October 16-31 DAILY DEVOTIONALS - EVENING

How Then Shall We Live?

October 16 – Have You Not Heard?

October 17 – They Will Be Lovers of Pleasure

October 18 – Children Will Be Disobedient Their Parents

October 19 – Do Not Be Weighed Down With Carousing and Drunkenness

October 20 – My Lord and My God

October 21 – Men Will Be Traitors

October 22 – Many Shall Be Offended

October 23 – When the Dying Hour Comes

SCORPIO (The Scorpion) seeking to wound, but itself trodden under foot.

Oct. 24–Nov. 21

1. SERPENS (The Serpent struggling with the man).

2. O-PHI-U-CHUS (The man grasping the serpent). The struggle with the enemy.

3. HERCULES (The mighty man. A man kneeling on one knee, humbled in the conflict, but holding aloft the tokens of victory, with his foot on the head of the Dragon). The mighty Vanquisher seeming to sink in the conflict.

October 24 – They Will Be Haters of God

October 25 – People Will Be Without Self Control

October 26 – In the Last Days Mockers Will Come

October 27 – They Will Be Blasphemers

October 28 – Speaking Lies of Hypocrisy

October 29 – Reaping the Whirlwind

October 30 – The Love of Most Will Grow Cold

October 31 – That There May Be No Division

Words to Think About...

ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED

"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

- 2 Timothy 3:16-17

OCTOBER 16

Have You Not Heard?

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?" - Isaiah 40:21

FEAR NOT, FOR I AM WITH YOU

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

HE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU

"Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

IF YOU LOOK UP INTO HIS FACE

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs, at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power."

- Alan Redpath (1907–1989), American Evangelist, Pastor, Author

IT IS THE LORD WHO GOES BEFORE YOU

"It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed."

- Deuteronomy 31:8

THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU

“These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you."

- John 14:25

LET YOUR REQUESTS BE KNOWN TO GOD

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God."

- Philippians 4:6

IN ALL THINGS I HAVE SHOWN YOU

"In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive."

- Acts 20:35

YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH HIM DAY BY DAY

Y"ou have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and counsels."

- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress

FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

- Jeremiah 29:11

WHAT EXACTLY HAS CHRIST DONE FOR YOU

"What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's."

- A.J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics

GOD WILL SUPPLY EVERY NEED OF YOURS

"And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

- Philippians 4:19

HAVE I NOT COMMANDED YOU?

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

- Joshua 1:9

DO NOT STRIVE IN YOUR OWN STRENGTH

Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might."

- Andrew Murray (1794-1866) Scottish Missionary, Writer

I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU AN OPEN DOOR

"I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."

- Revelation 3:8

CONTINUALLY GRANT YOU PEACE IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE

"Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all!"

- 2 Thessalonians 3:16

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Words to Think About...

PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU

"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful."

- John 14:27

YOU MUST HAVE FAITH IN GOD

"You must have faith in God."

- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian

WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU

"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

- Matthew 6:33

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE CHRIST

"You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divinity, but, so doing, you have not evaded Him. If He is a man just like us, then obviously you must be a man like Him."

- A.J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics

PEACE BE WITH YOU

"So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

- John 20:21

LET ME BEG YOU, NOT TO REST

"Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent."

- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma

HAVING EYES YOU DO NOT SEE

Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?"

- Mark 8:18

YOU KNOW THE COMMANDMENTS

"You know the commandments: Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother."

- Mark 10:19

FOR YOU ARE WITH ME

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."

- Psalm 23:4

YOU CAN SEE GOD FROM ANYWHERE

"You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him."

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher

GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."

- 2 Corinthians 1:2

YOU ARE MISTAKEN, NOT KNOWING

"Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God."

- Matthew 22:29

AND YET YOU DO NOT BELIEVE

"But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe."

- John 6:36

OCTOBER 17

They Will Be Lovers of Pleasure

"Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." - 2 Timothy 3:4

THEY TAKE PLEASURE IN FALSEHOOD

"They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah"

- Psalm 62:4

THE FLEETING PLEASURES OF SIN

"Choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin."

- Hebrews 11:25

CHOKED BY THE CARES OF RICHES AND PLEASURES

"And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature."

- Luke 8:14

THE CARES AND RICHES AND PLEASURES OF THIS LIFE

"And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature."

- Luke 8:14

SLAVES TO VARIOUS PLEASURES

"For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another."

- Titus 3:3

WHOEVER LOVES PLEASURE WILL BE A POOR MAN

"Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich."

- Proverbs 21:17

ALL THINGS TO YOUR PLEASURE AND DISPOSAL

"Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let be employed by You or laid aside for You, exalted for You or brought low by You. Let me have all things, let me have nothing, I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. Amen."

- John Wesley (1703-1791) English Cleric and Minister

A FOOL TAKES NO PLEASURE IN UNDERSTANDING

"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion."

- Proverbs 18:2

YOUR GREATEST PLEASURE IS THAT WHICH

"Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad."

- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Clergyman and Scholar

PLEASURE OF SIN IS GONE TOO SOON

"The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains."

- Thomas Watson (1620-1686), Puritan Preacher

THIS WORLD WITH ITS FADING PLEASURES

"If this world with its fading pleasures is so much admired, what must heaven be, which God praises?"

- William Tiptaft (1803-1864) Church of England Cleric

THE LORD TAKES PLEASURE IN HIS PEOPLE

"For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation."

- Psalm 149:4

YOU ARE SWEETER THAN ALL PLEASURE

"How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose!... You drove them from me, You who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, You who are sweeter than all pleasure."

