Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
You want the Holy Spirit to help you win some soul to conversion in Christ. Note how Jesus won souls: He always gave them Good News. Take for instance, the crucified thief on the cross (Luke 23:34-43): Jesus’ last chance to win somebody before He had to die! What did He tell the thief? “You will be with Me in Paradise!” simply because
the ex-cursing, hate-filled man asked to be “remembered.” Jesus gave the poor wretch Good News.
Consider again the woman taken in adultery in John 8:1-11 (don’t cut the story out of your Bible!). Did He tell her, “Lady, if you will keep straight from now on, God will forgive your sins and then He will accept you”? He gave her Good News: “I do not condemn you! Go and sin no more.” I take your condemnation upon Myself; I am paying the price for your sin; I lift from you this burden of guilt, because as the Lamb
of God I bear your guilt Myself. His command to “sin no more” was more a promise than a stricture. With this message, she was able to “go and sin no more.” She never fell again! Jesus saved her right then and there.
Consider Cleopas and his friend on the path to Emmaus. They were so overwhelmed with discouragement that they would have given up their faith in Jesus as “the Savior of the world” if they had not gotten help just then. He gave them a Bible study incognito that was full of Good News. He saved them. Go thou and do likewise with some soul who needs Good News.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Somebody writes us a thoughtful question: Are we sure that the Bible teaches that God’s “church” is a visible organization, and not an invisible number of scattered believers?
The only times we read that Jesus mentioned His “church” were twice--Matthew 16:18 and 18:17. He used the word ECCLESIA, which means “called out,” a people designated and separated from the world, defined and denominated in a form that the world could recognize as an entity. The apostles called ancient Israel a “church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38), and we read that Israel was a visible organization that the
world could see as God’s denominated people. In Matthew 18 Jesus outlined what should be done if a member in the church disgraces its name--he should be disciplined. Unless the church is organized, this cannot be done.
Paul thought of a beautiful illustration of what the church is--it’s a
“body.” “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular . . .
in the church” (1 Cor. 12:12-28).
Possibly the reason for this person’s question is the problem of apostasy and worldliness in the church, which is discouraging to a thoughtful, sincere Christian. Please think about Jesus: He is even more pained by this than you are. Be joined to Him by faith, share His heart burden for His church. It’s the great crisis of the ages. He wants to lead her to repentance, not to ruin.
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Somebody writes us a thoughtful question: Are we sure that the Bible teaches that God’s “church” is a visible organization, and not an invisible number of scattered believers?
The only times we read that Jesus mentioned His “church” were twice--Matthew 16:18 and 18:17. He used the word ECCLESIA, which means “called out,” a people designated and separated from the world, defined and denominated in a form that the world could recognize as an entity. The apostles called ancient Israel a “church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38), and we read that Israel was a visible organization that the
world could see as God’s denominated people. In Matthew 18 Jesus outlined what should be done if a member in the church disgraces its name--he should be disciplined. Unless the church is organized, this cannot be done.
Paul thought of a beautiful illustration of what the church is--it’s a
“body.” “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular . . .
in the church” (1 Cor. 12:12-28).
Possibly the reason for this person’s question is the problem of apostasy and worldliness in the church, which is discouraging to a thoughtful, sincere Christian. Please think about Jesus: He is even more pained by this than you are. Be joined to Him by faith, share His heart burden for His church. It’s the great crisis of the ages. He wants to lead her to repentance, not to ruin.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
When Jesus called His Twelve and ordained them, He called them to a solemn privilege:
they were to take “bread” from His hands and fan out through the crowd of hungry
people and feed them. The bread was never their own; they had never baked it. It was
always second-hand bread. They were only the passers-on of bread that had been miraculously
multiplied by Jesus.
The same Savior has called you to be His servant to pass on “bread” to some hungry
person. This is what it means to follow Jesus. You are never an originator of saving
truth, you are never a smart theologian. The less smart it is obvious that you are
of yourself, the more the Lord can be honored by your ministry. The people need to
know that the “bread” you are passing on is not yours, but His. “Bread” is Good News
that nourishes a famished soul.
When Jesus fed the 5000 in John 6:9-13, apparently He Himself didn’t serve anyone;
“He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to” the people. No angel was
permitted to touch that bread, as the one who fed Elijah in the desert--this job is s
pecial now for the Twelve. They are to be intermediaries between the Savior and the
people. Their job is fun! The people smile at them and thank them profusely for what
they don’t deserve thanks for. (They must remember that and never take an ounce of
credit for themselves.)
And do you suppose the Twelve sneaked a bite themselves now and then, to taste if it
was good? (there was always plenty, and they were hungry too). Their first-hand
testimony, “It’s delicious!” was also fun to give.
Our “bread” to share today is “the everlasting gospel” (Rev. 14:6, 7).
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Monday, April 21, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Sinful, pain-laden time will not go on and on for eternity. There will be an “end of the world” and a return of Jesus as He promised, “I will come again” (Matt. 24:3; John 14:1-3). It is commonly understood that the last “sign” of His coming will be the “gospel . . . preached in all the world . . . and then shall the end come” (Matt. 24:14). Is that a physical task completed--the printing press turning out a sufficient number of books or tracts, or electronic broadcasts reaching a sufficient concentration?
A parallel “sign” is when the Lamb’s “wife hath made herself ready” for “the marriage of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:7, 8). We’ve been through the childish stage of thinking that means a material city, the New Jerusalem, spontaneously erects itself; now it appears we understand that by “city” the Lord means its inhabitants. An unusual word is used there--the “righteousness” that becomes the bride’s wedding dress is “the righteousness of saints” (dikaiomata in the Greek instead of dikaiosune, Christ’s righteousness!). For once in the history of the world, hallelujah choruses proclaim in heaven, “His wife has made herself ready.” And we lay aside our joking and our levity and our self-righteousness. At last Christ’s righteousness becomes more than merely legal, imputed objectively, and it becomes subjectively imparted. He will have a people who honor Him and glorify Him before the world and before the universe. As Isaiah says, their
“righteousness is of [Him]” (54:11-17), but now there is the intimacy of a wedding night; both the Bridegroom and the bride contribute to the union.
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Sinful, pain-laden time will not go on and on for eternity. There will be an “end of the world” and a return of Jesus as He promised, “I will come again” (Matt. 24:3; John 14:1-3). It is commonly understood that the last “sign” of His coming will be the “gospel . . . preached in all the world . . . and then shall the end come” (Matt. 24:14). Is that a physical task completed--the printing press turning out a sufficient number of books or tracts, or electronic broadcasts reaching a sufficient concentration?
A parallel “sign” is when the Lamb’s “wife hath made herself ready” for “the marriage of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:7, 8). We’ve been through the childish stage of thinking that means a material city, the New Jerusalem, spontaneously erects itself; now it appears we understand that by “city” the Lord means its inhabitants. An unusual word is used there--the “righteousness” that becomes the bride’s wedding dress is “the righteousness of saints” (dikaiomata in the Greek instead of dikaiosune, Christ’s righteousness!). For once in the history of the world, hallelujah choruses proclaim in heaven, “His wife has made herself ready.” And we lay aside our joking and our levity and our self-righteousness. At last Christ’s righteousness becomes more than merely legal, imputed objectively, and it becomes subjectively imparted. He will have a people who honor Him and glorify Him before the world and before the universe. As Isaiah says, their
“righteousness is of [Him]” (54:11-17), but now there is the intimacy of a wedding night; both the Bridegroom and the bride contribute to the union.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
My friend had just given me the little book that he hoped would find a treasured spot in my library. It had the price sticker still on it—97 cents. It was entitled “Seeking the Savior.”
