You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of 
 you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. (Hebrews 3:13 NLT)

We talk about our motives, and we say, "Our motive was right!" We talk about our 
conscientiousness, we talk about our intentions; but you and I do not know what 
lies behind what we call our good motives. There is a deceitfulness about this 
human heart that defies our greatest attempt at tracking it down, and we shall 
never do it.... Here is where the church has become such a confused thing, and 
such a tragedy; for the prevailing idea is that if you give yourself over to God 
He will take you up and use you: "Bring over your humanity and consecrate it to 
the Lord! Consecrate your old man to the Lord, and go out and serve the Lord, 
with a consecrated old man!" it is utterly contrary to the teaching of God’s 
Word. The result is that in the work of God all the world over you have people 
serving the Lord in the energy of the flesh, in the reasoning of the flesh, in 
the emotions of the flesh. Meet them, counter them, frustrate them, and you meet 
something evil; you meet with a fight, a division, a schism, a scattering, and 
wholesale resignations.

Do you see what a havoc the enemy can make in that which is called the church, 
because people with best intentions and purest motives have come to serve the Lord 
with all their own intelligence, their own strength, and their own emotion? They 
have not seen that God has closed the door to the old creation, and that 
God’s attitude is this: "The only thing that can satisfy Me, that can serve Me 
is My Son, and if you are going to come into My service, He has to be the energy 
of everything, the Life of everything, the Wisdom of everything!" He has to be 
the governing, ruling reality in everything. It is not to be a matter of your 
impulses, but of His urgings and leadings by the Holy Spirit; not your sitting 
down to reason out what it would be good to do for the Lord, what ought to be 
done, what needs to be done, but what He shows you, nothing more.... You and I 
must not bring over our old creation and give it to God, expecting God to use 
it. God begins with birth. The church of the firstborn is something quite new, 
and it comes out of a death. That death is the death of an old creation, and the 
resurrection is of something that is not the resuscitation of an old creation, 
but the resurrection of something wholly of God.

This devotional contains short daily portions from a selection of Mr. Austin-Sparks' messages. In his own words, “Perhaps this is just like a window opened into heaven. If you get the right window you can see quite a lot. You can see great things and you can see far things. But the best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else, and how superior is the dispensation into which we have come, and how superior are all the resources at our disposal to all that ever was before!” Open Windows messages have been selected and compiled by Austin-Sparks.Net from the works of T. Austin-Sparks. In some cases they appear in abridged form. The introductory verse and its associated Bible version have been selected by the editor and did not always appear within the original message.

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 The Church of the Firstborn 

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

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 Those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name 

13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

But encourage one another daily,<cr>1</cr> as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.<cr>2</cr>

Hebrews 3:13

 13 But encourage one another daily,   as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  

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The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1978 by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). The NIV was published to meet the need for a modern translation done by Bible scholars using the earliest, highest quality manuscripts available. Of equal importance was that the Bible be expressed in broadly understood modern English.

The NIV is published by Zondervan in the United States and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. The NIV was updated in 1984 and 2011 and has become one of the most popular and best-selling modern translations.

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 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

 But encourage one another daily,   as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  

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