GOD’S WORD FOR SEPTEMBER 28

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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GOSPEL COMFORT AT DEATH

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.” John 11:25

D.L. MOODY

At the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War, a soldier was just able to crawl to his tent after he was struck down. When found, he was lying upon his face, his open Bible before him, his hand glued fast to the page by his life-blood which covered it. When his hand was lifted, the letters of the printed page were clearly traced upon it, and with the ever living promise in and on his hand, they laid him in a soldier’s grave. The words were: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he shall live.”

I want a religion that can comfort even in death, that can unite me with my loved ones. Oh, what gloom and darkness would settle upon this world if it were not for the glorious doctrine of the resurrection! Thank God, the glorious morning will soon break. For a little while, God asks us to be on the watchtower, faithful to Him and waiting for the summons. Soon our Lord will come to receive His own, whether they be living or dead.

ERWIN LUTZER

No matter how many victories death wins, they are only temporary. Thanks to Jesus, our final victory has been won; death will be abolished. It’s been said that, for Christians, this life is the worst there will ever be; the future is eternally bright.

Let me repeat the good news: If you believe Jesus’ death and resurrection was so sufficient and you trust only Him, you will be saved. Through repentance and faith, we receive the gift of eternal life and, like the soldier Moody referred to, we are assured of the words of Jesus, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he  live and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die” (John 11:25).

Is your faith in Christ alone?

    PRAYER

    Father, I thank you my hope is eternal, final, and secure.

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I Peter 1:3-5

Blessed be the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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*John 10:27-29

My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me:  And I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.  My father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

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*Romans 8:38, 39

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Phil 1:6

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until  the day of Jesus Christ.

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IIThes 3:3

But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil.

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John 6:37

All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.

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*Jude 24, 25

 Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present  you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.  Amen

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*Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power, not one fails..

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Ps 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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John 6:27

Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for Him has God the Father sealed.

IICor 1:22

Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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