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Evening, June 14 Scripture: “O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face … because we have sinned against thee.”(Daniel 9:8) A deep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should be […] Evening, June 13 Scripture: “Remove far from me vanity and lies.”(Proverbs 30:8)“O my God, be not far from me.”( Psalm 38:21) Here we have two great lessons－what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so […] Evening, June 12 Scripture: “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.”(2 Timothy 1:9) The apostle uses the perfect tense and says, “Who hath saved us.” Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved, but […] Evening, June 11 Scripture: “There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.”(Psalm 76:3) Our Redeemer’s glorious cry of “It is finished,” was the death-knell of all the adversaries of his people, the breaking of “the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the […] Evening, June 10 Scripture: “They are they which testify of me.”(John 5:39) Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we […] |
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