Day 305, Year 1 Genuine Faith … “When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.” (2 Timothy 1:5 NKJV) The quality of faith is crucial for people to continually believe in the […]
Day 304, Year 1 Jesus Rescues Us From This Present Evil Age Jesus Christ, “Who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.” (Galatians 1:4 NASB) As Jesus Christ sat down with believers, He might discuss how to
Day 303, Year 1 Welcome God’s Messengers in the Name of the Lord “For I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’” (Matthew 23:39 NKJV) When God’s chosen Jerusalem could also be desolate because of sins, nowhere on earth
Day 302, Year 1 Strive to Solve the Problems of Sins “Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.” (Matthew 23:32 NASB) “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers
Day 301, Year 1 The Root Cause of Suffering “Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.” (Matthew 23:36 NASB) The words “all these things,” said by Jesus, refer to the previous verses about “the sentence of hell” and “the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth.” The
Day 300, Year 1 Reaping the Punishment of Generations … “Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, so that upon you may fall the guilt of
Day 299, Year 1 How Can a Human Like a Viper Escape God’s Sentence? “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?” (Matthew 23:33 NASB) If sinners can be freed from “serpents” and “the brood of vipers,” then they can escape the sentence of hell. Indeed, for many first-generation
Day 298, Year 1 Cutting Off Hereditary Evil With Hatred “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” (Luke 14:26 NKJV) In my opinion, today’s verse is the best way to explain how
Day 297, Year 1 Be Determined to Overcome Generational Evil “Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.” (Matthew 23:32 NASB) The Pharisees, etc., naively looked back on the past but failed to see it as a reminder for their present time. They knew the sins of their ancestors but did not
Day 296, Year 1 Do Not Underestimate the Influence of Heredity “And say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’” (Matthew 23:30 NASB) The Pharisees, etc., seemed to have underestimated the influence of generational curses, naively
