Thursday, September 10, 2015

Have great courage. 9/10/15

Day 251- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/2Cor.3

2 Corinthians 3

Ministers of a New Covenant

Are we starting to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some [false teachers], letters of recommendation to you or from you? [No!] 2 You are our letter [of recommendation], written in our hearts, recognized and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

4 Such is the confidence and steadfast reliance and absolute trust that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficiently qualified in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency and qualifications come from God. 6 He has qualified us [making us sufficient] as ministers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not of the letter [of a written code] but of the Spirit; for the letter [of the Law] kills [by revealing sin and demanding obedience], but the Spirit gives life.

7 Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones [the covenant of the Law which led to death because of sin], came with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, [a brilliance] that was fading, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit [the new covenant which allows us to be Spirit-filled] fail to be even more glorious and splendid? 9 For if the ministry that brings condemnation [the old covenant, the Law] has glory, how much more does glory overflow in the ministry that brings righteousness [the new covenant which declares believers free of guilt and sets them apart for God’s special purpose]! 10 Indeed, what had glory [the Law], in this case no longer has glory because of the glory that surpasses it [the gospel]. 11 For if that [Law] which fades away came with glory, how much more must that [gospel] which remains and is permanent abide in glory and splendor!

12 Since we have such a [glorious] hope and confident expectation, we speak with great courage, 13 and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze at the end of the glory which was fading away. 14 But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ. 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart; 16 but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

God-taught September 10th

“But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.” 1 THESSALONIANS 4:9

The Lord’s speaking is not merely an intermittent or sporadic speaking, but a constant supply of life in our being. For example, we may experience an inner infusion of love toward our relatives to pray for their salvation. The love we feel for them is God’s way of speaking to us about them. God did not come and outwardly tell us to love our relatives and pray for them. He does not do it that way. Rather, He wells up within us with compassion and burden. The compassion and burden are the Lord’s voice, because His voice comes with the infusion and supply of what He wants us to do. As we learn to read the feelings within our heart, we are learning to hear the Lord’s voice.

Often, His voice comes like a little seed planted within our hearts in the form of a thought or burden. If we would pay more attention to those burdens and fan them by prayer, we would discover the voice of God in our daily life in an increasing way. However, if we consider His speaking as merely an objective, outward voice, we may miss the hundreds of times God desires to subjectively and inwardly fulfill something within us. Paul refers to this inward teaching in 1 Thessalonians 4:9 when he says that we are taught by God to love one another. The phrase “taught by God” in Greek is a compoundwordmeaningGod-taught(theodidaktos/qeodidv akto"). In other words, we are intuitively God-taught to love one another. This inward God-kind of teaching comes from a present and con- tinuous supply of the Holy Spirit (1 Thess. 4:8).

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