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Daily Light's Evening Reading
Sanctification of the Spirit.—II THES. 2:13.
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge!—Fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth: proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
The Comforter is the Holy Ghost.—The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.
In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Song 4:16.II Cor. 7:11. -Eph. 5:9,10.John 14:26. -Rom. 5:5.Gal. 5:22.II Cor. 8:2.I Cor. 12:11.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“Let not one of them escape.”
1 Kings 18:40
When the prophet Elijah had received the answer to his prayer, and the fire from heaven had consumed the sacrifice in the presence of all the people, he called upon the assembled Israelites to take the priests of Baal, and sternly cried, “Let not one of them escape.” He took them all down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. So must it be with our sins—they are all doomed, not one must be preserved. Our darling sin must die. Spare it not for its much crying. Strike, though it be as dear as an Isaac. Strike, for God struck at sin when it was laid upon his own Son. With stern unflinching purpose must you condemn to death that sin which was once the idol of your heart. Do you ask how you are to accomplish this? Jesus will be your power. You have grace to overcome sin given you in the covenant of grace; you have strength to win the victory in the crusade against inward lusts, because Christ Jesus has promised to be with you even unto the end. If you would triumph over darkness, set yourself in the presence of the Sun of Righteousness. There is no place so well adapted for the discovery of sin, and recovery from its power and guilt, as the immediate presence of God. Job never knew how to get rid of sin half so well as he did when his eye of faith rested upon God, and then he abhorred himself, and repented in dust and ashes. The fine gold of the Christian is oft becoming dim. We need the sacred fire to consume the dross. Let us fly to our God, he is a consuming fire; he will not consume our spirit, but our sins. Let the goodness of God excite us to a sacred jealousy, and to a holy revenge against those iniquities which are hateful in his sight. Go forth to battle with Amalek, in his strength, and utterly destroy the accursed crew: let not one of them escape.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Deuteronomy 10
10. Tablets Like the First Ones
The Second Pair of Tablets
10
At that time the Lord said to me, “Carve out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you shall put them in the ark.”3So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.4Then he wrote on the tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.5So I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
6 (The Israelites journeyed from Beeroth-bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.7From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.8At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.9Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance with his kindred; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God promised him.)
10 I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.11The Lord said to me, “Get up, go on your journey at the head of the people, that they may go in and occupy the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them.”
The Essence of the Law
12 So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,13and to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being.14Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth with all that is in it,15yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.16Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe,18who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.19You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.20You shall fear the Lord your God; him alone you shall worship; to him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear.21He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things that your own eyes have seen.22Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.
New Testament in Four Years - 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
4. Treasures in Jars of Clay
Treasure in Clay Jars
4
Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.2We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.4In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.5For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.6For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 149
149. Psalm 149
Psalm 149
Praise for God’s Goodness to Israel
1
Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
2
Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
3
Let them praise his name with dancing,
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.
4
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory.
5
Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy on their couches.
6
Let the high praises of God be in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands,
7
to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
8
to bind their kings with fetters
and their nobles with chains of iron,
9
to execute on them the judgment decreed.
This is glory for all his faithful ones.
Praise the Lord!