January 15
And though the outward man perishes, yet the inward man is
renewed day by day.
God has told us to be not conformed to this world and the
fashions thereof, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds that we
might to be able to prove what is the good and acceptable will of God.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ, who
though He was in the form of God humbled Himself and took upon Himself the form
of a servant and was made in the likeness of man. He became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross.
Therefore, God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name
that is above every name. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth. And that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father. For there is no other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we
must be saved.
Call upon the name of Jesus and you shall be saved. Take on
His Divine nature. For as many as receive Him, to them gave He power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He has saved us.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Through abiding in Him and His word add unto your faith virtue,
and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance
patience, and to patience brotherly kindness. For if these things be in you and
abound, they shall make you to be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacks these things is blind and cannot
see a far off.
He has lost his vision. Without a vision the people perish
in the mundane, rather than being transformed by the supernatural. They walk in
darkness and not in the light. They forget they have been purged from their old
sins, and as a dog returns to his vomit, so do they return to the world. They
depart from the living God having loved this present world, a world which never
brought them happiness or fulfilment in the first place.
Take heed therefore that there be found in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. But exhort one another
daily less any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Let your
hearts be broken, tender, and yielded in the Master’s hands that your heart of
stone can be transformed into a heart of flesh, a heart overflowing with Divine
love and compassion.
To go to Bible study on Psalm 15
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