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Daily Devotional “Conquering In Conflict”

Daily Devotional “Conquering In Conflict”
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December 08, 2023

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“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days” (Hebrews. 11:30).

Faith is the key to spiritual conquest.

Forty years had lapsed since the Israelites refused to enter the Promised Land.

That unbelieving generation had perished in the wilderness. Now Joshua was leading a new generation into the land.

The first obstacle they faced was Jericho—a well- fortified city that was near the mouth of the Jordan River.

Some city walls of that day were wide enough at the top to allow two chariots to ride side-by-side.

That was probably true of Jericho because of its strategic location.

That, coupled with the caliber of its army, made the city virtually impregnable— especially to unsophisticated Israelites, who lacked military training.

But what is impossible for man is easy for God. And the stage was set for Him to demonstrate His power and for the Israelites to demonstrate their faith and humility.

One can only imagine how embarrassed the Hebrew people felt as they marched around Jericho once a day for six days.

That certainly is not your typical military strategy.

But on the seventh day, after marching around the city seven times with the priests blowing their rams’ horns, the priests gave one final blast, the people all shouted out loud, and the walls of the city collapsed (Joshua. 6:20).

Faith had reduced a formidable obstacle to a crumbled ruin.

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Can you identify some spiritual obstacles you’ve faced recently?

How did you handle them? You’ll always have them to deal with in your Christian walk, but don’t fret.

See them as opportunities to exercise faith and see God’s power on display in your life.

Continue to trust the Lord and demonstrate your faith by courageously doing what He has called you to do.

Prayer

Ask God to help you humbly trust in God’s power when you face spiritual conflicts.

Further Reading

Read about the conquest of Jericho in Joshua 6:1-21. Note each occasion where the people obeyed one of Joshua’s commands without hesitation.

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Daily Devotional “Accepting God’s Provisions”

Daily Devotional “Accepting God’s Provisions”
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December 07, 2023

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“By faith [Moses] kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned” (Hebrews. 11:28-29).

The man or woman of faith gratefully accepts all God’s provisions, no matter how pointless some of them may seem.

When the time came for Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, everything on the human level said it couldn’t be done.

Pharaoh wasn’t about to let two to three million slaves just pack up and leave.

His formidable army was ready to insure that no such exodus occurred.

But when God devises a plan, He always makes the necessary provisions for carrying it out.

On this occasion, His provision came in the form of ten terrifying plagues designed to change Pharaoh’s mind.

The tenth and worst plague was the death of all the first- born (Exodus. 11:5).

To protect themselves from this plague, the Israelites sprinkled the blood of a lamb on the doorposts and lintels of their homes.

When the angel of death saw the blood, he passed over that house. Thus the Passover was instituted.

The blood from those first Passover lambs had no intrinsic power to stave off the death angel, but its presence demonstrated faith and obedience, thus symbolizing the future sacrifice of Christ (cf. John 1:29).

Pharaoh got the message and allowed the Israelites to leave.

But soon afterward he changed his mind and commanded his army to pursue them.

Again God intervened by parting the Red Sea, allowing His people to walk across on dry land.

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He then drowned the entire Egyptian army when it followed the Israelites into the sea.

That was a graphic demonstration of a lesson every believer must learn: God’s provisions are always best.

They may sometimes seem foolish to the human intellect—just as “the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness” (1 Corinthians. 1:18)—but the man or woman of faith trusts God and receives His provisions gratefully.

Prayer

Thank God for the wise and gracious provisions He has made for your salvation and ongoing Christian walk.

Further Reading

Read the account of the Passover and the parting of the Red Sea in Exodus 11-14.

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Daily Devotional “The Law Arouses Sin”

Daily Devotional “The Law Arouses Sin”
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December 05, 2023

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“But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead” (Romans 7:8).

When confronted with God’s holy law, sinful men are motivated not to obey it, but to break it.

It is a perverse fact of fallen human nature that the surest way to get people to do things is to tell them not to do them.

When people see a sign reading “Keep off the grass!” or “Don’t pick the flowers!” their first impulse is often to trample the grass and take some flowers.

The same is true in the spiritual realm. God’s law reveals what is right and what is wrong—and sinful men choose to do what is wrong.

In his classic allegory Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan vividly depicts the seemingly paradoxical truth that the law does not restrain sin but stirs it up.

In the house of Interpreter, Christian was shown a large, dust-filled room.

