Saturday, October 31, 2015

We have the Truth. 10/31/15


Day 303

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Titus 1

Greeting

1 Paul, a servant[a] of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began[b] 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

4 To Titus, my true child in a common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

Qualifications for Elders

5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,[c] and his children are believers[d] and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer,[e] as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound[f] doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.[g] 11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. 12 One of the Cretans,[h] a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”[i] 13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

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Our only resolve October 30th
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants [or, resolves] to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” JAMES 4:4

James exposes the source of our struggles. The word “wants” in this verse is very significant. It means “resolves.” This same word is used by Paul in 1 Timothy 6:9-10, which sheds further light on our understanding: 9 “Those who desire [or, resolve] to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” The word “desire” in verse 9 is not merely an impulse to be rich. It is a resolve to be rich. It is the kind of decision one makes with a definite intention. So Paul speaks of resolving to be rich, and James speaks of resolving to be a friend of the world.

When we receive the Lord, He comes in to take over. All the rights to our life are gone. We belong to Him. We are under His headship. We are under His lordship. To have any resolve other than the resolve to follow Him, to know Him, and to live by Him is to have an evil eye (Matt. 6:23). The Lord tells us that our eye should be “single” (v. 22, ASV). This means that we should have only one goal, look at only one thing, and not tolerate a divided heart. To have a single eye means to have a single heart (vv. 21-23). When the Lord spoke of having a single eye, He did not contrast it with having double vision. Rather, He used the word “evil” as the contrasting wordfor“single.”ThisisbecauseinGod’sthoughthavinganything other than God Himself as our one goal is evil.


Any resolve in our life apart from the Lord Himself will lead us into trouble. There are serious consequences when we resolve to be a friend of the world or when we resolve to be rich. Even to resolve to “get rich for Jesus” is an error of the heart. We only need to have one resolve and that is, “Lord, I love You, and I am one with You. My only desire is to be under You and to follow You on the path of life” (cf. Matt. 7:14). In the New Testament, Paul uses the phrase “Jesus Christ our Lord.” This confession is very significant. It means that the Lord is not someone outside of us that we are observing from afar. No! He is the One who lives and rules in us. When we feel inwardly restrained from doing or saying something, we need to go along with that restraint. Jesus Christ is not just our Savior. He is our Lord! Our only resolve is to say “Amen” and “Yes” to Him.

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Friday, October 30, 2015

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God. 10/30/15

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Day 302

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2 Timothy 4

Preach the Word

4 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Personal Instructions

9 Do your best to come to me soon. 10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,[b] Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. 12 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. 15 Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. 16 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Final Greetings

19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus. 21 Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.[c]

22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.[d]

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom[a] you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[b] may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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Our only resolve October 30th
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants [or, resolves] to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” JAMES 4:4

James exposes the source of our struggles. The word “wants” in this verse is very significant. It means “resolves.” This same word is used by Paul in 1 Timothy 6:9-10, which sheds further light on our understanding: 9 “Those who desire [or, resolve] to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” The word “desire” in verse 9 is not merely an impulse to be rich. It is a resolve to be rich. It is the kind of decision one makes with a definite intention. So Paul speaks of resolving to be rich, and James speaks of resolving to be a friend of the world.

When we receive the Lord, He comes in to take over. All the rights to our life are gone. We belong to Him. We are under His headship. We are under His lordship. To have any resolve other than the resolve to follow Him, to know Him, and to live by Him is to have an evil eye (Matt. 6:23). The Lord tells us that our eye should be “single” (v. 22, ASV). This means that we should have only one goal, look at only one thing, and not tolerate a divided heart. To have a single eye means to have a single heart (vv. 21-23). When the Lord spoke of having a single eye, He did not contrast it with having double vision. Rather, He used the word “evil” as the contrasting wordfor“single.”ThisisbecauseinGod’sthoughthavinganything other than God Himself as our one goal is evil.


Any resolve in our life apart from the Lord Himself will lead us into trouble. There are serious consequences when we resolve to be a friend of the world or when we resolve to be rich. Even to resolve to “get rich for Jesus” is an error of the heart. We only need to have one resolve and that is, “Lord, I love You, and I am one with You. My only desire is to be under You and to follow You on the path of life” (cf. Matt. 7:14). In the New Testament, Paul uses the phrase “Jesus Christ our Lord.” This confession is very significant. It means that the Lord is not someone outside of us that we are observing from afar. No! He is the One who lives and rules in us. When we feel inwardly restrained from doing or saying something, we need to go along with that restraint. Jesus Christ is not just our Savior. He is our Lord! Our only resolve is to say “Amen” and “Yes” to Him.


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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Godlessness in the Last Days 10/29/15


Day 301


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2 Timothy 3

Godlessness in the Last Days

3 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom[a] you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[b] may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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Faith through hearing October 29th


“This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” GALATIANS 3:2
To fully understand how God’s righteousness is applied to us, we need to see that it is related to hearing. God’s righteousness is not only His procedure on the cross, but it is our hearing about it. Galatians 3:2 and 5 calls this hearing “the hearing of faith.” The hearing of faith consists of a hearing about the scenery of Calvary. It is that kind of hearing that causes faith to come into being in us. According to Ephesians 2:8, faith is a gift: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.” The way this gift is given to us is simply by hearing about the scenery of Calvary.
God wants the appropriate response to Himself. Faith is that response. The way God secures this response of faith is by imparting it into us as a gift. Furthermore, He gives the gift by putting us under a hearing which reveals God’s righteousness. This is the signifi- cance of what Paul says in Romans 1:16-17: 16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed out of faith into faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” This is a righteousness of God that, when revealed, requires faith; and at the same time, while it is being revealed in the gospel, it gives and imparts the very faith that it requires. Thus, faith in Jesus Christ is the faith of Jesus Christ (Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:22). Faith does not originate with us. It originates with our beholding the scenery of Calvary that reveals God’s righteousness. When we are in the process of beholding the scenery of Calvary through hearing (Gal. 3:1-2), we experience the faith of Jesus Christ. When we respond to what we are beholding and hearing, we experience faith in Jesus Christ.



