Many times when God's people strays from Him He disciplines them. If we are not disciplined or chastised, then we are not His people. From our reading today in Judges 1 through 3. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: and they forsook the LORD God of …
Category: Repentance
…Professing themselves to be wise…
The excerpt from today's reading of Acts 28 through Romans 2 is a warning for those who deny God, go their own way and do what is right in their own eyes. God gives them up. Hear the word of the Lord... Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither …
…Our Iniquities Testify Against Us…
...And it is true for God's people today as well the our iniquities do testify against us. John wrote, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9. Our reading for today is Jeremiah 14 through 16. The word of …
The Act Of Repentance
The scheduled reading for today (March 14, 2023) is Judge 8 through 10 for knowledge, instruction, inspiration, doctrine, correction, and reproof toward righteousness. Excerpt for today's reading... ...And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, "We have sinned: do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee; deliver us only, we pray Thee, this …
GOD Is Still Speaking
Today's reading is Numbers 27 through 29 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. And thou …
The First Sermon of Jesus Christ
Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." Mark 1:14-15
Only Sinners Can Be Saved
And as Jesus passed forth from thence, He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and He saith unto him, "Follow Me." And he arose, and followed Him. And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with …
Mourning caused by sin’s disobedience
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have …
The Day of the LORD is At Hand
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: and they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they …
Gathered Together
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God …
Fruits of Repentance
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought …
Returning to the LORD
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey His …
Guilt and Forgiveness
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, "Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him." And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, "Thy father did command before he died, saying, 'So shall ye say unto Joseph, 'Forgive, I pray …
Go Back to Bethel
And God said unto Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother." Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among …
He Who Has the Sharp Two Edged Sword
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; "These things saith He which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 'I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast My name, and hast not denied My faith, even in those days wherein Antipas My faithful martyr, …