December 4 Hosea 9-12 (ESV) The Lord Will Punish Israel 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors. 2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. 3 They shall not … More December 4 Hosea 9-12
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. (Revelation 2:4, verses 1-7 in our Bible reading plan today) John MacArthur ties together today’s reading in John 14 and Revelation 2:1-17, in a message “When Love Grows Cold” Knowing God and being a Christian involves loving the Lord … More Fluctuation potential in our love
In our Bible reading plan, we come to John 14:28-31 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it … More The cross: a demonstration of Christ’s love for us or for the Father?
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger helps us understand Job 25-26 (in our Bible reading plan today): In Job 25, we have the very short and final speech from Bildad, along with Job’s response. After three increasingly heated exchanges, Job and his friends have clearly run out of steam. But like trains passing on parallel tracks, Job and … More Like trains passing on parallel tracks
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me. Today in our BIble reading plan, we read Hosea 7-8. Here is help from the John Calvin commentary on Hosea 7:14- Now the Prophet says here that the Israelites … More “Fictitious invocations” vs cries from the heart
December 3 Revelation 2:1-17 (ESV) To the Church in Ephesus 2:1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with … More December 3 Revelation 2:1-17
December 3 John 14:22-31 (ESV) 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home … More December 3 John 14:22-31
December 3 Job 25-26 (ESV) Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous 25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2 “Dominion and fear are with God; [1] he makes peace in his high heaven. 3 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise? 4 How then can man be in the right before God? … More December 3 Job 25-26
December 3 Hosea 7-8 (ESV) 7:1 When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside. 2 But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my … More December 3 Hosea 7-8
Today we come to Revelation 1:9-20 in our reading plan. Here are helpful comments from John Piper, in a sermon, “A Year-End Look at Jesus Christ” The voice says in [Revelation 1] v. 11, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches.” This means that the vision John is … More See Jesus through Revelation
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