PT-1 "The Presupposition: Corruption and Darkness" (Matt. 5:13-16)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/19/2020 10:00 AM

 

My Worship Time                         Focus:  PT-1 “The Presupposition:  Corruption and Darkness”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 5:13-16

 

            Message of the verses:  “13 "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”

 

            It is important for us to understand where we are going as look at salt and light as described in these verses.  These figures of salt and light emphasize different characteristics of influence, however their basic purpose is the same.  MacArthur tells us that these “will both be studied from the aspects of the presupposition of the world’s corruption and darkness, the plan for believers’ godly dominion in the world, the problem of the danger of failure, and the purpose of glorifying God.”  Notice again that they will be studied together in these different categories as we begin with the first one in today’s SD.

 

            As we look at salt and light we realize that the world needs both, salt because the world is corrupt, and light because it is dark.  I quote from G. Campbell Morgan who said, “Jesus, looking out over the multitudes of His day, saw the corruption, the disintegration of life at every point, its breakup, its spoliation; and because of His love of the multitudes, He knew the thing that they needed most was salt in order that the corruption should be arrested.  He saw them also wrapped in gloom, sitting in darkness, groping amid mists and fogs.  He knew that they needed, above everything else,…light.”  After looking at our world today I see it has not changed, except perhaps it got progressively worse as technology grew.  “But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

 

            It seems to me that John MacArthur agrees with me as he writes “The world cannot do anything but get worse, because it has no inherent goodness to build on, no inherent spiritual and moral life in which it can grow.  Year after year the system of evil accumulates a deeper darkness.”

 

            A student was told by his college professor that because man is evolving that marriage was failing and that we don’t need marriage any more.  He stated that “Marriage was falling off just as his prehensile tail had done millions of years ago.”  Anyone who has read many of my Spiritual Diaries knows what I think about evolution, and it is not good for sure.  All one has to do is look back in the history of mankind for 150 years and ask the question “are we better now or are we worse now?  The answer is that we are worse off now and one reason is technology, the more man learns the more evil he becomes.  Why then is technology a bad thing?  Well technology can certainly be used in good was as I use technology to post my Spiritual Diaries onto my two blogs each day and there have been almost 187,000 of them read.  However bad things can be used in the new technology and the reason for that is because man has not changed since he fell in the garden of Eden, as his nature is evil and always will be without coming to Christ for salvation in order to be born-again, to have a new nature, a new life. 

 

            I will end with a quote from John MacArthur and then, Lord willing we will finish this section in our next SD.  “Many philosophers, poets, and religious leaders at the end of the last century had great optimism about man’s having come of age, abut his inevitable moral and social improvement.  They believed that Utopia was around the corner and that man was getting better and better in every way.  The golden age of mankind was near.  Wars would be a bad memory, crime and violence would disappear, ignorance would be gone, and disease would be eradicated.  Peace and brotherhood would reign completely and universally.  Few people today hold to such blind unrealistic ideas.”  The sermons that were used to help write this commentary was sometime in the 1970’s so he must be referring to the 1900’s as being this wonderful age.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I can learn from this section that even though things are not looking good, and they are not, that God is still in control and I do not need to be fearful, but faithful, trusting the Lord to see me through the difficult times we are now living in.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  I want to remember that the Lord is doing a work that I believe and hope that He is about to have His Son return from heaven in the clouds to take His bride to heaven with Him, and shortly after that the last seven years of history as we know it will begin.

 

6/19/2020 10:41 AM

Intro to Salt and Light (Matt. 5:13-16)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/18/2020 8:21 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                             Focus:  Intro to Salt and Light

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 5:13-16

 

            Message of the verses:  “13 "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”

 

            We are looking at just four verses and in those four verses the Lord summarizes the function of believers in the world.  Now if we wanted to summaries those four verses into one word that word could very well be “influence.”  Believers who live according to the Beatitudes are going to function in the world as salt and light.  MacArthur adds “Christian character consciously or unconsciously affects other people for better or for worse.  As John Donne reminds us, ‘No man is an island.’”