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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Dealing with False Teachers. 10/28/15


Day 300


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2 Timothy 2

The Appeal Renewed

2 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. 3 Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. 5 Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules. 6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. 7 Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.

8 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained. 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

11 Here is a trustworthy saying:

If we died with him,

    we will also live with him;

12 if we endure,

    we will also reign with him.

If we disown him,

    he will also disown us;

13 if we are faithless,

    he remains faithful,

    for he cannot disown himself.

Dealing With False Teachers

14 Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”

20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. 21 Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

22 Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25 Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will

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Answering our environment October 27th

“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.”
MATTHEW 11:25
Notice the phrase “At that time.” At what time? At the time everything was negative and contrary. At the time when everything was against the Lord. At the time when, naturally speaking, you would not utter a thanksgiving. When you read the word “answered,” you may wonder who the Lord was talking to. In the preceding verses, He was not talking to anyone. He was going through the cities, and they were rejecting Him. They would not repent. It was at this point that Jesus answered. What was He answering? Who was He answering? He was answering His environment. He was answering what was being spoken to Him in His environment.
Brothers and sisters, we must this moment answer our environ- ment as it is. How have you answered your environment? How have I answered my environment? “At that time, Jesus answered and said.” Our environment requires answers. We cannot remain neutral. We cannot just cope with environment. There is no progress in God that way. We cannot blame environment. Not only will there be no progress, but we will go deeper into the flesh, deeper into our mind, and deeper into Satan. So we dare not answer the environment in that way.
When the Lord answered His environment, He was answering all the rejection. And what did He say? “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight” (Matt. 11:25-26). The Lord uttered this in His humanity, after having a disappointing environment, an environment contrary to His expectation. The Lord answered with thankfulness from His inner being saying, “Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.” So the Lord kept His blessedness.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

God gave us power to love. 10/27/15


Day 299


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2 Timothy 1


1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

2 To Timothy, my dear son:

Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Thanksgiving
3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. 9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11 And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

13 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Examples of Disloyalty and Loyalty
15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

16 May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 17 On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. 18 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.

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Answering our environment October 27th

 “At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.”
MATTHEW 11:25
Notice the phrase “At that time.” At what time? At the time everything was negative and contrary. At the time when everything was against the Lord. At the time when, naturally speaking, you would not utter a thanksgiving. When you read the word “answered,” you may wonder who the Lord was talking to. In the preceding verses, He was not talking to anyone. He was going through the cities, and they were rejecting Him. They would not repent. It was at this point that Jesus answered. What was He answering? Who was He answering? He was answering His environment. He was answering what was being spoken to Him in His environment.
Brothers and sisters, we must this moment answer our environ- ment as it is. How have you answered your environment? How have I answered my environment? “At that time, Jesus answered and said.” Our environment requires answers. We cannot remain neutral. We cannot just cope with environment. There is no progress in God that way. We cannot blame environment. Not only will there be no progress, but we will go deeper into the flesh, deeper into our mind, and deeper into Satan. So we dare not answer the environment in that way.
When the Lord answered His environment, He was answering all the rejection. And what did He say? “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight” (Matt. 11:25-26). The Lord uttered this in His humanity, after having a disappointing environment, an environment contrary to His expectation. The Lord answered with thankfulness from His inner being saying, “Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.” So the Lord kept His blessedness.

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Fight the Good Fight of Faith. 10/26/15


Day 298


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1 Timothy 6

6 Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants[a] regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.

False Teachers and True Contentment

Teach and urge these things. 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound[b] words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain, 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and[c] we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Fight the Good Fight of Faith

11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before[d] Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

20 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” 21 for by professing it some have swerved from the faith.

Grace be with you.[e]

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Inner blessedness October 26th

 “And blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” MATTHEW 11:6
The New King James Version, as well as others, translates the phrase “in Me” as “because of Me.” But the Greek preposition isen(ejn)withthedativecase,nottheprepositiondia(dia)v withthe accusative case. Thus, this phrase is better translated “in Me,” as in the American Standard Version. So it would read, “Blessed is he who is not offended in Me,” or “Blessed is he who is not offended in this union with Me, or in relationship to Me.” Here the Lord is speaking specifically about John the Baptist. But the way He says it — “blessed is he” — includes all of us. It not only applies to the disciples at that time, but it also opens up a crucial principle in our own experience with the Lord.
The Lord characterizes our inward state as blessed. He is attributing the inward state of blessedness to our abiding in Him, remaining in union with Him, while He handles us, while He allows circumstantial environments over our lives, while He does what He does over us. We know that nothing is an accident in the lives of God’s chosen ones. As the elect we are living under the mighty hand of God. There is a purpose in the universe over all of us. God has an ongoing goal over us year after year, month after month, day after day, even moment by moment. That goal is His Son — that we would enjoy His Son and be conformed to His Son and manifest His Son in our mortal flesh, so that we could utter the same testimony that Paul uttered, “For to me, to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). With this goal, with this view, the Lord says, “And blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” In your union with Him, in your relationship with Him, in how He is handling you, in how He is allowing things to be the way they are with you, He adds the word “blessed.” This means happy.


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