- St. Augustine (354-430) Theologian and Philosopher

THE LORD TAKES PLEASE IN THOSE WHO FEAR HIM

"But the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love."

- Psalm 147:11

THROUGH SELFISHNESS AND SENSUAL PLEASURE

"Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul."

- Richard Baxter (1615-1691) English Puritan Church Leader

GOD WHISPERS TO US IN OUR PLEASURES

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish Writer and Scholar

IF YOUR HEART TAKE MORE PLEASURE

"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!"

- Keith Green (1953-1982) American Christian Singer, Songwriter

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Words to Think About...

FOR A DROP OF PLEASURE

"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath."

- Thomas Watson (1620-1686), Puritan Preacher

I KEPT MY HEART FROM NO PLEASURE

"And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil."

- Ecclesiastes 2:10

RICHES, PLEASURE AND PRIDE

"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."

- Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Priest, Theologian

HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS

"In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

- 2 Thessalonians 2:12

ADDICTED TO CARNAL PLEASURE

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."

- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Catholic Italian Theologian

WHERE YOUR PLEASURE IS

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness."

- Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Bishop, Theologian and Philosopher

SHE THAT LIVETH IN PLEASURE

"But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."

- 1 Timothy 5:6

AND OF PLEASURE?

I said of laughter, “It is mad, and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

- Ecclesiastes 2:2

VICE STINGS IN OUR PLEASURES

"Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains."

- William Cowper (1731-1800) English Poet and Hymnwriter

PLEASURE IN UPRIGHTNESS

"I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you."

- 1 Chronicles 29:17

WISDOM IS PLEASURE TO A MAN

"Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding."

- Proverbs 10:23

WORLDLY PLEASURES

"Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none."

- David Brainard (1718-1747) American Missionary to Native Indians

SENSUAL PLEASURE ARE LIKE

"Sensual pleasures are like soap-bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world."

- James H. Aughey (1828-1911) Imprisoned American Minister

IT IS THE GREATEST PLEASURE

"It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ."

- D. L. Moody (1837-1899) American Evangelist, Teacher and Preacher

OCTOBER 18

Children Will Be Disobedient Their Parents

"Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents." - Romans 1:30

THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE

"For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience."

- Colossians 3:6

CHILDREN WILL RISE UP AGAINST PARENTS

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death."

-Matthew 10:21

A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE IN HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD

"and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household."

-Matthew 10:36

NOW WORKING IN THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE

"In which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience."

- Ephesians 2:2

THROUGH ONE MAN'S DISOBEDIENCE

"For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous."

- Romans 5:19

YOU WERE ONCE DISOBEDIENT TO GOD

"For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience."

- Romans 11:30

THEY WILL BE DIVIDED

"They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

- Luke 12:53

BEHIND ALL EVIL, LUSTING AND DISOBEDIENCE

"Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his lovingkindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child."

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher

BEING DETESTABLE AND DISOBEDIENT

"They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed."

- Titus 1:16

TO THOSE WHO WERE DISOBEDIENT

"And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?"

- Hebrews 3:18

FAILED TO ENTER BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEINCE

"Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience."

- Hebrews 4:6

EVERY TRANSGRESSION OR DISOBEINECE

"For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution."

- Hebrews 2:2

THERE WILL TERRIBLE TIMES IN THE LAST DAYS

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them."

- 2 Timothy 3:1-5

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Words to Think About...

DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS

"Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents."

- Romans 1:30

WE WERE ALSO ONCE DISOBEDIENT

"For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another."

- Titus 3:3

REBELLION AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT

"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king."

- 1 Samuel 15:23

DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINANT PEOPLE

"But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

- Romans 10:21

THESE HAVE BEEN DISOBEDIENT

"So these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy."

- Romans 11:31

WHO IS DISOBEIENT TO GOD?

"When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. "The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away."

- Matthew 13:19-22

AS LONG AS YOUR DISOBEDIENCE

"As long as your sin breaks your heart, as long as your disobedience makes you lie awake nights and wet your pillow in tears there is hope for you. But when you become contented with your wickedness, when you come to believe that it is the best possible for you, then you are in danger indeed."

- Clovis G. Chappell (1882-1972) Tennessee Methodist Clergyman

JONAH ROSE UP TO FLEE

"But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord."

- Jonah 1:3

BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK

"But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt."

- Genesis 19:26

WHO WERE ONCE DISOBEDIENT

"Who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water."

- 1 Peter 3:20

OCTOBER 19

Do Not Be Weighed Down With Carousing and Drunkenness

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. " - Luke 21:34

AND DO NOT BE DRUNK WITH WINE

"And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit."

- Ephesians 5:18

NOW THEREFORE BEWARE, AND DRINK NOT STRONG DRINK

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]."

- Judges 13:4

WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK A BRAWLER

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise."

- Proverbs 20:1

BEWARE OF DRUNKENESS

"Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee. Where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations."

- Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Christian Poet Author, Book of Emblems

HE DRANK OF THE WINE AND BECAME DRUNK

"He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent."

- Genesis 9:21

HAVING PERSUED A COURSE OF DRUNKENESS

"For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries."

- 1 Peter 4:3

DRUNKENESS IS FLATTERING THE DEVIL

"Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin; whosoever has it, has not himself."

- Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Bishop, Theologian and Philosopher

THOSE WHO GET DRUNK GET DRUNK AT NIGHT

"For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:7

DRUNKENESSS IS THE DEVIL'S BACK DOOR

"Drunkenness is the devil's back door to hell and everything that is hellish. For he that once gives away his brains to drink is ready to be caught by Satan for anything."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

DO NOT BE WITH HEAVY DRINKERS OF WINE

"Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, or with gluttonous eaters of meat."

