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Daily Light's Morning Reading
Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.—I COR. 15:58.
Ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.—As ye have . . . received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.—He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.—That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
By faith ye stand.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
I Cor. 15:58. -Col. 2:6,7. -Matt. 24:13. -Luke 8:15.II Cor. 1:24.John 9:4.Gal. 6:8-10.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“The last Adam.”
1 Corinthians 15:45
Jesus is the federal head of his elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one with the Lord from heaven, since he is the Second Adam, the Sponsor and Substitute of the elect in the new covenant of love. The apostle Paul declares that Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him: it is a certain truth that the believer was in the loins of Jesus Christ, the Mediator, when in old eternity the covenant settlements of grace were decreed, ratified, and made sure forever. Thus, whatever Christ hath done, he hath wrought for the whole body of his Church. We were crucified in him and buried with him (read Col. 2:10-13), and to make it still more wonderful, we are risen with him and even ascended with him to the seats on high (Eph. 2:6). It is thus that the Church has fulfilled the law, and is “accepted in the beloved.” It is thus that she is regarded with complacency by the just Jehovah, for he views her in Jesus, and does not look upon her as separate from her covenant head. As the Anointed Redeemer of Israel, Christ Jesus has nothing distinct from his Church, but all that he has he holds for her. Adam’s righteousness was ours so long as he maintained it, and his sin was ours the moment that he committed it; and in the same manner, all that the Second Adam is or does, is ours as well as his, seeing that he is our representative. Here is the foundation of the covenant of grace. This gracious system of representation and substitution, which moved Justin Martyr to cry out, “O blessed change, O sweet permutation!” this is the very groundwork of the gospel of our salvation, and is to be received with strong faith and rapturous joy.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - 2 Kings 12
12. Joash Repairs Temple
The Temple Repaired
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In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.2Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all his days, because the priest Jehoiada instructed him.3Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money offered as sacred donations that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each person is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money from the voluntary offerings brought into the house of the Lord,5let the priests receive from each of the donors; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”6But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs on the house.7Therefore King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada with the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore do not accept any more money from your donors but hand it over for the repair of the house.”8So the priests agreed that they would neither accept more money from the people nor repair the house.
9 Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, made a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord; the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.10Whenever they saw that there was a great deal of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest went up, counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and tied it up in bags.11They would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workers who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; then they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord,12to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the Lord, as well as for any outlay for repairs of the house.13But for the house of the Lord no basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, were made from the money that was brought into the house of the Lord,14for that was given to the workers who were repairing the house of the Lord with it.15They did not ask an accounting from those into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workers, for they dealt honestly.16The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; it belonged to the priests.
Hazael Threatens Jerusalem
17 At that time King Hazael of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,18King Jehoash of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, as well as his own votive gifts, all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent these to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
Death of Joash
19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?20His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.21It was Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. He was buried with his ancestors in the city of David; then his son Amaziah succeeded him.
New Testament in Four Years - 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
2. The Man of Lawlessness
9The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,10and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,12so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.Psalm a Day - Psalm 128
128. Psalm 128
Psalm 128
The Happy Home of the Faithful
A Song of Ascents.
1
Happy is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in his ways.
2
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.
3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
4
Thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
5
The Lord bless you from Zion.
May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
6
May you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!