Bible Verses: Psalms 36:1-12Psalms 89:8Isaiah 11:52 Timothy 2:13Lamentations 3:22-231 Corinthians 1:1-9Hebrews 6:181 Peter 4:19
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For Reading and Meditation: Hebrews 6:1-20
Out of all the aspects of truth that surround the fact of our Lord's ascension, one of the greatest is surely this - Christ is our Precursor. A precursor is really a forerunner - an advance runner - and that is precisely the term which our text for today applies to the climactic ministry of our ascended Lord. The NIV...
Bible Verses: Hebrews 6:1-20Hebrews 2:10John 17:24John 17:1-26John 1:12Galatians 4:71 Corinthians 15:39-44
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But he patiently endured. He did not question God's veracity, nor limit His power, nor doubt His faithfulness, nor grieve His love: but he bowed to divine sovereignty, submitted to infinite wisdom, and was silent under delays, waiting the Lord's time. And so, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
God's promises cannot fail of their accomplishment. Patient waiters cannot be disappointed. Believing expectations shall be realized. Beloved, Abraham's...
Bible Verses: Hebrews 6:15
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The omnipotence of God means that He can do anything that is not inconsistent with His other attributes. Hear the uniform testimony of Scripture! "I am the Almighty God" (Genesis 17:1). "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" (Genesis 18:14). "I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted" (Job 42:2 NASB). "There is nothing...
Bible Verses: Revelation 19:6Genesis 17:1Genesis 18:14Job 42:2Matthew 19:26Luke 1:37Hebrews 6:182 Timothy 2:13Proverbs 21:30Romans 8:31
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I am the Lord … they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me. § Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. § You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in YAH, the Lord, is everlasting strength. § My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. § I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have...
Bible Verses: Romans 5:5Isaiah 49:23Jeremiah 17:7Isaiah 26:3Isaiah 26:4Psalms 62:5Psalms 62:62 Timothy 1:12Hebrews 6:17Hebrews 6:20
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The fellowship of His sufferings. § Rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. § For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. § If children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,...
Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 1:5Philippians 3:101 Peter 4:132 Timothy 2:11Romans 8:17Hebrews 6:17Hebrews 6:182 Thessalonians 2:162 Thessalonians 2:17
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The Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. § Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.His truth shall be your shield and buckler.God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.The...
Bible Verses: Numbers 23:19James 1:17Hebrews 13:8Psalms 91:4Hebrews 6:17Hebrews 6:18Deuteronomy 7:9Psalms 25:10Psalms 146:5
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This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud… And I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. § [It is] ordered in all things and secure. § That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have some strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of...
Bible Verses: Revelation 4:3Genesis 9:12Genesis 9:13Genesis 9:162 Samuel 23:5Hebrews 6:18Acts 13:32Acts 13:33Hebrews 13:8
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God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? § The Lord has sworn and will not relent.God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set...
Bible Verses: 1 Corinthians 10:13Numbers 23:19Hebrews 7:21Hebrews 6:17Hebrews 6:181 Peter 4:192 Timothy 1:121 Thessalonians 5:242 Corinthians 1:20
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Amen! May the Lord God … say so too. § He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. § When God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself … For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed...
Bible Verses: Matthew 6:131 Kings 1:36Isaiah 65:16Hebrews 6:13Hebrews 6:16Hebrews 6:17Hebrews 6:18Revelation 3:142 Corinthians 1:20Psalms 72:18Psalms 72:19
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For Reading and Meditation: Psalm 36:1-12
How wonderful it is, in an age where unfaithfulness abounds, to focus our gaze on those Scriptures that point to the trustworthiness of our God. The one before us today is quite wonderful, but consider also these: "O Lord God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you" (