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August 17 th

GOD’S WORD TO US

In charging Timothy to "preach the Word," the Apostle
does not mean, as some have supposed, that the pastor
should draw his sermon material equally from all parts of
the Bible. True, "all Scripture" is given so that the "man of
God" may be fully equipped for his ministry. But in this
same letter the Apostle Paul indicates that the Scriptures
must be "rightly divided" (II Tim. 2:15) and that his own
God-given message is the Word of God in particular for the
present dispensation of grace (See II Tim. 1:7-14; 2:7-9).  
Thus the Apostle declares by inspiration that believers are
established by "my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ
according to the revelation of the mystery" (Rom. 16:25).
         
How often the Apostle insists that his message is the
Word of God! To the Thessalonian believers he writes with
joy:

"For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the Word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God..." (I Thes. 2:13).

Thus the Apostle writes to Timothy, in this his last letter:
         
"Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me..." (II Tim. 1:13).

"And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men..." (2:2).

"Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel" (2:.
         
The charge to "preach the Word," therefore, refers to "all
Scripture" in general, but to Paul’s God-given message in
particular. This is obvious, for it is in urging Timothy to
faithfully carry on in his place that the Apostle charges him
to "preach the Word."

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August 18 th

EVOLUTION AND SIN

"For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Rom. 8:22).
         
Modern evolution, of course, denies the Bible account of
the fall and has much to say about "the ascent of man," but
evolution fails to account for, indeed, assiduously evades,
that which lies at the very root of all man’s troubles: sin.
It fails to explain adequately why man finds himself weak,
poor, miserable, distressed, corrupt, perishing, and it fails
to explain why he is so utterly helpless to lift himself from
this state. It fails to explain his inherent sense of blame-
worthiness; indeed insists he has no cause for a "guilt com-
plex."

Every man feels within himself a disorder, a positive
dislocation of things, which science -- and certainly the
theory of evolution -- is unable to explain. Only the Bible
account of the fall explains it and shows how all man’s
trouble and distress arise from his own nature, which is
fallen and corrupt.

"...BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH
BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED" (Rom. 5:12).
         
It is most important for the unsaved to learn this lesson;  
to learn that it is not merely our sins, but our sin that
makes us unfit for the presence of God; not merely our
deeds but our nature; not merely what we have done, but
what we would do because we are essentially sinful as the
children of Adam.

How profoundly grateful we should be, then, that God
loves us despite our sins and our sinful natures, and that...

"...God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:.
         
"In whom we have redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).

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August 19 th

THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD

"Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" (I Cor. 1:20).
         
This challenge was hurled at the intellectual world of
nineteen hundred years ago, so famous for its philosophy,
literature and art. Nor are these the words of one who him-
self lacked the benefits of higher learning. Rather, they
flowed from the pen of one of the most learned men, one
of the greatest thinkers of all time: the Apostle Paul. More
than this, they are found in that Book of books, the Bible,
which has withstood, not barely but magnificently, all the
attacks of a thousand critics through centuries of time. This
Book says:
         
"The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God" (I Cor. 3:19).
         
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 9:10).
         
Actually, the "intellectuals" in any age are those who
assent to the theories of those who agree with each other
that they are intellectual! Dissent from them and you have
automatically branded yourself an illiterate!
         
"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
         
"And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
         
"That no flesh should glory in His presence" (I Cor. 1:27-29).

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Two Minutes With The Bible

August 20 th

SICKNESS AND SIN

One thing that really concerns this writer about modern
life, is how sin is constantly called sickness. A man com-
mits some moral outrage and they say he is sick -- they even
tell him that.
         
I went to see a man some time ago who had fallen into
unspeakable immorality and it had caught up with him.
For years his sanctimonious life had been a sham; now the
mask was torn off and he was in trouble -- deep trouble.
         
I had been telling him that now his best course was to
make a clean confession -- to the courts and to God. But
someone else had gotten to him first. While he stood by,
listening, this man had told his wife: "You must get Jim to
see that he’s sick and needs help. I’m not condoning what
he has done, but I’m hopeful that if he gets the proper help
he can be cured."
         
What a way to evade the sin question! Of course the man
was sick -- I imagine you and I would be sick too if we lived
as he had been living! But let’s get this straight: His sick-
ness came from his sin, not his sin from some sickness. He
would have been far better off to sob out his heart in con-
trition before God for his sin than to excuse his conduct on
the grounds of illness. Rom. 5:12 says: "By one man sin
entered into the world and death by sin," and Rom. 6:23
says: "The wages of sin is death."
         
