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Thru the Bible - Sunday Sermon Dr. J. Vernon McGee
What Does God Look Like?
How can one describe someone who has never been seen? Although we can’t know what God looks like, we can allow others to see a glimpse of Him—through the way we live our lives.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Just Be Willing
Are you here struggling, friends? You have tried this thing so much, so often, and you have blundered. You have fallen. I know that story. Oh, that’s an old story. Why don’t you turn your life over to Him? Why don’t you trust Him? Don’t you think He’s good? Don’t you think He’s merciful? Don’t you think that He really meant business when He gave His Son to die for you? Don’t you really think He wants to save you? He’s not asking you to do anything—except to be willing to be saved. Just be willing to be saved.
Daily Promises
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4)
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God and our Bridegroom shall return! Our true life is hidden in Him and when He appears in clouds of glory, then shall our own true lives be made apparent in Him. His life of obedience is ours (cf. Romans 5:19 and Hebrews 5:8). His death and suffering is ours. So too is His resurrection to new life. And even so, His revelation in robes of splendour at the final day shall be shared with every one of His saints. So put to death the earthly things until His coming and you shall be crowned in His glory.
Filling The Void
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. — Exodus 20:3
True happiness and satisfaction in life can only be found in the one true God.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/filling-the-void
Please Help ‘Backpack And School Supplies Drive’ To Benefit The Children And Community Impacted By The Guadalupe River Flood In Texas
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Wendell Phillips
Today's Wins
1 As Texas becomes 7th state to ban lab-grown meat, Trump’s FDA, USDA advance it
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_6d40b2ba-7140-4af1-96b9-f63d86975dd5.html
2 How Much Slavery Is in Cali? GOP Probe Aims to Find Out After ICE Raid Uncovers Child Labor Abuse
3 The General Theory of Enshittification...It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification
4 Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-400-not-crisis-but-murder
5 Yuval Noah Harari: Judaism is facing a possible spiritual catastrophe
https://youtu.be/BD7YOmqENTM?si=UFccmSpBCvN2izw6
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C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (July 27th)
"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" — Romans 8:33
Most blessed challenge! How unanswerable it is! Every sin of the elect was laid upon the great Champion of our salvation, and by the atonement carried away. There is no sin in God's book against His people: He seeth no sin in Jacob, neither iniquity in Israel; they are justified in Christ for ever. When the guilt of sin was taken away, the punishment of sin was removed. For the Christian there is no stroke from God's angry hand-nay, not so much as a single frown of punitive justice. The believer may be chastised by his Father, but God the Judge has nothing to say to the Christian, except "I have absolved thee: thou art acquitted." For the Christian there is no penal death in this world, much less any second death. He is completely freed from all the punishment as well as the guilt of sin, and the power of sin is removed too. It may stand in our way, and agitate us with perpetual warfare; but sin is a conquered foe to every soul in union with Jesus. There is no sin which a Christian cannot overcome if he will only rely upon his God to do it. They who wear the white robe in heaven overcame through the blood of the Lamb, and we may do the same. No lust is too mighty, no besetting sin too strongly entrenched; we can overcome through the power of Christ. Do believe it, Christian, that thy sin is a condemned thing. It may kick and struggle, but it is doomed to die. God has written condemnation across its brow. Christ has crucified it, "nailing it to His cross." Go now and mortify it, and the Lord help you to live to His praise, for sin with all its guilt, shame, and fear, is gone.
"Here's pardon for transgressions past,
It matters not how black their cast;
And, O my soul, with wonder view,
For sins to come here's pardon too."
C. H. Spurgeon's Morning Reading (July 28th)
"So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee." — Psalm 73:22
Remember this is the confession of the man after God's own heart; and in telling us his inner life, he writes, "So foolish was I, and ignorant." The word "foolish," here, means more than it signifies in ordinary language. David, in a former verse of the Psalm, writes, "I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked," which shows that the folly he intended had sin in it. He puts himself down as being thus "foolish," and adds a word which is to give intensity to it; "so foolish was I." How foolish he could not tell. It was a sinful folly, a folly which was not to be excused by frailty, but to be condemned because of its perverseness and wilful ignorance, for he had been envious of the present prosperity of the ungodly, forgetful of the dreadful end awaiting all such. And are we better than David that we should call ourselves wise! Do we profess that we have attained perfection, or to have been so chastened that the rod has taken all our wilfulness out of us? Ah, this were pride indeed! If David was foolish, how foolish should we be in our own esteem if we could but see ourselves! Look back, believer: think of your doubting God when He has been so faithful to you-think of your foolish outcry of "Not so, my Father," when He crossed His hands in affliction to give you the larger blessing; think of the many times when you have read His providences in the dark, misinterpreted His dispensations, and groaned out, "All these things are against me," when they are all working together for your good! Think how often you have chosen sin because of its pleasure, when indeed, that pleasure was a root of bitterness to you! Surely if we know our own heart we must plead guilty to the indictment of a sinful folly; and conscious of this "foolishness," we must make David's consequent resolve our own-"Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel."