Archive for May 2022
S137P5 – Psalms of promise: justice will come
Psa. 50:1-6 The Mighty One, God the LORD, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very…
Read MoreS137P4 – Psalms of promise: a very present help
Psa. 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. The brothers had ventured…
Read MoreS137P3 – Psalms of promise: compassion breeds compassion
Psa. 41:1-2 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of…
Read MoreS137P2 – Psalms of promise: confession brings forgiveness
Psa. 32:5 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer. (Selah) I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess…
Read MoreS137P1 – Psalms of promise: prospering in God’s will
Psa. 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree…
Read MoreS136P6 – Pervasive sin: a relentless pursuit
Rom. 7:18-23 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that…
Read MoreFrom slaves of sin…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8sdar-121f8df The bondage of sin was not only a master-slave relationship for us, but it was an addiction. This process of sanctification is very much like the recovery of an addict. It is a process of learning to live differently, to depend on what is good instead of what is bad, and to understand how…
Read MoreS136P5 – Pervasive sin: leading away from truth and life
2 Tim. 3:1-7 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a…
Read MoreS136P4 – Pervasive sin: the rejection of sanctification
1Th. 4:1-8 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your…
Read MoreS136P3 – Pervasive sin: the top-down approach
Rev. 2:18-23 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, “These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: ‘I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.…
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