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Dec 7

WHERE DO YOU STAND?

Joshua 5:13 and 14 contain a lesson which every believer
should learn. God had appointed Joshua to lead the people
of Israel into the land of Canaan. It was just before the
battle of Jericho that the great leader looked up to see a
man with a drawn sword facing him. His sudden appear-
ance must have startled Joshua, but he showed no trace of
fear -- not Joshua!

Advancing toward the man Joshua demanded: "Art thou
for us or for our adversaries?" No wonder the answer
brought him to his knees! He had been standing face to face
with the captain of the Lord’s hosts, no doubt Michael, the
angelic prince of Israel (See Dan. 10:21 and 12:1).

The question was not whose side was the angel of God on,
but whose side was Joshua on! Was he himself in harmony
with God’s will?

What a lesson to learn! In the constant battle over truth
and error there is a tendency for Christians to demand of
other Christians: "Whose side are you on? Are you for us or
for our adversaries?"

If this is as far as we have gotten in our service for the
Lord we still have much to learn, for the great question is
not: "Are you on my side?" but "Am I on God’s side?"
God’s truth will prevail. His purposes will be carried out,
and even though we might be on the side of the most power-
ful and influential of men, we will surely be driven to de-
feat if we are not in harmony with God’s Word and will.

Should we not all fall on our faces with Joshua, then, and
ask: "What saith my Lord unto His servant?"

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Dec 8

PEACE AND ACCESS

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom also we have access..." (Rom. 5:1,2).

"Being justified... we have peace with God"! What a
priceless blessing! We believers are prone to take this bless-
ing altogether too much for granted.

Since the day we trusted Christ and the burden of sin
rolled away, most of us have never had another question
about our eternal destiny. Hence the danger of taking our
salvation for granted. We often fail to appreciate suffi-
ciently what it means to be able to arise in the morning, go
about our business during the day and give ourselves up to
unconsciousness at night, always assured that through our
Lord’s redemptive work we have "peace with God" and our
eternal destiny is secure. Surely this knowledge should
overwhelm our hearts with constant gratitude and have a
profound effect upon our daily conduct.

The companion blessing to "peace with God" is our full
and free access into His presence: another blessing of grace
far too little appreciated. Think of the wonder of our free
access to God; how He, the Ruler of the Universe, invites us
to come confidently before His "throne of grace" at our con-
venience -- "in time of need."

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (Heb. 4:16).

We should never forget that this high privilege was pur-
chased for us by the precious blood of Christ, and that
having thus been purchased, it is His will that we believers
avail ourselves of "this grace." Could there be greater proof
of His love for us?

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

"...a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.

"....Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith..." (Heb. 10:19-22).

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Dec 9

WASHED, SANCTIFIED AND JUSTIFIED

"And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanc-
tified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God" (I Cor. 6:11).

The preceding verses of I Cor. 6 contain a long list of vile
sins and vices into which men have fallen, and the Apostle
adds: "And such were some of you." God’s Church is not
made up of "good people" who have never fallen into sin. It
is rather made up of sinners, saved by grace, through the
infinite payment made for sin by Christ on Calvary’s cross.

"And such were some of you." Had the Apostle included
the more "refined" sins, such as pride, self-righteousness,
etc., he would have had to say: "And such were all of you."

Note further, however, that the Apostle says: "And such
were some of you."

Thank God, he goes on to say of those who had been thus
stained with sin: "But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by
the Spirit of our God."

How beautiful these three phrases: "But ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified"! The word "but"
appearing before each phrase indicates that each should be
considered separately. Such vile creatures were some of
you, "but ye are washed," cleansed from the sins that con-
taminated you. "But ye are sanctified." Having been
cleansed you are now set apart as sacred for His glory. "But
ye are justified." When God justifies us, who can condemn?
"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is
God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth?"

All this is done for the believing sinner, as our verse says,
"in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our
God."

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Dec 10

CAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SAVE?

St. Paul pointed out a basic Scriptural -- and logical -- fact,
when he said: "For not the hearers of the law are just before
God, but the doers of the law shall be justified" (Rom. 2:13).

Many people suppose that God gave us the Ten Com-
mandments to help us to be good. The fact is, however, that
He gave them to show us that we are bad. Rom. 3:20; Gal.
3:19 and a hundred other Bible passages teach this clearly.
How can the Law be of any advantage to a law-breaker?
How can it justify us unless we keep it -- perfectly?

Do you recall the woman caught in adultery, in John 8?
She was a Jewess. She was better off than the Gentiles, for
she had the law of Moses to show her right from wrong, but
this didn’t justify her; it condemned her. So her "advan-
tage" turned out to be a serious disadvantage, for "not the
hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the
law shall be justified."

