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THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES
Connect The TestamentsNumbers 7:48-89; John 15:1-16:4; Psalm 9:1-7 Jesus isn’t simply a high priority or even the highest priority of our lives. He is the source of life. In the Gospel of John, Jesus teaches the disciples that they need to depend on Him for their very lives—both in the present and for eternal life.…
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HIGH MATTERS AND THE HIDDEN JUDGMENTS OF GOD ARE NOT TO BE SCRUTINIZED
Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, beware of discussing high matters and God’s hidden judgments—why this person is so forsaken and why that one is favored with so great a grace, or why one man is so afflicted and another so highly exalted. Such things are beyond all human understanding and no…
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MORNING & EVENING
God’s people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when he chose his people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when…
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CONCERNING KNOWLEDGE AND EATING MEAT
Connect The TestamentsNumbers 7:1-47; John 14:1-31; Psalm 8:1-9 It’s easy to equate knowledge with faith and then look down on new believers. Although we might not voice it, those who are less knowledgeable in their faith can seem weak. And sometimes, instead of practicing patience, showing love, and speaking carefully about the hope within us,…
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A MAN SHOULD NOT BE TOO DOWNCAST WHEN HE FALLS INTO DEFECTS
Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, patience and humility in adversity are more pleasing to Me than much consolation and devotion when things are going well. Why are you saddened by some little thing said against you? Even if it had been more you ought not to have been affected. But now…
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SIGNS AND SATIRE
Connect The TestamentsNumbers 6:1-27; John 13:21-38; Psalm 7:1-17 The images of judgment in Psa 7 are sometimes hard to take. We are so acquainted with a God of love that it’s difficult to understand a God who blinds eyes, hardens hearts, and “has indignation every day” (Psa 7:11). While these passages paint a picture of…
