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Daily Light's Morning Reading
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.—JOHN 10:7.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.—Christ . . . hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.—The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.—Through him we . . . have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.—Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.—We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Matt. 27:51. -I Pet. 3:18. -Heb. 9:8.John 10:9.John 14:6. -Eph. 2:18,19. -Heb. 10:19,20. -Rom. 5:1,2.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.”
Matthew 27:51
No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power—many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all fulfilled in him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the glory of God gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a clear revelation of God, for he was “not as Moses, who put a veil over his face.” Life and immortality are now brought to light, and things which have been hidden since the foundation of the world are manifest in him. The annual ceremony of atonement was thus abolished. The atoning blood which was once every year sprinkled within the veil, was now offered once for all by the great High Priest, and therefore the place of the symbolical rite was broken up. No blood of bullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within the veil with his own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is the privilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laid open through which we may peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reaches from the top to the bottom. We may come with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace. Shall we err if we say that the opening of the Holy of Holies in this marvellous manner by our Lord’s expiring cry was the type of the opening of the gates of paradise to all the saints by virtue of the Passion? Our bleeding Lord hath the key of heaven; he openeth and no man shutteth; let us enter in with him into the heavenly places, and sit with him there till our common enemies shall be made his footstool.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Exodus 25
25. Tabernacle Furnishings
Offerings for the Tabernacle
25
The Lord said to Moses:2Tell the Israelites to take for me an offering; from all whose hearts prompt them to give you shall receive the offering for me.3This is the offering that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,4blue, purple, and crimson yarns and fine linen, goats’ hair,5tanned rams’ skins, fine leather, acacia wood,6oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,7onyx stones and gems to be set in the ephod and for the breastpiece.8And have them make me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them.9In accordance with all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
The Ark of the Covenant
10 They shall make an ark of acacia wood; it shall be two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.11You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make a molding of gold upon it all around.12You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side.13You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.14And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, by which to carry the ark.15The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.16You shall put into the ark the covenant that I shall give you.
17 Then you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.18You shall make two cherubim of gold; you shall make them of hammered work, at the two ends of the mercy seat.19Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other; of one piece with the mercy seat you shall make the cherubim at its two ends.20The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings. They shall face one to another; the faces of the cherubim shall be turned toward the mercy seat.21You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I shall give you.22There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the covenant, I will deliver to you all my commands for the Israelites.
The Table for the Bread of the Presence
23 You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.24You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold around it.25You shall make around it a rim a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.26You shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.27The rings that hold the poles used for carrying the table shall be close to the rim.28You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.29You shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.30And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always.
The Lampstand
31 You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of the lampstand shall be made of hammered work; its cups, its calyxes, and its petals shall be of one piece with it;32and there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;33three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.34On the lampstand itself there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyxes and petals.35There shall be a calyx of one piece with it under the first pair of branches, a calyx of one piece with it under the next pair of branches, and a calyx of one piece with it under the last pair of branches—so for the six branches that go out of the lampstand.36Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one hammered piece of pure gold.37You shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.38Its snuffers and trays shall be of pure gold.39It, and all these utensils, shall be made from a talent of pure gold.40And see that you make them according to the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
New Testament in Four Years - Romans 15:17-22
15. Ministry to the Gentiles
17In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to boast of my work for God.18For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,19by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ.20Thus I make it my ambition to proclaim the good news, not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on someone else’s foundation,21but as it is written,“Those who have never been told of him shall see,
and those who have never heard of him shall understand.”
Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome
22 This is the reason that I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 81
81. Psalm 81
Psalm 81
God’s Appeal to Stubborn Israel
To the leader: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.
1
Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2
Raise a song, sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
3
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our festal day.
4
For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5
He made it a decree in Joseph,
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a voice I had not known:
6
“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
7
In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah
8
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9
There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10
I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11
“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
13
O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their foes.
15
Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
and their doom would last forever.
16
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”