- Proverbs 23:20

THE ALCOHOLIC COMMITS SUICIDE ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN

"The alcoholic commits suicide on the installment plan."

- Vance Havner (1901-1986) American Country Preacher

LIKE A THORN IN THE HAND OF A DRUNKARD

"Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools."

- Proverbs 26:9

THE HEAVY DRINKER WILL COME TO POVERTY

"For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe one with rags."

- Proverbs 23:21

FILLED WITH DRUNKENESS AND SORROW

"You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria."

- Ezekiel 23:33

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Words to Think About...

NOT IN CAROUSING AND DRUNKENESS

"Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy."

- Romans 13:13

THAT THEY MAY PERSUE STRONG DRINK

"Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!"

- Isaiah 5:11

NOT ADDICTED TO WINE

"Not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money."

- 1 Timothy 3:3

WINE HAS DROWNED MORE MEN

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Churchman, Historian

OF WHICH I FORWARNED YOU

"Envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."

- Galatians 5:21

NOR DRUNKARDS

"Nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God."

- 1 Corinthians 6:10

ONE WHO HIRES A DRUNKARD

"Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard"

- Proverbs 26:10

WHO HAS WOE?

"Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?"

- Proverbs 23:29

GIVE STRONG DRINK

"Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to him whose life is bitter."

- Proverbs 31:6

COME THEY SAY, LET US GET WINE

“Come, they say, let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; and tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

- Isaiah 56:12

THE SALOON IS A LIAR

"The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow."

- Billy Sunday (1862-1935) American Evangelist and National League Baseball Player

LET THEM DRINK AND FORGET

"Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

- Proverbs 31:7

OCTOBER 20

My Lord and My God

And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” - John 20:28

HE IS MY REFUGE AND MY FORTRESS

"Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

- Psalm 91:1-2

FOR I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES

"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth."

- Job 19:25

MY GOD WILL SUPPLY EVERY NEED OF YOURS

"And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

- Philippians 4:19

THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION

"The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"

- Psalm 27:1

FOR IT IS YOU WHO LIGHT MY LAMP

"For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness."

- Psalm 18:28

NOT THE BURDEN OF MY HEARTS CHOICE

"When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

- Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) Irish Christian Missionary in India

MY GOD, MY ROCK, IN WHOM I TAKE REFUGE

"My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge; my savior, You save me from violence."

- 2 Samuel 22:3

THE ONE WHOSE NATURE DWELLS IN MY NATURE

"I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature."

- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher

HE ATTENDED TO THE VOICE OF MY PRAYER

"But truly God has listened; He has attended to the voice of my prayer."

- Psalm 66:19

BEHOLD, GOD IS MY SALVATION

"Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation."

- Isaiah 12:2

IF I CONFESS MY SINS

"It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me."

- Alan Redpath (1907–1989), American Evangelist, Pastor, Author

MY STRENGTH AND SOUL YOU INCREASED

"On the day I called, You answered me; my strength of soul You increased."

- Psalm 138:3

MY FLESH AND MY HEART MAY FAIL

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH AND MY SHIELD

"The LORD is my strength and my shield; in Him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to Him."

- Psalm 28:7

YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE AND MY SHIELD

"You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word."

- Psalm 119:114

I HAVE STORED UP YOUR WORD IN MY HEART

"I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You."

- Psalm 119:11

MY STRENGTH OF SOUL YOU INCREASED

"On the day I called, You answered me; my strength of soul You increased."

- Psalm 138:3

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Words to Think About...

THE LORD IS MY HELPER

"So we can confidently say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?"

- Hebrews 13:6

MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU

But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

- 2 Corinthians 12:9

MY HOPE IS IN YOU

"And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you."

- Psalm 39:7

MY FLESH AND MY HEART MAY FAIL

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

HARDEN ME AGAINST MYSELF

"God, harden me against myself!"

- Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) Irish Christian Missionary in India

TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU

"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls."

- Matthew 11:29

LET THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and My redeemer."

- Psalm 19:14

FOR I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES

"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth."

- Job 19:25

MY HEART IS MADE TO REJOICE

"The mere fact itself that God's will is irresistible and irreversible fills me with fear, but once I realize that God wills only that which is good, my heart is made to rejoice."

- A.W. Pink (Arthur Walkington Pink 1886–1952) English Bible Teacher, Converted to Christ While a Spiritualist Medium

AND TO GOD I COMMIT MY CAUSE

"As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause."

- Job 5:8

HE PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH

"He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD."

- Psalm 40:3

I AM NOT TIRED OF MY WORK

"I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness."

- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma

WHOEVER HEARS MY WORD

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life."

- John 5:24

WHY ARE YOU CAST DOWN, O MY SOUL

"Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation."

- Psalm 42:5

OCTOBER 21

Men Will Be Traitors, Treacherous

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!" - 2 Timothy 3:1-5

HE OVERTHROWS THE WORDS OF A TRAITOR

"The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor."

- Proverbs 22:12

AND HE WHO IS TREACHEROUS

"Woe to you, O destroyer, while you were not destroyed; and he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; as soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you."

- Isaiah 33:1

WHY DO YOU LOOK IDLY AT TRAITORS?

"You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?"

- Habakkuk 1:13

THE TREACHEROUS IS IN THE PLACE OF THE UPRIGHT

"The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous is in the place of the upright."

