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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.Eph 2:9 |
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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, January 24, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :This is the Day the Lord Has Made Bible Verse:Psalm 118:19-29 (NKJV) "Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord, Through which the righteous shall enter. I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. God is the Lord, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." Message:
Notes on the Scripture
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ere we see one of many examples proving that Christ’s coming was foreseen by prophets 1,000 years before His birth. (And other passages might be found even earlier.) Some of them are rather speculative, but we have proof that this psalm is prophetic of Christ, because Peter tells us, in Acts 4:11, that the psalm refers to Him.
The “stone which the builders rejected” is Christ. The builders, in the first instance, are those Jews who clung to the Law after Christ came; those who refused to accept the Son of God as the Messiah. They rejected Him rather forcefully, too! I imagine an isolated tribe being sent a modern doctor, who can heal them of endemic miseries such as cholera, malaria, etc. But the witch doctors get jealous and beat him senseless, then hang him on a tree to die.
But of course, the history of the Jewish Messiah has a happier ending. The stone that the “builders” tossed out was resurrected from the trash heap. In fact, it was gone the next morning, much to their surprise. It was taken away by believers, to be used as the first stone — the cornerstone — of a new “building”: the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.
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The Temple that the builders were building has long since been destroyed. Literally, the Second Temple was razed to the earth in the first century B.C. and has never been rebuilt. Metaphorically, Christianity has given humanity salvation; it is truly God’s “house” in a way that the Temple never was. For we are invited into the church of God, which has the power of salvation and eternal life, something the Temple never had.
This psalm is the source of the charming little song, “This is the day the Lord has made.” Most people, when they sing it, think that they are talking about today; they sing it as a way to rejoice in the day that God has given them, and the sentiment is laudable. But technically, the phrase refers to the coming of Christ: if one wanted to tie it to a specific day, the day of His resurrection, or possibly the day of His birth, would be good choices. Really, though, “day” is used more generally to refer to the time period when Christ came to us.
What reason does the psalm give for this remarkable salvation, sent to us by God? Praise. Just as Paul’s epistles tell us that salvation came ultimately by faith, so the psalmist tells us that salvation came from an act of faith, the praising of God. Let us praise His Holy Name!
Meditation : Prayer : Now all glory to you, great God, who is able to keep us from falling away and will bring us with great joy into your glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to you who alone are God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are yours before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time!......Amen |
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