The sobering fact is that while there may be differences
in the kinds of sins we commit, or in the degrees of our sin,
Rom. 3:23 declares that there is no difference in this, that
"all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
         
This is why we are so pleased and proud to proclaim "the
gospel of the grace of God," how Christ paid the penalty for
our sins that we might have a perfect standing before a
holy God, "being justified freely by His grace, through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24). "Thanks be
unto God for His unspeakable gift!" (II Cor. 9:15).

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August 21

THE OLD NATURE IN THE BELIEVER

The believer who would be truly spiritual must recognize
the presence of the old nature within. It would be dan-
gerous not to recognize a foe so near.
         
The old nature in the believer is that which is "begotten
of the flesh." It is called, "the flesh," "the old man," "the
natural man," "the carnal mind."
         
Just as "they that are in the flesh cannot please God"
(Rom. 8: so that which is of the flesh, in the believer,
cannot please God. "The flesh," as we have already seen,
is totally depraved. God calls it "sinful flesh" (Rom. 8:3),
warns that it seeks "occasion" to do wrong (Gal. 5:13), and
declares that "the works of the flesh" are all bad (Gal. 5:
19-21).

Nor is the old nature in the believer one which improves
by its contact with the new. It is with respect to "the flesh"
in the believer, even in himself that the Apostle declares
that in it "dwelleth no good thing" (Rom. 7:18), that it is
"carnal, sold under sin" (Rom. 7:14), that it is "corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts" (Eph. 4:22), that it is at
"enmity against God," and is "not subject to the law of God,
NEITHER INDEED CAN BE" (Rom. 8:7).
         
"The flesh," even as it remains in the believer after salva-
tion, is that which was generated by a fallen begetter. It is
the old Adamic nature. It is sinful in itself.  It cannot be
improved. It cannot be changed. "That which is born [be-
gotten] of the flesh is flesh," said our Lord (John 3:6), and it
is as impossible to improve the "old man" in the believer as
it was to make him acceptable to God in the first place.
         
The "old man" was condemned and dealt with judicially
at the Cross. Never once is the believer instructed to try to
do anything with him or to make anything of him, but
always to "reckon" him "dead indeed" (Rom. 6:11), and to
"put him off" (Col. 3:8-10).

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August 22

MERCY TO ALL

Years ago, during Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia, I
asked a class of boys: "Who is the most respected, most
honored, most loved man of all history?" Immediately
hands shot up, as one said this and another that. One boy
said Mussolini was the most beloved and honored, but the
others laughed at that idea. Finally, one sincere-looking
lad said: "Jesus." But he was as far off as the one who had
suggested Mussolini.

We wish that our Lord were as greatly honored, respected
and loved as He should be, but He is not. Rather He is
widely rejected and blasphemed, while many are hypo-
critical in pretending to worship Him.

Without question the most honored, most respected, most
loved man of all history is Abraham, proudly owned as  
"father" by millions of Jews, millions of Mohammedans and
millions of professing Christians. Clearly this is why God
used this man to demonstrate to all mankind how we may
be declared righteous before a just and holy God. Note what
Romans 4:2,3 says about this:

"For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to boast; but not before God.

"For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness."

Thus God uses the most beloved, respected man of history
to demonstrate the fact that salvation is received by faith
alone. And thus the Apostle concludes:

"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:5).
         
In every age men have been saved by doing what God
commanded them to do then. Now He tells us to do nothing,
but simply to trust in Christ, who died for our sins. This is
God’s plan of salvation.

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Aug 23

TRUE EVANGELISM

In St. Paul’s mighty Epistle to the Romans he declares
"the gospel [good news] of God... concerning His Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord" (Rom. 1:1-3).
         
The good news which Paul proclaimed was essentially
about Christ. He was always talking about Christ. His
epistles were filled with Christ. In his message Christ was
everything.
         
This is in striking contrast to much of modern evan-
gelism, which is not Christ-centered, but man-centered. Dr.  
A. W. Tozer, shortly before his death, wrote:
         
"The flaw in current evangelism lies in its humanistic
approach... It is frankly fascinated by the great, noisy,
aggressive world with its big names, its hero worship, its
wealth and pageantry... This gross misapprehension of
the truth is back of much... of our present evangelical ac-
tivity...
         
"This concept of Christianity is a radical error, and be-
cause it touches the souls of men it is a dangerous, even
deadly, error... It is little more than a weak humanism
allied with weak Christianity to give it ecclesiastical re-
spectability... Invariably it begins with man and his needs
and then looks around for God, while true Christianity
reveals God as searching for man to deliver him from his
ambitions."
         
Tozer was right in this. God’s good news for the world is
about Christ and His power and love in defeating Satan,
overcoming death, nailing the Law to His cross and paying
for man the just penalty for sin, so that all who believe
might be justified. This is why Paul’s gospel is called in
Scripture "the gospel [good news] of the grace of God" (Acts
20:24) and "the gospel of the glory of Christ" (II Cor. 4:4).
         
