GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 11

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is  Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

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KEEPER OF THE KEYS

Isaiah 22:22-24

“Then I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder;

When he opens, no one will shut,

When he shuts, no one will open.

I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,

And he will become a throne of glory to his father’s house.

So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the descendants, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.”

D.L. MOODY

There is one nail fastened in a sure place; and on it hang all the pitchers and all the cups.  “Oh.” Says one little cup.  “I am so small, suppose I were to drop!”  “Oh,” says the pitcher, “there is no fear of you; but I am so heavy, so very weighty, suppose I were to drop!”  So a little cup says, “Oh, if I were only like the gold cup there, I would never fear falling.”  But the gold cup answers, “It is not because I am a gold cup that I keep up, but because I hang upon the nail.”

ERWIN LUTZER

Christ is the nail that can hold up the greatest of sinners;  He is also the one with the keys who determines the destiny of all who stand before Him for judgment.

While on a trip to Europe, my wife and I waited at a huge door in a castle.  We could have tried to look through the keyhole or kick down the door.  But then a  man arrived with a big key.  What we could not do, the keeper of the keys did in a few seconds.  Yes, Christ is the One with authority to open and to close;  to save and to judge.  He holds the master key;  all doors open, all doors close by His authority.

For Jesus, there are no closed doors.  He can bring people to Himself even in closed countries.  There is no room in the universe where Jesus Christ is excluded.  There is no square inch on Planet Earth where Jesus Christ cannot come if He wills to do it.

Jesus is the Keeper of the Keys.  He is also the nail that is strong enough to hold all of His treasures.

PRAYER

Father, thank You for Jesus;  please help me to rest my life on Him for He is mighty in strength.

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Matthew 28:18

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

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John 5:26-27

 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;  and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

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Hebrews 2:8

For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

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Colossians 1:17

 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

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John 10:7-11,

 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.  All those who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.  I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly.  I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”

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Revelation 3:7

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

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John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

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John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Luke 6:46

Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

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