Thursday, January 30, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
All in One!
“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalms 16:11
Jesus is our path. Jesus is the only One who brings full joy. In His presence will be pleasures forever. What more can we ask for and why do we look anywhere else?
Thank you Lord!
Tom
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Seriousness of marriage!
This is a quote from a John Piper book that will make you think more deeply about the seriousness of marriage in regard to Jesus and the church and your spouse!! Read carefully!
“Jesus commands that husbands and wives be faithful to their marriages. He does not assume this is easy. But he teaches that it is a great thing because marriage is the work of God himself whereby he creates a new reality of “one flesh” that surpasses human comprehension and portrays to the world in human form the covenant union between God and his people. Marriage is sacred beyond what most people imagine, because it is a unique creation of God, a dramatic portrayal of God’s relation to his people, and a display of God’s glory. Against all the diminished attitudes about marriage in our day, Jesus’s message is that marriage is a great work of God and a sacred covenant breakable only by death. Marriage: The Mirror of God’s Covenant with His People Jesus knew his Jewish Scriptures and saw them as coming to fulfillment in himself and his work (Matt. 5:17–18). This includes his awareness of what God had said about his relationship with his people when he portrayed it as marriage. For example, God said, “Your Maker is your 322 Command #40 husband, the Lord of hosts is his name” (Isa. 54:5). And “In that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband.’ . . . And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord” (Hos. 2:16, 19–20). And “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine” (Ezek. 16:8). And “Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord” (Jer. 3:20). With these Scriptures as the backdrop, it is inevitable that Jesus would see God’s creation of marriage in the beginning as a means of portraying his relationship with his people. So Jesus read in Genesis 2:24, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” When God said this—and Jesus explicitly says that God said this, not just Moses, the writer of Genesis (Matt. 19:4–5)—he had in view (as he has all things in view) that he would call his people his wife and himself her husband. Therefore, the union between a man and a woman is uniquely God’s creation with a view to portraying the relationship between himself and his people. “
Tom
Monday, January 27, 2025
It happened!
“And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.”
I Corinthians 15:14
As a follower of Christ you must believe He resurrected from the grave! If you don’t you are following the wrong Jesus and. Jesus that will lead you straight to hell! The resurrection of Jesus is proof He defeated death and sin and thus paid for our sins so we can resurrect from the grave when He returns!!!
Resurrection is of utmost importance!!! Without it we are dead in our sins and headed for hell!
Tom
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Forget not all His benefits!
Read slowly:
“Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
Psalms 103:1-5
May we bless the Lord with praise and service. For he has blessed us in every way! “Forget not all His benefits” as told in the verses above! Oh how good God is to us and oh how much He loves us!!!
Tom
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Receive and believe.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:”
John 1:12
Jesus came as the Savior of the world. First his own, the Jews, had a chance to receive and believe. Some did but many rejected. Then He allowed the good news of Salvation in Him come to the Gentiles and once again some received and believed but many turned away! Today it is the same for all…you either receive and believe Jesus is the Savior of the world or you reject Him. There is no middle ground!
Those who do receive and believe become children of God and those who reject remain children of the devil headed with him to hell!
What’s your choice?
Tom