The author was faithful to his title: the book went on to tell the many things I must do in order to find Jesus. The basic idea of the book is that the Savior of the world is hiding somewhere, and one must diligently search Him out.
My friend meant well; he wanted to help me. Thanks to him. And thanks to the author of the book who sincerely wanted to help his reader. I appreciated all the good intentions.
But the idea of Jesus hiding and waiting for us to find Him through diligent search is an Old Covenant idea, and Old Covenant thinking “genders to bondage” (Gal. 4:24).
The faith of Jesus is not another shop set up alongside Buddhism, Islam, Shintoism, etc. where you come to buy salvation. Jesus has given Himself to us; the Father “so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,” that whoever believes in Him should not go on perishing within himself (the original has this idea). But may have (now, present tense) eternal life.
The Bible idea is just what hungry, lonely hearts yearn to understand:
The Father is infinite, which means that He gives His full attention to every person on earth. He faithfully, meticulously watched over you when you were an embryo in your mother’s womb. “You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother’s womb. ... My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth [that is, the secret realities beyond our knowledge]. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me [that includes today!], when as yet there were none of them” (Psalm 139:13-16, NKJV).
Kneel before Him, and let each word penetrate; you’ve come to where you need to “enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly” (Matt. 6:6, KJV). Just wait, wait; let Him say to you what He yearns for you to receive in your heart. The Lord Jesus is your Savior, He has given Himself to you. It’s not your job to go and dig Him out somehow, somewhere.
It’s your job to let the Holy Spirit melt your hard, worldly heart with the truth of His nearness.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Behold the compassion of the resurrected Jesus! One might think that in
the enthusiasm of His newly resurrected life He is eager to be off on
His new assignment in the heavenly sanctuary, but no, His heart is with
His disappointed, discouraged ones here. His name is still “Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is, God with us” (Matt. 1:23).
Two men who have believed He was the true Messiah are on the path in
their walk to Emmaus that afternoon of the “first day of the week” of
the resurrection. Never have they known such crushing heart pain. It
goes deeper than any humans can fathom for it is the pain of defeat in
the great controversy with Satan; the death of the Christ means the
ultimate victory of Satan. These two men feel they must conclude this.
They are not mourning the loss of their own personal salvation so much
as they mourn the grand defeat of God. The world (yes, the universe) is
now to be plunged into hopeless despair! “We were hoping that [Jesus of
Nazareth] would redeem Israel” (Luke 24:21)--and to them “Israel” was
the only hope of the world.
The heart of the resurrected Jesus is with them as they trudge
disconsolately toward Emmaus. He now teaches us that His heart is with
all disappointed people all over the world, in all time. He joins these
two men incognito and gently encourages them with Bible truth.
“Beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (vs. 27). He is already
doing His work as our High Priest! And so He ministers to you today--if
you will let Him join you in your “walk.”
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Behold the compassion of the resurrected Jesus! One might think that in
the enthusiasm of His newly resurrected life He is eager to be off on
His new assignment in the heavenly sanctuary, but no, His heart is with
His disappointed, discouraged ones here. His name is still “Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is, God with us” (Matt. 1:23).
Two men who have believed He was the true Messiah are on the path in
their walk to Emmaus that afternoon of the “first day of the week” of
the resurrection. Never have they known such crushing heart pain. It
goes deeper than any humans can fathom for it is the pain of defeat in
the great controversy with Satan; the death of the Christ means the
ultimate victory of Satan. These two men feel they must conclude this.
They are not mourning the loss of their own personal salvation so much
as they mourn the grand defeat of God. The world (yes, the universe) is
now to be plunged into hopeless despair! “We were hoping that [Jesus of
Nazareth] would redeem Israel” (Luke 24:21)--and to them “Israel” was
the only hope of the world.
The heart of the resurrected Jesus is with them as they trudge
disconsolately toward Emmaus. He now teaches us that His heart is with
all disappointed people all over the world, in all time. He joins these
two men incognito and gently encourages them with Bible truth.
“Beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (vs. 27). He is already
doing His work as our High Priest! And so He ministers to you today--if
you will let Him join you in your “walk.”
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
With One Grand Exception since Eden, every human soul has been born
with a heart empty of love (agape). Only Jesus in the stable in
Bethlehem was agape in human flesh because He was God in human flesh,
and “God is agape” (1 John 4:8). We all need our empty, naturally
self-loving hearts to be filled with agape. “The love of God [agape]
has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to
us” (Rom. 5:5). There is nothing the Holy Spirit likes to do more than
“pour” agape into empty human hearts!
In 1 John 4 the righteous and the wicked are the one who “knows God”
and “he that is not of God” and “does not know God” (vss. 6, 8). It’s
clear: our final exam when we “appear before the judgment seat of
Christ” will consist of one question--have you learned to love with
agape? (2 Cor. 5:10; 1 John 4:7).
It’s interesting that on the eve of Valentine’s Day the media reported
the recent scientific findings that a broken heart can kill. The usual
cause of a broken heart is love betrayed, leaving a person bereft,
forsaken, and hopeless. It was His broken heart that killed Jesus on
His cross when He cried out, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matt.
27:46). We know well the stories of suicides caused by abandonment in
forsaken marriages. The police report may not be able to tell the
truth; God’s record book will record “murder.”
But being forsaken in human love is not really the problem: it’s the
awful fear of being forsaken by God also (it’s very real!). If you have
suffered a disappointment in love, stay close to the cross of Jesus.
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With One Grand Exception since Eden, every human soul has been born
with a heart empty of love (agape). Only Jesus in the stable in
Bethlehem was agape in human flesh because He was God in human flesh,
and “God is agape” (1 John 4:8). We all need our empty, naturally
self-loving hearts to be filled with agape. “The love of God [agape]
has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to
us” (Rom. 5:5). There is nothing the Holy Spirit likes to do more than
“pour” agape into empty human hearts!
In 1 John 4 the righteous and the wicked are the one who “knows God”
and “he that is not of God” and “does not know God” (vss. 6, 8). It’s
clear: our final exam when we “appear before the judgment seat of
Christ” will consist of one question--have you learned to love with
agape? (2 Cor. 5:10; 1 John 4:7).
It’s interesting that on the eve of Valentine’s Day the media reported
the recent scientific findings that a broken heart can kill. The usual
cause of a broken heart is love betrayed, leaving a person bereft,
forsaken, and hopeless. It was His broken heart that killed Jesus on
His cross when He cried out, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matt.
27:46). We know well the stories of suicides caused by abandonment in
forsaken marriages. The police report may not be able to tell the
truth; God’s record book will record “murder.”
But being forsaken in human love is not really the problem: it’s the
awful fear of being forsaken by God also (it’s very real!). If you have
suffered a disappointment in love, stay close to the cross of Jesus.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
What can we do to help people who are depressed? They are many!
