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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-10-17-2017
This is devotional thought number 34 in our devotional series, “Removing the Veil: Sanctuary Living in the 21st Century.” Our subject is: The Billowy Pulpit
Here’s the question for consideration: How can you nullify the power of the gospel in your life?
“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” (Hebrews 4:2).
Today’s entry is not the kind of how-to you’d necessarily want to learn. Maybe we should switch it around to, “How not to nullify the gospel in your life.” Let’s see what God has to say on the matter.
Oftentimes, people miss the reality that the gospel is not a new concept for those living following the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. The Scripture says that the gospel was preached to the Old Testament believers. The fullness, at least for their era, began when Moses ascended the mountain to commune with God and He spoke those ten wonderful words we call the Ten Commandments. YHWH (blessed be His name) had already delivered His people from bondage, much in the same way He delivers us from bondage to sin, and then taught them through His commandments, statutes, judgments, and precepts, to loathe and avoid evil. Spiritually enslaved people do not have the capacity to please God. Thus, He delivers us for captivity, and then by writing His law in our minds, gives us a spiritual compass to follow under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
As we have said many times since the beginning of this series, God welcomed Moses into the mountain, and then enfolded him into the billowy cloud of His presence, to give him a living color blueprint of God’s mind on the plan of salvation. Step-by-step, and through many different rites, ceremonies, services, and symbols, God taught His people the cost of sin, it’s penalty, and remedy. He taught us our responsibility to God and fellow human beings. He taught us His selfless ministry, through Christ. He taught us that He was powerful enough to transform us from hopeless sinners into holy saints. He taught the OT peoples that they were awaiting the genuine article, Jesus Christ, to whom all of the other elements pointed, which was their only hope of salvation.
The problem was, some of the OT believers were not such through-and-through. They had an intellectual assent to truth, and the reality of the mission of God, but would not surrender their all to Him. They would not allow Him to become their righteousness. They would consistently promise to do God’s will and then fail. Many never learned how to rest in God’s perfect and complete plan of redemption. They trusted in their own abilities and failed to produce the peaceable fruits of righteousness. And, with failure, comes dire and tragic consequences.
The question is whether we have learned what not to do, from their example. Have we learned that self-righteousness is no righteousness at all? Have we learned that faith is a conduit through which flows the power of God? I hope so. The everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God, unto salvation for everyone who believes in God … fully.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
#theprotestisnotover #sanctuary
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-10-17-2017
This is devotional thought number 34 in our devotional series, “Removing the Veil: Sanctuary Living in the 21st Century.” Our subject is: The Billowy Pulpit
Here’s the question for consideration: How can you nullify the power of the gospel in your life?
“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” (Hebrews 4:2).
Today’s entry is not the kind of how-to you’d necessarily want to learn. Maybe we should switch it around to, “How not to nullify the gospel in your life.” Let’s see what God has to say on the matter.
Oftentimes, people miss the reality that the gospel is not a new concept for those living following the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. The Scripture says that the gospel was preached to the Old Testament believers. The fullness, at least for their era, began when Moses ascended the mountain to commune with God and He spoke those ten wonderful words we call the Ten Commandments. YHWH (blessed be His name) had already delivered His people from bondage, much in the same way He delivers us from bondage to sin, and then taught them through His commandments, statutes, judgments, and precepts, to loathe and avoid evil. Spiritually enslaved people do not have the capacity to please God. Thus, He delivers us for captivity, and then by writing His law in our minds, gives us a spiritual compass to follow under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
As we have said many times since the beginning of this series, God welcomed Moses into the mountain, and then enfolded him into the billowy cloud of His presence, to give him a living color blueprint of God’s mind on the plan of salvation. Step-by-step, and through many different rites, ceremonies, services, and symbols, God taught His people the cost of sin, it’s penalty, and remedy. He taught us our responsibility to God and fellow human beings. He taught us His selfless ministry, through Christ. He taught us that He was powerful enough to transform us from hopeless sinners into holy saints. He taught the OT peoples that they were awaiting the genuine article, Jesus Christ, to whom all of the other elements pointed, which was their only hope of salvation.
The problem was, some of the OT believers were not such through-and-through. They had an intellectual assent to truth, and the reality of the mission of God, but would not surrender their all to Him. They would not allow Him to become their righteousness. They would consistently promise to do God’s will and then fail. Many never learned how to rest in God’s perfect and complete plan of redemption. They trusted in their own abilities and failed to produce the peaceable fruits of righteousness. And, with failure, comes dire and tragic consequences.
The question is whether we have learned what not to do, from their example. Have we learned that self-righteousness is no righteousness at all? Have we learned that faith is a conduit through which flows the power of God? I hope so. The everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God, unto salvation for everyone who believes in God … fully.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
#theprotestisnotover #sanctuary
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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-10-17-2017
This is devotional thought number 34 in our devotional series, “Removing the Veil: Sanctuary Living in the 21st Century.” Our subject is: The Billowy Pulpit
Here’s the question for consideration: How can you nullify the power of the gospel in your life?
