REPENTANCE
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Daily Readings: Revelation 21-22 and Psalm 63 The final chapters of the Revelation are filled with the promise of the new creation. When Jesus returns as King and Lord of all, the entire universe is re-created, never to be corrupted by sin again. In this glorious new creation, God dwells with His people in a
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Revelation 17:1 – 19:4 and Psalm 61 At the end of Revelation 16, John’s three-part vision of the Age of the End and the images of the seven seals, trumpets and bowls comes to an end. In the rest of the Revelation he sees a series of three visions that show the final coming of
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Daily Readings: Revelation 15-16 and Psalm 60 In chapters 15-16, John sees a different depiction of God’s will for the progression of the Age of the End, this time symbolised in the seven bowls of God’s wrath. Wrath means God’s settled anger against sin (i.e. rebellion against His love and His will), and I marvel that
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Daily Readings: Revelation 8-9 and Psalm 57 In Revelation 5:8, before John saw the Lamb unsealing the scroll containing the God’s will for the progression of the Age of the End, the prayers of God’s people were presented to God as golden bowls of incense. Here in Revelation 8:3, another angel offers incense with the
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Daily Readings: Luke 22 and Psalm 38 31 ‘Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.’ Satan came to Jesus in the wilderness (all the way back in Luke 4), seeking
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Daily Readings: Luke 20 and Psalm 36 45 While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, 46 ‘Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the market-places and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of
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Daily Readings: Galatians 1 and Psalm 132 The letter to the Galatians is one of the oldest New Testament Books. Paul had visited the region of Galatia on his first missionary journey in about 46-48AD (see Acts 13-14) and probably wrote this follow-up letter during the period immediately after that, in around 50AD (see Acts
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Daily Reading: 2 Corinthians 7 and Psalm 125 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. In the Christian life and in our pursuit of pleasing God, there is a very clear distinction to be made between feeling sad or sorry for something sinful we have
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 2 and Psalm 120 In 1 Corinthians 5:1 Paul described the disgusting, sexually immoral behaviour of an unnamed man in the Church in Corinth, who was sleeping with his father’s wife (presumably his ‘step-mother’). He called on the Church to discipline him by excluding him from their fellowship and their celebration
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 6 and Psalm 118 1 Corinthians 6 is filled with Holy Spirit-inspired instruction and correction from Paul. Although he addressed a range of areas where the Corinthian Christians were falling into sinful tendencies, the heart of his instruction was to remind them that their salvation had begun with repentance from sin.
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