Wise counselors suggest, “Get professional help.” Physicians can often
treat clinical depression successfully. If a depressed person can get
such professional help, let him/her do so.
However, the number of people who can afford to pay for such
professional help or even have access to it, is comparatively small.
Even in America, there are large numbers of sufferers who cannot have
these privileges. Who can help them?
God calls upon those who serve Him to minister to others in need. He
told Abraham that his descendants would be a blessing to the world:
“Thou shalt be a blessing, . . . and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:2, 3). Jesus saw that His mission was to
help depressed people: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel [good news, glad tidings] to the
poor [those who can’t afford medical treatment]; he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised” (Luke 4:18). These “poor” may be in India, Africa, South
America, Mexico, yes, in our inner cities, perhaps among our teens in
high school, who knows, maybe your next-door neighbor whose tears you
cannot understand.
Each of us who realizes his/her debt to the “Savior of the world” will
want to be ready to “know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary” (Isa. 50:4), because the Lord has sent us to do the work that He
would do if He were here in person. As Paul says, “How beautiful are
the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, that bring glad
tidings of good things!” (Rom. 10:15). Do it for somebody!
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What can we do to help people who are depressed? They are many!
Wise counselors suggest, “Get professional help.” Physicians can often
treat clinical depression successfully. If a depressed person can get
such professional help, let him/her do so.
However, the number of people who can afford to pay for such
professional help or even have access to it, is comparatively small.
Even in America, there are large numbers of sufferers who cannot have
these privileges. Who can help them?
God calls upon those who serve Him to minister to others in need. He
told Abraham that his descendants would be a blessing to the world:
“Thou shalt be a blessing, . . . and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:2, 3). Jesus saw that His mission was to
help depressed people: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel [good news, glad tidings] to the
poor [those who can’t afford medical treatment]; he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised” (Luke 4:18). These “poor” may be in India, Africa, South
America, Mexico, yes, in our inner cities, perhaps among our teens in
high school, who knows, maybe your next-door neighbor whose tears you
cannot understand.
Each of us who realizes his/her debt to the “Savior of the world” will
want to be ready to “know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary” (Isa. 50:4), because the Lord has sent us to do the work that He
would do if He were here in person. As Paul says, “How beautiful are
the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, that bring glad
tidings of good things!” (Rom. 10:15). Do it for somebody!
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
All the wonderful promises that Jesus made before His death must and
will be fulfilled. But there is one GREAT promise that has not yet been
fulfilled, and many Christians think it never will be. They are wrong!
He will not fail.
That great promise is in John 16:13: “When He, the Spirit of truth, is
come, He will guide you into all truth.” We usually think of the Holy
Spirit as giving us happy feelings or of giving great power in
witnessing and producing baptisms; we think that understanding “all
truth” is of lesser importance. But over 200 times the Bible speaks of
the importance of truth. In ordinary life, law courts, juries, judges,
seek constantly to know the truth. Jesus says that it is so important
that “the truth shall make you free” (8:32).
In His same promise that the Holy Spirit will guide us “into all truth”
Jesus promised, “He will show you things to come.” The wording is very
similar to the opening of the Book of Revelation, “the revelation . . .
of things which must shortly come to pass” (1:1). The Book of
Revelation was the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise! And yet Christian
people go in all different directions in understanding what Revelation
is saying!
Likewise, there is confusion in understanding Daniel’s prophecies; yet
God commanded the angel, “Gabriel, make this man to understand the
vision,” and later the angel said to him, “I will show thee the truth”
(8:16; 11:2). Paul spoke of his message as “the truth of the gospel”
(Gal. 2:5). There is as much division in understanding that as there is
in understanding Daniel and the Revelation!
What can bring about a unity and clarity of understanding these
important truths? Surely when that great fourth angel of Revelation
18:1-4 begins to “lighten the earth with glory,” the message that calls
every sincere person “out of Babylon” will be a message of pure,
unadulterated truth. We pray daily for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
An excellent place to begin finding the answer to that prayer is in
honest, sincere, and humble listening to the Bible to permit it to tell
us what the truth is in all these controverted areas. Jesus did not
promise, “The Holy Spirit will TRY to lead you into all truth,” or “He
wishes He could lead you into all truth.” No, He said He WILL do so. As
surely as I write and you read this, so surely is the Holy Spirit right
now “leading” us into the truth that will bind us together in loving
harmony of belief. Let’s listen to Him!
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All the wonderful promises that Jesus made before His death must and
will be fulfilled. But there is one GREAT promise that has not yet been
fulfilled, and many Christians think it never will be. They are wrong!
He will not fail.
That great promise is in John 16:13: “When He, the Spirit of truth, is
come, He will guide you into all truth.” We usually think of the Holy
Spirit as giving us happy feelings or of giving great power in
witnessing and producing baptisms; we think that understanding “all
truth” is of lesser importance. But over 200 times the Bible speaks of
the importance of truth. In ordinary life, law courts, juries, judges,
seek constantly to know the truth. Jesus says that it is so important
that “the truth shall make you free” (8:32).
In His same promise that the Holy Spirit will guide us “into all truth”
Jesus promised, “He will show you things to come.” The wording is very
similar to the opening of the Book of Revelation, “the revelation . . .
of things which must shortly come to pass” (1:1). The Book of
Revelation was the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise! And yet Christian
people go in all different directions in understanding what Revelation
is saying!
Likewise, there is confusion in understanding Daniel’s prophecies; yet
God commanded the angel, “Gabriel, make this man to understand the
vision,” and later the angel said to him, “I will show thee the truth”
(8:16; 11:2). Paul spoke of his message as “the truth of the gospel”
(Gal. 2:5). There is as much division in understanding that as there is
in understanding Daniel and the Revelation!
What can bring about a unity and clarity of understanding these
important truths? Surely when that great fourth angel of Revelation
18:1-4 begins to “lighten the earth with glory,” the message that calls
every sincere person “out of Babylon” will be a message of pure,
unadulterated truth. We pray daily for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
An excellent place to begin finding the answer to that prayer is in
honest, sincere, and humble listening to the Bible to permit it to tell
us what the truth is in all these controverted areas. Jesus did not
promise, “The Holy Spirit will TRY to lead you into all truth,” or “He
wishes He could lead you into all truth.” No, He said He WILL do so. As
surely as I write and you read this, so surely is the Holy Spirit right
now “leading” us into the truth that will bind us together in loving
harmony of belief. Let’s listen to Him!
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Reading stories of human heroism is a popular pastime. And the world is
full of such. But contemplating human heroes doesn’t change one’s heart
or transform a sinner into a saint. Witness: idolizing sports heroes is
vanity.
But here’s a miracle known and experienced worldwide in any culture or
language: reading Bible stories does change the heart; in the process
it makes a bad person become a good one. It’s proof of biblical
inspiration.
Modern cell phones are a phenomenon: with the right one and the right
service, you’re in touch with almost anyone anywhere in the globe. With
the Bible in your hands and in your heart, you’re in touch constantly
with the noblest and best people of the human race of all time. No,
it’s not through Spiritualist séances; you don’t communicate with dead
people--the Bible condemns that as contact with evil angels who fell
from heaven with Lucifer, the devil. What happens instead is that
through your reading the Bible with a heart that believes in Christ you
experience actual identity-fellowship with those Bible characters of
all ages--through the work of the Holy Spirit. You identify with them
in their experiences of learning to know God. Not through the cinema
screen, but through the Holy Spirit you enter into their knowing Him.