“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” (Hebrews 4:2).
Today’s entry is not the kind of how-to you’d necessarily want to learn. Maybe we should switch it around to, “How not to nullify the gospel in your life.” Let’s see what God has to say on the matter.
Oftentimes, people miss the reality that the gospel is not a new concept for those living following the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. The Scripture says that the gospel was preached to the Old Testament believers. The fullness, at least for their era, began when Moses ascended the mountain to commune with God and He spoke those ten wonderful words we call the Ten Commandments. YHWH (blessed be His name) had already delivered His people from bondage, much in the same way He delivers us from bondage to sin, and then taught them through His commandments, statutes, judgments, and precepts, to loathe and avoid evil. Spiritually enslaved people do not have the capacity to please God. Thus, He delivers us for captivity, and then by writing His law in our minds, gives us a spiritual compass to follow under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
As we have said many times since the beginning of this series, God welcomed Moses into the mountain, and then enfolded him into the billowy cloud of His presence, to give him a living color blueprint of God’s mind on the plan of salvation. Step-by-step, and through many different rites, ceremonies, services, and symbols, God taught His people the cost of sin, it’s penalty, and remedy. He taught us our responsibility to God and fellow human beings. He taught us His selfless ministry, through Christ. He taught us that He was powerful enough to transform us from hopeless sinners into holy saints. He taught the OT peoples that they were awaiting the genuine article, Jesus Christ, to whom all of the other elements pointed, which was their only hope of salvation.
The problem was, some of the OT believers were not such through-and-through. They had an intellectual assent to truth, and the reality of the mission of God, but would not surrender their all to Him. They would not allow Him to become their righteousness. They would consistently promise to do God’s will and then fail. Many never learned how to rest in God’s perfect and complete plan of redemption. They trusted in their own abilities and failed to produce the peaceable fruits of righteousness. And, with failure, comes dire and tragic consequences.
The question is whether we have learned what not to do, from their example. Have we learned that self-righteousness is no righteousness at all? Have we learned that faith is a conduit through which flows the power of God? I hope so. The everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God, unto salvation for everyone who believes in God … fully.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
#theprotestisnotover #sanctuary
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-10-17-2017
This is devotional thought number 34 in our devotional series, “Removing the Veil: Sanctuary Living in the 21st Century.” Our subject is: The Billowy Pulpit
Here’s the question for consideration: How can you nullify the power of the gospel in your life?
“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” (Hebrews 4:2).
Today’s entry is not the kind of how-to you’d necessarily want to learn. Maybe we should switch it around to, “How not to nullify the gospel in your life.” Let’s see what God has to say on the matter.
Oftentimes, people miss the reality that the gospel is not a new concept for those living following the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. The Scripture says that the gospel was preached to the Old Testament believers. The fullness, at least for their era, began when Moses ascended the mountain to commune with God and He spoke those ten wonderful words we call the Ten Commandments. YHWH (blessed be His name) had already delivered His people from bondage, much in the same way He delivers us from bondage to sin, and then taught them through His commandments, statutes, judgments, and precepts, to loathe and avoid evil. Spiritually enslaved people do not have the capacity to please God. Thus, He delivers us for captivity, and then by writing His law in our minds, gives us a spiritual compass to follow under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
As we have said many times since the beginning of this series, God welcomed Moses into the mountain, and then enfolded him into the billowy cloud of His presence, to give him a living color blueprint of God’s mind on the plan of salvation. Step-by-step, and through many different rites, ceremonies, services, and symbols, God taught His people the cost of sin, it’s penalty, and remedy. He taught us our responsibility to God and fellow human beings. He taught us His selfless ministry, through Christ. He taught us that He was powerful enough to transform us from hopeless sinners into holy saints. He taught the OT peoples that they were awaiting the genuine article, Jesus Christ, to whom all of the other elements pointed, which was their only hope of salvation.
The problem was, some of the OT believers were not such through-and-through. They had an intellectual assent to truth, and the reality of the mission of God, but would not surrender their all to Him. They would not allow Him to become their righteousness. They would consistently promise to do God’s will and then fail. Many never learned how to rest in God’s perfect and complete plan of redemption. They trusted in their own abilities and failed to produce the peaceable fruits of righteousness. And, with failure, comes dire and tragic consequences.
The question is whether we have learned what not to do, from their example. Have we learned that self-righteousness is no righteousness at all? Have we learned that faith is a conduit through which flows the power of God? I hope so. The everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God, unto salvation for everyone who believes in God … fully.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
#theprotestisnotover #sanctuary