A man with a broom, representing the law, appeared and began to sweep. The resulting dust cloud nearly choked Christian.

Bunyan’s point was that just as sweeping a dusty room does not remove the dust but only stirs it up, so the law does not restrain sin but merely aggravates it.

Does that mean the law is evil? Certainly not. “The Law is holy” (Romans. 7:12) since it derives from a holy God.

And it does sinners good by exposing their sin and revealing to them their need for a Savior. The law, then, is not the culprit—sin is.

Using himself as an illustration, Paul notes that “sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind.”

”Opportunity” translates a Greek word used in military terms to speak of a base of operations from which attacks could be launched.

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Sin used the law—especially the knowledge of right and wrong it brought—to launch its attacks on Paul.

Don’t be afraid in your evangelism to confront sinners with the demands of God’s holy law.

They must face their utter inability to meet its demands before they will recognize their need for a Savior.

Prayer

Pray that God would help you discern the subtlety of sin’s attacks against you.

Further Reading

Read 2 Kings 17:13-16. Did the Israelites’ knowledge of God’s law keep them from sinning?

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Daily Devotional “The Law Reveals Sin”

Daily Devotional “The Law Reveals Sin”
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December 04, 2023

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“What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, ‘You shall not covet’” (Romans 7:7).

God’s holy standard exposes man’s rebellious heart.

So far in Romans, Paul has told us what the law can’t do: it can’t save us (3—5) or sanctify us (6).

At this point the apostle anticipates and answers a question that naturally arises: What, then, was the purpose of the law?

Was it evil? In the next few days we’re going to consider three important purposes the law served.

First, the law reveals sin. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous standard (1 John 3:4); if no such standard existed, there would be no sin.

In Romans 3:20 Paul said that “through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.” Romans 4:15 adds, “Where there is no law, neither is there violation,” and Romans 5:13 reveals that “sin is not imputed when there is no law.”

To the question “Is the Law sin?” Paul replies emphatically, “May it never be!” Such a question is as absurd as it is blasphemous; an evil law could never proceed from a holy God.

Paul goes on to say, “I would not have come to know sin except through the Law.”

The law brought the proud Pharisee Saul of Tarsus face to face with his utter sinfulness, revealing his need for a Savior and preparing his heart for his life-changing encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus.

The specific commandment Paul cites, the injunction against coveting, is revealing.

Coveting is an internal attitude, not an external act. It was the realization that God’s law applied to his attitudes, not merely his external behavior, that devastated Paul.

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He was forced to realize that all his external self-righteousness was worthless because his heart wasn’t right.

I pray that you too will be “obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed” (Romans. 6:17).

Prayer

Pray with the psalmist, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way” (Psalm. 139:23-24).

Further Reading

Read Isaiah 1:14-20; Amos 5:21-27; Matthew 23:25-28. What does God think of mere outward conformity to His law?

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Daily Devotional “Dead to the Law”

Daily Devotional “Dead to the Law”
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December 03, 2023

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“Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ” (Romans 7:4).

The law can no longer punish those who have died with Christ.

It’s an axiomatic truth that laws don’t apply to dead people. No policeman would issue a ticket to a drunk driver who was killed in an accident.

Nor was Lee Harvey Oswald tried for killing President Kennedy, since he himself was killed by Jack Ruby.

In Romans 7:2-3 Paul uses marriage to illustrate that truth: “For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

So then if, while her husband is living, she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.”

Paul’s point is simple: death ends a marriage because the laws regarding marriage don’t apply to the dead.

The same principle holds true in the spiritual realm.

Since believers have died with Christ (Romans. 6:3-7), the law can no longer condemn them; it no longer has authority over them.

Paul’s use of a passive verb (“were made to die”) indicates that believers don’t make themselves dead to the law; they were made dead to the law through a divine act.

The only provision for paying the penalty the law demands is the Lord Jesus Christ’s death on the cross.

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To the Corinthians Paul wrote, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians. 5:21).

The apostle repeated that truth in Galatians 2:19-20: “For through the Law I died to the Law, that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.”

Prayer

Thank God that you are no longer under the law’s condemnation (Romans. 8:1).

Further Reading

Read Romans 3:20; Romans 7:12; Galatians 3:24-25. Since the law can’t save anyone, what is its purpose?

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Daily Devotional “Paying Sin’s Price”

Daily Devotional “Paying Sin’s Price”
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December 02, 2023

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“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

Christ paid a debt He did not owe to free us from a debt we could not pay.

