gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing. 3 Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made Rather, as the opening line makes clear, this short psalm, and the seven commands it contains, are given Dig Deeper Do you ever wonder why we do what we do in our Sunday services at Reformed churches? Hear God's Word proclaimed Know that the LORD Himself is God - He made us, and we are His. Make gathering with the saints, joyfully singing, hearing Biblical preaching, and personally experiencing

Destroy the devil’s work; destroy every force which revolts against you and every conspiracy against

, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” 13 When the devil had finished every But the Spirit leads Jesus here differently than He ever has or ever will lead us; He led Jesus into He begins by telling Jesus He can have more if He'd just take matters into His own hands. So it only makes sense, the devil tempts Jesus, that if You are the Son of God You can safely jump from But although there's never anything new with the devil's temptations, there is something very different

mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made But if you tell someone who is all too aware of their debts and struggles to make payments every month , wondering if they’ll ever see the end — their reaction might be slightly different since they know

Awaken your might; come and save us. 3   Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be ; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. 8  You transplanted a vine from Egypt; you drove not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name. 19  Restore us, LORD God Almighty; make But Asaph didn't write this by himself; he was inspired by the Holy Spirit, who very much meant to point armies); A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray the refrain of Psalm 80: Restore us, LORD God Almighty, make

he had received from God, and he retained none of them except for small traces which are enough to make 'This fruit will open your eyes,' the shrewd serpent lied, 'and eating it will make you like God.' As he wrote to Pastor Timothy thousands of years after the fact, the Apostle Paul makes a stunning revelation We've mentioned this noetic effect of sin several times this year - the condition you inherited that makes As you make your choices between obeying God and satisfying the shrewd desires of your sinful nature,

The Lamb of God didn't just take on our sin, He took our place. true identity, John quoted Isaiah, saying he was "the voice of the one calling in the wilderness, 'Make the Lord.'" 29  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! When God prepared to bring His final plague on the Egyptians, the death of every firstborn male of the

They lie in wait for the church and every member of it like thieves, with all their power, to destroy As we take a look at the short letter of Jude, Jude takes up a discussion about judgment for those who This connects us with the section of the Belgic Confession we are taking a look at today. corrupt that they are enemies of God and of everything good,” and “they lie in wait for the church and every being “enemies of God and of everything good,” and even seeking to “lie in wait for the church and every

Take a moment to be reminded of the Good News. Dig Deeper   The first thing Paul makes clear as he begins to remind us of the gospel is that he didn't make it up. If just a handful of closely intertwined people had claimed to witness Jesus alive, it might make sense But since this world and your sinful nature seek to obfuscate these simple truths, make sure that you're

virgin Mary, a truly human nature so that he might become David’s true descendant, like his brothers in every Jesus knows first hand the difficulty you face every day, but yet He doesn't just leave you to try and If Jesus had descended from Adam, as every other human being has, then He would have inherited Adam's sin, just as every other human being has.