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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>OCT
24 - HEBREWS 3-4 - CHRIST: SUPERIOR TO MOSES</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:1-2 (3:1-6, NNT) CHRIST JESUS: APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST OF OUR
CONFESSION. <font size="3">“Whence, holy brethren, partakers of a
heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our
:confession, Jesus; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2 </font><font size="3">who
was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his
:house.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father, we
say </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">the same thing</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
as Your Word says about Jesus, and through our confession, partake of
Him! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
3:12-13 (3:7-16) CHRIST’S VOICE: MUST BE HEARKENED TO. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Look,
brethren, lest haply an evil heart of unbelief shall be in any one of
you, in :falling away from a living God: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">13
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">but
exhort one another each day, so long as it is called Today; lest any
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">one</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
of you be hardened by deceitfulness of sin.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
hear this word, Father! We tremble at its truth (Isa 66:2)! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
3:18-19 (3:17-19) UNBELIEF: THE MOST SERIOUS SIN! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his :rest, but
to the disobedient? </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">19
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And we
see that they could not enter because of unbelief.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Again,
we tremble at the seriousness of these words. Help us not to water
them down, Father. We would </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
be presumptuous, but walk softly. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, </span></i><i><u>so on earth</u></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
4:2 (4:1-5) CHRIST’S REST: DEPENDENT ON WORD MIXED WITH FAITH.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For indeed
we have been evangelized even as also they: but the word of :hearing
did not profit them, because they were not united by :faith with them
that heard.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">choose</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to believe, Father! We take the word </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">cannot</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
and </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">will not</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
out of </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">our
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">vocabulary
at this point. O forgive us our light esteem of Your Word, to back it
with all of our heart! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
4:9-10 (4:6-10) CHRIST’S REST: ITS NATURE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“A
sabbath rest remains therefore for the people of :God. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
who is entered into :his rest has himself also rested from his :work,
as :God </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">did</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
from </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">his</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
:own.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Reveal
to us Father, the significance and meaning of this word! May we not
take it for granted. Our utmost for </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus’
highest</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
Personal, passionate devotion to Jesus! Full discipleship! We choose
it! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
4:12 (4:11-13) CHRIST’S REST: OUR RELATIONSHIP TO BE DISCERNED BY
THE WORD! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
living is the word of :God, and active, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing even to </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and a
discerner of thoughts and intents of </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
heart.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we submit to the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">full</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
searching of </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Y</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">our
Word: </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">completely
naked in soul and spirit</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
before You; </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">nothing</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
hidden; </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">no</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
excuses; </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">nothing</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
unsurrendered. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
4:16 (4:14-16) CHRIST OUR HIGH PRIEST: BASIS FOR OUR BOLDNESS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Let us
therefore with boldness approach the throne of :grace, that we may
receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Ah
Lord God, there is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">nothing</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
too difficult for You in the fully surrendered soul! </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Then</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Your </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">complete</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
will can be done. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Then</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
we sing a paean of praise! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
4:14-15 (4:14-16) CHRIST OUR HIGH PRIEST: ITS SIGNICANCE. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Having
therefore a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus the Son of :God, let us hold fast the confession. For we have
not a high priest that cannot sympathize with our :infirmities; but
one in all </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">points</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
tempted according to </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">our</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
likeness, without sin.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, we are humbled at this revelation of Your grace toward us in
Christ Jesus!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Quote
from Glover Cleveland - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“Public
officers </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are the
servants and agents of the people</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Subordinates in public place should be selected and retained for
their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish
partisan ends.”</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: </span><span style="text-decoration:none">114:1-2
(114, ESV) TREMBLE AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“When
Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a
strange language, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Judah
became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You chose Judah for David and Jesus, and gave unto David, Benjamin
and Jerusalem. You alone are Sovereign Lord! </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">This
sublime “Song of the Exodus” is one and indivisible. True poetry
has here reached its climax: no human mind has ever been able to
equal, much less to excel, the grandeur of this Psalm. God is spoken
of as leading forth His people from Egypt to Canaan and causing the
whole earth to be moved at His coming. Things inanimate are
represented as imitating the actions of living creatures when the
Lord passes by. They are apostrophized and questioned with marvelous
force of language, till one seems to look upon the actual scene. The
God of Jacob is exalted as having command over river, seas, and
mountains, and causing all nature to pay homage and tribute before
His glorious majesty.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">114:1.
<i><b>When Israel went out of Egypt.</b></i> The song begins with a
burst, as if the poetic fury could not be restrained, but over-leaped
all bounds. The soul elevated and filled with a sense of divine glory
cannot wait to fashion a preface, but springs at once into the middle
of its theme. They were as one man in their willingness to leave
Goshen; numerous as they were, not a single individual stayed behind.
Unanimity is a pleasing token of the divine presence, and one of its
sweetest fruits. The language of foreign taskmasters is never musical
in an exile’s ear. How sweet it is to a Christian who has been
compelled to hear the filthy conversation of the wicked, when at last
he is brought out from their midst to dwell among his own people!</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">114:2.
<i><b>Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. </b></i>The
pronoun “His” comes in where we should have looked for the name
of God; but the poet is so full of thought concerning the Lord that
he forgets to mention His name, like the spouse in the Song, who
begins, “Let Him kiss me,” or Magdalene when she cried, “Tell
me where you have laid Him.” The whole people were the shrine of
the Egyptians to the holy worship and righteous rule of the great
King in Jeshurun! They lived in a world of wonders, where God was
seen in the wondrous bread they ate and in the water they drank, as
well as in the solemn worship of His holy place. When the Lord
is manifestly in a church, and His gracious rule obediently owned,
what a golden age has come, and what honorable privileges His people
enjoy! may it be so among us.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">114:6.
<i><b>Ye mountains, that you skipped like rams; and you little
hills, like lambs. </b></i>What ailed you, that you were thus moved?
There is but one reply: the majesty of God made you to leap. A
gracious mind will chide human nature for its strange insensibility,
when the sea and the river, the mountains and the hills, are all
sensitive to the presence of God. Man is endowed with
reason and intelligence, and yet he sees unmoved that which the
material creation beholds with fear. God has come nearer to us than
ever He did to Sinai, or to Jordan, for He has assumed our nature,
and yet the mass of mankind are neither driven back from their sins
nor moved in the paths of obedience.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">114:8.
<i><b>The flint into a fountain of waters. </b></i>Our deliverance
from under the yoke of sin is strikingly typified in the going up of
Israel from Egypt, and so also was the victory of our Lord over the
powers of death and hell. The Exodus should therefore be earnestly
remembered by Christian hearts. Did not Moses on the Mount of
Transfiguration speak to our Lord of “the exodus” which He should
shortly accomplish at Jerusalem; and is it not written of the hosts
above that they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and of
the Lamb? Do we not ourselves expect another coming of the Lord, when
before His face heaven and earth shall flee away and there shall be
no more sea? We join then with the singers around the Passover
table and make their Hallel ours, for we, too, have been led out of
bondage and girded like a flock through a desert land, wherein the
Lord supplies our wants with heavenly manna and water from the Rock
of ages. Praise ye the Lord. <b>(</b><b>From “The Treasury of
David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O. Fuller)</b></font></font></p>
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