- Proverbs 21:18

THE TREACHEROUS ONE STILL DEALS TREACHEOUSLY

"A harsh vision has been shown to me; the treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused."

- Isaiah 21:2

DO NOT BE GRACIOUS TO ANY WHO ARE TREACHEROUS

"You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, Awake to punish all the nations; do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah."

- Psalm 59:5

WOE IS ME! FOR THE TRAITORS HAVE BETRAYED

"From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”

- Isaiah 24:16

YOUR MOUTH HAS TESTIFIED AGAINST YOU

David said to him, your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have killed the Lord’s anointed.

- 2 Samuel 1:16

WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED BETRAYING

"Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you."

- Isaiah 33:1

HE WHO UTTERS LIES IS TREACHEROUS

"A truthful witness saves lives, but he who utters lies is treacherous."

- Proverbs 14:25

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Words to Think About...

I BEHOLD THE TREACHEROUS

"I behold the treacherous and loathe them, because they do not keep Your word."

- Psalm 119:158

WINE IS A TRAITOR

“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”

- Habakkuk 2:5

THE HAND OF ONE BETRAYING ME

"But behold, the hand of the one betraying Me is with Mine on the table."

- Luke 22:21

WHAT WILL YOU GIVE ME?

"And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver."

- Matthew 26:15

WHOMEVER I KISS, HE IS THE ONE

"Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him.”

- Matthew 26:48

JUDAS WHO BECAME A TRAITOR

"Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor."

- Luke 6:16

THE TRAITORS AMONG MANKIND

"She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind."

- Proverbs 23:28

CANNOT TURN TRAITOR

"He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor."

- William Gurnall (1616-1679) English Anglican Clergyman

WORDS OF A TREACHEROUS MAN

"The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, but He overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

- Proverbs 22:12

OCTOBER 22

Many Shall Be Offended

"Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another." - Matthew 24:9-10

BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO IS NOT OFFENDED

"And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”

- Luke 7:23

THE PHARISEES WERE OFFENDED

"Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

- Matthew 15:12

BLESSED IS HE WHO IS NOT OFFENDED BY ME

"And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”

- Matthew 11:6

IT IS HIS GLORY TO PASS OVER A TRANSGRESSION

11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression."

- Proverbs 19:11

IF THY BROTHER SHALL TRESSPASS AGAINST THEE

"Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican."

- Matthew 18:16-17

THAT WE OFFEND NOT WITH OUR TONGUE

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue."

- Thomas Watson (1620-1686), Puritan Preacher

BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT ENDURETH TEMPTATION

"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."

- James 1:12

IF YE ARE REPROACHED FOR THE NAME OF CHRIST

"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified."

- 1 Peter 4:14

HAS SOMEONE WRONGED YOU RECENTLY?

"Has someone wronged you recently? Resist the urge to judge that person. Instead, pray that God might use you to reach the offender."

- Warren Wiersbe (1929-2019) American Christian Clergyman

NEVER ALLOWED HIS NAME TO GO LONG OFFENDED

"God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended."

- David Wilkerson (1931-2011) American Christian Evangelist

WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT BE OFFENDED IN ME

"And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me."

- Matthew 11:6

A WISE MAN KEEPETH IT IN TILL AFTERWARDS

"A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards."

- Proverbs 29:11

WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOME THE WORLD

"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."

- 1 John 5:4

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Words to Think About...

A BROTHER OFFENDED

"A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle."

- Proverbs 18:19

SLOW TO SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH

"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath."

- James 1:19

MUST NOT STRIVE

"And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient."

- 2 Timothy 2:24

YE SHALL HOLD YOUR PEACE

"The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace."

- Exodus 14:14

IN ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND HIM

"An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none."

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher

NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM

"Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them."

- Psalm 119:165

IF THE WORLD HATES YOU

"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."

- John 15:18

GOD IS READY TO FORGIVE ME

"I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

REPROVE NOT A SCORNER

"He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."

- Proverbs 9:7-9

A PRUDENT MAN COVERETH SHAME

"A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame."

- Proverbs 12:16

WE WERE SOMETIMES SO OFFENDED

"All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended... we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation."

- John Flavel (c1627-1691) English Puritan Minister

OCTOBER 23

When the Dying Hour Comes

"The last enemy that will be destroyed is death." - 1 Corinthians 15:26

WHEN IT COMES TIME TO DIE

"When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

WHEN THE DYING HOUR COMES

"I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by."

- D. L. Moody (1837-1899) American Evangelist, Teacher and Preacher

AND IF WE DIE, WE DIE IN THE LORD

"For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s."

- Romans 14:8

A GOOD CONSCIENCE WILL SAVE NO MAN

"A good conscience will save no man, wash away no sin, not lift us one hair's breadth towards heaven. Yet a good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour."

- J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) English Anglican Bishop

TAKE NOTICE OF THE SAYINGS OF DYING MEN

"You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men. This is mine: that a life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world."

- Matthew Henry (1662-1714) Nonconformist Minister, Writer

I AM STILL IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING

"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon." (His last words)

- John Newton (1725-1790) Slave Trader Captain Turned Christian

DESTROY THE POWER OF THE FINAL DYING

"The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying."

- Francois Fenelon (1651-1715) French Catholic Archbishop

REVIEW WITH A QUIET CONSCIENCE ON YOUR DYING BED

"Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act."

- Richard Baxter (1615-1691) English Puritan Church Leader

WHETHER I LIVE OR DIE IS NOT IMPORTANT

"But whether I live or die is not important, for I don’t esteem my life as indispensable. It’s more important for me to fulfill my destiny and to finish the ministry my Lord Jesus has assigned to me, which is to faithfully preach the wonderful news of God’s grace."