It’s beyond the realm of normal fellowship with humans, but through the
Bible “he that walketh with wise men shall be wise” (Prov. 13:20). By a
heavenly osmosis more real than any earthly science, you receive the
life of Christ through the Bible. Cherish that hunger and thirst for
righteousness; the Lord promises that you shall be filled (Matt. 5:6).
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Reading stories of human heroism is a popular pastime. And the world is
full of such. But contemplating human heroes doesn’t change one’s heart
or transform a sinner into a saint. Witness: idolizing sports heroes is
vanity.
But here’s a miracle known and experienced worldwide in any culture or
language: reading Bible stories does change the heart; in the process
it makes a bad person become a good one. It’s proof of biblical
inspiration.
Modern cell phones are a phenomenon: with the right one and the right
service, you’re in touch with almost anyone anywhere in the globe. With
the Bible in your hands and in your heart, you’re in touch constantly
with the noblest and best people of the human race of all time. No,
it’s not through Spiritualist séances; you don’t communicate with dead
people--the Bible condemns that as contact with evil angels who fell
from heaven with Lucifer, the devil. What happens instead is that
through your reading the Bible with a heart that believes in Christ you
experience actual identity-fellowship with those Bible characters of
all ages--through the work of the Holy Spirit. You identify with them
in their experiences of learning to know God. Not through the cinema
screen, but through the Holy Spirit you enter into their knowing Him.
It’s beyond the realm of normal fellowship with humans, but through the
Bible “he that walketh with wise men shall be wise” (Prov. 13:20). By a
heavenly osmosis more real than any earthly science, you receive the
life of Christ through the Bible. Cherish that hunger and thirst for
righteousness; the Lord promises that you shall be filled (Matt. 5:6).
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Have you ever thought how weak and helpless Jesus was of Himself when
He was with us in the flesh? Did you know that He did not work even one
miracle “of Himself”? He said, “I can of Myself do nothing.” When He
made decisions, He could not make them of any wisdom inherent in
Himself, because when He left heaven to come down and become one of us,
He laid aside all the prerogatives of His divinity. “As I hear, I
judge,” He adds. What He said or taught, He had first to learn. In
other words, He did not bring with Him within Himself any wisdom from
heaven. His mother Mary had to teach Him to read the Old Testament, but
He was different from our children--from the beginning, He loved it. He
was agape in the flesh.
Jesus took all our weaknesses upon Himself, “in all points made like
His brethren,” not unlike them! The flesh or nature which He “took” was
“like,” not unlike, ours. “Morning by morning” He was awakened by His
Father, to learn in prayer and study of the Word (Isa. 50:4, 5). In
those prayer and study sessions as a Youth He gained an education that
qualified Him to be better than a “Ph.D.” He said, “The Lord God has
given me the tongue of the learned.” He spoke so beautifully, so
clearly, powerfully, succinctly, that people marveled, “How does this
Man know letters, having never studied” [that is, in a college or
university]? (John 7:15). Jesus took no credit to Himself; He gave all
the glory to His Father: “My doctrine [My teaching. My speaking] is not
Mine, but His who sent Me” (vs. 16). But that does not mean that He
brought that wisdom with Him from heaven: He learned it in those
“morning by morning” educational tete-a-tetes with His Father! And all
that super-Ph.D. Wisdom is yours for just the hunger to acquire it--!
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Have you ever thought how weak and helpless Jesus was of Himself when
He was with us in the flesh? Did you know that He did not work even one
miracle “of Himself”? He said, “I can of Myself do nothing.” When He
made decisions, He could not make them of any wisdom inherent in
Himself, because when He left heaven to come down and become one of us,
He laid aside all the prerogatives of His divinity. “As I hear, I
judge,” He adds. What He said or taught, He had first to learn. In
other words, He did not bring with Him within Himself any wisdom from
heaven. His mother Mary had to teach Him to read the Old Testament, but
He was different from our children--from the beginning, He loved it. He
was agape in the flesh.
Jesus took all our weaknesses upon Himself, “in all points made like
His brethren,” not unlike them! The flesh or nature which He “took” was
“like,” not unlike, ours. “Morning by morning” He was awakened by His
Father, to learn in prayer and study of the Word (Isa. 50:4, 5). In
those prayer and study sessions as a Youth He gained an education that
qualified Him to be better than a “Ph.D.” He said, “The Lord God has
given me the tongue of the learned.” He spoke so beautifully, so
clearly, powerfully, succinctly, that people marveled, “How does this
Man know letters, having never studied” [that is, in a college or
university]? (John 7:15). Jesus took no credit to Himself; He gave all
the glory to His Father: “My doctrine [My teaching. My speaking] is not
Mine, but His who sent Me” (vs. 16). But that does not mean that He
brought that wisdom with Him from heaven: He learned it in those
“morning by morning” educational tete-a-tetes with His Father! And all
that super-Ph.D. Wisdom is yours for just the hunger to acquire it--!
_________________________________________
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
If we love the Good News of the gospel of Christ, we will not want to
argue about the nature of Christ. We will want to flee from any place
where such contention arises. The nearness of the divine Savior is too
holy, too solemn, too most precious, to be submitted to the verbal
violence of theological crossfire.
If one hungers to know Jesus more intimately, there is no book in the
Bible where you see Him more closely bound with yourself in your human
nature than in the book of Psalms. The divine Son of God has become one
of us! The fact that Jesus ascended to heaven in the sight of His
apostles (Luke 24:51) doesn’t mean that He is far away. “Behold,” He
said just before He ascended, “I send the promise of the Father upon
you” (vs. 49). That “promise” is the Holy Spirit, the presence of Jesus
in the Spirit. “I will not leave you orphans,” Jesus assured them, “I
will come to you” (John 14:18).
How does He “come” to us? Not in the flesh; there is a closer nearness
than that. It’s “dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, abiding
under the shadow of the Almighty” through the Word (Psalm 91:1). It’s
sharper in clarity than any DVD can be, you “see” Him, “behold” Him as
“the Lamb of God,” in those Messianic psalms.
In this way you “abide in [Him] and [His] words abide in you” (John
15:7). The four Gospels are wonderful revelations of Jesus; but when He
walked with Cleopas and his friend that Sunday afternoon to Emmaus,
Jesus didn’t have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to quote--just the Old
Testament, largely the Psalms. But it was there that “He expounded unto
them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke
24:13-27, KJV).
Now, you join those three as they walk together, the two disciples as
they listen, Jesus as He “expounds.” “Constrain” Him to “abide with
you” when it’s “toward evening, and the day is far spent,” instead of
seeking TV or silly entertainment. Your eyes will be “opened” and like
those two you will come to “know Him,” too. And then, as surely as day
follows night, the time will come when you will say, “Did not [my]
heart burn within [me], . . . while He [opened] to [me] the
scriptures?” (vss. 29-32, KJV). Yes! Thank God!
