OUR LOVING, COMPASSIONATE AND FAITHFUL GOD Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. —Lamentations 3:22-23 This verse brings out four great truths: 1- He has great love for us. 2- His compassions never fail. 3- His compassions are new every morning. 2— His faithfulness is great. Now we look to the cross and think about what Jesus said, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what…

JESUS SAID, “IT IS FINISHED” Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all…

JUDGMENT “Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon. The Lord will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple. —Jeremiah 51:11 Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule. —Jeremiah 51:28 The Lord will destroy Babylon; he will silence her noisy din. Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound. A destroyer will come against Babylon; her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken. For the Lord is a…

RIGHTEOUS IN CHRIST In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. —Hebrews 5:12-14 Are you growing? Are you serving? Are you being fed milk when you should by now be fed with solid food? In the context above these believers were still on milk when they should have been on…

BEWARE OF UNBELIEF See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was…

HE DIED SO WE COULD LIVE! But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. —Hebrews 10:9 Jesus tasted death for me and you and for every person on this planet. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world” (I John 2:2). He “who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (II Corinthians 5:21).…

FULLY TRUSTWORTHY! This is what the Lord says: ‘If I have not made my covenant with day and night and established the laws of heaven and earth, then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.’ ” —Jeremiah 33:25-26 Night and day and the laws of heaven and earth will continue as surely as God is working through “the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” This promise goes on today because “If you belong to Christ, then you are…

THE SEASONS WILL CONTINUE! This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name: “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the Lord, “will Israel ever cease being a nation before me.” declares the Lord. This is what the Lord says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” —Jeremiah 31:35-37 “Ah, Sovereign…

BE A BLESSING WHERE YOU LIVE This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” —Jeremiah 29:4-7 The Israelites were to…

THE GREATEST GIVER With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. —Jeremiah 27:5 Our Lord God Almighty is all-powerful. There is none greater than He. It is He who made the earth. It is He who created all people. It is He who created all the animals. It is He who has created all things (Genesis chapter 1). Therefore, it is He who can give whatever He wants to whoever He desires to give it to. He put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It was He…