 

            As John MacArthur begins to work his way through this introduction to these four verses he tells a number of stories on how different begins (at first) and then humans had influence on those around them.  The first two stories tell of Greek mythology, one of how a being had great influence on those around them and one on how another beautiful filled with poison had bad influence on those around her.  Then comes the story of former President Woodrow Wilson who went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and a man came in who Wilson knew that he was something very special.  In the end the man sitting next to Wilson seemed to be preaching a sermon, but not like a sermon heard in a church service, but just the way he presented himself Wilson knew this man would influence him.  He later found out that the man was D. L. Moody.  MacArthur concludes the story:  “They did not know his name, but they knew something had elevated their thoughts, and I felt that I left that place as I (Wilson) should have left a place of worship.”

 

            The point in all of the stories MacArthur tells is that every human being has influence on others, the question is it good or bad influence, and in Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus talks about the influence of His people on the world for God and for good.  Jesus says in John 17, His high priestly prayer “I do not ask Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world…As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world” (John 17:15-17, 18).  MacArthur then adds “Christ’s kingdom people are not to reflect the world but they are to influence the world; they are to be in it but not of it.”

 

            We have just concluded our study of the Beatitudes which took us almost three months, and one of the many things we learned is that believers are to live lives that are consistent with those Beatitudes in order to influence people we meet in this world we live in.  Some people will be saved because of this influence, some will become angry and persecute us, but the messages must get out regardless of what happens to us.  We live out the Beatitudes because we are believers living in the kingdom, sometimes known as the invisible kingdom of God, the church age. 

 

            We know that Jesus spoke the Sermon on the Mount to many, many people including His disciples.  The message was mainly for them, yet if others were listening they too may have become a believer in the Lord, for the message that Jesus gives was for believers, and how they are to live their lives in the world around them.

 

            MacArthur concludes his introduction:  “Here is the mandate for Christians to influence the world.  The Beatitudes are not to be lived in isolation or only among fellow believers, but everywhere we go.  God’s only witnesses are His children, and the world has no other way of knowing of Him except through the testimony of what we are.

 

            “The figures of salt and light emphasize different characteristics of influence, but their basis purpose is the same.  They will both be studied from the aspects of the presupposition of the world’s corruption and darkness, the plan for believers’ godly dominion in the world, the problem of the danger of failure, and the purpose of glorifying God.”  That is what we will be looking at as we move through these verses.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Selfishness is certainly not something that will show up as I live out the Beatitudes in order to have good and godly influence on the world.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  It is my desire not to be selfish, but to have good and godly influence on the world I live in.

 

6/18/2020 9:09 AM

 

PT-3 "The Posture" (Matt. 5:12)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/17/2020 10:00 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  PT-3 “The Posture”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matthew 5:12

 

            Message of the verse:  “12 "Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

 

            As we continue with this last verse in the Beatitudes I want to begin by saying that when a believer suffers for our Lord what happens is that we join with the prophets and the other saints of old who “experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment. 37  They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38  (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground” (Hebrews 11:36-38).  We can see from verse 38 that the world was not worthy of their company, but surely every persecuted believe is.  MacArthur states “To be persecuted verifies that we belong to the line of the righteous.

 

            “Our assurance of salvation does not come from knowing we made a decision somewhere in the past.  Rather, our assurance that the decision was a true decision for Jesus Christ is found in the life of righteousness that results in suffering for the sake of Christ.  Many will claim to have preached Christ, cast out demons, and done mighty works for His sake, but will be refused heaven (Matt. 7:21-23).  But none who have suffered righteously for Him will be left out.”

 

            The world and the people of the world for the most part cannot handle the righteous life that characterizes kingdom living.  I surely can see that in one of the political parties who desired to have God removed from their platform and also want “In God we Trust” taken off our money, and they don’t want to swear by the Lord when taking office anymore, as the righteous living of believers is not understandable to them and therefore they hate it.  “Poverty of spirit runs counter to the pride of the unbelieving heart.”  The one who is repentant and contrite in disposition, the one who mourns over sin is never appreciated by the callous, indifferent, unsympathetic world which is becoming more and more evident in our world today.  MacArthur adds “The meek and quiet spirit that takes wrong and does not strike back is regarded as pusillanimous (fearful), and it rasps against the militant, vengeful spirit characteristic of the world.  To long after righteousness is repugnant to those whose fleshly cravings are rebuked by it, as is a merciful spirit to those whose hearts are hard and cruel.  Purity of heart is a painful light that exposes hypocrisy and corruption, and peacemaking is a virtue praised by the contentious, self-seeking world in words but not in heart.”

