He said, “I am a blacksmith.”—“Go home, and make me a chain of such a length.” He went home: it occupied him several months; and he had no wages all the time he was making it. Then he brought it to the monarch; and he said, “Go and make it twice as long.” He brought it up again; and the monarch said, “Go and make it longer still.” Each time he brought it, there was nothing but the command to make it longer still; and, when he brought it up at last, the monarch said, “Take it, and bind him hand and foot with it, and cast him into a furnace of fire.” These were the wages of making the chain. Here is a meditation for you to-night, ye servants of the devil. Your master, the devil, is telling you to make a chain. Some have been fifty years welding the links of the chain; and he says, “Go and make it still longer.” Next sabbath morning, you will open that shop of yours, and put another link on; next sabbath, you will be drunk, and put on another link; next Monday, you will do a dishonest action: and so you will keep on making fresh links to this chain; and, when you have lived twenty more years, the devil will say, “More links on still!” And then, at last, it will be, “Take him, and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into a furnace of fire.” “For the wages of sin is death.”
~ C. H. SPURGEON
Thursday February 15, 2024
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself.
Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for other souls spiritually before God? For instance, if I allow any private deflection from God in my life, everyone about me suffers. We “sit together in heavenly places.” “Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it.” When once you allow physical selfishness, mental slovenliness, moral obtuseness, spiritual density, everyone belonging to your crowd will suffer. ‘But,’ you say, ‘who is sufficient for these things, if you erect a standard like that?’ Our sufficiency is of God, and of Him alone.
“Ye shall be My witnesses.” How many of us are willing to spend every ounce of nervous energy, of mental, moral and spiritual energy we have for Jesus Christ? That is the meaning of a witness in God’s sense of the word. It takes time, be patient with yourself. God has left us on the earth—what for? To be saved and sanctified? No, to be at it for Him. Am I willing to be broken bread and poured out wine for Him? To be spoilt for this age, for this life, to be spoilt from every standpoint but one—saving as I can disciple men and women to the Lord Jesus Christ. My life as a worker is the way I say ‘thank you’ to God for His unspeakable salvation. Remember it is quite possible for anyone of us to be flung out as reprobate silver—“. . . lest that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“ ‘[You all] comfort; comfort my people,’ says your God. ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for, that she has received from the hand of Yahweh double for all her sins’ ” (Isaiah 40:1-2). God directed this command at the prophet and a group of people—possibly all those remaining in Israel. They were to speak comfort to the exiled Israelites, to call them home again.
Sometimes we feel the need for this kind of comfort. Like the prodigal son in the pigsty, we feel exiled and alone; we have paid our sentence, and we want to go home. We’re not even asking for joy—just comfort. Despite their sins, God responded to the Israelites. But God did not merely restore them to their former state. He sent the Suffering Servant, prophesied later in Isaiah (Isaiah 52:13-53:12), to die on behalf of the people, to pay for the sins that resulted in exile in the first place. God does this so that all our sins—past, present and future—might be paid once and for all.
But God requires much from those to whom much has been given, which is all of us. The great news of the Suffering Servant, Jesus, is not only that we find comfort and peace in Him, but also that we are empowered to act—free from sin. As Jesus’ disciples, we must live the way that He has called us to live, being willing to make the sacrifices that discipleship requires (for example, Luke 14:25-35).
The grace we receive from God is free, but a great price was paid for it. We must live fully in it. We must embrace it with our entire being. For when we do, we become not just a comforted people, but a restored people, instruments of God’s work in the world.
From Last Lesson: I would like to continue on addressing some of the saints of the Old Testament with words of comfort that Jesus Christ might have given them in His last words, “It is finished.”
Elijah: Readers, remember when Jesus and Elijah met on the Mount of Transfiguration (see Matthew 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-9; Luke 9:28-36). Moses was with them there. Both of them urged Jesus not to come into glory at that moment, as by Christ’s holiness He deserved to do, but rather, continue to walk the way of sorrows to the cross. Is it possible that both of them sensed something of the fact that unless Jesus became a curse for even them, for their breaking the law, Moses as the giver of the law and Elijah, as the great defender of the law, is it possible they could not remain in glory? Nevertheless, Jesus has borne for them breaking the law, their offense towards God the giver of the law, and Jesus has kept every iota of the law. Jesus Christ truly loved God above all else and His neighbor as Himself. Jesus went all the way to the cross. He did so to become a curse for Elijah and all mankind. Elijah will continue to be with Christ Jesus in glory forever. “It is finished.”
