Day 260- Reading the New Testament in one year.
Day 260- Reading the New Testament in one year.
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2 Corinthians 11:16-33
Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle
16 I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would[a] but as a fool. 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. 19 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! 20 For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. 21 To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!
But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food,[b] in cold and exposure. 28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 32 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, 33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman
One will September 19th
“Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, accord- ing to the good pleasure of His will.” EPHESIANS 1:4-5
According to Ephesians 1:4, before there was an earth — before creation, before the foundation of the world — God had a will originating from His good pleasure. The very fact that this verse uses the word “foundation” indicates that God had a design and plan to execute His will. When God created the universe, He laid a foundation because He wanted to build something. His desire was to build a habitation for Himself, together with His Firstborn Son and all of us as the many brothers conformed to His Son’s image (Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10-11).
The Father’s will is a revealed will, a tangible and understand- able will. It is defined as sonship. This sonship begins when you and I merge with the Son of God by receiving Him and becoming one spirit with Him. Then this process of sonship continues as we enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ in our daily life. By this enjoyment He saturates our being from center to circumference to make us persons who express a living like the apostle Paul’s — “For to me, to live is Christ” and “Christ is all and in all” (Phil. 1:21; Col. 3:11).
The controlling will of the whole Bible is that we would be transformed and conformed to the image of God’s Son (Rom. 8:29). From Genesis to Revelation we see that this one unique will was not only behind the creation of the universe, but it is also controlling the whole universe at this moment in time (Rev. 4:11).
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