To enter experientially into the truth of this good news is
the greatest blessing one can possibly enjoy.

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Aug 24

INEXCUSABLE

The second chapter of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is a
dark, sad passage, but it opens the door to the richest bless-
ing the human heart can contain: salvation by grace.
         
The opening words: "Therefore thou art inexcusable," are
blunt indeed, but God exposes our sinful condition only so
as to save us from it.
         
This is where most philosophies and the Bible clash head-
on. Most philosophies close their eyes to the sinful nature
of man. They argue, generally, that man is inherently good,
while overwhelming evidence bears witness that he is in-
herently bad. Therefore human philosophy offers no salva-
tion from sin and its just penalty. Only the Bible does this
with its "gospel [good news] of the grace of God."
         
In Paul’s day the Greek philosophers condemned the
uncivilized pagans for their open immorality and wicked-
ness. But while preaching virtue these moralizers them-
selves practiced vice, and God said: "Therefore thou art in-
excusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for
wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for
thou that judgest doest the same things" (Rom. 2:1).
         
It is the same today. Multitudes of self-righteous people
are outwardly cultured and moral, but they forget that God
looks upon the heart and sees hate as murder, jealousy as
theft and the lustful look as adultery. He considers, not  
what we do, outwardly, but what we desire to do or wish
we dared to do. He sees the desires and motives of the
heart.
         
But thank God, "Christ died for sinners" -- guilty sinners,
and all who come to God by faith in Christ are "justified
freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus" (Rom. 3:24).

"Inexcusable," or "justified freely by His grace," through
faith in the Christ who died for our sins? Which will it be?

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Aug 25

GOD: A JUST JUDGE

How just are the judgments of God! In Rom. 2:16 St. Paul
says: "God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel." Notice carefully what this in-
volves:

1.  He will judge "the secrets of men." In human courts
there are often miscarriages of justice because all the facts
are not brought to light. But at the "Great White Throne"
there will be a Judge with "eyes... as a flame of fire" (Rev.
19:12), before whom no secret can remain hidden. (See also
Heb. 4:13).

2.  He will judge the secrets of men "by Jesus Christ."  
Not the Father, but the Son will preside at the judgment of
the unsaved. John 5:22 declares that "the Father judgeth no
man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son" and
Verse 27 adds that the Father has given the Son this au-
thority "because He is the Son of man." This insures just
judgment, for, men will be judged in that day by the One
who loved them enough to become a man that He might
understand and help men, and even die for their sins.

3.  He will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ "ac-
cording to my gospel," says Paul. How eminently fair and
just this is. If He judged men according to the law of Moses
no one ever would be saved, for all of us have broken the
Law. Moreover the children of fallen Adam, because of
their depraved nature, cannot consistently keep the Law.  
Thus they will not be judged on the basis of that which they
were unable to live up to. This is why He will judge men
according to the good news proclaimed by Paul, which is the
great truth that salvation is denied to no one who takes
God at His Word and approaches Him in His way. His way
for today?  "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved."
         
"To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:5).

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Aug 26

HOW SMALL WE ARE!

Just behind me, in the super-market check-out line, were
two little boys. I noticed that the older one kept looking up
at me and then down at his brother again several times in
succession. Finally, nudging his little brother and pointing
up at me, he said: "Hey, Joey, look how little you are!"
         
Those who have seen me in the flesh know that I am not
exactly small, physically, and I can easily imagine that,
standing next to these little fellows, I made them look small
indeed!

But all this pertained only to the physical, and as I left
that super-market, I began asking myself: "How big are
you, actually, in the sight of God?" I thought of Psalm
8:3,4, where David mused over the same question:

"When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; what is man that Thou art mindful of Him...?"
         
Yet we are so important to the heart of God that He en-
tered the stream of humanity, as it were, and became one of
us in Christ, Son of God and Son of Man. Why? Hebrews
2:14,15 gives us one important reason:

"...that through death [His death for our sins] He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."
         
Moreover, insignificant as we are in ourselves, He would
use us mightily to His glory for, according to I Cor. 1:27,28,  
He has "chosen" the "foolish," the "weak," the "base," the  
"despised," and those who "are not" to accomplish His pur-
poses and to bring to naught the plans of the world’s great
ones.

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In Christ,

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Two Minutes With The Bible

Aug 27

A GOOD JOB

As Loren stood with his father, gazing at a beautiful Min-
nesota lake, the little four-year-old asked: "Daddy, who
made this lake?" "God made it," replied his dad, "and God
made those trees and all this beautiful scenery."
         
There was a moment’s silence. Then, placing his hands
on his hips, little Loren said: "He sure did a good job!"
         
