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Evening, January 25 Scripture: “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”(Romans 3:31) When the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. […] Evening, January 24 Scripture: “Martha was cumbered about much serving.”(Luke 10:40) Her fault was not that she served: the condition of a servant well becomes every Christian. “I serve,” should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. Nor was it her fault that she had “much serving.” […] Evening, January 23 Scripture: “We will remember thy love more than wine.”(Song of Solomon 1:4) Jesus will not let his people forget his love. If all the love they have enjoyed should be forgotten, he will visit them with fresh love. “Do you forget my cross?” says he, “I will cause you to […] Evening, January 22 Scripture: “Doth Job fear God for nought?”(Job 1:9) This was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because he prospers them; but if […] Evening, January 21 Scripture: “He was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst?”(Judges 15:18) Samson was thirsty and ready to die. The difficulty was totally different from any which the hero had […] |
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