<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+22:23-33">Matthew 22:23-33</span></span></p><p>We spend one more day considering the proposition that apart from a relationship with God and an understanding of the Scriptures, we are unable to see life as a whole. The man or woman who knows and understands the Bible will be acquainted with the facts he or she needs to have in order to come to right and sound conclusions. So immerse yourself in the Scriptures. Understand that human nature is corrupt and that apart from the grace and power of God men and women are unable to live up to their ideals. Realise that the spiritual is more powerful than the material, and unless the spirit is in control we will be driven by carnal desires. When people say humanity is getting better and that sin and evil are just the "growing pains" of the human race - what are the facts? You get them from the Scriptures and only from the Scriptures. What does the Bible tell us about evil? It says it is part of the human condition and can never be rooted out except through the power and the grace of God. So study the facts of Scripture. Read them, memorise them, and meditate upon them. When next you feel dispirited because you cannot make sense of something, ask yourself: What are the facts? Dig into the Scriptures and draw your perspective from what the Bible says. The root of many of our emotional problems lies in a lack of clear thinking - clear thinking based on Scripture. Think as God thinks about issues and you will feel as God feels about them. For you are not what you think you are, but what you think you are. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Father, I see now why so often my thinking about life is confused - my thinking is not based on the facts. Help me draw my deductions not from what I see in the world but from what I see in the Word. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="2ti+2:1-15">2 Timothy 2:1-15</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="2ti+3:16">2 Timothy 3:16</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What was Paul's exhortation to Timothy?</li><li>What is Scripture profitable for?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"Jesus replied, ÔYou are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God." (v. 29) 

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+76:1-12">Psalm 76:1-12</span></span></p><p>We touched yesterday on the truth that the reason why the ungodly are set in eminent places is because God arranges it. The psalmist goes on to say that not only does God raise up the ungodly, but He also brings them down: "You cast them down to ruin. How suddenly are they destroyed "  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+73:18-19">Psalm 73:18-19</span>). The hand that led them up to the top of the slope is the hand that also casts them down. Why does God act in this strange and mysterious manner? One reason is that God is able to demonstrate how unreliable and insecure are the ways of those who choose not to walk with Him. This explains why we so frequently read of some prominent godless person, such as a film star whom everyone is acclaiming, being suddenly removed from the face of the earth. The feet of such people were set in slippery places. Some reading these lines will remember how everyone stood in dread of Adolph Hitler. He had the whole world frightened, but now he is gone and almost forgotten. The psalmist's words "You cast them down  how suddenly are they destroyed" are really an exclamation of godly wonder at the suddenness and completeness of the sinner's overthrow. God makes a spectacle of those who persist in rejecting His love and grace. They make a splash for the moment of their lives, but after that they are gone and soon forgotten. Keep that fact before you as you look out upon the world. It may sometimes seem as if God is not in control, but in actual fact His hand is ever upon the helm of human affairs. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Gracious and loving Father, my heart bows in silent wonder as I contemplate the awesomeness of Your ways. Open my eyes that I might see that You are at work all around me and that Your face is constantly set against evil. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ro+1:18">Romans 1:18</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ro+3:19-20">Romans 3:19-20</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="2ti+2:1-19">2 Timothy 2:1-19</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="1pe+4:18">1 Peter 4:18</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What does the law expose?</li><li>How is God's wrath averted?</li></ul></div></div>

"Surely your wrath against men brings you praise " (v. 10) 

<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Mary . . . sat at Jesus' feet, and heard His Word. But Martha was encumbered about much serving"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632879505813696" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Luke/10/39">Luke 10:39</a>; <a id="verse_1632879505563595430" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Luke/10/40">40</a>).</p>
</blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">A malingering student will make a poor servant; a diligent student will make a good servant. "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed" (<a id="verse_1632879505371784" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Timothy/2/15">2 Tim. 2:15</a>)."Do not look for service, look for preparation for it. Everyone has to serve an apprenticeship. We do not know what we are to be fitted for, but if we keep at His feet He will prepare us for the very thing for which He has designed us. We hinder both ourselves and His work by attempting things to which we have not been called."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"If you begin with serving (as many do nowadays), you will never truly sit at His feet; whereas if you begin with looking unto Him you will soon serve well, wisely and acceptably. When the serving quiets the conscience, and the sitting is overlooked and neglected, the enemy gains an advantage, for it is at the sitting that the conscience is enlightened, and the pleasure and mind of the Lord become better known. I never met with anyone making his service prominent who knew what it was to sit at the Master's feet; but, thank God, I know indefatigable workers who enjoy sitting at His feet above any service. It is clear that those who abide in Him must be most competent to serve, and most in His confidence, which, after all, is the clue to all effective service" -J.B.S.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters... so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632879505608200" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Psalm/123/2">Ps. 123:2</a>).</p>

