For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies,
and all evil speakings, as newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the Word,
that ye may grow thereby:
if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
(I Peter 1:24-2:3)
The Word for the YEAR--
Titus 3:4-7 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by His grace, we should
be made heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life.
The Word for the month--
Galatians 2:20,21 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave
Himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if
righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
The Word for the day--
Romans 7:5,6
For
when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law,
did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we
should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Hear the entire chapter--
Romans 7
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how
that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the
woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to
her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of
her husband. So then if, while
her
husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an
adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so
that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body
of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
For
when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law,
did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we
should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
What shall we say then?
Is the
law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had
not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin,
taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin
was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which
was ordained to life, I found
to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew
me. Wherefore the law
is
holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which
is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear
sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the
commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is
spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow
not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If
then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that
it is
good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me; but
how
to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I
do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I
would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I
find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another
law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man
that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the
law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
--
I
Corinthians 15:3,4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I
also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:
Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
I Peter 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
