Devotional Guide
For the week of February 22, 2004
GOD CAN NOT LIE
Drinking from the third cup
To Read: Revelation 4-6
To Know:
"And he said to them, 'This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out
for many.'" (Mk. 14:24)
One meal I still remember we ate on a Saturday in June of 1976 in Edinburgh.
Most meals are not especially memorable. At sixty-four, we have sat down to
over 20,000 offerings, but we remember very few. What made that dinner
unforgettable was that we shared it with James Stewart and his wife. The
Scots have produced the greatest preachers and the greatest Scottish
preacher of the 20th century was Stewart. At that dinner were four of us, my
wife and I and the Stewarts. For five hours it was our privilege to talk
with one of the premier preachers in history.
Jesus made his last Passover with the disciples indelible. Taking the third
cup, the one after supper that meant redemption, Christ interpreted it to be
his blood. In this action all the theoretical arguments regarding Jesus'
understanding of his own ministry are ended. The Lord saw salvation, the
passing over of the angel of death, to be his work of shedding his blood.
To Answer:
a.. Am I so entirely convinced that God's word cannot be broken that I
strive to live by it?
a.. Have the Ten Commandments convicted me that I am a sinner who
desperately needs God's grace?
a.. Do I understand that the Bible's promise of eternal life is life as
God himself lives it?
a.. Does the fact that shed blood is at the heart of the Christian faith
spur me on to a life of self-sacrifice?
Saturday: Revelation 7-9
Sunday: Revelation 10-12
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