Yes, He did, yet this scenery was nothing compared with
the glory this earth will know when Christ returns to reign.  
If earth’s rivers and lakes, its mountains and valleys, its
landscapes and seascapes can now be so breath-taking, so
awe-inspiring, what will be its beauty when prophecy is
fulfilled and the curse removed!

"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them [God’s people, Israel] and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
         
"It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God."

"...for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

"And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water..."

"And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away" (Isa. 35:1,2,6,
7,10).

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Aug 28

A RANSOM FOR ALL

"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a ransom far all, to be testified in due time" (I Tim. 2:5,6).
         
Man, in his present condition is not fit to stand in the
presence of a holy God. If we are honest with ourselves we
will feel the need of a mediator -- a go-between -- who can
represent us in the presence of God. Job felt this when,
realizing this need, he cried: "There is no daysman who can
lay his hand upon us both" (Job 9:33).

Thank God, a "daysman" or "mediator" has been provided
for sinful men -- a go-between, who can act as an intermedi-
ary between sinful men and a holy God. This Mediator is
Christ, Son of God and Son of man.
         
What a blessing to know that the Son of God became the
Son of man that the sons of men might become the sons of
God! Though perfect and sinless, He died upon Calvary’s
cross, disgraced as a malefactor, so that His payment for sin
might be credited to our account and we might stand before
God without one sin to our charge.
         
Though Christ’s death for sin was credited to all believ-
ers, even of past ages, it was not proclaimed until sometime
after the cross, when God in grace saved Saul of Tarsus, the
chief of sinners (I Tim. 1:15). This is why the Apostle de-
clares that Christ "gave Himself a ransom for all, to be tes-
tified in due time."
         
It was when Saul, the chief of sinners, was saved on the
road to Damascus, that God began to show to him that
Christ had died as "a ransom for all," and God sent him
forth to proclaim this glorious message.
         
This is why Paul’s epistles are so filled with references to
salvation through the cross, the death, the blood of Christ.  
And it is on this basis that the Apostle offers to all salva-
tion by grace, through faith in the finished work of Christ,
and proclaims to all the simple offer of salvation: "Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts
16:31).

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Aug 29

A FAITHFUL SAYING

"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief" (I Tim. 1:15).
         
Of all Paul’s "faithful sayings," this is perhaps the most
wonderful, and the one through which most people have
found the joy of sins forgiven.
         
The subject is that "Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners." Why else would Christ have had to leave His
glory in heaven if it were not, as the Bible says, to come to
earth in human form to represent us in the payment for
sin? And, thank God, He paid the full price for the sins of
all men, for it was not a mere man who died on Calvary’s
cross. So complete was His payment that Paul could ex-
claim: "He came into the world to save sinners, of whom I
am chief." Paul, himself, though once Christ’s chief enemy
on earth, had now been saved by Him and, had come to
know the joy of sins forgiven.

The great tragedy is that so many people do not feel their
condition to be hopeless apart from Christ. They have not
yet seen how far they come short of the glory and holiness
of God. They know they are sinners, but they do not yet
feel that their condition is so hopeless that they need a Sav-
ior. Thus they keep trying, trying, trying -- and failing,
failing, failing!

How much wiser we are to confess our sins before God --
to take the place of sinners, so that He can save us. This is
the first step to heaven. When we have done this we are in
a position to accept God’s offer of full pardon and justifica-
tion through Christ, who died to pay the penalty for our
sins.
         
Since none are perfect and all have sinned, "this is," in-
deed, "a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." Why not
believe God’s Word, accept Christ as your Savior and be
saved today?

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Two Minutes With The Bible

Aug 30

THE GRACE OF GOD

In the Bible, the grace of God is His loving favor toward
fallen man. St. Paul has more to say about grace than any
other Bible writer, opening every one of his epistles with
the declaration: "Grace be unto you and peace."

Little wonder, for he himself was God's greatest demon-
stration of salvation by grace. In I Tim. 1:13,14, he says:

" was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy…and THE GRACE OF OUR LORD WAS EXCEEDING ABUNDANT…."

After years of service and suffering for Christ, he de-
clared:

"But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I ave received of the Lord Jesus, to testify THE GOSPEL [GOOD NEWS] OF THE GRACE OF GOD" (Acts 20:24).

Salvation is wholly by God's grace, not partly by man's
works, for in Rom. 11:6 we read: " ...if [it be] by grace, then
is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace."
And in Rom. 4:4,5: " ...to him that worketh is the reward
not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh
not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his
faith is counted for righteousness." Thus salvation is "not of
works" but "unto good works" (Eph. 2:8-10). Good works is
the fruit, not the root.

"All have sinned," says Rom. 3:23 but, thank God, all
may be "justified freely by His grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24).

Thus it is God's purpose "that in the ages to come He
might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE
in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:7).

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