- Acts 20:24

EVERY MAN MUST DO TWO THINGS ALONE

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

- Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Priest and Theology Professor

FAITH NEVER KNOWS WHERE IT IS BEING LED

"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading."

- Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) Scottish Evangelist and Teacher

SECURELY LAY DOWN HIS HEAD AND CLOSE HIS EYES

"Duties are ours, events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes."

- Richard Cecil (1748–1810) Evangelical Anglican Clergyman

AS YOU MUST DO WHEN YOU ARE DYING

"When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying."

- Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) Church of England Cleric

HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED THE NEW BIRTH?

"Have you ever experienced the new birth? If not, dying in your present state--to hell you must go."

- William Tiptaft (1803-1864) Church of England Cleric

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Words to Think About...

IN A DYING MOMENT

"There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible."

- John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist, Scholar of England's Ancient Laws

EVEN TO YOUR DYING DAY

"As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer."

- Ole Hallesby (1879-1961) Norwegian Lutheran Theologian

JESUS WENT TO THE DYING

"For he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him."

- Luke 8:42

NEVER FEAR DYING

"Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living - that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

A NEVER-DYING SOUL TO SAVE

"A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky."

- Charles Wesley (1707-1788) English Clergyman and Hymnwriter

AS A DYING MAN TO DYING MEN

"I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men."

- Alan Redpath (1907–1989), American Evangelist, Pastor, Author

WHEN YOU ARE DYING

"When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace - I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace? This - "I have a high priest in heaven."

- Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843) Church of Scotland Minister

THE HOPE OF DYING

"The hope of dying is the only thing that keeps me alive."

- Vance Havner (1901-1986) American Country Preacher

IMCOMPLETE UNTIL FAITH

"There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God."

- Alan Redpath (1907–1989), American Evangelist, Pastor, Author

WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

- John 3:16

LORD OF THE LIVING AND DEAD

"For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."

- Romans 14:9

OCTOBER 24

They Will Be Haters of God

"Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents." - Romans 1:30

DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU

"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you."

- Luke 6:27

MANY WILL HATE ONE ANOTHER

"And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another."

- Matthew 24:10

YOU WILL BE HATED FOR MY NAME'S SAKE

"And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

- Mark 13:13

THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE

But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause."

- John 15:25

AND ALL NATIONS WILL HATE YOU

"And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved."

- Matthew 10:22

THAT IS WHY THE WORLD HATES YOU

“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don’t belong to it. That is why the world hates you."

- John 15:18-19

HE WILL HATE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

- Matthew 6:24

BLESSED ARE YOU WHEN PEOPLE HATE YOU

“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!"

- Luke 6:22

WHOEVER HATES ME HATES MY FATHER ALSO

"Whoever hates me hates my Father also."

- John 15:23

THOSE WHO HATE HIM SHALL FLEE

"God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!"

- Psalm 68:1

WHOEVER HATES HIS LIFE WILL KEEP IT

"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life."

- John 12:25

THE ACTS OF THE FLESH: HATRED

"Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

- Galatians 5:20-21

SIX THINGS THE LORD HATES

"There are six things the Lord hates— no, seven things he detests: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family."

- Proverbs 6:16-19

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Words to Think About...

WHOEVER HATES HIS BROTHER

"Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness."

- 1 John 2:9

IF ANYONE HATES HIS BROTHER

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen."

- 1 John 4:20

HATRED STIRS UP STRIFE

"Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins."

- Proverbs 10:12

EVERYONE WHO DOES WICKED THINGS

"For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed."

- John 3:20

A LYING TONGUE HATES ITS VICTIM

"A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin."

- Proverbs 26:28

YOU WHO LOVE THE LORD, HATE EVIL!

"You who love the LORD, hate evil! He protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked."

- Psalm 97:10

FIND OUT THOSE WHO HATE YOU

"Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you."

- Psalm 21:8

A MAN OF EVIL DEVICES IS HATED

"A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated."

- Proverbs 14:17

ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH

"But he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

- Proverbs 8:36

YOU HATE ALL EVILDOERS

"The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers."

- Psalm 5:5

FOR YOU HATE DISCIPLINE

"For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you."

- Psalm 50:17

HE THAT HIDETH HATRED

"He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool."

- Proverbs 10:18

OCTOBER 25

People Will Be Without Self Control

"There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." - 2 Timothy 3:1-5

A MAN WITHOUT SELF-CONTROL

"A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls."

- Proverbs 25:28

BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF SELF-CONTROL

"Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

- 1 Corinthians 7:5

THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT: SELF-CONTROL

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

- Galatians 5:22-23

URGE YOUNGER MEN TO BE SELF-CONTROLLED

"Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled."

- Titus 2:6

MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ADD SELF-CONTROL

"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love."

- 2 Peter 1:5-8

RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SELF CONTROL

"And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”

- Acts 24:25

THEREFORE BE SELF-CONTROLLED AND SOBER-MINDED

"The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers."

- 1 Peter 4:7

A SPIRIT OF SELF-CONTROL TOWARDS OURSELVES

"We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves."

- Watchman Nee (1903-1972) Chinese Church Leader

IF THEY CANNOT EXERCISE SELF-CONTROL

"But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

- 1 Corinthians 7:9

TEMPERENCE AND SELF-CONTROL

"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and "a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Church Priest of the Church of England, Historian

GOD GAVE US A SPIRIT OF LOVE AND SELF-CONTROL

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."