 

            John MacArthur concludes his comments on this Beatitude along with all of the beatitudes with a story that I will quote as we also end our study of the Beatitudes. 

 

“John Chrysostom, a godly leader in the fourth-century church, preached so strongly against sin that he offended the unscrupulous Emperor Arcadius, Chrysostom was threatened with banishment if he did not cease his uncompromising preaching.  His response was, ‘Sire, you cannot banish me, for the world is my Father’s house.’  ‘Then I will slay you,’ Arcadius said.  ‘Nay but you cannot, for my life is hid with Christ in God,’ came the answer.  ‘Your treasures will be confiscated,’ was the next threat, to which John replied, ‘Sire, that cannot be, either.  My treasures are in heaven, where none can break through and steal.’  ‘Then I will drive you from man, and you will have no friends left!’  was the final, desperate warning.  ‘That you cannot do, either,’ answered John, ‘for I have a Friend in heaven who has said, ‘I will never leave you or forsake you.’”  Chrysostom was indeed banished, first to Armenia and then farther away to Pityus on the Black Sea, to which he never arrived because he died on the way.  But neither his banishment nor his death disproved or diminished his claims.  The things that he valued mostly highly not even and emperor could take from him.”

 

            This ends our study of the Beatitudes which began on March 22 of this year.  I have learned much over these almost three months.  I hope that everyone who has read these also have learned from the Beatitudes and that it will make a difference in how you live your life for the Lord.

 

6/17/2020 10:43 AM

 

           

PT-2 "The Posture" (Matt. 5:12)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/16/2020 10:21 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  PT-2 “The Posture”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matthew 5:12

 

            Message of the verses:  “12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

 

            We want to begin this SD by looking at two reasons that Jesus gives for our rejoicing and being glad when we are persecuted for His sake. 

 

1.      Jesus says, “Your reward in heaven is great.”  Think for a moment of what our present life is in comparison to our eternal life will be.  “You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away” (James 4:14b).  It is surely reasonable then that Jesus tells us not to lay up treasures for ourselves here on earth as seen in Matthew 6:19-20 “19 ‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal.”  MacArthur adds “Whatever we do for the Lord now, including suffering for Him—in fact, especially suffering for Him—reaps eternal dividends.”   Now as we think about God’s dividends they are not ordinary dividends as they are not only eternal, but they are also great as seen in our verse for today.  We read in Ephesians 3:20 a verse that is near and dear to my heart that God “is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.”  The question is “How much more abundantly is He able to grant what He Himself promises to us?” 

 

Now I have heard from different sources that it is not a good thing to serve God just so that I can get rewards from Him.  However that is one of the motives that God himself gives in serving Him.  The first reason that we serve Christ ought to be that we love Him, and why would we not love Him after what He has done for us as He gave His life so that we may live.  Our example for loving Christ is seen in His life on earth as He was always desired to do the will of His Father, and that is exactly what He always did.  We see in Hebrews 12 that another reason He served the Father and that is “for the joy set before Him”  that Christ Himself “endured the cross, despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”  Jesus was certainly rewarded by the Father for obeying His will.  John MacArthur adds that “It is neither selfish nor unspiritual to do the Lord’s work for a motive that He Himself gives and has followed.”

 

2.      The second reason, and I don’t think that we will get through this one today is that we are to rejoice because the world persecuted the prophets who were before us in the same way that it persecutes us.  We must remember that when we suffer for the sake of Christ that we are in great company, actually the best possible company.  Whenever we are afflicted for righteousness’s sake it is to sand in the ranks of the prophets.  MacArthur adds “Persecution is a mark of our faithfulness just as it was a mark of the prophets’ faithfulness.  When we suffer for Christ’s sake we know beyond a doubt that we belong to God, because we are experiencing the same reaction from the world that the prophets experienced.”  Lord willing we will conclude our study of the Beatitudes in our next SD.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I realize that in and of myself that I cannot handle suffering for Christ’s sake, as I believe that I certainly have to be filled with His Spirit to do that.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Trust the Lord to give me the grace to serve the Lord in Spirit and in truth each day that I may do the things that He has planned for me to do in eternity past as seen in Ephesians 2:10.