Simeon: The ravages of age were upon Him when, in the temple, He held the infant Jesus, a babe, in his arms (see Luke 2:25-32) However, before Abraham was Jesus was the great, “I Am.” Simeon’s patient waiting for that day will be rewarded with life everlasting in the presence of the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, Christ Jesus. Jesus had become a curse for even Simeon. Now, “It is finished.”
Anna: She was old and shriveled up in body when, never departing from the temple, she continued to bless the day of Jesus’ coming (see Luke 2:36-38). Now she may bless the day of Jesus’ going. In the moment when Jesus shall commend His spirit to the Father; in doing so Jesus Christ shall commend Anna’s spirit to the Father, also. Jesus was made a curse for the devout and devoted Anna. But now, “It is finished!”
So then, have you, dear readers, been considering what Jesus said to all of us when He uttered that seemingly simple little sentence? He is saying to us what He said to all of these: “I became a curse for you that you may be accepted and reconciled of God, but only if you like all of these put your trust in Me.”
He said everything to us that He stated and taught to Peter and the other apostles and disciples. Like them, we as individuals, we as a body of believers, we as the Church, the Bride of Christ, have been given the true understanding of the nature of the person and work of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we must as fearlessly and boldly and with as much reliance on the power of the Holy Spirit as Peter had before the leaders of the Jews, we must also be witness to that only Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must and thus can be saved.
There is no real and sincere wisdom, righteousness or true love among men unless it comes from Him who so loved His creation that He was willing to be forsaken of His Father for each of us.
Lord, hear our prayer:
Father, we thank you for your patience with us; for understanding our fears and our frustrations. We praise you that your presence enriches our joy and your love gives us hope. We thank you for the assurance that your grace is sufficient for our every need; for the story of Christ’s first miracle, the first sign of his power and his authority. May the joy of Christ’s love fill us with thankfulness for ever.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
For sin will have no dominion over you. – Romans 6:14.
I stood some years ago near the fair city of Geneva, where two great rivers meet, but do not mingle. Here the Rhône, the arrowy Rhône, rapid and beautiful, pours out its waters of that heavenly blue which it is worth almost a pilgrimage to see, and there the Arve, frantic and muddy, partly from the glaciers from which it is so largely fed, and partly from the clayey soil that it upheaves in its impetuous path, meet and run side by side for miles, with no barriers, save their own innate repulsions, each encroaching now and then into the province of the other, but beaten back again instantly into its own domain. Like mighty rival forces of good and evil do they seem, and for long—just as in the world around us—for long the issue is doubtful; but if you look far down the stream, you find the frantic Arve is mastered, and the Rhône has colored the whole surface of the stream with its own emblematic and beautiful blue.
~ PUNSHON
Wednesday February 14, 2024
Matthew 3:11
“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
Fire is strangely intense and intrinsic. It goes into the very substance of things. It somehow blends with every particle of the thing it touches.
There are the severe trials that come to minds more sensitive, to the minds that have more points of contact with what hurts; so that the higher the nature the higher the joy, and the greater the avenues of pain that come.
And then there are deeper trials that come as we pass into the hands of God, as we pass from the physical and intellectual into the spiritual nature.
When they first come, we shrink back from their unnatural and fearful breath, and we say: “Oh, this cannot be from the hand of a loving Father! This cannot be necessary to me.”
And then come the pains and sufferings from God’s own hand, when He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver, when He lets it burn, until it seems that we must be burned to ashes, and we are, indeed, at last burned to ashes.
But we must get the victory through faith. The moment you cease to fear it, that moment it ceases to harm you. He says, “The flames shall not kindle upon you.”
When we don’t have all the facts, we still like to connect the dots. Questions make us uncomfortable, so we draw lines with answers that make us feel safe and that fit our worldview. But sometimes we hold too tightly to the picture that results.
Job’s friends were guilty of this error. Although they affirmed true things about God’s character, they connected the dots in unhelpful ways. For example, in Job 8, Bildad pointed to God’s justice and stated that Job’s hardship couldn’t be for nothing. Therefore, he must have sinned. Job also affirmed God’s justice, wisdom, and strength, but he didn’t buy into Bildad’s worldview. In Job 9, he acknowledged that God was beyond his understanding. Job might have suffered, but he kept his high opinion of God.
