Without a doubt. 7/3/15

Day182 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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Acts 12

Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison
It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. 7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.

8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. 9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.

11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”

12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. 13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. 17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.

18 In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter. 19 After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed.

Herod’s Death
Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. 20 He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. After securing the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king’s country for their food supply.

21 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. 22 They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” 23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

24 But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off
25 When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they returned from[a] Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The double transfer July 3rd 

 “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21
Notice the phrase “in Him.” This means that our becoming the righteousness of God is in a sphere — in Him. To be in Him is to be in an organic union with Him. By virtue of this organic union, we have become (Gk. aorist tense) the righteousness of God. In this verse we can see our new, organic “I,” joined to the Person of Christ. He is now our person, our righteousness, our standing, our founda- tion, our supply, our reactions, our thought-life, our feelings, our choices. Christ is our life! I can participate constantly in all that belongs to this One because I am in an organic union with Him. I am joined to Him. And there is a great fact in this union — He was made sin once and for all on the cross for us. Second Corinthians 5:21 reveals that He did not know sin, but that He was made sin on our behalf. So the total sin problem, including my sinful acts in the plural and indwelling sin in the singular, was borne by Him on the cross. He bore the penalty and the judgment for it once and for all. Sin and sins all fell on Him (Isa. 53:4-6). Now, for every man, the cross of Christ and the blood of Christ solve the entire realm of the sin problem. He bore the sin, He was made sin, and consequently He has all the sin. The fact that He was made sin (aorist tense) is part of the double transfer in 2 Corinthians 5:21. Our sin was transferred to Him, and He took the judicial judgment for it and paid the price for it with condemnation, judgment, and death. He received the sentence for sin. It was paid for, once and for all. He has the sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in union with Him. Now in this new “I,” in union with Him, we have become the righteousness of God.

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