James 1:23,24 says that one who knows the Law but
doesn’t obey it, is like a man looking into a mirror, seeing
his dirty face, and then walking away without doing any-
thing about it. This is why Rom. 2:14,15 declares that the
consciences of the heathen confirm what the Law says,
"their thoughts the meanwhile accusing, or else excusing one
another."

Those in heathen lands know that it is wrong to lie and
steal and commit adultery, yet they know nothing about
the law of God, or the Ten Commandments. How, then, do
they know that these things are wrong? God made them
with this knowledge; He gave to them, and to us all, con-
science, a sense of blameworthiness in doing wrong.

How good to know the One who has paid the penalty for
our sins so that our hearts may be cleansed from "an evil
conscience" (Heb. 10:22)! "Christ died for our sins" (I Cor.
15:3). "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved" (Acts 16:31).

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Dec 11

BUT NOW

The words "but now" are found in many places in the
Bible, but most often in the Epistles of Paul.

These two words are deeply significant, for they indicate
a change in program. If my secretary is transcribing some
dictation and I say: "But now I would like you to take a
letter," this indicates a change in program.

So it is with this phrase as we find it in Rom. 3:21:

"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested."

Prior to this time God’s people were under the Law.
There was no other way to approach Him.

But though under the Law, they constantly broke the
Law, so that those who sought salvation by the Law stood
before God condemned rather than justified. Thus the Apos-
tle says in Verse 20:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested" (Ver. 21).

How can this be? How can a man be declared righteous
apart from the Law? The answer, the only answer is, by
grace through faith in Christ.

Though perfect and sinless, Christ died for sin. Whose
sin? Yours and mine. Thus as Paul declares in Acts 13:38,
39:

"Through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."

"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law" (Rom. 3:28).

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[3wells]

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

[Brother Love]

Dec 11

BUT NOW

The words "but now" are found in many places in the
Bible, but most often in the Epistles of Paul.

These two words are deeply significant, for they indicate
a change in program. If my secretary is transcribing some
dictation and I say: "But now I would like you to take a
letter," this indicates a change in program.

So it is with this phrase as we find it in Rom. 3:21:

"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested."

Prior to this time God’s people were under the Law.
There was no other way to approach Him.

But though under the Law, they constantly broke the
Law, so that those who sought salvation by the Law stood
before God condemned rather than justified. Thus the Apos-
tle says in Verse 20:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested" (Ver. 21).

How can this be? How can a man be declared righteous
apart from the Law? The answer, the only answer is, by
grace through faith in Christ.

Though perfect and sinless, Christ died for sin. Whose
sin? Yours and mine. Thus as Paul declares in Acts 13:38,
39:

"Through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."

"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law" (Rom. 3:28).

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AMEN!!

BUT NOW!

Brother Love

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Dec 12

MERCY UPON ALL

Have you ever wondered how the pagan world got that
way: idol-worshipping, wicked, gripped by superstition and
fear?

The Bible supplies the answer in Paul’s Epistle to the
Romans. Three times in Chapter 1 we read of the Gentile
world: "He gave them up... He gave them up... He gave
them over...."  Why? Because they had given Him up:

"And even as they did not wish to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient [becoming]" (Rom. 1:28).

It would have been difficult to believe 30 or 40 years ago,
that our young people would be dancing to the wild, exotic
music of pagan lands (if this can be called music), or that
our studios would be selling the twisted, hideous paintings
of pagan art (if this can be called art).

When you wonder why the lovely melodies and harmo-
nies of yesteryear have given place to the noise and din of
today’s "music"; when you wonder why the beautiful paint-
ings of those days have been largely replaced by the mas-
terpieces of chaos that surround us now -- why in so many
ways we seem to be reverting to paganism -- read Romans 1.

All this is the natural result of a departure from God and
His Word. Yet there is hope and assurance and joy in store
for any individual who will yet heed the message of God --
particularly in the Book of Romans.

Here we read how Jew joined Gentile in rejecting Christ,
and God had to give them all up. But listen to this passage
from Rom. 11:32: "For God hath concluded them all in un-
belief THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL."
That is, He gave up the Jewish and Gentile nations so that
He might show His grace to any individuals who might
turn to Him by faith in Christ, thus reconciling both (Jew-
ish and Gentile believers) unto Himself in one body, by the
cross (Eph. 2:16).

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Dec 13

DAVID’S BLESSEDNESS

"Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom
God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the
man to whom the Lord will not impute sin" (Rom. 4:6-8).