Job wanted answers, too. He longed for God to make Himself known and settle the matter (Job 9:3). Job mourned that he had no way of defending himself before God:
“There is no arbiter between us that he might lay his hand on both of us. May he remove his rod from me, and let his dread not terrify me; then I would speak and not fear him, for in myself I am not fearful” (Job 9:33-35).
In the end, when Job requested an answer from God—who alone could answer his questions—God silenced him. He restored Job’s prosperity, but Job still had to live without knowing why.
When we don’t have the answer, we should still affirm God’s love and goodness, acknowledging that “He is the one who does great things beyond understanding and marvelous things beyond number” (Job 9:10). And we do have one answer that quiets our fretful hearts—we know the arbiter and what He has done for us, which makes it easier to live with the unanswered questions.
Now, I would like to address some of the saints of the Old Testament with words of comfort that Jesus Christ might have given them in His last words, “It is finished.” Remember that they looked expectantly to the Father for the coming and fulfilment of the Messiah. Even though they might have been looking for something a little bit different than the initial mission of Jesus, their hopes were still faithfully placed in Him.
Enoch: He walked with God, while others about him did not, and God called Enoch to Himself. “Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). Enoch will now walk with Christ Jesus forever, for Jesus and the Father are one. “It is finished.”
Noah: He witnessed alone with his family the coming judgment upon all those who had broken the covenant of God. Noah built the ark to the salvation of his household (see Genesis 6:9-22). Thus, possibly unbeknownst to him, it was Christ Jesus who was witnessing through him; and Noah was witnessing through the Lord. Men ridiculed him and laughed at him scornfully. In mocking him they mocked the Anointed One; but those who mock Christ even now will soon call upon the mountains and hills to cover them from the Lamb who is coming in the wrath of the Lion of the tribe of Judah. “It is finished!”
Abraham: He is called and known even today as “the father of the faithful.” With him God made the covenant of grace. To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. The great “I Am,” Christ Jesus is that seed. With Paul even the saints of old may now say:
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’ “ (Galatians 3:13).
Abrahan looked forward for a city that had foundations. Jesus Christ established those foundations from the cross and they still stand today.
Christ Jesus has finished being and bearing that curse on the tree. The wrath of the covenant has been removed; the promise of the covenant is fulfilled. “It is finished.” It is finished for Abraham and for all those who have like faith like his.
Moses: He was called and known as the mediator of the old covenant (see Exodus 3:1-12). He was faithful in all his house. Moses led God’s covenant people toward but not into the promised land, and “the promised land” he so greatly and longingly desired to enter was, after all only, still of this sin-cursed earth. But Christ Jesus has borne even the punishment for his unfaithfulness; now, because of that truth, Moses will enter the promised land, the new heaven and the new earth on which righteousness will dwell. “It is finished.”
Job: Satan tempted him sorely and mercilessly. He tempted Jesus much more sorely than he tempted Job, however. Job overcame his temptation because Christ Jesus overcame his temptation, and went to the cross to become a curse for all mankind, past present and future. Now, it is finished. Job’s last end will truly be better than the first. Now he himself understands his own Spirit inspired words, “I know that my Redeemer lives” (Job 19:25). “It is finished.”
David: He was called a man after God’s own heart (see 1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22); his heart was true and sincere with his covenant God. On the cross Jesus has cleansed and washed away the sins David so greatly bewailed, making him whiter than snow through the blood of Christ Jesus. Christ became a curse for David, but now the curse is lifted. “It is finished!”
Lord, hear our prayer:
Father, we thank you for your church, which you still use as the vehicle of your grace; that despite our reluctance, disobedience and timidity you still call us to go on reaching out to the lost and the fearful, the weak and the proud. We thank you that it is your will that the love of Christ is to be offered to all people everywhere. Through the Great Commission you have given us the task of sharing in your work of healing a broken world. We praise you and give you thanks in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
How can we who died to sin still live in it? – Romans 6:2.
Thy sins after pardon have a blacker circumstance than the sins of devils, or the sins of wicked men, for theirs are not against pardoning mercy nor against special love. Oh! thaw thy heart every morning with meditation on pardon, and sin will not so easily freeze it in the daytime. When thou art tempted to sin, consider what thoughts thou hadst when thou wast suing for pardon, how earnest thou wert for it, what promises and vows thou didst make; and consider the love God showed thee in pardoning. Do not blur thy pardon, or easily wound thy conscience, or weaken thy faith.
