Real Christians should separate themselves from the world like God’s Chosen People also separated itself. The Hebrew people in the time of Ezra separated itself from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who had knowledge and understanding, and joined with their brothers, their nobles,… Read More Today’s thought “Joining with their brothers” (November 22)
In Joshua 14 we read of the blessings received by a man who “wholly followed the LORD”. Caleb was the other man who with Joshua spied out the land and brought back an optimistic report; this was after the people had miraculously escaped from Egypt, been fed in the wilderness, built the tabernacle and received… Read More Today’s thought “Yet I wholly followed the LORD” (May 28)
In today’s second Bible reading we get the impression that God’s people looked on His laws as burdensome and felt that serving Him was difficult. The Elohim therefore asks them: “ O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.” (Mic 6:3 ASV) The God of… Read More Today’s thought “How have I burdened you?” (December 08)
(An excerpt from Deuteronomy for Disciples by Alfred Nicholls) The Divine account records only the cursings, and for a good reason, or so it seems to us: on the threshold of inheritance of the blessings it was the consequences of disobedience, every aspect of which described here was distinctively Canaanitish, which needed spelling out clearly.… Read More Deuteronomy for Disciples – Deuteronomy 27
Speak no more unto Me of this matter – Deut 3: 26 This was no act of caprice on God’s part but one charged with the greatest import. It was not only Moses the man who died on Pisgah, but (this being the fact of greatest importance) also Moses the Lawgiver, he who as mediator… Read More Thougth of today April 20: Speak no more unto Me of this matter – Deut 3: 26
In these days, when we get to see horrible pictures of war crimes, we see enough proof of how man has gone far away from the precepts or prescriptions of God. We can wonder what would have gone into those heads of soldiers who raped and tortured those people in Ukraine. Clearly there have been… Read More Today’s thought “Fear-of-God, also in times of war, is a school in skilled living” (April 05)
Do we really want God to know our heart? The concluding words of Psalm 139 are some of the most challenging in Scripture. David wrote it when he had formed a most intimate relationship with God, and declares, “How precious to me are your thoughts O God! How vast is the sum of them! If… Read More Today’s thought: “Search me, O God, and know my heart” (March 18)
In this world a lot of people may have it much better than we, but we should not worry about our “lesser situation” but think about the way they might have become wealthy or how they tried to gather and save their money. (Micah 6:12; 14) We might find lots of people who love to… Read More Today’s thought “Those following the policies of the wrong leaders and popular people” (December 08)
This morning in service, we had a look at the Book of Nehemiah, in which we can find the longest (Ch. 9) and the shortest prayer (Ch. 2) For a hundred years the people went asleep. We too have come into a period when previously lots of people though they said to be Jew, Christian… Read More Coming to Thanksgiving day 2020
Today’s thought “Out of the heart of man come …” (August 12) The first verse of Jeremiah 33 tells of how “The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah … while he was still shut up in the court of the guard” and told him of the judgments he was about to bring. They would… Read More Today’s thought “Out of the heart of man come …” (August 12)
Excerpt from Delight in God’s Law by Brother John Carter, page 124 Jesus calls upon his followers to be cross-bearers. They must follow him in taking up the cross. What did he mean? Quite clearly the literal is excluded: he does not mean that all his disciples must carry a stake of wood and be… Read More Cross-bearing
Today Matthew’s record of the life of our Lord reveals how events were building up to a climax. Jesus was becoming more challenging in his contact with the Pharisees and Sadducees; he bluntly tells the Sadducees they “are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God” (22:29) in refusing to believe… Read More Today’s thought “Which is the great commandment …?” (January 20)
From the (forgotten =) unpublished material In response on “Why All Roads Do Lead to God by Robin Schumacher” by lacykitkat on January 8, 2013 we would like to pose also: “How can Christians think their way is the only way, and their road is the only one that leads to God?” The one that hears… Read More Roads leading to God
Today’s thought “Not stopping doing what is right” (November 5) Throughout the ages there have been times people loved to remember their dead with bringing offers to them. Many times several gods and ghosts were revered. More than once people had forgotten about the Most important Book for life. When Josiah was eight years and… Read More Today’s thought “Not stopping doing what is right” (November 5)
From the days of Jeshua (Christ Jesus) there were people who wanted to follow that master teacher, whilst others were interested in some points but did not like other points and as such preferred to keep to other teachings and traditions also. Jeshua had asked those who he had chosen to become his disciples, what… Read More Different wineskins
When looking around us we can see how man is nothing against the powers of nature. Man also tries to create a lot of things, but never can succeed to create such marvellous things as the divine Originator of all things. In the Book of books, the Bestseller of all times, we can get an… Read More The Greatness of the eternal God
GALATIANS 5:22 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is NO LAW ! * To remember “18 But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 68: Galatians 5:23: Against certain things there is no law
PSALMS -1-23-24-48-100-3 – 121 Blessed is the Man that walketh not in the Council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, But his delight is in the law of ~YAHWEH~ and in HIS law doth he meditate day and night. ##———–PSALM 2:6 _____ 6… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 14 Psalms 1-84 Delight in the Law of Jehovah God until death
Today’s thought “keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law ” (May 10) In 2Kings 8:4-6 we can find a direct example of how God works the circumstances for those that love Him. It is a direct example of the truth of the words in Proverbs 16:7,… Read More Thought for those who think it is not necessary to do any works any more
We have seen how God created out of the chaos and ordered universe in which He placed carnal creatures. In His Kingdom He had His Royal Garden where He placed human beings with a free will. Jehovah the divine Maker God set out to create a perfect creation but alas the very workmanship of His… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #7 Promise and solution
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