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If we love the Good News of the gospel of Christ, we will not want to
argue about the nature of Christ. We will want to flee from any place
where such contention arises. The nearness of the divine Savior is too
holy, too solemn, too most precious, to be submitted to the verbal
violence of theological crossfire.
If one hungers to know Jesus more intimately, there is no book in the
Bible where you see Him more closely bound with yourself in your human
nature than in the book of Psalms. The divine Son of God has become one
of us! The fact that Jesus ascended to heaven in the sight of His
apostles (Luke 24:51) doesn’t mean that He is far away. “Behold,” He
said just before He ascended, “I send the promise of the Father upon
you” (vs. 49). That “promise” is the Holy Spirit, the presence of Jesus
in the Spirit. “I will not leave you orphans,” Jesus assured them, “I
will come to you” (John 14:18).
How does He “come” to us? Not in the flesh; there is a closer nearness
than that. It’s “dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, abiding
under the shadow of the Almighty” through the Word (Psalm 91:1). It’s
sharper in clarity than any DVD can be, you “see” Him, “behold” Him as
“the Lamb of God,” in those Messianic psalms.
In this way you “abide in [Him] and [His] words abide in you” (John
15:7). The four Gospels are wonderful revelations of Jesus; but when He
walked with Cleopas and his friend that Sunday afternoon to Emmaus,
Jesus didn’t have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to quote--just the Old
Testament, largely the Psalms. But it was there that “He expounded unto
them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke
24:13-27, KJV).
Now, you join those three as they walk together, the two disciples as
they listen, Jesus as He “expounds.” “Constrain” Him to “abide with
you” when it’s “toward evening, and the day is far spent,” instead of
seeking TV or silly entertainment. Your eyes will be “opened” and like
those two you will come to “know Him,” too. And then, as surely as day
follows night, the time will come when you will say, “Did not [my]
heart burn within [me], . . . while He [opened] to [me] the
scriptures?” (vss. 29-32, KJV). Yes! Thank God!
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Some sincere subscribers of Dial Daily Bread are asking, “Is there
Biblical evidence that Elijah understood and preached the grace of God,
that is, righteousness by faith? Was he stern, hard, lacking
compassion?” We know:
1. God sent him (1 Kings 17; 18), and “God is love” (1 John 4:8).
2. His message was preeminently reconciliation of alienated hearts in
home and national life (Mal. 4:5, 6). That took “grace unlimited.”
3. His prayer on Mt. Carmel was calm, simple, heart-felt, gracious.
4. The people’s “heart” was “turned . . . back again” (1 Kings 18:37).
5. What did it was God’s acceptance of the blood sacrifice that clearly
prefigured Christ’s sacrifice on His cross (vs. 33). It’s not too much
to say: Elijah preached to the nation a great sermon on the cross that
day.
6. The people responded, believed, humbled their hearts before this
divine revelation of the abounding grace and forgiveness of God. But
the priests of Baal hardened their hearts against it; in hopeless
rejection, they would crucify Christ a thousand times over. This
demonstration was in miniature the judgment at the end of the
millennium (Rev. 20:11-15). To execute the priests of Baal was the
people’s choice, their unanimous will. It was clear: their sin was the
unpardonable one.
7. The fruit of Elijah’s ministry? Genuine reformation and revival. And
God translated him! (2 Kings 2:11). Pretty good evidence of grace.
If at the tsunami someone knowledgeable had yelled and screamed at you,
“Run for higher ground!” would you have said, “Stay put. He doesn’t
sound sweet and mild!”? There are times when love (agape) must scream
at you.
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Some sincere subscribers of Dial Daily Bread are asking, “Is there
Biblical evidence that Elijah understood and preached the grace of God,
that is, righteousness by faith? Was he stern, hard, lacking
compassion?” We know:
1. God sent him (1 Kings 17; 18), and “God is love” (1 John 4:8).
2. His message was preeminently reconciliation of alienated hearts in
home and national life (Mal. 4:5, 6). That took “grace unlimited.”
3. His prayer on Mt. Carmel was calm, simple, heart-felt, gracious.
4. The people’s “heart” was “turned . . . back again” (1 Kings 18:37).
5. What did it was God’s acceptance of the blood sacrifice that clearly
prefigured Christ’s sacrifice on His cross (vs. 33). It’s not too much
to say: Elijah preached to the nation a great sermon on the cross that
day.
6. The people responded, believed, humbled their hearts before this
divine revelation of the abounding grace and forgiveness of God. But
the priests of Baal hardened their hearts against it; in hopeless
rejection, they would crucify Christ a thousand times over. This
demonstration was in miniature the judgment at the end of the
millennium (Rev. 20:11-15). To execute the priests of Baal was the
people’s choice, their unanimous will. It was clear: their sin was the
unpardonable one.
7. The fruit of Elijah’s ministry? Genuine reformation and revival. And
God translated him! (2 Kings 2:11). Pretty good evidence of grace.
If at the tsunami someone knowledgeable had yelled and screamed at you,
“Run for higher ground!” would you have said, “Stay put. He doesn’t
sound sweet and mild!”? There are times when love (agape) must scream
at you.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The last two verses of the tell us of the only hope this
strife-torn human race has: the coming of “Elijah.” God says, “I will
send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the Lord [Jehovah or Yahweh]. And he will turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers” (Mal. 4:5, 6).
That will be the most far-reaching reconciliation we have seen since
(Think how much and all the Middle East needs “Elijah”!)
It’s not idle words. God has made this promise. The sacrifice of Jesus
Christ on His cross is the only reconciling agency in existence;
therefore it follows that the coming of “Elijah” must be proclaiming
the message of Jesus Christ in all His reconciling power. It will be
what unbelieving hearts find almost inconceivable: a proclamation of
what the Bible calls “the atonement” that will work miracles of grace
worldwide. The mention of “fathers” and “children” means the entire
human race in all our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural alienations. A
blessed unity will be realized as people kneel together at the cross of
the Son of God, at last “beholding” or perceiving its full
significance.
No, it will not be 100 per cent successful. It would be, except for one
anti-Elijah-message factor that will intrude: the Battle of Armageddon.
Side by side, two movements will develop--on the one hand, a blessed
reconciliation (“at-one-ment”) of human hearts with each other and with
the heavenly Father, and simultaneously on the other hand, the
exacerbation of enmity between humans and God (Rom. 8:7): it will be
the ultimate polarization of the human race, “the hour of His judgment”
(Rev. 14:6). No one will be neutral.
A big job for one “prophet” to accomplish! The already-translated
Elijah (2 Kings 2:1, 11) will be “sent” to do the work worldwide as he
was sent personally to encourage Christ at His Transfiguration (Matt.
17:1-3). (That was a work of reconciliation!) Elijah will have
“144,000” to help him (Rev. 14:1-5).
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The last two verses of the tell us of the only hope this
strife-torn human race has: the coming of “Elijah.” God says, “I will
send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the Lord [Jehovah or Yahweh]. And he will turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers” (Mal. 4:5, 6).
That will be the most far-reaching reconciliation we have seen since
(Think how much and all the Middle East needs “Elijah”!)
