Jul 6, 2022
2KINGS 1:
Yesterday we heard stories which show that King
Ahab indeed “sold himself to evil,” including the story of Naboth's
vineyard. And also we heard of Ahab's friendship with King
Jehoshaphat of Judah. Finally, we heard how the prophecies against
Ahab were fulfilled.
PSALM 123:
This
psalm has an important similarity with Ps. 121 which
said,
Ps. 121:1 NLT I look up to the
mountains—
does my help come from
there?
2 My
help comes from the LORD,
who
made heaven and earth!
Today’s psalm tells us how to ‘look’.
JOHN 10b:
In
John 9, with the formerly blind man standing there, Jesus
said,
9:39 NLT “I entered this world
to render judgment—to give sight to the blind and to show those who
think they see that they are blind.”
40
Some Pharisees who were standing nearby heard him and asked, “Are
you saying we’re blind?”
41
“If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But
you remain guilty because you claim you can see.
I think the formerly blind man would have been greatly comforted to find out that the Son of Man was now his shepherd and the gate for the sheep. John 10:10 is a frequently memorized verse because of Jesus’ promise: Life in all its fullness.
GNT Translation note:
John 10:38 Again there was a
division among the people because of these words. We know that what
the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people
gods, the people to whom his message was given. But if I do them,
even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my
deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father
is [united with//in] me and that I am [united with//in] the
Father.”