“Save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” Matthew 27:40 Ahh. Now we know what the devil was up to in the wilderness. “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” Matthew 4:3 Jesus was already on the Calvary Road of

God’s mercies are new every morning.

“Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.” Romans 13:14 Your armor. Your identifying uniform. Inadmissible through the gates of sin.

“If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” Romans 14:8 Live or die. We belong to the ever-living one. Jesus.

God’s mercies are new every morning.

The Father's VOICE thunders from Heaven three times in Jesus's ministry. 1) At his Baptism, as He inaugurates His PROPHETIC ministry. 2) At the Transfiguration, as He inaugurates His PRIESTLY ministry. 3) At the Triumphal Entry, as He inaugurates His KINGLY ministry. Christ is

“You who seek God, let your hearts revive. For the Lord hears the needy.” Psalm 69:32–33 Need-feeling. God-seeking. Life-receiving.

What is presumption? “Beware lest one blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’” Deuteronomy 29:18–19

God's mercies are new every morning. May Christ be honored this Lord's Day.

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:29 There are things revealed by God and concealed by God. What we may know and not know is God’s

“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 How much more since sealed by his blood.

God’s mercies are new every morning.

“Jeshurun [= Israel] grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.” Deuteronomy 32:15 Don’t leave your Maker. Don’t leave your Savior.

God’s mercies are new every morning.

“There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.” Deuteronomy 33:26 Like a massive comet soaring through the galaxies on its way to help a tiny person in Minneapolis.

God’s mercies are new every morning.

“After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.” Mark 1:7 It is a wonderful thing to have a superior.

“Christ sent me to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.” 1 Corinthians 1:17 The power lies in the reality preached not the rhetoric of the preacher.

God’s mercies are new every morning.

God’s mercies are new every morning.