kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence. 14  All day long I have been afflicted, and every altogether, yet who seem to have tremendous prosperity (literally: šā·lôm (shalom), the condition in which every Yet all he seems to have gotten in return is affliction, and every morning brings new punishments. You have discretion as to how you'll spend your time this weekend, so make going to the Lord's house As you make the sovereign LORD your refuge, you'll be all the more refreshed and equipped to tell of

gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. Nobody had ever been greater. None of the amazing things he experienced, built or developed had any lasting meaning, so it makes sense

the gods there is none like you, LORD; no deeds can compare with yours. 9  All the nations you have made ministry of the gospel come to Christ and are brought to conversion  must not be ­credited to human effort Make me wholeheartedly committed to you. So David's final clause in this primary point is the ultimate prayer of a lignment: to be made wholeheartedly

Taken by itself, this clause seems completely contradictory to the gospel, in that it makes it seem like it's up to you to make yourself holy, when all year long we've read about how incapable we are as sinners That would mean that after each and every sin you commit - both the monstrous sins we've read about these But the second half of the sentence makes sense of the first half. Peter also makes clear how it is that this spiritual teflon gets applied: it's through the living and

grace and mercy— not to put them to sleep but so that the awareness of this corruption might often make Certainly that 'O-G' sin in which Adam and his wife ate the forbidden fruit is the origin of every sin In other words, Adam's transgression did not just make him a sinner, rather it infected the entire world Understanding the doctrine of original sin helps make sense of the frustrated mess we see in our own AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who makes grace possible for those infected by

Genesis 1:26–28 (ESV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every he had received from God, and he retained none of them except for small traces which are enough to make It's showing us that fallen, sinful humanity needs salvation from the One who has fulfilled every last

to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, ¹⁴ or to governors, who obstacle to the preaching of the gospel and to every aspect of divine worship. They should do it in order that the Word of God may have free course; the kingdom of Jesus Christ may make progress; and every anti-Christian power may be resisted. so compelling and refreshing, a truth that not only points to eternal life in Christ, but which also makes

depravity which even infects small infants in their mother’s womb, and the root which produces in man every grace and mercy— not to put them to sleep but so that the awareness of this corruption might often make Our instinct is to make our repentance the catalyst in the salvific process: first a person is convicted From that point on, Adam, Eve and every one of their offspring has been "dead in their sins," unable dead in our sins; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you live in such a way that makes your

Will your Lord's Day activities make you even more tired, or will they bring you joy and delight? Second, that every day of my life I rest from my evil ways, let the Lord work in me through his Spirit But our passage today makes clear that only those who "do not go their own way, and do not do as they Do you go to church simply out of obligation, since that's what you've done every Sunday since the day What mental, physical and spiritual adjustments must you make in order for you to honestly be able to

his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7  Then he is to take the two over by many Christians because of it's tedious content - paragraph after long paragraph detailing every The LORD gave very specific instructions for when and how this meeting could take place (we only read After seeing what had happened to his sons, Aaron had very good incentive to make sure he covered ever It was to make the payment for sin - sin the goat itself was innocent of - as it was sacrificed for a