Charles Haddon Spurgeon October 29th — Morning Reading

"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc." — Matthew 6:9

This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, "Our Father." There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, "I will arise, and go unto my Father." This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy." There is but a step from rapturous worship to the glowing missionary spirit, which is a sure outgrowth of filial love and reverent adoration-"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Next follows the heartfelt expression of dependence upon God-"Give us this day our daily bread." Being further illuminated by the Spirit, he discovers that he is not only dependent, but sinful, hence he entreats for mercy, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors:" and being pardoned, having the righteousness of Christ imputed, and knowing his acceptance with God, he humbly supplicates for holy perseverance, "Lead us not into temptation." The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. "Forgive us our debts," that is justification; "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," that is sanctification in its negative and positive forms. As the result of all this, there follows a triumphant ascription of praise, "Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen." We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of His dominion there shall be no end. Thus from a sense of adoption, up to fellowship with our reigning Lord, this short model of prayer conducts the soul. Lord, teach us thus to pray.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon October 28th — Evening Reading

"His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven." — Song of Songs 5:11

Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand His deity, "for the head of Christ is God" and then the ingot of purest gold is the best conceivable metaphor, but all too poor to describe one so precious, so pure, so dear, so glorious. Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and heaven cannot excel. The creatures are mere iron and clay, they all shall perish like wood, hay, and stubble, but the everliving Head of the creation of God shall shine on for ever and ever. In Him is no mixture, nor smallest taint of alloy. He is for ever infinitely holy and altogether divine. The bushy locks depict His manly vigour. There is nothing effeminate in our Beloved. He is the manliest of men. Bold as a lion, laborious as an ox, swift as an eagle. Every conceivable and inconceivable beauty is to be found in Him, though once He was despised and rejected of men.

"His head the finest gold;

With secret sweet perfume,

His curled locks hang all as black

As any raven's plume."

The glory of His head is not shorn away, He is eternally crowned with peerless majesty. The black hair indicates youthful freshness, for Jesus has the dew of His youth upon Him. Others grow languid with age, but He is for ever a Priest as was Melchisedek; others come and go, but He abides as God upon His throne, world without end. We will behold Him to-night and adore Him. Angels are gazing upon Him-His redeemed must not turn away their eyes from Him. Where else is there such a Beloved? O for an hour's fellowship with Him! Away, ye intruding cares! Jesus draws me, and I run after Him.

2tim 3:15- study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

The divisions in the church are due to not adhering to the practice of rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

The words rightly divide are from the Greek word orthotomounta or a right cutting.

As the bible says "every man hath a psalm, everyman a doctrine". This speaks of people who have their own opinion contrary to the Word of God. Everybody believes something, many stake their believing on words that are wrongly divided. Once wrongly divided they have no Godly authority.

Regardless of losing Godly authority as God ONLY backs up His own Word not the wishful private interpretations of men.

Peter says that no Scripture is of any private (gr. Idios -we get the word idiot from its root.) Interpretation. That begs the question to how the word is interpreted. Simply God interprets His own Word, either in the verse, in the context or it was used before. This is just the start, God defines a word by ts first usage in the text. For instance Hebrew (nephesh kai) is translated breath or breathed, as in "God breathed into Adam the breath of life and Adam became a living SOUL". What made Adam a living SOUL? The breath of life. He began to breath. Notably another use is when God mentions the Whales who had nephesh kai, how wonderfully accurate as whales are indeed know to have breath life and are living souls.

This is important as Adam was a man of body, soul and spirit. Soul and spirit are often thought synonymous, however they are not. Understanding these uses removes that confusion.

Learning to operate the principles of study, holding in abeyance that which we do not yet fully understand and acknowledging the integrity of God's Word when it is rightly divided would likely result in believers then complying with God's Word that directs us to:

Study rightly dividing the Word

Be like minded as followers of Christ

Have the mind if Christ

Renew our minds to the Word we righy divided

All speak the same things from the Word we have rightly divided.

Ignorance and wrong teaching will leave the church powerless, fearful, without believing (believing cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God). There should be no divisions in the church, the adversary divides.

God's Word rightly divided and believed (acted upon) produces "Unity of the spirit in the bond of peace". Any lack of that is on the heads of the believers for failing g to rightly divide the Word of Truth.

There are more principles to rightly dividing the Word that go with these, such as to whom it is written, which administration is spoken of, old testament v new etc. Thanks for letry me share.