Obviously David knew no more about the present "dis-
pensation of the grace of God" than did Abraham, and he
certainly did not live under the dispensation of grace. He
lived under the dispensation of the Law, when sacrifices
were required for acceptance with God. Had David said
that the offering of sacrifices was unnecessary, he would
have been stoned according to the Law.

But David, unlike many today, understood the purpose of
the Mosaic Law: to bring man in guilty before God. In
Psalm 130 he said: "If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniqui-
ties, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with
Thee." He did not know how God could righteously acquit a
guilty sinner, but he believed it to be a fact and rejoiced in
Psa. 32: "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered... unto whom the Lord imputeth not
iniquity...."

Thank God, we now know the reason! God has revealed
through Paul, the chief of sinners saved by grace, how He
can be "just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus"
(Rom. 3:26). It is because "God hath made Him [Christ] to
be sin for us, [Him] who knew no sin, that we might be
made the righteousness of God in Him" (II Cor. 5:21).

David’s blessedness may be ours too, if we will but do
what David did: trust in Him who graciously forgives sin
and (as we now know) justifies believers on the basis of the
redemptive work of Christ.

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Dec 14

SEVEN TIMES A FAILURE

Despite man’s natural tendency to boast, history has
proved again and again that he is a failure, in deep need of
God and His grace.

The Age of Innocence closed with man rebelling against
his Creator and becoming a fallen, sinful creature (Rom.
5:12).

The Age of Conscience opened with one murder (Gen. 4:
and before another age was ushered in "the earth was filled
with violence" (Gen. 6:11).

Then came Human Government, but the world’s first
ruler made a spectacle of himself through drunkenness
(Gen. 9:20,21). Little wonder we soon find the race intox-
icated with its own importance so that God had to confuse
their language at Babel (Gen. 11:4,7,8).

The Age of Promise came next, with Abraham failing to
enter the promised land through unbelief (Gen. 11:31-
12:3). It closed with Israel, his seed, failing to enter the
promised land through unbelief (Heb. 3:19).

The Age of Law began with Israel worshipping a golden
calf before Moses had even gotten down from Sinai. Little
wonder it ended with the rejection of Christ.

The Age of Grace commenced with the Apostle Paul,
God’s ambassador of love and grace, persecuted and im-
prisoned (Eph. 6:20). This showed man’s attitude toward
God and His grace. It will be brought to a close as man
continues persistently to go on in his sin rather than accept
redeeming grace through Christ (II Cor. 4:4; II Tim. 3:1-5).

The Kingdom of Christ, which is to follow the present
age, will begin with our Lord rebuking strong nations
(Micah 4:3) and will close with multitudes, who for a time
had rendered enforced obedience, following Satan (Rev.
20:7-9).

How all this demonstrates man’s need of God and sal-
vation through our Lord Jesus Christ! "All have sinned"
(Rom. 3:23) but, thank God: "Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:13). Though sur-
rounded by sin and rebellion, multitudes down through
history have called and have been saved.

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Dec 15

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE

We couldn’t help hearing it! This woman had a voice that
could be heard at considerable distance and we distinctly
heard her say: "I doped it all out from the Bible."

"Well, at least somebody’s interested in the Bible," we
said to each other.

But as she prattled on it turned out that she had used the
records in an old family Bible to establish her claim to part
of an estate. These records, introduced in court, had won
the case for her.

There was, after all, no indication that she was interested
in the Bible -- only in those pages between the Old and New
Testaments which, in some editions of the Bible, are kept
for family records.

Actually she was no different from the masses about us
who go about from day to day interested only in the things
of this life and ignoring almost completely the things that
really matter: God, heaven, hell and their own eternal des-
tiny.

If these people only knew what treasures are to be found
in the Bible! Among these are "riches of mercy" (Eph. 2:4),
"riches of grace" (Eph. 1:7), "riches of glory" (Phil. 4:19),
"riches of wisdom and knowledge" (Rom. 11:33), "the riches
of the full assurance of understanding" (Col. 2:2), "the un-
searchable riches of Christ" (Eph. 3:. And the best part of
it is that anyone may have these riches simply for the ask-
ing:

"For there is no difference... for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him,

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:12,13).

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Dec 16

TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD

Because of a failure to understand God’s purposes as out-
lined in the Scriptures some have felt it necessary to alter
many of the plainest statements of Holy Writ. Supposing
that God could not have meant exactly what He said, they
have concluded that these things must be interpreted in a
"spiritual" sense.

Actually there is nothing spiritual about failing to take
God at His Word, and seeking to explain away difficulties
by arbitrarily altering what He has plainly said.