A 365 day devotional that will help you in your Christian growth and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  This devotional is a collection of quotes from some of the best authors in the realm of Christian growth that has been organized by Miles J Stanford.  This devotional study is divided into 12 sections each containing 31 daily portions.

None but the Hungry Heart

 Feet First 

<blockquote><strong>Study to show thyself approved unto God"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632877667968736" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Timothy/2/15">2 Tim. 2:15</a>a).</blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">There is as much error produced in failing to divide the Word at all, as there is in wrongly dividing it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Covenant Theology, at the utmost, is forgiveness of sins and divine favor enjoyed; and all that concerns their position in the Lord Jesus is ignored, or alas! guarded against as dangerous. Men are placed under the New Covenant which does not go beyond remission of sins and the law written in the heart. But being in Christ, and knowing it by the Holy Spirit, and what it involves now has dropped out of their creed altogether."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"We are come to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant' (<a id="verse_1632877667506887" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/12/24">Heb. 12:24</a>). We are not come to the new covenant, but to Jesus the Mediator of it. I am associated with Him who is the Mediator; that is a much higher position than if we merely come to the covenant. He will make this new covenant with Israel on the millennial earth." -H.S.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Non-dispensational teachers have endeavored to bring over the many promises of the physical and material aspects of kingdom salvation into the present dispensation, giving hope of material prosperity and physical health, as well as political peace. Failure to realize these promised goals has caused many to lose faith and to become bitter toward God Himself. The failure, of course, is not of God, but of teachers who have refused to rightly divide the Word of Truth."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Calvin attempted by discipline of Church and State to make everyone live like a Christian - as did the Puritans as a result. This effort resulted in the need to use the Old Testament rather than the New as an ethical guide."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"A workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632877667875782" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Timothy/2/15">2 Tim. 2:15</a>b)</p>

 Devastating Deviation 

<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632878292942799" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Timothy/2/15">2 Tim. 2:15</a>a).</p>
</blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">"There is an entirely baseless sentiment abroad which assumes that every teaching of the Lord Jesus must be binding upon the believer during this age simply because He said it. The fact is forgotten that He, while living under, keeping, and applying the Law of Moses, also taught the principles of His future earthly kingdom, and, at the end of His ministry and in relation to His Cross, He also anticipated the teachings of grace. If this threefold division of His teachings is not recognized and maintained, there can be nothing but confusion of mind and consequent contradiction of truth." -L.S.C.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Because the thing is in the Bible does not warrant the conclusion that it is God's will for the Christian. We must seek rightly to divide the Word of truth. What was formerly right for the Jews is for us nothing but the elements of the world. These forms pointed to a reality that is now come; the Body is of Christ. The blessed position of a Christian is, that he has died even to the best things of the world, religious and otherwise, and he is alive to the highest things in the presence of the Father; for the Lord Jesus Christ is his life, in whom he is hidden (<a id="verse_1632878292663442" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/3">Col. 3:3</a>)." -W.K.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Gospels are complex almost beyond any other portion of Scripture, since they are a composite of the teachings of the law, of grace, and of the coming kingdom." -L.S.C.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"We realize our privileges and possessions in the Lord Jesus by faith; we enjoy them by the Spirit."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Rightly dividing the word of truth"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632878292677483" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Timothy/2/15">2 Tim. 2:15</a>b)</p>

 Law - Grace - Kingdom 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">15 </sup>Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.   </span></p>

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.<cr>1</cr> 

2 Timothy 2:15

 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.  

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 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

<p><span class="bible-text ">Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.   </span></p>

 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.  

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