Jul 31, 2016
JEREMIAH 23:
In
yesterday's reading, we heard how king Zedekiah sent two men to
Jeremiah to ask him for help to pray for a miracle. And God made it
ever so clear that no miracle of deliverance would be given.
Jeremiah repeatedly tells the king what he needs to do, but
Zedekiah just couldn’t bring himself to do it. The area of
giving justice was especially prominent in yesterday's
reading.
Translation
note:
18 [Jeremiah speaks//I said], “None of these
prophets has ever known the Lord's secret thoughts. None of them
has ever heard or understood his message, or ever listened or paid
attention to what he said.
PSALM 149:
We
old saints should not despise all of the new songs of the young
saints. Yet I totally understand the desire to avoid change.
Here we see that Scripture commands that we sing new songs.
And this whole psalm can be taken as a prelude to what we will see
in the book of Revelation.
1CORINTHIANS 6:
A
few days ago I challenged you to find out what was special about
the quote in John 19 about none of Jesus’ bones being broken. In
yesterday’s reading in 1Corinthians 5, we heard several metaphors
relating to that based on Jesus being our Passover Lamb. And now as
we start chapter 6, we have a chapter break at the right place, as
Paul starts a new topic.
Translation note:
3 Do you not know that we shall
judge the angels? How much more, then, [should we be able to judge]
the things of this life!
9 Surely you know that the wicked will not
possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are
immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or [both kinds of
male homosexuals//homosexual perverts]