The days of our years are threescore years and ten(70); and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years (80), yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach usto number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm 90:10-12
Lord Forgive Me For My Sins
As the people of God, we don't deny Adam's sin and guilt before God. We also confess and own that in Adam all have sinned, all have spiritually died, and we are all guilty by imputed sin and imputed guilt. (Rom 5:12). However, I have never read in the scriptures of anyone praying forgive me for Adam's sin, or Adam's guilt. Rather, the people of God are always praying, Lord forgive me for my sin, like the publican prayed (Luke 18:13), or like David prayed, "Against thee and thee only have I sinned” (Psalm 51:4). We must understand, (and that only by sovereign revelation) that we are the guilty party, that we are ruined and lost and guilty before God. Until we do, we will never earnestly beg for pardon and mercy or say with Job, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42: 5-6).
For Christ’s Sake
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:32).
Why would God have mercy and show grace to a sinner such as I? There is only one reason. It is for Christ’s sake. God has revealed some horrible things to me about myself. By nature my heart is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” (Jer. 17:9). The thoughts of my heart are “only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5).My carnal mind is “enmity (hostile) against God, it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can it be” (Rom 8:7).So again I ask you who are in the same condition, “Why would God forgive any of us?” It is only “For Christ’s sake.” When I consider how little my love is for Him, and how great my love is for myself, I cannot help but to think, “Why does God continue to be so patient, longsuffering, and tenderhearted to such a one?” There can only be one answer. “It is for Christ’s sake.” May the Lord enable us by His grace to be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another. There is only one reason that He would and that we should. “It is for Christ’s sake.” Pastor David Eddmenson
BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE!
“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (I John 3:1)
God’s love for His people is immeasurable. It cannot be comprehended by the human mind, but the scriptures do describe God’s love to us.
God’s love is an eternal love. (Jer. 31:3)
God’s love is electing love. (Deut. 7:6-8, Rom. 9:13)
God’s love is a predestinating love. (Eph. 1:4-5)
God’s love is a redeeming love. (Rom. 5:8, I John 4:10)
God’s love is a calling love. (Jer. 31:3)
God’s love is a life giving love. (Eph. 2:4-5)
God’s love is an adopting love that makes His people sons of God. (Eph. 1:5)
Thank God that He has the capacity to love sinners like me with such a manner of love! Pastor Frank Tate
The 7000 Club
“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him” (1 Kings 19:18).
Oh Lord of the harvest, raise up true and faithful laborers, preachers and pastors. Laborers who are not concerned for worldly honor, gain, nor possessions, but for the spiritual welfare of their hearers, the glory of God, and the preeminence of Jesus Christ. Laborers who fear neither men of the world nor men of the church, who fear not loneliness nor failure, whose only fear is “the fear of the Lord.” Laborers who know how to be abased and how to abound, how to live with poverty and plenty, and to treat those two imposters as the same. Laborers who are COMPLETE IN CHRIST and CONTENT WITH CHRIST, and who are quite determined to preach Christ and Him crucified. Laborers who love their Master and have no complaint with where they labor nor how long they labor and are willing to leave the harvest in His hands.
Are we as destitute for true laborers as it seems? Is the famine of hearing the Word of God as wide-spread as it appears? Oh God, where are THE 7000 who have “not bowed their knee to Baal nor kissed him with their mouths?”
This is truly the order: first, THE KNEE buckles under the strain of fear, opposition, criticism, loneliness, and trial; then THE MOUTH follows with soft words of compromise and smooth intellectual words of man’s wisdom, which lessens the offense of the cross.
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