GOD’S WORD FOR AUGUST 8

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.

*** ***

SITTING ON CHRIST’S THRONE

Psalm 91:14

“I will set him on high.”

D.L. MOODY

God is able to do it.  Up above the angels, up above the archangels, up above the cherubim and seraphim, on the throne with His own Son.

We are called to be sons and daughters of the eternal God.  Do you know, the Prince of Wales cannot sit on the throne with the Queen?  But it is not so yonder.  Christ has gone up and taken His seat at the right hand of the Father, and every son and daughter of God is to be lifted up to the throne.  Think of the promise.  Isn’t it rich, Isn’t it sweet?  “I will set him on high.”

ERWIN LUTZER

The truth that every son and daughter of God is seated with Christ is mind-boggling.  Just take time to ponder:  Right now, our position spiritually in Christ is “seated…with Him in the heavenly places.”  Jesus promises one day, “The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne.” 

That’s one reason we need not fear death.  We already have residence in heaven.  Yet Christ doesn’t just save us:  the purpose of salvation is not just to keep you from hell, though, praise God, it does that!  The purpose of salvation is to prove what He is able to do THROUGH sinners and FOR sinners who don’t deserve anything at all.  God raises us up and, someday, we will reign with Jesus Christ forever.

How big is the throne of Christ?  I don’t know, but it must be big enough to seat all His overcomers!  Figuratively speaking, God picks us up from our muck and enables us to sit with Him on marble; He takes us up from the grave and makes us sit with Him on the golden throne.  Never before  have created beings come from so low and been exalted so high.

PRAYER

Father, I thank you for making me one of Your children – an heir – through Christ’s sacrifice.  Thank You for the privilege of reigning with You forever.

*** ***

Ephesians 2:6-8

and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.  For by grace you have been saved through faith; athis is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

** *

Revelation 3:21-22

The one who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat with My Father on His throne.  The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

** *

Revelation 21:3

    “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.’”

** *

Philippians 3:20

    “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

** *

2 Corinthians 5:1

    “For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

** *

Isaiah 65:17

    “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.”

** *

Revelation 22:1-2

    “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city.”

** *

Matt 6:19-20

**  *

    “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”

** *

1 Corinthians 2:9

    “However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’—the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

Published by liveinthelightofourlord

View all posts by liveinthelightofourlord