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Today's Daily Devotional - "Sanctification a Work of a Lifetime" 8/16/17

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Sanctification a Work of a Lifetime   And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. John 17:19 . The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven. Many commit the error of trying to define minutely the fine points of distinction between justification and sanctification. Into the definitions of these two terms they often bring their own ideas and speculations. Why try to be more minute than is Inspiration on the vital question of righteousness by faith? As the penitent sinner, contrite before God, discerns Christ's atonement in his behalf, and accepts this atonement as his only hope in this life and the future life, his sins are pardoned. This is justification by faith. Sanctification is not the work of a moment, an hour, a day, but of a lifetime. It is not gained by...
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Today's Daily Devotional - "Habits" 8/22/17

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'HABITS' A wise old man was once taking a stroll through a forest with a shiftless young fellow by his side. Seeking to teach him an important lesson he stopped and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to peep above the ground, the second was a little larger with some roots, the third was a small shrub, while the fourth had grown into a small tree. The tutor said to his young companion, “Pull up the first plant.” The boy did so eagerly, using only his fingers. ‘Now pull up the second.’ The youth obeyed but found the task more difficult. ‘Do the same with the third,” he urged. The boy had to use all his strength to uproot it. ‘Now,’ said the instructor, “try your hand with the fourth.” The pupil put his hands around the young sapling and pulled with all his might, but couldn’t budge it. “I can’t do it,” he said. “This, my son, is what happens with our habits. When they are small and young, we can easily remove them. ...
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Today's Daily Devotional - "TALE OF A FORGETFUL KING" - 8/15/17

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Tale of a Forgetful King "For many are called, but few are chosen." Matthew 22:14 Once upon a time there was a very sick king. So deathly ill was he that his friend, the prophet, made a bedside visit with the dire pronouncement that it was time for the king to draw up his personal will and put his house in order since death would be the next visitor knocking at the royal door. No sooner had the prophet left than the good-hearted king turned his face to the wall and burst into tears in a sobbing plea to God. And God, who can be more tenderhearted than the one who delivers the medical prognosis, stopped the prophet before he was out of the palace. "Go back and tell My friend that I'm going to extend his life by 15 more years." And as confirmation (because some medical reversals need empirical evidence), the shadow on the sun dial went backwards 10 degrees! As happy as a death row inmate with a presidential pardon, King Hezekiah set out to live his e...
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