It’s not idle words. God has made this promise. The sacrifice of Jesus
Christ on His cross is the only reconciling agency in existence;
therefore it follows that the coming of “Elijah” must be proclaiming
the message of Jesus Christ in all His reconciling power. It will be
what unbelieving hearts find almost inconceivable: a proclamation of
what the Bible calls “the atonement” that will work miracles of grace
worldwide. The mention of “fathers” and “children” means the entire
human race in all our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural alienations. A
blessed unity will be realized as people kneel together at the cross of
the Son of God, at last “beholding” or perceiving its full
significance.
No, it will not be 100 per cent successful. It would be, except for one
anti-Elijah-message factor that will intrude: the Battle of Armageddon.
Side by side, two movements will develop--on the one hand, a blessed
reconciliation (“at-one-ment”) of human hearts with each other and with
the heavenly Father, and simultaneously on the other hand, the
exacerbation of enmity between humans and God (Rom. 8:7): it will be
the ultimate polarization of the human race, “the hour of His judgment”
(Rev. 14:6). No one will be neutral.
A big job for one “prophet” to accomplish! The already-translated
Elijah (2 Kings 2:1, 11) will be “sent” to do the work worldwide as he
was sent personally to encourage Christ at His Transfiguration (Matt.
17:1-3). (That was a work of reconciliation!) Elijah will have
“144,000” to help him (Rev. 14:1-5).
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
There may be a little treasure of truth buried in the story of Elijah
that illustrates the kindness and compassion of the Lord. The faithful
but lonely prophet has been directed to seek shelter in the home of the
widow of Zarepath. He appreciates her hospitality and her faith. But a
terrible sickness suddenly takes the life of her young son (1 Kings
17:17, 18).
At first Elijah has brought sunshine and gladness into her widowed
life. But now the bereaved mother imagines that the man of God has
ministered this grief to her in that his holy presence in her home has
brought all her sins into memory and judgment. (Evidently she has had a
checkered past--well, who hasn’t!) She wails in her anguish, “Have you
come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?” (vs.
18).
Elijah takes it personally; he knows he is hated in Israel and
Phoenicia, everybody everywhere blames him for this famine. Now it
seems that God has humiliated him by bringing this bereavement on this
widow. When he takes the dead son from her, he doesn’t pray a quiet,
unimpassioned prayer as he did later on Carmel; he agonizes his
distress. “He cried out to the Lord, ‘O Lord my God, have You also
brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?’”
(vs. 20). A prayer from a broken heart!
In mercy, the Lord answered his prayer of distress and resurrected the
child.
Do you suppose that the Lord granted this precious interlude blessing
as a way to strengthen the faith of Elijah when he stood alone and
friendless before the king, the priests of Baal, and the multitude, on
Mt Carmel? He remembers: the Lord has honored his prayer by raising a
dead child to life. Wouldn’t that recent memory nerve his spirit and
encourage him? Since he had been hidden from the murderous hatred of
Israel, no one on Carmel knew of this recent happening in Sidon; Elijah
shared this little secret with the Lord. That should be enough to
fortify his faith: yes, the fire will fall!
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There may be a little treasure of truth buried in the story of Elijah
that illustrates the kindness and compassion of the Lord. The faithful
but lonely prophet has been directed to seek shelter in the home of the
widow of Zarepath. He appreciates her hospitality and her faith. But a
terrible sickness suddenly takes the life of her young son (1 Kings
17:17, 18).
At first Elijah has brought sunshine and gladness into her widowed
life. But now the bereaved mother imagines that the man of God has
ministered this grief to her in that his holy presence in her home has
brought all her sins into memory and judgment. (Evidently she has had a
checkered past--well, who hasn’t!) She wails in her anguish, “Have you
come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?” (vs.
18).
Elijah takes it personally; he knows he is hated in Israel and
Phoenicia, everybody everywhere blames him for this famine. Now it
seems that God has humiliated him by bringing this bereavement on this
widow. When he takes the dead son from her, he doesn’t pray a quiet,
unimpassioned prayer as he did later on Carmel; he agonizes his
distress. “He cried out to the Lord, ‘O Lord my God, have You also
brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?’”
(vs. 20). A prayer from a broken heart!
In mercy, the Lord answered his prayer of distress and resurrected the
child.
Do you suppose that the Lord granted this precious interlude blessing
as a way to strengthen the faith of Elijah when he stood alone and
friendless before the king, the priests of Baal, and the multitude, on
Mt Carmel? He remembers: the Lord has honored his prayer by raising a
dead child to life. Wouldn’t that recent memory nerve his spirit and
encourage him? Since he had been hidden from the murderous hatred of
Israel, no one on Carmel knew of this recent happening in Sidon; Elijah
shared this little secret with the Lord. That should be enough to
fortify his faith: yes, the fire will fall!
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Elijah the prophet is often misunderstood and unappreciated. It is true
that he was a humble man from the mountains of Gilead with no official
endorsement. But he was a deep and keen thinker on a level far beyond
that of the leadership of Israel. As he saw the horrible effects of the
national apostasy, he thought of its cosmic consequences. The great
controversy between Christ and Satan was involved. The honor of the
very name of the true God was in jeopardy. If God could not save
Israel, how could the Messiah save the world? This was a portentous
crisis.
We need to understand Elijah better. God has promised to send him again
“before the great and terrible day of the Lord” (Mal. 4:5, 6). Unless
we understand correctly, there is danger that we may follow ancient
Israel in their national apostasy from the truth of God.
Elijah shares with one other man in the Old Testament a profound
understanding of God’s character of love (agape). In Exodus 32 we read
of Israel worshipping a golden calf within days of their forming the
grand Old Covenant at Sinai. God purposed to be done with them, but
Moses changed God’s mind in his plea: if You can’t forgive and save
Israel, “blot [my name] out of Your book which You have written” (vs.
32). Rather than see Israel lost, he says, I choose to relinquish my
own eternal salvation. In the exercise of such faith, Moses found a
link that bound him to the cross of Christ, for that is what Jesus did
in His love for us--the “width, and length, and depth, and height of
the love (agape) of Christ . . . which passes knowledge” (Eph. 3:18,
19).
Now, in his love for apostate Israel, Elijah finds a link that binds
him in faith to Moses. Could this be the reason why heaven sent Moses
and Elijah to visit with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration? Only
they could encourage Him in His self-sacrifice on His cross, when He
died our second death to save us!
We can be sure this kind of love is implicit in whatever message
“Elijah” will bring us when he comes back.
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Elijah the prophet is often misunderstood and unappreciated. It is true
that he was a humble man from the mountains of Gilead with no official
endorsement. But he was a deep and keen thinker on a level far beyond
that of the leadership of Israel. As he saw the horrible effects of the
national apostasy, he thought of its cosmic consequences. The great
controversy between Christ and Satan was involved. The honor of the
very name of the true God was in jeopardy. If God could not save
Israel, how could the Messiah save the world? This was a portentous
crisis.
We need to understand Elijah better. God has promised to send him again
“before the great and terrible day of the Lord” (Mal. 4:5, 6). Unless
we understand correctly, there is danger that we may follow ancient
Israel in their national apostasy from the truth of God.