In the scientific realm there are universal laws, such as the law of gravity.

These laws are built into the creation by its all-wise Creator and keep it functioning normally.

Just as God has made inexorable laws to govern the physical dimension, so also has He decreed universal spiritual principles.

The most significant of those spiritual laws is that sin demands death; death is the wages sin pays.

The Greek word translated “wages” was commonly used to speak of giving compensation for service rendered.

When God sentences sinners to Hell, He is merely giving them the compensation that they have earned and that His justice demands.

In sharp contrast to the inexorable law of sin and death is the gracious “free gift of God”—“eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Eternal life is not a wage but a gift, and hence it can’t be earned.

Good works, church attendance, or religious rituals will not entitle anyone to it.

After recounting his religious credentials—credentials unsurpassed in first-century Judaism (Galatians. 1:14)—Paul dismissed them as “loss for the sake of Christ” (Philippians 3:7).

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The free gift of eternal life comes only through “Christ Jesus our Lord.” In Acts 4:12 Peter declared that “there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.”

And in John 14:6 Jesus said simply, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.”

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift” (2 Corinthians. 9:15)!

Prayer

Have you lost touch with the reality that “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death” (Romans. 8:2)?
If so, spend some time in prayer today, thanking God for giving you eternal life.

Further Reading

What do the following passages teach about the possibility of earning eternal life: Romans 3:28; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:11; Philippians 3:9; Titus 3:5?

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Daily Devotional “Walking with God”

Daily Devotional “Walking with God”
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November 15, 2023

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“Enoch walked with God” (Genesis 5:24).

Walking with God includes reconciliation, obedience from the heart, and ongoing faith.

When Scripture speaks of walking with God, it’s referring to one’s manner of life.

For example, Paul prayed that the Colossian believers (and us) would be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so they could walk (live) in a manner worthy of the Lord (Colossians. 1:9-10).

To the Ephesians he said, “Walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind . . . [but] be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you” (Ephesians. 4:17; Ephesians 5:1-2).

The Old Testament describes Enoch as a man who walked with God.

Though relatively little is said about this special man, we can derive implications from his life that will help us better understand what it means to walk with God.

First, Enoch’s walk with God implies reconciliation. Amos 3:3 says, “Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?” (NIV).

Two people can’t have intimate fellowship unless they agree.

Obviously Enoch wasn’t rebellious toward God, but had been reconciled with Him through faith.

Second, walking with God implies loving service. Second John 6 says, “This is love, that we walk according to His commandments.”

We obey Christ, but our obedience is motivated by love, not legalism or fear of punishment.

Third, a godly walk implies continuing faith, “for we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians. 5:7).

Colossians 2:6-7 adds, “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith.”

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By grace Enoch believed God and pleased Him all his life.

Do those who know you best see you as one who walks with God? I trust so.

After all, that’s the distinguishing mark of a true believer: “The one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked” (1 John 2:6).

Prayer

Praise God for granting the reconciliation, faith, and love that enables you to walk with Him day by day.

Further Reading

What do the following verses teach about your Christian walk: Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; and 1 John 1:7?

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Daily Devotional “The First Disciple”

Daily Devotional “The First Disciple”
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November 13, 2023

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“Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground.

And Abel . . . brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions.

And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering; but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard” (Genesis. 4:3-5).

True discipleship is characterized by obedience to God’s Word.

In John 8:31 Jesus issued an important statement to a group of people who were showing an interest in Him: “If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine.”

Sadly, they rejected His words, proving themselves to be less than true disciples.

Jesus went on to explain why: “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God” (v. 47).

They listened but didn’t really hear. They were interested but not truly committed.

They were hearers of the Word but not doers (James 1:22).

In contrast, Abel did what God told him to do. He was, in effect, the first disciple.

He was probably a better person than Cain—more friendly, moral, and dependable—but that’s not why God accepted his sacrifice and rejected Cain’s.

Abel trusted God, and his faith was counted as righteousness.

Like Abraham, whose faith was evidenced by his willingness to obey God and sacrifice his son Isaac (James 2:21-22), Abel’s faith was evidenced in his obedient offering.

He didn’t rely on his own goodness but acknowledged his sin and made the prescribed sacrifice.

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Perhaps God indicated His acceptance of Abel’s sacrifice by consuming it with fire, as He did on other occasions in Scripture (Judges. 6:21; 1 Kings 18:38).