- 2 Timothy 1:7

OLDER MEN ARE TO DIGNIFIED, SELF-CONTROLLED

"Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness."

- Titus 2:2

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Words to Think About...

AND TO LIVE SELF-CONTROLLED

"For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.”

- Titus 2:11-12

KNOWLEDGE WITH SELF-CONTROL

"And knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness."

- 2 Peter 1:6

LOVE AND SELF-DISCIPLINE

"For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."

- 2 Timothy 1:7

I CANNOT CARRY IT OUT

"For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out."

- Romans 7:18

THE ISSUE OF SELF CONTROL

"Anger is not in itself sinful, but...it may be the occasion for sin. The issue of self-control is the question of how we deal with anger. Violence, tantrums, bitterness, resentment, hostility, and even withdrawn silence are all sinful responses to anger."

- R. C. Sproul (1939-2017) American Reformed Theologian

BE HOSPTIABLE, SELF-CONTROLLED

"But hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined."

- Titus 1:8

NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU

"No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it."

- 1 Corinthians 10:13

EDUCATE CHILDREN TO SELF-CONTROL

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society."

- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American Orator and Politician

WITH MODESTY AND SELF-CONTROL

"Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire."

- 1 Timothy 2:9

OCTOBER 26

In the Last Days Mockers Will Come

"Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts." - 2 Peter 3:3

IN THE LAST TIME MOCKERS WILL COME

"That they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.”

- Jude 1:18

DO NOT BE DECEIVED: GOD IS NOT MOCKED

"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap."

- Galatians 6:7

WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF COMING?

"And saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

- 2 Peter 3:4

THEY MOCKED HIM, SAYING, HAIL THE KINGS OF THE JEWS!

"And twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

- Matthew 27:29

WERE MOCKING HIM AS THEY BEAT HIM

"Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat Him."

- Luke 22:63

THEY WILL MOCK HIM AND SPIT ON HIM

"And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”

- Mark 10:34

THEY MOCK THE FOOTSTEPS OF YOUR ANNOINTED

"With which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed."

- Psalm 89:51

JUDGEMENTS ARE PREPARED FOR SCOFFERS

"Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and blows for the back of fools."

- Proverbs 19:29

NOR SIT IN THE SEAT OF THE SCOFFERS

"How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers!"

- Psalm 1:1

WHOEVER MOCKS THE POOR INSULTS THE MAKER

"Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished."

- Proverbs 17:5

OTHERS SUFFERED MOCKINGS AND FLOGGING

"Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment."

- Hebrews 11:36

SURELY MOCKERS ARE BEFORE ME

“Surely mockers are with me, and my eye gazes on their provocation."

- Job 17:2

NOW WHEN THEY HEARD, SOME MOCKED

"Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

- Acts 17:32

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Words to Think About...

HOW YOUR SERVANTS ARE MOCKED

"Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations."

- Psalm 89:50

WINE IS A MOCKER

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise."

- Proverbs 20:1

BUT OTHERS MOCKING SAID

But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”

- Acts 2:13

LIKE GODLESS JESTERS

"Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed at me with their teeth."

- Proverbs 9:8

DO NOT CARRY ON AS SCOFFERS

"And now do not carry on as scoffers, or your fetters will be made stronger; for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts of decisive destruction on all the earth."

- Isaiah 28:22

YOU HAVE MOCKED THE LORD

"By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest."

- 2 Kings 19:23

EVERYONE MOCKS ME

"O Lord, You have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me."

- Jeremiah 20:7

THE SOLDIER'S ALSO MOCKED HIM

"The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine.'

- Luke 23:36

DELIVERED TO BE MOCKED

"And deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

- Matthew 20:19

HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END

"And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

- Matthew 10:22

OCTOBER 27

They Will Be Blasphemers

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers." - 2 Timothy 3:1-7

WHOEVER BLASPHEMES AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT

"But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”

- Mark 3:29

THE WAY OF THE TRUTH WILL BE BLASPHEMED

"And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed."

- 2 Peter 2:2

WHOEVER BLASPHEMES THE NAME OF THE LORD

"Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death."

- Leviticus 24:16

NOT PRONOUNCE A BLASPHEOUS JUDGEMENT

"But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

- Jude 1:9

BLASPHEMEING ABOUT MATTERS OF WHICH THEY A RE IGNORANT

"But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction."

- 2 Peter 2:12

PEOPLE BLASPHEME ALL THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND

"But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively."

- Jude 1:10

UTTERING HAUGHTY BLASPHEMOUS WORDS

"And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven."

- Revelation 13:5-6

BECAUSE HIS SONS WERE BLASPHEMING GOD

"And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them."

- 1 Samuel 3:13

HE IS BLASPHEMING!

“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

- Mark 2:7

BEAST THAT WAS FULL OF BLASPHEMOUS NAMES

"And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns."

- Revelation 17:3

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Words to Think About...

EVERY SIN AND BLASPHEMY

"Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."

- Matthew 12:31-32

THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED

"For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

- Romans 2:24

BUT THE ONE WHO BLASPHEMES

"And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven."

- Luke 12:10

TREMBLE AS THEY BLASPHEME

"And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones."

- 2 Peter 2:10

HANDED OVER TO SATAN

"Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme."

- 1 Timothy 1:20

FORMERLY I WAS A BLASPHEMER

"Though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief."

- 1 Timothy 1:13

PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD

"Who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God."

- 2 Thessalonians

AND THEY BLASPHEMED AGAINST HIM

"And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him."