Elijah shares with one other man in the Old Testament a profound
understanding of God’s character of love (agape). In Exodus 32 we read
of Israel worshipping a golden calf within days of their forming the
grand Old Covenant at Sinai. God purposed to be done with them, but
Moses changed God’s mind in his plea: if You can’t forgive and save
Israel, “blot [my name] out of Your book which You have written” (vs.
32). Rather than see Israel lost, he says, I choose to relinquish my
own eternal salvation. In the exercise of such faith, Moses found a
link that bound him to the cross of Christ, for that is what Jesus did
in His love for us--the “width, and length, and depth, and height of
the love (agape) of Christ . . . which passes knowledge” (Eph. 3:18,
19).
Now, in his love for apostate Israel, Elijah finds a link that binds
him in faith to Moses. Could this be the reason why heaven sent Moses
and Elijah to visit with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration? Only
they could encourage Him in His self-sacrifice on His cross, when He
died our second death to save us!
We can be sure this kind of love is implicit in whatever message
“Elijah” will bring us when he comes back.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Mike Pearse has written a thought-provoking book entitled WHY THE REST
HATES THE WEST. He examines the phenomenon of the most “Christian” of
nations evoking the most virulent hatred of the non-West peoples of the
world. His thesis is simple if stated in simple biblical terms:
“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,” and no longer represents the
values of Christ (Rev. 18:2).
It wasn’t always like this. When President Theodore Roosevelt sent the
Great White Fleet around the world, it was revered. In the halcyon days
of the Marshall Plan, the common people in Europe would shout, “Yo para
America!” President Lincoln’s “last, best hope of mankind” stirred
wonder in human hearts everywhere. There was hope that God was
intervening in human history!
The God whom Christians profess to worship says He is “love” (agape).
He must be honest and fair, as well as just and merciful. The Book He
has given the world (the Bible) warns us of the final events of world
history when the Enemy in the “great controversy” will seek to wreak
his hatred on mankind. The One who is a God of love (agape) has
promised that in His love He will “send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” who will perform
a ministry of unprecedented reconciliation between honest human hearts
and the true God (Mal. 4:5, 6). The “rest” may not overcome their
hatred of “the West,” but every human heart that will believe truth
will respond to this final revelation of the true character of God.
Speaking of the last angel’s message of the more abounding grace of
God, His promise is that “the earth [will be] illuminated with his
glory.” That last angel’s message and “Elijah’s” final message will be
the same--the yearning heart of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
pleading with “every one,” “Be reconciled to God!” (2 Cor. 5:20). When
the true “Elijah” came to the Jews in the person of John the Baptist
(Matt. 11:13, 14), they brushed him aside. Now is our last chance to
repent: let’s not reject “Elijah” one last time!
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be sent.
Mike Pearse has written a thought-provoking book entitled WHY THE REST
HATES THE WEST. He examines the phenomenon of the most “Christian” of
nations evoking the most virulent hatred of the non-West peoples of the
world. His thesis is simple if stated in simple biblical terms:
“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,” and no longer represents the
values of Christ (Rev. 18:2).
It wasn’t always like this. When President Theodore Roosevelt sent the
Great White Fleet around the world, it was revered. In the halcyon days
of the Marshall Plan, the common people in Europe would shout, “Yo para
America!” President Lincoln’s “last, best hope of mankind” stirred
wonder in human hearts everywhere. There was hope that God was
intervening in human history!
The God whom Christians profess to worship says He is “love” (agape).
He must be honest and fair, as well as just and merciful. The Book He
has given the world (the Bible) warns us of the final events of world
history when the Enemy in the “great controversy” will seek to wreak
his hatred on mankind. The One who is a God of love (agape) has
promised that in His love He will “send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” who will perform
a ministry of unprecedented reconciliation between honest human hearts
and the true God (Mal. 4:5, 6). The “rest” may not overcome their
hatred of “the West,” but every human heart that will believe truth
will respond to this final revelation of the true character of God.
Speaking of the last angel’s message of the more abounding grace of
God, His promise is that “the earth [will be] illuminated with his
glory.” That last angel’s message and “Elijah’s” final message will be
the same--the yearning heart of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
pleading with “every one,” “Be reconciled to God!” (2 Cor. 5:20). When
the true “Elijah” came to the Jews in the person of John the Baptist
(Matt. 11:13, 14), they brushed him aside. Now is our last chance to
repent: let’s not reject “Elijah” one last time!
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
This coming weekend millions of earnest Christians will be focusing
their study on the humanity of the Son of God. This will not detract in
the least from His divinity; they will “behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), and in so doing will
“behold” Him as the One whose “name [is] Immanuel, which is translated,
God with us” (Matt. 1:23).
In order for us humans to “behold” Him, we must see Him as He has
revealed Himself to us. That is, He is “the Word [which] became flesh,
and dwelt among us.” It is there that we “behold His glory” (John
1:14). “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given” (Isa. 9:6).
“The humanity of the Son of God is everything to us,” says a thoughtful
writer. And Jesus Himself tells us to look, and look, and look to Him
in His humanity, for only thus can we perceive Him in His divinity. “As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but
have eternal life” (John 3:14). To “believe” in Him is the same as to
choose to “behold” Him. That was the only hope for the Israelites in
the wilderness bitten by the poisonous serpents--to “behold” that
serpent on the pole that Moses had made at the command of God,
representing Christ.
Yes, our very life itself, our salvation, depends on “beholding” Him in
His humanity which veils His divinity. No one can spend too much time
“beholding the Lamb of God” there. In Hebrews one we “behold” Him in
His pre-incarnation divinity, as “God” (vs. 8); but the inspired author
says we don’t “see” Him clearly until we “see Him” “made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death, . . . that He . . . might
by the grace of God taste death for everyone” (2:9). We must see Him
in His humanity.
The chapter goes on to focus our view intensely on Him as One who
“likewise took part” of the same “flesh and blood” that we have, so
that “in all things He had to be made like His brethren” (vss. 14-17).
Only so, as He has “suffered, being tempted [is He] able to aid [us]
who are tempted” (vs. 18). As we “behold” Him thus, are we becoming
fanatical? A million times, no! Why, He is our only hope!
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This coming weekend millions of earnest Christians will be focusing
their study on the humanity of the Son of God. This will not detract in
the least from His divinity; they will “behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), and in so doing will
“behold” Him as the One whose “name [is] Immanuel, which is translated,
God with us” (Matt. 1:23).
In order for us humans to “behold” Him, we must see Him as He has
revealed Himself to us. That is, He is “the Word [which] became flesh,
and dwelt among us.” It is there that we “behold His glory” (John
1:14). “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given” (Isa. 9:6).
“The humanity of the Son of God is everything to us,” says a thoughtful
writer. And Jesus Himself tells us to look, and look, and look to Him
in His humanity, for only thus can we perceive Him in His divinity. “As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but
have eternal life” (John 3:14). To “believe” in Him is the same as to
choose to “behold” Him. That was the only hope for the Israelites in
the wilderness bitten by the poisonous serpents--to “behold” that
serpent on the pole that Moses had made at the command of God,
representing Christ.
Yes, our very life itself, our salvation, depends on “beholding” Him in
His humanity which veils His divinity. No one can spend too much time
“beholding the Lamb of God” there. In Hebrews one we “behold” Him in
His pre-incarnation divinity, as “God” (vs. 8); but the inspired author
says we don’t “see” Him clearly until we “see Him” “made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death, . . . that He . . . might
by the grace of God taste death for everyone” (2:9). We must see Him
in His humanity.
