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Reproach hath broken my heart.—PSA. 69:20.
Is not this the carpenter's son?—Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?—Say we not well that thou are a Samaritan, and hast a devil?—He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.—We know that this man is a sinner.—He deceiveth the people.—This man blasphemeth.—Behold a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.—This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.—If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye.
Matt. 13:55. -John 1:46. -John 8:48. -Matt. 9:34. -John 9:24. -John 7:12. -Matt. 9:3. -Matt. 11:19.Matt. 10:25. -I Pet. 2:19-23. -I Pet. 4:14.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“Fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again.”
Genesis 46:3,4
Jacob must have shuddered at the thought of leaving the land of his father’s sojourning, and dwelling among heathen strangers. It was a new scene, and likely to be a trying one: who shall venture among couriers of a foreign monarch without anxiety? Yet the way was evidently appointed for him, and therefore he resolved to go. This is frequently the position of believers now—they are called to perils and temptations altogether untried: at such seasons let them imitate Jacob’s example by offering sacrifices of prayer unto God, and seeking his direction; let them not take a step until they have waited upon the Lord for his blessing: then they will have Jacob’s companion to be their friend and helper. How blessed to feel assured that the Lord is with us in all our ways, and condescends to go down into our humiliations and banishments with us! Even beyond the ocean our Father’s love beams like the sun in its strength. We cannot hesitate to go where Jehovah promises his presence; even the valley of deathshade grows bright with the radiance of this assurance. Marching onwards with faith in their God, believers shall have Jacob’s promise. They shall be brought up again, whether it be from the troubles of life or the chambers of death. Jacob’s seed came out of Egypt in due time, and so shall all the faithful pass unscathed through the tribulation of life, and the terror of death. Let us exercise Jacob’s confidence. “Fear not,” is the Lord’s command and his divine encouragement to those who at his bidding are launching upon new seas; the divine presence and preservation forbid so much as one unbelieving fear. Without our God we should fear to move; but when he bids us to, it would be dangerous to tarry. Reader, go forward, and fear not.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Leviticus 8
8. The Ordination of Aaron and His Sons
The Rites of Ordination
8
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:2Take Aaron and his sons with him, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull of sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;3and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.4And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting,5Moses said to the congregation, “This is what the Lord has commanded to be done.”
6 Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward, and washed them with water.7He put the tunic on him, fastened the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He then put the decorated band of the ephod around him, tying the ephod to him with it.8He placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.9And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden ornament, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.
10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.11He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its base, to consecrate them.12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.13And Moses brought forward Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and fastened sashes around them, and tied headdresses on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
14 He led forward the bull of sin offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bull of sin offering,15and it was slaughtered. Moses took the blood and with his finger put some on each of the horns of the altar, purifying the altar; then he poured out the blood at the base of the altar. Thus he consecrated it, to make atonement for it.16Moses took all the fat that was around the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and turned them into smoke on the altar.17But the bull itself, its skin and flesh and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
18 Then he brought forward the ram of burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,19and it was slaughtered. Moses dashed the blood against all sides of the altar.20The ram was cut into its parts, and Moses turned into smoke the head and the parts and the suet.21And after the entrails and the legs were washed with water, Moses turned into smoke the whole ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
22 Then he brought forward the second ram, the ram of ordination. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,23and it was slaughtered. Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.24After Aaron’s sons were brought forward, Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet; and Moses dashed the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar.25He took the fat—the broad tail, all the fat that was around the entrails, the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat—and the right thigh.26From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.27He placed all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and raised them as an elevation offering before the Lord.28Then Moses took them from their hands and turned them into smoke on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.29Moses took the breast and raised it as an elevation offering before the Lord; it was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord commanded Moses.
30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his vestments, and also on his sons and their vestments. Thus he consecrated Aaron and his vestments, and also his sons and their vestments.
31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it’;32and what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn with fire.33You shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day when your period of ordination is completed. For it will take seven days to ordain you;34as has been done today, the Lord has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.35You shall remain at the entrance of the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, keeping the Lord’s charge so that you do not die; for so I am commanded.”36Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord commanded through Moses.
New Testament in Four Years - 1 Corinthians 4:17-21
4. Apostles of Christ
17For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church.18But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.19But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.20For the kingdom of God depends not on talk but on power.21What would you prefer? Am I to come to you with a stick, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
Psalm a Day - Psalm 102:12-28
102. Psalm 102
12
But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever;
your name endures to all generations.
13
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to favor it;
the appointed time has come.
14
For your servants hold its stones dear,
and have pity on its dust.
15
The nations will fear the name of the Lord,
and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16
For the Lord will build up Zion;
he will appear in his glory.
17
He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
and will not despise their prayer.
18
Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:
19
that he looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,
20
to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die;
21
so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem,
22
when peoples gather together,
and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.
23
He has broken my strength in midcourse;
he has shortened my days.
24
“O my God,” I say, “do not take me away
at the midpoint of my life,
you whose years endure
throughout all generations.”
25
Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26
They will perish, but you endure;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away;
27
but you are the same, and your years have no end.
28
The children of your servants shall live secure;
their offspring shall be established in your presence.