Revelation 2

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“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’

– Revelation 2:7

May God grant you Spiritual wisdom to hear the still small voice of the Spirit, and what He has to say to the church. Not just what He has to say to the churches of Asia, two-thousand years ago, but what He has to say to the Church in our day. God desires that we would hear and heed His word for the Church in our day, lest the lamp-stand of His presence and glory need to be removed from the midst of His congregation.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

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Revelation 1

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“I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

– Revelation 1:18

As we come to the final book of the New Testament—a book that has challenged and confused many—it is essential that we remember that this book is the “Revelation of Jesus Christ.” The danger in Revelation is to fall into a speculative, eschatological, Biblical cryptography, when reading through it. If you find in it codes and hidden future secrets, and miss the revealing of Jesus in His magnificent glory, you’ve missed the point.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

Jude 1

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Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

– Jude 1:2

If you cannot find the words to pray for me, or another person in your life that you feel lead to pray for, you might want to begin with this simple blessing. “May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied.” It may be a very simple prayer, but it’s a good one.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

3 John 1

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Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

– 3 John 1:2

I will likely never meet the vast majority of those who read this daily post. At least not here, at this time. But as John did 2,000 years ago, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health. Especially as we near the end of 2018, and prepare for 2019. May you prosper in all things; body, soul, and spirit!

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

2 John 1

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And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

– 2 John 1:5-6

Love is the commandment, and to walk according to the commandments is to love as He loved us. A life lived in obedience to the commandment of love is a life well spent.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

1 John 5

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Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

– 1 John 5:14-15

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

1 John 4

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He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

– 1 John 4:8

Therefore, if you know the God of love, then you will be motivated by your knowledge of His love to love as He loves. Furthermore, if you know God, then you will have the abiding presence of His Holy Spirit, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

1 John 3

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And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

– 1 John 3:3

The hope of a glorified eternity, in the presence of our Lord, stirs the one that possesses the hope to purify him or herself.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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Additional Daily Devotionals

My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

1 John 2

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My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

– 1 John 2:1-2

Our deceitfully wicked heart will seek to hide, and justify our iniquity. But when we come to God, confessing our sin, we can know that Jesus Christ the righteous is our mediator. He, by the offering He provided at Calvary, deals fully with our sin, and makes us clean and righteous.

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon

1 John 1

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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

— 1 John 1:8

King David, in recognizing and repenting of his sin before God, in Psalm 51, he wrote, “Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts.” Our hearts are so deceitfully wicked that we can actually be deceived by our own fallen heart, to justify all manner of iniquity, transgression, and sin. But when we are honest—with ourselves, and before God—about our true, sinful condition, then we can openly acknowledge and confess our sin. And when we do, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

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Enduring Word Commentary with Pastor David Guzik

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Additional Daily Devotionals

My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Morning & Evening | Charles Spurgeon