 

6/16/2020 10:52 AM

 

 

 

           

PT-1 "The Posture" (Matt. 5:12)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/15/2020 10:16 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  PT-1 “The Posture”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 5:12

 

            Message of the verse:  “12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is

great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

 

            I have to be honest that I have thought about persecution for a very long time and wondered what I would when it came to our country.  My thoughts are that I would move to a remote place and continue to write my blogs, or perhaps move to another country to live.  However as John MacArthur writes “The believer’s response to persecution and affliction should not be to retreat and hide.  To escape from the world is to escape responsibility.  Because we belong to Christ, we are no longer of this world, but He has sent us into this world to serve just as He Himself came into this world to serve (John 17:14-18).”

 

            According to Matthew 5:13-14 “13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”  (Notice the two highlighted portions of these verses.)  In order for our salt to flavor and our light to lighten the world we must be active in the world.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is certainly not to be hidden but it is to enlighten those around us.  Verses 15-16 tells us “15  nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”

 

            MacArthur adds “When we become Christ’s salt and Christ’s light, our salt will sting the world’s open wound of sin and our light will irritate its eyes that are used to darkness.  But even when our salt and light are resented, rejected, and thrown back in our face, we should ‘rejoice, and be glade.’”

 

            Now we will look at the words “Be glad.”  This comes from agalliao, and this means to exult, to rejoice greatly, to be overjoyed, as is clear when we look at the KJV of the Bible which says “be exceeding glad.”  If we would look at the literal meaning it would mean to skip and to jump with happy excitement.  MacArthur adds “Jesus uses the imperative mood, which makes His words more than a suggestion.  We are commanded to ‘be glad.’  Not to be glad when we suffer for Christ’s sake is to be untrusting and disobedient.”  I realize that these are difficult truths to understand and to do when the time comes for us to do them.

 

            As we reflect on the story from our last SD we can see that the world can take a lot from the believer, however it cannot take away their joy and their happiness.  What the world does to us is not permanent, for we know that we have a home in heaven, which is our true home as we are just aliens her on earth.  I have mentioned before that when people attack us they are actually attacking our Lord Jesus Christ, and I don’t think that He is to be attacked without punishment in the end.  “From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the brand-marks of Jesus” Paul writes these words to the Galatians in 6:17.  “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Col. 1:24).

 

6/15/2020 10:40 AM

 

           

PT-2 "The Promise" (Matt. 5:10-12)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/14/2020 8:13 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  PT-2 “The Promise”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 5:10-12

 

            Message of the verses:  “10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

 

            We ended yesterday’s SD by talking about the promised blessings that believers have on this earth, but we can also say that not every believer is rewarded in this life with things of this life.  However every believer is rewarded in this life with the comfort, strength, and joy of his indwelling Lord.  Another thing is he is also blessed with the assurance that no service or sacrifice that he gives for the service of the Lord will be in vain.

 

            John MacArthur tells a story in his commentary that comes from a sequel of Don Richardson’s book “Peace Child” which he entitled “Lords of the Earth.”  “He tells the story of Stan Dale, another missionary to Irian Jaya, Indonesia, who ministered to the Yali tribe in the Snow Mountains. The Yali had one of the strictest known religions in the world.  For a tribe member even to question, much less disobey, one f its tenets brought instant death.  There could never be any change of modification.  The Yali had many sacred spots scattered throughout their territory.  If even a small child were to crawl onto one of those sacred pieces of ground, he was considered defiled and cursed.  To keep the whole village from being involved in that curse, the child would be thrown into the rushing Heluk River to drown and be washed downstream.