~ CHARNOCK
Tuesday February 13, 2024
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities
of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke
down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin,
and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all.
There are many books that are to be so esteemed by the Christian man, that they must be cut down like the groves of trees, not because they are bad in themselves, but because there false gods are worshipped. Novel-reading is the rage of the present day. I go to a railway bookstall, and I cannot see a book that I can read, I get one, and it is all trash. I search to find something that would be really valuable, but I am told, “It would not sell here.” The fact is, nothing will sell but that which is light, and frothy, and frivolous; so every traveler is compelled to consume such food as that, unless he carry something better with him. Do I, therefore, say, that the Christian man must condemn all reading of fiction and novels? No, I do not, but I do say, that the mass of popular books published under the name of light literature, is to be eschewed and cut down, for the simple reason that the moral of it is not that of piety and goodness; the tendency of the reading is not to bring the Christian towards heaven, but rather to retard and impede him in his good course. I lift up my axe against many a work that I cannot condemn, if I look at it abstractedly in itself, but which must come down, because I recollect how much of my own precious time I wasted in such trivial reading, how many years in which I might have had fellowship with Christ have been cast away, whilst I have been foolishly indulging a vicious taste for the romantic and the frivolous. No, there are many things which are not wrong in themselves, but which nevertheless must be given up by the true Christian, because they have had, and do have association with things positively wrong. Just as these groves must be cut down—not because there can be a sin in trees, but because the trees have been associated with the worship of idols.
Anxiety has a way of ruling over us. Although many of our concerns are legitimate—like having money to pay the rent and buy food—some of them are nonsensical. We envision future catastrophes and spend our days worrying about what might never happen, creating an emotional wilderness for ourselves.
Anxiety isn’t new. The prophet Isaiah addresses the problem:
“Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus. . . . Say to those who are hasty of heart, ‘Be strong; you must not fear! Look! your God will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. He is the one who will come and save you’ ” (Isaiah 35:1, 4).
Isaiah realizes that there is a time and season for everything. He proclaims that God will bring the people out of the wilderness (their exile in Babylon) and back into their land. There is an answer to the anxiety, pain and worry that they feel about the future. His words ring with prophetic certainty because he knows them to be true—they are Yahweh’s words.
Jesus also addresses anxiety when He says to His disciples, “For this reason I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or for your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; to them there is neither storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?” (Luke 12:22-24).
Why must we worry? Why must we strive over things we cannot change? Ultimately, everything in life is a matter of depending on God.
From Last Lesson: “Peter, you will be “filled with the Holy Ghost” (see Acts 2:4; 4:8, 31) as I was filled with the Holy Ghost when I told the Pharisees they were of their father the devil, and you will fear no man, not even those who will be out to destroy you in the attempt to erase My name from the minds of men.
“I can already hear you say:
‘Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:10-12).
“Now Peter, you know that Satan will continue in his desperation to wipe out the memory of My name from the earth. You also know, Peter, and now all eleven of you, My disciples, will know how to meet and to defeat Satan’s efforts to separate you from Me. When Satan comes as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, you will fearlessly defy him, knowing that his followers can at most kill the body but never the soul (see 1 Peter 5:8-10).
“When Satan comes as an angel of light, quoting Scripture and professing belief in my name, talking sweetly of love, even of love for Me, you will expose his wiles so that he may not lead My people away with him to eternal death (see 2 Corinthians 11:14-15).
“You will henceforth feed my sheep. I am, you know, the bread of life. I am the water of life (see John 4:10-14; 6:35; 21:17). You and the disciples will remind My people to:
‘Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you . . .’ (Matthew 11:28-30).
“What I have said to you, Peter, I also say to all of you, My disciples, those here now and those who will be given to Me in times to come.”
In his desperation, knowing that his time is short, Satan will continue in his bid seeking to deceive, if it were possible, the very elect of God by means of theoretical science and worldly philosophy. The Lord will send His servant Paul to challenge the wisdom of this world:
“Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians 1:20-21).
Will the wise men of this era ask, with Pilate, what is truth? Will they say that all is relative, that no one knows the truth? Paul will answer them even now, that they are face to face with truth, as clearly and as directly as was Pilate when Jesus stood before him in the judgment hall. “For from him and through him and to him are all things” (Romans 11:36). All doubt that may be in your mind, with respect to Jesus and His work, is now at an end. With Paul we might all say:
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing” (2 Corinthians 2:14-15).
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