01 July 2007

Today's Reading July 01

This morning
Job, chapters 21 and 22
Job is continuing the discussion with his friends, ''why to the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper?''

6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?



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This evening
Acts, chapter 10, verses 1 through 23
Another new development in the developing church. Up to this point, with the exception of the eunuch Phillip preached to, the church has been entirely comprised of Jews. That now changes. We see now a Gentile, a Roman soldier of rank, described as 'God-fearing', who is now called by the Lord to faith in Jesus the Christ. Most Christians have more or less forgotten this, and now a Jew, especially a Messianic Jew, is regarded as an oddity.

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