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Made For a Purpose. – 1 Chronicles 1
Feb 11, 2013 - 1 Chronicles 1
Dear Saints,
Today we are prayerfully reading, 1 Chronicles 1. Brother Mike; “doesn’t reading all this genealogy
put you to sleep”? On the contrary as heirs
to the throne, it is important to know our family tree. “ The chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
52 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54 Magdiel, and Iram;
these are the chiefs of Edom.”1 Chronicles 1, English Standard Version
(ESV). This reading of the family tree
is a faith builder. Remember what God’s
Word says; “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” “ 3 Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
4 The Lord has made everything
for its purpose,
even the wicked for the day of trouble.”
Proverbs 16:3 - 4 ESV. It is God’s purpose for us to share the
Feast Saints, this way we read every Word that God gave us in this Holy Bible
in about every three years. We should
continue keeping the first thing first!
That is salvation through the blood of the Lamb. Remember the Lord made everything for a
purpose.
Overview; “The
books of Chronicles are, in a great measure, repetitions of what is in the
books of Samuel and of the Kings, yet there are some excellent useful things
in them which we find not elsewhere. The FIRST BOOK traces the rise of the Jewish
people from Adam, and afterward gives an account of the reign of David. In
the SECOND BOOK the narrative is continued, and relates the progress and end
of the kingdom of Judah; also it notices the return of the Jews from the
Babylonish captivity. Jerome says, that whoever supposes himself to have
knowledge of the Scriptures without being acquainted with the books of
Chronicles, deceives himself. Historical facts passed over elsewhere, names,
and the connexion of passages are to be found here, and many questions
concerning the gospel are explained. ” – Matthew Henry Concise
The Feast
Mon, February 11, 2013, 1
Chronicles 1, - “Genealogies, Adam to Abraham. (1-27) The descendants of Abraham.
(28-54)” – Matthew Henry
Concise
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Living the Christian Life
Series! Devotional by Pastor Glen Aycock. Posted 2/11/2013
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LIVING THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE – “REAL LIFE”
SCRIPTURE: I JOHN 2: 12-17
12 ¶ I
remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus’ name.
13 You
veterans were in on the ground floor, and know the One who started all
this; you newcomers have won a big victory over the Evil One. And a second
reminder, dear children: You know the Father from personal experience.
14 You
veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality
and strength! God’s word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God
enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One.
15 Don’t
love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world
squeezes out love for the Father.
16
Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own
way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has
nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.
17 The
world and all it’s wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever
does what God wants is set for eternity.
DEVOTIONAL: CAUTIONARY WORDS
All of us need reminders from time to
time. In this scripture we have a list of reminders about the essentials of
Christian living. Number 1 reminder is the foundation of living the
Christian life.
• Don’t
forget your sins are forgiven and victory is yours over the evil one
through a personal experience with the Father. You can’t get this by just
living well or by being baptized or church membership. Those things are
simply follow through after initially receiving Jesus. This enables the
victory chant: “Jesus is mine and He lives in my heart.”
• Fellowship
with God is the enabler of victory in your life. Getting to know God by
fellowship with him via prayer, Bible Reading, and sharing Christ with
others. Once a week church attendance is not the essential of fellowship.
• Two
loves to avoid is (1) world ways, (2) world goods, only God is the provider
of good.
• Wanting
your own way, wanting everything for yourself, and wanting to appear
important has nothing to do with Father but brings isolation.
• The
world is on its way out but living in Jesus sets us for eternity through
Jesus who is the very propitiation for our sin. Living for Jesus is making
life REAL.
• In
the earlier chapters we were cautioned to forgive and to love others as God
loves us.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Dear Jesus increase our love and ability to forgive others as
proof that we love and live in you. May our obedience and actions be our
token of proof. Amen
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God Bless you,
Brother Mike
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help
“15 for you will be a
witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard. 16 And now why
do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his
name.’” Acts 22:15-16 ESV.
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