 

            “When Stan Dale came with his wife and four children to the cannibalistic people he was not long tolerated.  He was attacked one night and miraculously survived being shot with five arrows.  After treatment in a hospital he immediately returned to the Yali.  He worked unsuccessfully for several years, and the resentment and hatred of the tribal priests increased.  One day as he, another missionary named Phil Masters, and a Dani tribesman named Yemu were facing what they knew was an imminent attack, the Yali suddenly came upon them. As the others ran for safety Stan and Yemu remained back, hoping somehow to dissuade the Yali from their murderous plans.  As Stan confronted his attackers, they shot him with dozens of arrows.  As the arrows entered his flesh he would pull them out and break them in two.  Eventually he no longer had the strength to pull the arrows out, but he remained standing.

 

            “Yemu ran back to where Phil was standing, and Phil persuaded him to keep running.  With his eyes fixed on Stan, who was still standing with some fifty arrows in his body, Phil remained where he was and was himself soon surrounded by warriors.  The attack had begun with hilarity, but it turned to fear and desperation when they saw that Stan did not fall.  Their fear increased when it took nearly as many arrows to down Phil as it had Stan.  They dismembered the bodies and scattered them about the forest in an attempt to prevent the resurrection of which they had heard the missionaries speak.  But the back of their ‘unbreakable’ pagan system was broken, and though the witness of the two men who were not afraid to die in order to bring the gospel to this lost and violent people, the Yali tribe and many others in the surrounding territory came to Jesus Christ.  Even Stan’s fifth child, a baby at the time of this incident, was saved reading the book about his father.

 

            “Stan and Phil were not rewarded in this life with the things of this life.  But they seem to have been double-blessed with the comfort, strength, and joy of their indwelling Lord—and the absolute confidence that their sacrifice for Him would not be in vain.”

 

            We also spoke of a millennial aspect to the kingdom blessing.  When our Lord Jesus Christ establishes His 1000 year reign on earth, we, as believers, will be co-regents with Him over that wonderful, renewed earth as seen in Revelation 20:4.

 

            As we have looked closely at the Beatitudes we can see that they begin and also end with the promise of “the kingdom of heaven.”  “3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  MacArthur writes that “The major promise of the Beatitudes is that in Christ we become kingdom citizens now and forever.  No matter what the world does to us, it cannot affect our possession of Christ’s kingdom.”

 

6/14/2020 8:40 AM

PT-1 "The Promise" (Matt. 5:10-12)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/13/2020 11:16 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  PT-1 “The Promise”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 5:10-12

 

            Message of the verses:  “10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

 

            Living in our country believers may not think so much about persecution or dying for your faith, but things are changing in our country very fast.  As one thinks about this we can say that even a martyr’s price is small, and once it is over then the wonderful gift of heaven is where the martyr will spend eternity and receive a martyr’s crown.  In the Beatitude we are looking at we see that like all of them that it begins with the   word “blessed.”  However in this last beatitude Jesus pronounces a double blessing on those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, which is for His own sake.  We have talked about this specific blessing that is promised to those who are being persecuted which is “theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  MacArthur writes “The citizens of the kingdom are going to inherit the kingdom. Paul expresses a similar thought in 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7 ‘5 This is a plain indication of God’s righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. 6  For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7  and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire.” 

 

            Perhaps when Jesus speaks of the kingdom He is talking about a threefold blessing:  1. The present kingdom that we are living in at this time.  2.  The millennial kingdom that all believers will go to.  3.  Finally the eternal kingdom where all believes will spend eternity in.  I want to look at Mark 10:29-30 “29  Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, 30 but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.”

 

            The first thing mentioned was the blessings here and now and there are two examples that I want to site in order to help us better understand this.  The first one comes from the life of Joseph as he was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and then was accused falsely by Potiphar’s wife.  Next he was imprisoned but through it all God was with him.  Finally God elevated to the second in command in all of Egypt in order for him to save God’s people from starvation and extinction.  Daniel was thrown into the lion’s den because he refused to serve God.  God spared his life and he was restored to his high position as the most valued commissioner of King Darius and then the king makes this declaration that “in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel; for He is the living God and enduring forever” (Dan. 6:26).

            Lord will we will continue to look at this section in our next SD.

 

6/13/2020 11:39 AM