The Weekly Word with Raul Ries: October 2012

Seven Days of Devotion

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

“Now I plead with you brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions
among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.”
1 Corinthians 1:10

Two congregations were located only a few blocks from each other in a small community. They thought it might be better if they merged and became one united body, larger and more effective, rather than two struggling churches.

Good idea…but they weren’t able to pull it off. The problem? They couldn’t agree on how they should recite the Lord’s Prayer. One group wanted “Forgive us our trespasses,” while the other demanded “forgive us our debts.”

A newspaper reported that one church went back to its trespasses while the other returned to its debts.

Do you get along with other Christians?

Are you a peace-maker or a divider?

Thought for the Day:
If we do not hand together,
We will hand separately.

MONDAY

An Influential Life

“Having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles,
that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may,
by your good works which they observe,
glorify God in the day of visitation.”
1 Peter 2:12

Does your life radiate Christ? Do you influence others to accept the Lord simply by the way you live?

In the last century, Billy Bray, a dynamic Christian, lived across the Atlantic.

This Cornish miner was so effervescent, so overflowing with Christ. Each day as he went down into the mines – very dangerous in those days – he would pray with the miners as he went down.

“Lord, if any of us must be killed or die today, let it be me. Let not one of these men die, for they are not happy and I am, and if I die today I shall go to be in heaven.” It was rumored that at times, when he got to the bottom of those mines, the other miners would be on their knees.

Thought for the Day:
Is your life overflowing with Christ?

TUESDAY

The Young Lions

“Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all
their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to
take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take
booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away
livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’. . .”And
it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog
comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord
GOD, “that My fury will show in My face.”
Ezekiel 38:13, 18

When you look at the prophecy in Ezekiel 38 and 39, the United States is not mentioned. Many theologians believe the young lions is in reference to the United States, England, Australia and New Zealand. These nations stand back and do not play a part in the Last Days’ prophecy. They have become ineffective; they have no power.

While these nations stand back, the nations now controlled by radical Muslims join forces with Russia to come against Israel.

Although Israel is a small country, God made a promise in Genesis 16-17, that the land would belong to Isaac, the Hebrew nations, and not to Ishmael, the Arab nations.

In Ezekiel 38 and 39, God keeps His promise. In spite of the great number of this army, we see God intervene when the nations come against Israel and wipe out 5/6 of the Muslim world. God will defend Israel. They will be persecuted, but God will not allow His people to be destroyed.

Individually, stand with God—stand with Israel against her enemies.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper
who love you. Peace be within your walls,
Prosperity within your palaces.”
Psalm 122:6-7

WEDNESDAY

Beginnings

In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

As we open our Bibles, we start in the Book of Genesis. From the very first verse, we see it is the book of beginnings. Is it the beginning of God? No, not the beginning of God. He has always existed.

It is the beginning of man: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7).

It is the beginning of woman: Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman (Genesis 2:22).

The beginning of marriage: And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23).

Along with the good beginnings come the bad. First, sin entered into the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve disobeyed God: And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11).

Then came the first murder: Now Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him (Genesis 4:8).

Everything has a beginning in the Book of Genesis. From this beginning, we can see God’s perfect plan for man and how man’s disobedience altered that perfection. We have a choice; walk in God’s perfect will as He intended, or in His permissive will and be like Adam and Eve. Where do you want to be?

We must read our Bibles like men digging for
hidden treasure.
-J.C. Ryle-

THURSDAY

Warning Signs

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:26-27

When we come to Chapter 5 in the Book of Genesis, it speaks about death. As you go through verses 1-20, everyone dies, but when you come to verses 21-24, it breaks the cycle of death and says, And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Enoch became a warning from God that He was getting ready to bring judgment upon the world.

God gave Enoch a son whom he named Methuselah, which means, “when he shall die, it shall come.” What shall come? The flood. God always gives a sign, and God always gives a space of time to repent before He judges. Remember that. No one can ever say, “God never gave me an opportunity.” He gives everyone an opportunity.

Pastor Chuck Smith was sharing how many times we blame God for everything, and yet if we willfully sin against God, we cannot blame Him. Unlike a person in the jungles of Brazil who worships the sun and the moon; they are doing it out of ignorance. We know God and we know the truth of God. It is not out of ignorance we sin; it is a transgression; it is willful.

When the judgment of God comes, we have more responsibility than the person who never heard of Him. Think about it—the more light, the more judgment.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with
capacity and power.
-John Holland-

FRIDAY

Bondage & Redemption

Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
Exodus 6:6

After coming out of Genesis, the book of beginnings, and learning the principles of God’s beginnings, you get to the Book of Exodus, and you find the people of God in Egypt. In Exodus, there are a couple of things we need to understand. First, Egypt is a type of the world.

God allowed them to be in bondage in the world because the people made the choice to go to Egypt. He allowed them to go to Egypt, but He did not intend for them to become like the Egyptians or grow comfortable.

They were to be set apart, to be salt and light, to the people of Egypt. If we are in the world, we are to bring the world to God. But, what did they do? They became part of the world. And in becoming part of the world, they were put in bondage to the world. Four hundred and thirty years they would be in bondage—four generations.

What is incredible here in the Book of Exodus is we also find God’s redemption. When the people cried out to God, He heard their cries and delivered them from their oppressors.

We find redemption today through Christ. When we cry out to God while in bondage to the world, God will hear our cries and deliver us from our oppressors.

Life is not worth living apart from redemption.
-Augustine-

SATURDAY

Worship in the Tabernacle

And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
Exodus 25:8-9

Moving through the Book of Exodus, God gives the children of Israel the Law in the Ten Commandments. He also provides specific blueprints for the design of the Tabernacle, or Temple, the place of worship.

While they were wandering in the wilderness, the Tabernacle of God was made of wood, animal skins and tapestries that could be taken down and moved from place to place. The glory of the LORD would fill the Tabernacle as a cloud when God appeared to the people.

In the New Testament, the Temple, or Tabernacle, is not a tent or building. You and I are declared by God to be the Temple of the Living God (1 Corinthians 3:16-17). And remember who lived in the Tabernacle—God.

In the Old Testament, the people could not enter the Tabernacle while the glory of the LORD was present; but today, God dwells within us through the Holy Spirit. We no longer go to a building to worship God. We are the living temple of God, able to enter into the presence of God at all times—to praise and worship Him.

We see pictures and types of Christ and the church throughout the Old Testament.

YAnd what greater calamity can fall upon a nation
than the loss of worship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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