Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Love never fails. 9/2/15

Day 243- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Cor.13


1 Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The law given to the flesh September 2nd

 “So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”
ROMANS 8:8
This verse clearly reveals that the flesh cannot please God. One day God gave the law. The law was given specifically to the flesh. The law was not given to the spirit. Why then did God give the law when He knew the flesh was fallen and could not keep it? God gave the law as a child-conductor, or escort, to lead us to Christ (Gal. 3:24). How does the law lead us to Christ? The good flesh in man wants to keep the law in order to be a proper person. But even though it has a good intention, it is independent from God. It is seeking to keep the law on its own. Of course, it fails. And when it fails, it wants to pick itself up again. It wants to try again to measure up to the standard of the law. The flesh likes the law. It really wants to keep it. But it can only come up with repeated failure in its relationship with the law. Thus, the law was given to the good flesh in order to tire it out, discourage it, depress it, and defeat it. It was given to convince us that there is no hope in the realm of the flesh. The very giving up of the flesh in discouragement is what God uses to lead us to Christ.
The flesh as a source is without life and life-supply. The spirit as a source is life, because Christ Himself lives there (Rom. 8:10). The law was never given to the spirit, because the law could not give life. It could only state facts and leave you to yourself. Whenever we are under the demand of the law, feeling driven and compelled to try to attain to something, we are totally in the realm of the flesh. The law was given to our flesh to wear us out, to convince us that we need Another life. We need another source. We need to go to another person — “Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom. 7:24). God’s way of deliverance out of the flesh-law syndrome is to graft us into Another life. He joins us to Christ in spirit so that we are one with Him to share and participate in all that He is and does. This joining to be one spirit with Him produces our new “I.” This is an organic “I” in which one being shares the life of another. This “I” is in resurrection with the One who has lived the life we need to live. And this “I” is now resident within our spirit transmitting that life to us. Now our part is to merge with and participate in Him.

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