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Daily Light's Evening Reading
I have glorified thee on the earth.—JOHN 17:4.
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.—I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.—This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.—Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.—All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth.
Thou art worthy . . . for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and peopIe, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
John 4:34. -John 9:4.Luke 2:49,50. -John 11:4,40.Luke 2:52. -Luke 3:22. -Luke 4:22.Rev. 5:9,10.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible.”
1 Peter 1:23
Peter most earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other “with a pure heart fervently” and he wisely fetched his argument, not from the law, from nature, or from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature which God hath implanted in his people. Just as some judicious tutor of princes might labour to beget and foster in them a kingly spirit and dignified behaviour, finding arguments in their position and descent, so, looking upon God’s people as heirs of glory, princes of the blood royal, descendants of the King of kings, earth’s truest and oldest aristocracy, Peter saith to them, “See that ye love one another, because of your noble birth, being born of incorruptible seed; because of your pedigree, being descended from God, the Creator of all things; and because of your immortal destiny, for you shall never pass away, though the glory of the flesh shall fade, and even its existence shall cease.” It would be well if, in the spirit of humility, we recognized the true dignity of our regenerated nature, and lived up to it. What is a Christian? If you compare him with a king, he adds priestly sanctity to royal dignity. The king’s royalty often lieth only in his crown, but with a Christian it is infused into his inmost nature. He is as much above his fellows through his new birth, as a man is above the beast that perisheth. Surely he ought to carry himself, in all his dealings, as one who is not of the multitude, but chosen out of the world, distinguished by sovereign grace, written among “the peculiar people” and who therefore cannot grovel in the dust as others, nor live after the manner of the world’s citizens. Let the dignity of your nature, and the brightness of your prospects, O believers in Christ, constrain you to cleave unto holiness, and to avoid the very appearance of evil.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Exodus 40
40. Setting Up the Tabernacle
The Tabernacle Erected and Its Equipment Installed
40
The Lord spoke to Moses:2On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.3You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.4You shall bring in the table, and arrange its setting; and you shall bring in the lampstand, and set up its lamps.5You shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and set up the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle.6You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,7and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.8You shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.9Then you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it shall become holy.10You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar shall be most holy.11You shall also anoint the basin with its stand, and consecrate it.12Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water,13and put on Aaron the sacred vestments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may serve me as priest.14You shall bring his sons also and put tunics on them,15and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests: and their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout all generations to come.
16 Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.17In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.18Moses set up the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars;19and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it; as the Lord had commanded Moses.20He took the covenant and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above the ark;21and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the curtain for screening, and screened the ark of the covenant; as the Lord had commanded Moses.22He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain,23and set the bread in order on it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.24He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,25and set up the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.26He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the curtain,27and offered fragrant incense on it; as the Lord had commanded Moses.28He also put in place the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle.29He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering as the Lord had commanded Moses.30He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing,31with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.32When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the Lord had commanded Moses.33He set up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen at the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
The Cloud and the Glory
34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.36Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on each stage of their journey;37but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up.38For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.
New Testament in Four Years - 1 Corinthians 3:1-4
3. On Division in the Church
On Divisions in the Corinthian Church
3
And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.2I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,3for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?4For when one says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not merely human?
Psalm a Day - Psalm 95
95. Psalm 95
Psalm 95
A Call to Worship and Obedience
1
O come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3
For the Lord is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
4
In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
5
The sea is his, for he made it,
and the dry land, which his hands have formed.
6
O come, let us worship and bow down,
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
7
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!
8
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9
when your ancestors tested me,
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
10
For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”
11
Therefore in my anger I swore,
“They shall not enter my rest.”