arrive at the third use - “Principally it admonishes believers and urges them on in well doing,” as John

To Trust Is to Delight in the LORD (v5-6) John Calvin writes of these verses , "This passage reminds

SINCE WE LAST LEFT OFF:   All of Jacob's family has joined Joseph in Egypt. we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13  and worked them ruthlessly. 14

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13).”

abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return to join Moses says that God “created the world”; and John says that “all things were created by the Word,” which

Summary Today's Summary and Dig Deeper posts are paraphrased from John Calvin's commentary on this passage

about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For all those who died before that time will be raised from the earth, their spirits being joined and Sadly, though, as we read yesterday , not all people will join Christ in His Kingdom.

A second part of this phrase is also joined with this request over and over, giving the purpose for the WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will be sanctified by the truth, for God’s Word is truth and life (John

your one true Master; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John

Today: John 17