- Luke 22:65

OCTOBER 28

Speaking Lies in Hypocrisy

"Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron." - 1 Timothy 4:2-10

THOU HYPOCRTIE, FIRST CAST OUT THE BEAM THAT IS IN THINE OWN EYE

"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

- Matthew 7:1-5

THOU THEREFORE WHICH TEACHETH ANOTEHR

"Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?"

- Romans 2:21-22

ASSIGN HIM A PLACE WITH HYPOCRITES

"He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

- Matthew 24:51

RELIGIOUS BAD MEN ARE THE WORST

“Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”

- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish Writer and Scholar

HYPOCRITES WILL BE STRIPPED OF THEIR FIG-LEAVES

“If men’s religion prevails not to conquer and cure the wickedness of their hearts, it shall not always serve for a cloak. The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig-leaves.”

- Matthew Henry (1662-1714) Nonconformist Minister, Writer

ON THAT DAY MANY WILL SAY TO ME

“Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven. On that day many will say to Me, Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?’ Then I will announce to them, I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!"

- Matthew 7:21-23

WOE TO YOU, YOU HYPOCRITES

″Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."

- Matthew 23:27-28

THESE PEOPLE HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS

He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

- Mark 7:6

I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE

"The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people–robbers, evildoers, adulterers–or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get."

- Luke 18:11-12

ATHEISTS AND HYPOCRITES ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools."

- Romans 1:18-22

SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH A RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THEIR OWN

"Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness."

- Romans 10:3

BUT HARBOR DECEPTION IN THEIR HEARTS

"Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts."

- Psalm 12:2

THEY HAVE NO ROOT

"The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away."

- Matthew 13:20-21

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Words to Think About...

WHERAS A HYPOCRITE LOVES IT

“While the Christian commits a sin he hates it; whereas the hypocrite loves it while he forbears it.”

- William Gurnall (1616-1679) English Anglican Clergyman

AND SO DECEIVE YOURSELF

"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like."

- James 1:22-23

ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

- Romans 3:23

HIS TALK AS SMOOTH AS BUTTER

"His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords."

- Psalm 55:21

YOU WILL HAVE NO REWARD

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."

- Matthew 6:1

NO ONE IS SO MISEABLE

“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.”

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

STOP JUDGING BY MERE APPEARANCE

"Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”

- John 7:24

IF WE SAY, WE HAVE NO SIN

If we say, “We have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

- 1 John 1:8-9

OWN CONSCIENCE ACCUSES THEM

"Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right."

- Romans 2:14-15

THEY HAVE THEIR FULL REWARD

"So whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow a trumpet before you like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they will be praised by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!"

- Matthew 6:2

OCTOBER 29

And They Shall Reap the Whirlwind

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up." - Hosea 8:7

WHOEVER SOWS SPARINGLY WILL ALSO REAP SPARINGLY

"The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."

- 2 Corinthians 9:6

AT THE HARVEST TIME I WILL TELL THE REAPERS

"Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

- Matthew 13:30

WE SHALL REAP THE ETERNAL HARVEST

"Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not."

- George Whitefield (1714-1770) Church of England Evangelist

THEY WILL REAP THE WHIRLWIND

"For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it."

- Hosea 8:7

EFFORTS TO REAP THE HARVEST GOD DESIRES

"Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires."

- Wesley L. Duewel (1916-2016) Missionary to India

WHEN YOU REAP YOUR HARVEST

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands."

- Deuteronomy 24:19

THE REAPING, BUT NOT THE SOWING

"Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be."

- J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) English Anglican Bishop

REAPING THE KIND OF HARVEST THEY SOW

"The Lord made it very plain in the New Testament that believers cannot escape reaping the kind of harvest they sow. We cannot hide our sin; we will not get away with it. The secrets of the night are not hidden from God."

- Theodore Epp (1907-1985) American Clergyman and Radio Evangelist

FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS FULLY RIPE

"And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”

- Revelation 14:15

AS WELL AS THE HARVEST-MAN AND THE REAPER

"nd when God comes to reckon with his workmen, the ploughman and the sower shall have his penny, as well as the harvest-man and the reaper."

- William Gurnall (1616-1679) English Anglican Clergyman

FOR THE ONE WHO SOWS TO HIS OWN FLESH

"For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life."

- Galatians 6:8

AND THE EARTH WAS REAPED

"So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped."

- Revelation 14:16

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The Mocking of Christ, 1628–30 Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599–1641 Oil on canvas y1975-12

Words to Think About...

IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP

"And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up."

- Galatians 6:9

WHOEVER SOWS INJUSTICE

"Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail."

- Proverbs 22:8

ONE SOWS, ANOTHER REAPS

"For here the saying holds true, One sows and another reaps."

- John 4:37

CONSIDER THE RAVENS

"Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!"

- Luke 12:24

FOR WHATEVER ONE SOWS

"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap."

- Galatians 6:7

THOSE WHO PLOW INIQUITY

"As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same."

- Job 4:8

FOR I WAS AFRAID

"For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow."

- Luke 19:21

REAP HARVEST AMONG YOU

"I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles."

- Romans 1:13

SOW FOR YOURSELVES RIGHTEOUSNESS

"Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you."

- Hosea 10:12

YOU SHALL SOW, BUT NOT REAP

"You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine."

- Micah 6:15

BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING

"'Behold, the days are coming,' declares the LORD, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it."

- Amos 9:13

OCTOBER 30

The Love of Most Will Grow Cold

"And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. - Matthew 24:12

LOVE NOT THE WORLD

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

- 1 John 2:15

DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THE WORLD

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

- Romans 12:2

SO THEN, BECAUSE YOU ARE LUKEWARM

"So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth."