But whatever means He used, God made his pleasure known to Abel.

Abel’s brief life conveys a simple three-point message: we must come to God by faith; we must receive and obey God’s Word; and sin brings serious consequences.

If you hear and heed that message, you’ll walk the path of true discipleship and be assured of God’s pleasure.

Prayer

Make it your goal to please the Lord in everything you do today. Seek His wisdom and grace to do so faithfully.

Further Reading

Read these verses, noting what they say about pleasing God: 2 Corinthians 5:9; Ephesians 5:6-10; Philippians 2:12-13; Hebrews 11:6; and Hebrews 13:15-16, 20-21.

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Daily Devotional “Knowing The Right Answer”

Daily Devotional “Knowing The Right Answer”
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November 10, 2023

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“Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” (1 Corinthians 1:20).

Knowing Christ makes the believer wiser than the world.

Lawrence Toombs, in his 1955 article “O.T. Theology and the Wisdom Literature,” said, “Wisdom is to be found with God and nowhere else.

And unless the quest for wisdom brings a man to his knees in awe and reverence, knowing his own helplessness to make himself wise, wisdom remains for him a closed book” (The Journal of Bible and Religion, 23:3 [July 1955], 195).

It’s wonderful to have the book of God’s wisdom opened to us as believers.

Through God’s book of wisdom it’s easy for any believer to analyze the world.

People who have no biblical background find it difficult to resolve controversial issues like capital punishment, abortion, or homosexuality.

But the Bible has clear answers for those seemingly complex issues: If you take a life, you should die (Genesis. 9:6); the life within the womb is a person made by God (Psalm. 139:13); and homosexuality is not an alternate lifestyle but a damning sexual sin like adultery or fornication (1 Corinthians. 6:9-10; Romans. 1:26-27).

As a Bible-believing Christian you may not be considered “noble” or “mighty” by the world’s standards (1 Corinthians. 1:26) and may be seen as the refuse of the world (1 Corinthians. 4:13); but you have the answers to the important questions.

Because of God’s sovereign, gracious work, you’ve been ushered into the wisdom of God through fear of the Lord.

The apostle Paul said, “You are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God” (1 Corinthians. 1:30).

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Once you fear God, His wisdom continually flows to you.

Paul told the Colossians that in Christ dwells “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (2:3).

Since Christ dwells in you, you possess the very wisdom of God!

Prayer

•Praise the Lord for the privilege of knowing Him and His will through His Word and His Spirit.
•Pray that you might manifest the wisdom of the living God so that the world sees Christ in you.

Further Reading

Read 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. How does the apostle Paul contrast God’s wisdom with the world’s?

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Daily Devotional “Being Wise In Adversity”

Daily Devotional “Being Wise In Adversity”
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November 08, 2023

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“Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom” (James 3:13).

Wisdom teaches us how to handle adversity.

In his wonderful commentary on the book of James, Robert Johnstone wrote the following about meekness:

That “the meek” should “inherit the earth”—that they bear wrongs, and exemplify the love which “seeketh not her own”—to a world that believes in high-handedness and self-assertion, and pushing the weakest to the wall, a statement like this of the Lord from Heaven cannot but appear an utter paradox.

The man of the world desires to be counted anything but “meek” or “poor in spirit,” and would deem such a description of him equivalent to a charge of unmanliness.

Ah, brethren, this is because we have taken in Satan’s conception of manliness instead of God’s.

One man has been shown us by God, in whom His ideal of man was embodied; and He, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously: He for those who nailed Him to the tree prayed, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

The world’s spirit of wrath, then, must be folly; whilst than a spirit of meekness like His, in the midst of controversy, oppositions, trials of whatever kind, there can be no surer evidence that “Jesus is made of God to His people wisdom” The Epistle of James.

Johnstone recognized more than a hundred years ago what we need to know today—that the wisdom of man is arrogant, conceited, and self-serving, whereas the wisdom of God is humble, meek, and non-retaliatory.

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The contrast between false wisdom and true wisdom is crystal-clear.

Be sure you handle adversity in a Christlike way, knowing that every detail of your life is under God’s sovereign control.

Prayer

Thank the Lord for His example of how to respond to adversity (cf. 1 Peter 2:21-24).

Further Reading

Read Philippians 2:1-11, applying Christ’s example to your life (vv. 1-5).

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