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Daily Light's Evening Reading
It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt.—EXO. 12:42.
The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
He . . . kneeled down, and prayed. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
It was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: . . . they took Jesus, and led him away, . . . into a place called . . . Golgotha: where they crucified him.
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast.
I Cor. 11:23-25.Luke 22:41,44.John 19:14,16-18.I Cor. 5:7,8.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
2 Peter 1:4
Vanish forever all thought of indulging the flesh if you would live in the power of your risen Lord. It were ill that a man who is alive in Christ should dwell in the corruption of sin. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” said the angel to Magdalene. Should the living dwell in the sepulchre? Should divine life be immured in the charnel house of fleshly lust? How can we partake of the cup of the Lord and yet drink the cup of Belial? Surely, believer, from open lusts and sins you are delivered: have you also escaped from the more secret and delusive lime-twigs of the Satanic fowler? Have you come forth from the lust of pride? Have you escaped from slothfulness? Have you clean escaped from carnal security? Are you seeking day by day to live above worldliness, the pride of life, and the ensnaring vice of avarice? Remember, it is for this that you have been enriched with the treasures of God. If you be indeed the chosen of God, and beloved by him, do not suffer all the lavish treasure of grace to be wasted upon you. Follow after holiness; it is the Christian’s crown and glory. An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church. O Christian, the vows of God are upon you. You are God’s priest: act as such. You are God’s king: reign over your lusts. You are God’s chosen: do not associate with Belial. Heaven is your portion: live like a heavenly spirit, so shall you prove that you have true faith in Jesus, for there cannot be faith in the heart unless there be holiness in the life.
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“Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving thee, And knows no other shame.” |
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Numbers 25
25. Moab Seduces Israel
Worship of Baal of Peor
25
While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.2These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.3Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel.4The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and impale them in the sun before the Lord, in order that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you shall kill any of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”
6 Just then one of the Israelites came and brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up and left the congregation. Taking a spear in his hand,8he went after the Israelite man into the tent, and pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped among the people of Israel.9Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites by manifesting such zeal among them on my behalf that in my jealousy I did not consume the Israelites.12Therefore say, ‘I hereby grant him my covenant of peace.13It shall be for him and for his descendants after him a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the Israelites.’ ”
14 The name of the slain Israelite man, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, head of an ancestral house belonging to the Simeonites.15The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur, who was the head of a clan, an ancestral house in Midian.
16 The Lord said to Moses,17“Harass the Midianites, and defeat them;18for they have harassed you by the trickery with which they deceived you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister; she was killed on the day of the plague that resulted from Peor.”
New Testament in Four Years - 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
15. Resurrection of Christ and the Dead
The Resurrection of the Dead
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;14and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.15We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.17If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.18Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.19If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 128
128. Psalm 128
Psalm 128
The Happy Home of the Faithful
A Song of Ascents.
1
Happy is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in his ways.
2
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.
3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
4
Thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
5
The Lord bless you from Zion.
May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
6
May you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!