The chapter goes on to focus our view intensely on Him as One who
“likewise took part” of the same “flesh and blood” that we have, so
that “in all things He had to be made like His brethren” (vss. 14-17).
Only so, as He has “suffered, being tempted [is He] able to aid [us]
who are tempted” (vs. 18). As we “behold” Him thus, are we becoming
fanatical? A million times, no! Why, He is our only hope!
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
People around the world continue to ponder what significance the recent
great tsunami may have for us. Was this “natural disaster” just
something that happened, or did either God or Satan have something to
do with it? A subscriber has suggested that these thoughts are
meaningful and relevant:
1. “Satan works through the elements . . . He has studied the secrets
of the laboratories of nature and he uses all his power to control the
elements as far as God allows.” That makes sense for Jesus says Satan
is “the prince of this world,” and Paul says he is “the prince of the
power of the air” (John 14:30; Eph. 2:2). Satan was once the highest
of the angels; he is malevolent in nature (Isa. 14:12-19; Rev.
12:7-12).
2. When Satan was “permitted to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and
herds, servants, houses, children were swept away, . . . as in a
moment.” That is precisely what we read in Job 1, 2. Therefore how
urgently important that we “dwell in the secret place of the Most
High,” and “abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1).
3. None of us has more than a breath between us and our appointment
when we “appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10). (On
His part, that is not a fault-finding judgment, He wants to vindicate
us! And He will do so if we do not “frustrate His grace,” Gal. 2:21).
4. “It is God who shields His creatures and hedges them in from the
power of the destroyer.” Thank Him for the “hedge” we have today!
5. “But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of
Jehovah.” He must “withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His
protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law.” Somehow
He must get that message across to the world.
6. “Satan will . . . bring trouble . . . and lead men to believe that
it is God who is afflicting them.” It is our privilege to proclaim to
the world that His grace abounds “much more” than all the evil Satan
can invent.
7. Pretending to heal, Satan will “bring disease and disaster . . .
These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous”
(Isa. 24:4, 5). Let’s read and memorize Psalm 91; it’s present truth.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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People around the world continue to ponder what significance the recent
great tsunami may have for us. Was this “natural disaster” just
something that happened, or did either God or Satan have something to
do with it? A subscriber has suggested that these thoughts are
meaningful and relevant:
1. “Satan works through the elements . . . He has studied the secrets
of the laboratories of nature and he uses all his power to control the
elements as far as God allows.” That makes sense for Jesus says Satan
is “the prince of this world,” and Paul says he is “the prince of the
power of the air” (John 14:30; Eph. 2:2). Satan was once the highest
of the angels; he is malevolent in nature (Isa. 14:12-19; Rev.
12:7-12).
2. When Satan was “permitted to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and
herds, servants, houses, children were swept away, . . . as in a
moment.” That is precisely what we read in Job 1, 2. Therefore how
urgently important that we “dwell in the secret place of the Most
High,” and “abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1).
3. None of us has more than a breath between us and our appointment
when we “appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10). (On
His part, that is not a fault-finding judgment, He wants to vindicate
us! And He will do so if we do not “frustrate His grace,” Gal. 2:21).
4. “It is God who shields His creatures and hedges them in from the
power of the destroyer.” Thank Him for the “hedge” we have today!
5. “But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of
Jehovah.” He must “withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His
protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law.” Somehow
He must get that message across to the world.
6. “Satan will . . . bring trouble . . . and lead men to believe that
it is God who is afflicting them.” It is our privilege to proclaim to
the world that His grace abounds “much more” than all the evil Satan
can invent.
7. Pretending to heal, Satan will “bring disease and disaster . . .
These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous”
(Isa. 24:4, 5). Let’s read and memorize Psalm 91; it’s present truth.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Dial Daily Bread
Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The History Channel is pushing the da Vinci Code as something to appeal
to devout but serious thinking people. There is enough of a little
smattering of biblical connection to lend it an assumed legitimacy,
while in fact it is a glorifying of pagan legends of the so-called Holy
Grail. Antichrist has been invested with an enticing allurement. The
idea deceived the Nazis.
The prominent female in the legend is a distorted personification of
the Mary Magdalene of the Bible. The History Channel purports to be
“history,” and lends credence to the supposed story of Jesus Christ
yielding to Mary’s sexual blandishments--unable to overcome the
supposedly irresistible temptation of illicit sex. Trying to track the
historical whereabouts of “Christ’s love child” is the TV mystery
ensnaring millions. The underlying idea is that sexual temptation is
beyond control. But it’s the basic stuff that makes AIDS and broken
lives. Fornication and adultery are made “holy” in the pursuit of the
Holy Grail. The fruit: broken hearts and blasted lives, a moral
tsunami. The soul devastation may be near you, even next door. There is
a nightmarish bomb that can kill the people in a city but leave its
glittering architecture unscathed; the da Vinci Code is its spiritual
counterpart.
Has it caught God by surprise?
His promise is that when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against the evil one (Isa.
59:19). That promise is in the final gospel message of Revelation
18:1-4. It will “lighten the earth with glory.” God’s Good News is the
message of three angels in Revelation 14 that must go to “every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people” before the return of Jesus. The third
one’s message is especially significant (vss. 1-12).
Just before His death, Jesus said that the Bible truth of the story of
the authentic Mary Magdalene must be told “wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached” (Mark 14:9). It’s a part of that third angel’s
message in verity!
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The History Channel is pushing the da Vinci Code as something to appeal
to devout but serious thinking people. There is enough of a little
smattering of biblical connection to lend it an assumed legitimacy,
while in fact it is a glorifying of pagan legends of the so-called Holy
Grail. Antichrist has been invested with an enticing allurement. The
idea deceived the Nazis.
The prominent female in the legend is a distorted personification of
the Mary Magdalene of the Bible. The History Channel purports to be
“history,” and lends credence to the supposed story of Jesus Christ
yielding to Mary’s sexual blandishments--unable to overcome the
supposedly irresistible temptation of illicit sex. Trying to track the
historical whereabouts of “Christ’s love child” is the TV mystery
ensnaring millions. The underlying idea is that sexual temptation is
beyond control. But it’s the basic stuff that makes AIDS and broken
lives. Fornication and adultery are made “holy” in the pursuit of the
Holy Grail. The fruit: broken hearts and blasted lives, a moral
tsunami. The soul devastation may be near you, even next door. There is
a nightmarish bomb that can kill the people in a city but leave its
glittering architecture unscathed; the da Vinci Code is its spiritual
counterpart.
Has it caught God by surprise?
His promise is that when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against the evil one (Isa.
59:19). That promise is in the final gospel message of Revelation
18:1-4. It will “lighten the earth with glory.” God’s Good News is the
message of three angels in Revelation 14 that must go to “every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people” before the return of Jesus. The third
one’s message is especially significant (vss. 1-12).
Just before His death, Jesus said that the Bible truth of the story of
the authentic Mary Magdalene must be told “wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached” (Mark 14:9). It’s a part of that third angel’s
message in verity!
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