- Revelation 3:16

KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD

"Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life."

- Jude 1:21

LOVE THEREFORE IS THE STANDARD

"If the Christian would act on the principle of pure love, he would work no ill toward his neighbor, and if his love toward God were perfect, he would perfectly serve God. Love therefore is a standard which is higher than law, fulfilling the law, and accomplishing through the Spirit what the law could not."

- John F. Walvoord (1910-2002) Christian Theologian, Pastor

ABOVE ALL, LOVING ONE ANOTHER EARNESTLY

"Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins."

- 1 Peter 4:8

DO NOT LET YOUR HEART BE COLD

"Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do not let your heart be cold, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is light: do not walk in darkness of mind, without reasoning or understanding, or without faith."

- John of Kronstadt (1829–1909) Russian Orthodox Archpriest

THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THIMNGS

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? "

- Jeremiah 17:9

IF WE HAVE GOT THE TRUE LOVE OF GOD

"If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do."

- D. L. Moody (1837-1899) American Evangelist, Teacher and Preacher

TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

SUCH WAS GOD'S ORIGINAL LOVE FOR MAN

"Such was God's original love for man that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love."

- Albert Barnes (1798-1870) American Presbyterian Clergyman and Writer

DIVINE THINGS MUST BE LOVED TO BE KNOWN

"Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known."

- Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662), French Mathematician, Physicist, Religious Philosopher

THERE IS NOTHING THAT MAKES US LOVE A MAN

"There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him."

- William Law (1686-1761) Church of England Cleric

TO LOVE ABUNDANTLY IS TO LIVE ABUNDANTLY

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with love... Love must be eternal. It is what God is."

- Henry Drummond (1851-1897) Scottish Evangelist, Biologist

YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE

"Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent. "

- Revelation 2:4-5

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Words to Think About...

OUR LOVE TO GOD

"Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays."

- Andrew Murray (1794-1866) Scottish Missionary, Writer

LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER

"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

- John 13:35

THE ETERNAL LESSON

"The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love."

- Henry Drummond (1851-1897) Scottish Evangelist, Biologist

LOVE YOUR ENEMIES

"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you."

- Luke 6:27

WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE?

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

- Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Bishop, Theologian and Philosopher

CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."

- Psalm 51:10

GRACE IS LOVE

"And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing."

- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland

KEEP YOUR HEART WITH VIGILINCE

"Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life."

Proverbs 4:23

AND HE SAID TO HIM

"And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."

- Matthew 22:37

BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE

"Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."

- 1 John 4:8

THE LOVE OF GOD

"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."

- Romans 5:5

GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN

"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends."

- John 15:13

IF YOU LOVE ME

"If you love Me, keep My commandments."

- John 14:15

OCTOBER 31

That There May Be No Division

"So that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another."

- 1 Corinthians 12:25

IF A HOUSE IS DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF

"If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand."

- Mark 3:25

THESE ARE THE ONES WHO CAUSE DIVISION

"These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit."

- Jude 1:19

I WILL PUT A DIVISION BETWEEN MY PEOPLE

"I will put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will occur.”

- Exodus 8:23

SATAN WANTS TO KEEP CHRISTIANS APART

"Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

THE SHEPHERD SEPARATES THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS

"All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."

- Matthew 25:32

DEATH CAN HIDE BUT NOT DIVIDE

"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."

- Vance Havner (1901-1986) American Country Preacher

I HEAR THAT DIVISIONS EXIST AMONG YOU

For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it."

- Titus 3:10

A CHRIST WHO WILL NOT BE DIVIDED

"It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!"

- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher

AGREE THAT THERE WILL BE NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU

"Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment."

- 1 Corinthians 1:10

WHERE THE LORD'S PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED

"I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided."

- D. L. Moody (1837-1899) American Evangelist, Teacher and Preacher

AS FAR AS THE DIVISION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT

"For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

- Hebrews 4:12

BETWEEN WHICH WE DIVIDED OUR HEART

"We scarce conceive how easy it is to rob God of his due, in our friendship with the most virtuous persons, until they are torn from us by death. But if this loss produce lasting sorrow, that is a clear proof that we had before two treasures, between which we divided our heart."

- John Wesley (1703-1791) English Cleric and Minister

GOD IS NOT A GOD OF CONFUSION

"For God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints."

- 1 Corinthians 14:33

NOTHING BUT DEATH SHALL DIVIDE ME

"Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth."

- Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) Puritan Preacher and Writer

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THOSE WHO CAUSE DISSENSION

"Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them."

- Romans 16:17

A DIVIDED HEART

"A divided heart loses both worlds."

- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian

BUT RATHER DIVISION

"Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division."

- Luke 12:51

IF YOU DIVIDE AN INFINITE NUMBER

"In math, if you divide an infinite number by any number, no matter how large, you still have an infinite quotient. So Jesus' love, being infinite, even though it is divided up for every person on earth, is still infinitely poured out on each one of us!"

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

HAS CHRIST BEEN DIVIDED

"Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?"

- 1 Corinthians 1:13

TO DIVIDE THE WORD ARIGHT

"If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God."

- John Bunyan (1628-1688) English Minister Writer

THEY WILL BE DIVIDED

- Luke 12:53

THE DEVIL DIVIDES THE WORLD

"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."

- George Herbert (1592-1633) Church of England Priest

THEY DIVIDE MY GARMENTS

"They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots."

- Psalm 22:18

A KINGDOM DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF

And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand."

- Matthew 12:25

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They Will Be Lovers of Pleasure

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