GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 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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HEAVENLY POSSESSIONS

“The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.” Revelation 21:7

D.L. MOODY

After the Chicago fire, I met a man who said, “Moody, I hear you lost everything in the Chicago fire.” “Well,” I said, “you understood it wrong; I didn’t.” He said, “How much do you have left?”

“I can’t tell you; I have got a good deal more left than I lost.”

“You can’t tell how much you have?”

“No.”

“I didn’t know that you were ever that rich. What do you mean?”

“I mean just what I say. I got my old Bible out of the fire; that was about the only thing. One promise came to me that illuminated the city a great deal more than the fire did. ‘He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son’” (Revelation 21:7).

You ask me how much I am worth. I don’t know. You can’t find out how much a child of God is worth. Why? Because he is a joint-heir with Jesus Christ. The weakest, poorest child of God is richer than a Vanderbilt because he has eternal riches. The stuff that burned in Chicago was like the dust in the balance. Joint-heir with Jesus Christ! That is what the eighth chapter of Romans teaches us.

ERWIN LUTZER

I love this story. D.L. Moody could have taken out his pen and added Romans 8:32: “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” Jesus was raised again and seated in heaven that He might redeem and bring many sons into glory. In this life, we begin to receive some of the benefits of Sonship. In this life we receive the drop, and in the life to come we’re going to receive the ocean. In this life we receive the flower, and in the life to come we are going to receive the whole garden.

PRAYER

Father, thank you for making me a joint heir with Christ. Keep my focus on heavenly riches.

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James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

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2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be discovered.

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2 Peter 3:13

But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

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Matthew  6:20

Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

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Ephesians 1:18

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

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Colossians 3:24

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

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Hebrews 10:35

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

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Ephesians 1:7-8

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight

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2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

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Psalm 119:72

The law of Your mouth is better to me

Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

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Isaiah 33:5-6

The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high;

He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

And He will be the stability of your times,

A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge;

The fear of the Lord is his treasure.

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