Having encamped on the shore of the Red Sea following their deliverance from Egypt and looking back seeing Pharaoh and his army “marching after them,” the Israelites “were terrified and cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10) They submitted this question to Moses, ”What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?” (verse 11) “Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians?’ It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert,” they said. (verse 12)
Have they so soon forgotten God’s power manifested in the plagues, including the fact…
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“So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘we are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” (Luke 17: 10)
“Duty,” said Robert E. Lee, “is the most precious word in the English language.” Douglas MacArthur, another great military leader, summed up three great motivations for the soldier in his stirring speech, “Duty, Honor, Country.” Solomon gave this summation of life in Ecclesiastes 12: 13, “…Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” We might well rephrase the title of MacArthur’s speech,
“Duty, Honor,…
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Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Hebrews 12: 26-27, Haggai 2:6
One day when the “earth and the heavens will be shaken,” only “what cannot be shaken will remain.” Here the “Hebrews” writer is speaking of the “seen” and the “unseen,” the “visible” and the “invisible,” the “temporary” and the “eternal.”
The…
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We are often unhappy becauswe we choose to be. Let’s think about our outlook for a bit.
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Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? (Proverbs 6: 27-28)
Can a man sow one thing and reap another? Paul put the answer to that question in language that cannot be misunderstood. He wrote, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:…
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