(CORRECTION) PSALM, OT LESSON NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be shaken."  (Psalm 55:22)

OT LESSON:

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise."  (Jeremiah 17:14)

NT LESSON:

"....Whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, 'Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven.'"  (Hebrews 12:26)

    

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to shaken."  (Psalm 55:22)

OT LESSON:

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise."  (Jeremiah 17:14)

NT LESSON:

"....Whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, 'Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven.'"  (Hebrews 12:26)

    

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

LOOKING  UNTO JESUS

and not at the interest of our cause, of our party, of our church-- still less at our personal interests.  The single object of our life is the glory of God; if we do not make it the supreme goal of our efforts, we must deprive ourselves of His help, for His grace is only at the service of His glory.  If, on the contrary, it is His glory that we seek above all, we can always count on His grace."

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON, NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"God is our Refuge and Strength, an Ever-Present help in trouble."  (Psalm 46:1)

OT LESSON:

"When Your Words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear Your Name, Lord God Almighty."  (Jeremiah 15:16)

NT LESSON:

"All these people were still living by faith when they died.  They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth."  (Hebrews 11:13)  

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

and not at the instruments, whatever they may be which He employs to form the path which He has appointed for us.  Looking beyond man, beyond circumstances, beyond the thousand causes so rightly called secondary, let us ascend as far as the first cause,-- His will; let us ascend even to the source of this very will,-- His love.  Then our gratitude, without being less lively towards those who do us good, will stop at them; then in the testing day, under the most unexpected blow, the most inexplicable, the most overwhelming, we can say with the Psalmist: 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it.' (Psalm 39:9)  And in the silence of our dumb sorrow the heavenly voice will gently reply: 'What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.' (John 13:7).

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON, NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, the deeds You did in their days, in days of old."  (Psalm 44:1)

OT LESSON:

"He does great things past finding out, yes, wonders without number." (Job 9:10)

NT LESSON:

"'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,' says the Lord: 'I will put My laws into their hearts, and   in their minds I will write them....'"  (Hebrews 10:16)

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

LOOKING UNTO JESUS (MONOD)

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

and not at the dearest, the most legitimate of our earthly joys, lest we be so engrossed in them that they deprive us of the sight of the very One Who gives them to us.  If we are looking at Him first of all then it is from him we receive these good things, made a thousand times more precious because we possess them as gifts from His loving hands, which we entrust to His keeping, to enjoy them in communion with Him, and to use them for His glory.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON, NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, and You give then drink from the river of Your pleasures."  (Psalm 36:8)

OT LESSON:

"Then the Commander of the Lord's Army said to Joshua, 'Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.'  And Joshua did so."  (Joshua 5:15)

NT LESSON:

"Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own Blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained Eternal Redemption." (Hebrews 9:12)

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

LOOKING UNTO JESUS (BY THEODORE MONOD)

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

and not at our troubles, to count up their number, to reckon their weight, to find perhaps a certain satisfaction in tasting their bitterness.  Apart from Jesus trouble does not sanctify, it hardens or it crushes.  It produces not patience, but rebellion; not sympathy, but selfishness; not hope (Romans 5:3,4) but despair.  It is only under the shadow of the cross that we can appreciate the true weight of our own cross, and accept it each day from His hand, to carry it with love, with gratitude, with joy; and find in it for ourselves and for others a source of blessings.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON, NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect."  (Psalm 33:10)

OT LESSON:

"This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall be constantly in It day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in It.  For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." (Joshua 1:8)

NT LESSON:

"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."  (Mark 10:45)

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

LOOKING UNTO JESUS (Theodore Monod)

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

    

and not at the obstacles which meet us in our path.  As soon as we stop to consider them, they amaze us, they confuse us, they overwhelm us, incapable as we are of understanding either the reason they are permitted, or the means by which we may overcome them.  The apostle began to sink as soon was he turned to look at the waves tossed by the storm; it was while he was looking at Jesus that he walked on the waters as on a rock.  The more difficult our task, the more terrifying our temptations, the more essential it is that we look only at Jesus.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON, NT LESSON

PSALM NUGGET:

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him."  (Psalm 28:7)

OT LESSON:

"But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it." (Deuteronomy 30:14)

NT LESSON:

"Therefore He (Jesus) is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him since He always lives to make intercession for them."  (Hebrews 7:25)

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

.LOOKING UNTO JESUS (by Theodore Monod)

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

and not at His enemies or at our own.  In place of hating them and fearing them, we shall then know how to love them and to overcome them.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

PSALM, OT LESSON, NT LESSON

Psalm Nugget:

"The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek Him will praise the Lord.  Let your heart live forever." (Psalm 22:26)

O.T. LESSON:

"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."  (Jeremiah 6:16)

N.T. LESSON:

"Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."  (Mark 8:34)

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

and not to our brethren not even to the best among them and the best beloved.  In following a man we run the risk of losing our way; in following Jesus we are sure of never losing our way.  Besides, in putting a man between Jesus and ourselves, it will come to pass that insensibly the man will increase and Jesus will decrease; soon we no longer know how to find Jesus when we cannot find the man, and if he fails us, all fails.  On the contrary, if Jesus is kept between us and our closest friend, our attachment to the person will be at the same time less enthralling and more deep; less passionate and more tender; less necessary, and more useful; an instrument of rich blessing in the hands of God when He is pleased to make use of him; and whose absence will be a further blessing, when it may please God to dispense of him, to draw us even nearer to the only Friend Who can be separated from us by 'neither death nor life.'"

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2