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Morning & Evening
Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light.” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more of God in it and by it. Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more…
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APOCRYPHA – 2 Esdras 5 & 6
2 Esdras 5 1 In the latter times truth shall be hid. 6 Unrighteousness and all wickedness shall reign in the world. 23 Israel is rejected, and God delivers them. 35 God does all things in season. NEVERTHELESS concerning the tokens, behold, the times shall come, that they which dwell upon earth, shall be taken…
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APOCRYPHA – 2 Esdras 3 & 4
2 Esdras 3 4 The wondrous works, which God did for the people, are recited. 31 Esdras marvels that God suffered the Babylonians to have rule over his people, which yet are sinners also. IN the thirtieth year after the fall of the city, as I was at Babylon, I lay troubled upon my bed,…
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APOCRYPHA – 2 Esdras 1 & 2
3 The people is reproved for their unfaithfulness. 30 God will have another people, if these will not be reformed. THE second book of the Prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Helcias, the son of Sadanias, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob, The son of Achias,…
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GUIDE ME, O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH
Amazing Grace William Williams, 1717–1791 Since You are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of Your name lead and guide me. (Psalm 31:3) The need for daily guidance is one of the believer’s greatest concerns. How easily our lives can go astray without the assurance of divine leadership. Today’s featured text is one…
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Morning & Evening
“Grow in grace”—not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fulness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love may become extended, more intense, more practical, influencing every thought, word, and deed. Grow likewise…
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APOCRYPHA – 1 Esdras 9
1 Esdras 9 7 After Esdras had read the law for the strange wives, 10 Their promise to put them away. THEN Esdras rose from the court of the Temple, and went to the chamber of Ioannan the son of Eliasib, And being lodged there, he did eat no bread nor drank water, but mourned…
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APOCRYPHA – 1 Esdras 8
1 Esdras 8 1 Esdras comes from Babylon to Jerusalem. 10 The copy of the commission given by Artaxerxes. 20 Esdras gives thanks to the Lord. 32 The number of the heads of the people that came with him. 76 His prayer and confession. AND after these things when Artaxerxes King of the Persians reigned,…
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APOCRYPHA – 1 Esdras 6 & 7
1 Esdras 6 1 Of Aggeus and Zacharias. 2 The building of the Temple. 3 Sisinnes would let them. 7 His epistle to Darius. 23 The Kings answer to the contrary. BUT in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggeus and Zacharias the son of Addo the Prophets prophesied to the Jews, even…
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APOCRYPHA – 1 Esdras 5
1 Esdras 5 1 The number of them that return from the captivity. 42 Their vows and sacrifices. 54 The Temple is begun to be built. 66 Their enemies would craftily join with them. AFTER these things, the chief of the houses of their fathers were chosen after their tribes, and their wives, and their…