First, this would leave us at the mercy of theologians. If
the Scriptures do not mean what they say, who has the
authority to decide what they do mean? And how can we
turn to the Word of God for light if it does not mean what it
says, and only trained theologians can tell us what it does
mean?

Second, this altering of the Scriptures affects the veracity
of God. It is a thrust at His very honor. If the obvious,
natural meaning of the Old Testament promises are not to
be depended upon, how can we depend upon any promise of
God? Then, when He says: "Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:13), He may also
mean something else instead of what He actually says.

Third, this "spiritualizing" of Scriptures endorses apos-
tasy, for it allows men to alter the meaning of God’s Word
according to their will.

The path to a true understanding and enjoyment of the
Bible is not in altering but in "rightly dividing" it (II Tim.
2:15).

Those who have resorted to the "spiritualization" of the
prophetic Scriptures because they cannot account for the
seeming cessation in their fulfillment, will find the solution
to their problem in a recognition of the unique character of
Paul’s apostleship and message. Recognize "the mystery"
revealed through Paul and there will be no need to alter
prophecy.

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Dec 17

BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT

Every true Christian should understand that the truth
costs. If you don’t think so, make it your own, value it, de-
fend it, stand for it, and see if it doesn’t cost. Before you are
through it may cost you far more than you had thought --
hours of ease and pleasure, friends and money. Yes, the
truth costs. Salvation is gloriously free but the truth costs
-- that is, if you want it for yourself. Many who know the
truth won’t buy it. They won’t pay what it costs to say:
"This is what I believe. This is my conviction." The truth
isn’t worth that much to them.

But in Prov. 23:23 God’s Word urges us: "Buy the truth"!
Not, "Buy it if you can get it at a bargain; if the price is not
too great." No, "Buy the truth"! Buy it at any price. It is
worth far more than anything you can give in exchange for
it.

And when you have bought it: "sell it not." How many,
alas, have bought the truth only to sell out again! For a
while they valued and defended some God-given light from
His Word, but presently they sold it again for something
that seemed more valuable. Perhaps it was peace with oth-
ers, or position, or popularity or some other temporal gain.
They still gave mental assent to it but it formed no part of
them. It was no longer a conviction.

Such should read again the Spirit’s counsel: "Buy the
truth, and sell it not." He does not say: "Don’t sell it unless
you can get a very good price for it." He says: "Sell it not."
Sell it not at any price. Buy it, no matter what it costs and
when it is yours do not sell it for any price or under any
consideration.

It is because the truth is so little valued in this indif-
ferent age, that many of God’s people have become so spir-
itually powerless. They hold opinions instead of convic-
tions, because they have given the infallible, unchangeable
Word of God little place in their lives. God blesses and uses
those who "buy the truth and sell it not."

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Dec 18

TRUE UNITY

There are many unions all over the world, but in only one
place is true unity to be found: in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The children of fallen Adam have always been divided.
Adam’s first two children could not get along together. One
killed the other. And now that the race has multiplied
there are about three billion separate, individual wills in
the world. Some of Adam’s children try to get along to-
gether amicably and enjoy some measure of success, but
this always takes effort. It does not come naturally. Even
the dearest lovers must be prepared to yield to each other’s
wishes frequently to get along well together. There is no
true unity in this world.

But where Adam’s children have been divided by sin,
they may be saved and truly united in Christ. As Christ
became one with us when He died our death (the wages of
sin) at Calvary, so we may become one with Him as in faith
we acknowledge that that death was not His but ours. This
is what the Apostle referred to when he asked: "Know ye
not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into His death?" (Rom. 6:3).

This verse does not refer to water baptism, for no one can
be baptized into Christ -- become one with Him -- by a phys-
ical ceremony. The only way to become one with Him is to
accept by faith the fact that He died our death on the cross.
The meeting place must always be Calvary. And as we ac-
knowledge His death as ours and become one with Him, we
automatically become one with each other. "For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one body" (I Cor. 12:13).

Unity in Christ is not something for which Christians are
to strive. It is a fact of grace to be recognized and enjoyed
by faith. True believers in and out of all denominations
have been baptized into one body, whether or not they rec-
ognize this. Now it is for us to appropriate and enjoy this
unity in Christ, "endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit
in the bond of peace" (Eph. 4:3) i.e., seeking to experience
the unity which the Spirit has made. Only those who have
been baptized into Christ by faith can appreciate the bless-
ed oneness which believers may enjoy.

Written by Pastor Stam

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[Brother Love]

Only those who have been baptized into Christ by faith can appreciate the blessed oneness which believers may enjoy.

Amen

 Brother Love