Everyone born of God overcomes the world—sooner or later—after defeat, or in avoiding it by faith. Having delighted in the joy of forgiveness (Ps 32:1-2), and the high cost of unconfessed sin (vv 3-4), along with the simple solution to it (v 5), David now expands his vision to include “everyone who is godly.” These, he says, “shall […]
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CHRIST the LOVE WARRIOR: “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Rom 8:37). Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), served the Lord without furlough in India for 55 years. She served at Dohnavur in Tamil Nadu, which became a sanctuary for over one thousand children, many rescued from child prostitution. […]
“What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Mt 7:9). Do you ask the Lord for little things—like daily bread? Jesus said we should, didn’t He? Is there anything too little to ask Him? Or to put it the other way around, is anything at […]
In the fourth century, the “golden-mouthed” Chrysostom of Antioch wrote: “I do not think of Christ as God alone, or Man alone, but both together. For I know He was hungry, and I know that with five loaves He fed five thousand. I know He was thirsty, and I know that He turned the water […]
“Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.” —Max Lucado We started a study of Psalm 32 in our last lesson. David begins at the end of the story, when he revels in the blessedness of God’s forgiveness (vv 1-2). But then he talks about the toll unconfessed sin takes. “When […]
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CHRIST “the WISDOM of GOD”: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God” (1 Cor 1:24, 30). Paul writes that “the world through wisdom did not know God” (v 21). James adds that earthly wisdom is “sensual, demonic” and manifests itself in envy, self-seeking, confusion and every evil […]
“He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered” (Prov 28:26). A.W. Tozer writes: “The world has divided men into two classes, the stupid good people and the clever wicked ones.…In the Holy Scriptures things are quite the opposite. There righteousness is always associated with wisdom and […]
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Ps 14:1). Is the Bible being unkind or painfully truthful in making this statement? The story is told of a Christian and an atheist who were debating the question of the dependability of the Bible. The atheist asked, “Can you prove to me that an […]
“How blest are they whose trespass has freely been forgiven, whose sins are wholly covered before the sight of heaven.” This psalm is called a Maschil or “Contemplation,” and we do well to follow the author’s suggestion. If you recall how Psalm 1 began, it has a certain familiarity with Psalm 32. Listen: “Blessed is the man who […]