“And I will heal them.” 20  But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. 21  “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 23: The Justification of Sinners

Acts 13:26-41 (NIV) CONTEXT: Earlier this year we read about how "the whole city" showed up to hear spoke in the same place a week earlier, containing the announcement that got everybody's attention. 26 of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. 27 Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. 28   Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 27 Q What do you understand dominated the cityscape, the intellectuals of Athens were always ready to hear something new (Acts 17:21 , creator of heaven and earth,” to Q&A 27, “What do you understand by the providence of God?” (17:25), sustaining and directing human life (17:26, 28). His offspring ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Hebrews 2

Hebrews 7:25-28 (NIV) 25 Therefore Christ is able to save completely those who come to God through him , because he always lives to intercede for them. 26 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27 Unlike the other high priests He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 21: The Atonement We believe that

Romans 12:1–8 (NIV) CONTEXT: We read the first two verses of this chapter yesterday , and by God's grace offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2   Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity

Romans 3:21-26 (NIV) 21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. As Hebrews 9:22 puts it, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Today: 2 Peter 1

A psalm. 1   Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth 2  before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Today: 2 Corinthians 11

Romans 9:10-24 (NIV) CONTEXT: We began this passage yesterday. 20 But who are you, o man, to talk back to God? ”  21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience in advance for glory—24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles

Romans 7:18-25 (ESV) 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.  Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Today: Matthew 26