The Truth Is Exposed 

SEPTEMBER 4 & 5, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Isaiah 52:14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    The Bible records for us the days and hours before the crucifixion of Jesus. It tells of how He was beaten with a whip that had large pieces of metal or stone tied into it. With every strip laid across Jesus it tore large pieces of flesh from His back. During the time of which He was being held, he was beaten by hand and with a rod. He was spit on and had large amounts of hair pulled from His face and scalp, leaving bare flesh bleeding in its place. A crown was made of spike like thorns and was pressed upon His head which, caused blood to flow down His face. He was blindfolded, slapped, and asked to say who had done this. He was led up a stony path carrying the weight of the cross that was to hold Him up to His death. Falling under the weight of this cross, He landed on the stony path that dug into His flesh. Nailed through His hands and feet, and a spear thrust in His side.

    Is it any wonder that Isaiah’s prophesy says that people were astonied, or in our words today, horrified, to see Him in such a condition? To look at Him you would barely recognize Him as a man, much less King of Kings. Yet hundreds of years before Jesus was crucified, in a manner unthinkable to the Jews of the day, God gave a revelation to Isaiah of what would happen to the true Messiah. Moreover, it happened, just as He said.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    Oh, what a terrible picture we get in our mind of our beloved Saviour on that day. However, what a great truth is here. God did not hold back the gruesome truth in His revelation to Isaiah of the horror that would come to His Son. Neither did He mistake the truth when He shares of Jesus’ glorious resurrection. God did not hold back on the truth when it was bad or good. God did the same with the truth of our home in Heaven and His coming one-day. With God and His Word, the truth is exposed. Praise God for the Hope to come. Keep looking up.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  September 4, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Isaiah 51 – 53     /     Psalm 60-61     /     Proverbs 4     /     John 3 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Psa. 120-129           /    1 Co. 7

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

Toss In A Tip 

SEPTEMBER 03, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine..

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    My wife and I like to go out to eat occasionally. No fancy places mind you, nor dumps either; just a clean place to sit and be served a good meal. At lunch one day the lady who waited on us was very courteous. The food was delivered promptly and was good. It came time to pay the bill and I added the tip to the bill as I paid it. As we left my wife asked, “How much did you leave her?” I said, “I left fifteen percent of the bill.” She looked at me with the, I cannot believe you look. (Guys you know what look I mean.) Then she said, “That is not enough, you should be leaving about twenty percent with today’s prices the way they are.” Hey, I am sorry, but no one had told me of the etiquette change, and besides, did not the price of the meal go up too? Anyway, to make a long story short, I now try to leave twenty percent or more.

    I said all that to say this. When was the last time you sat in church, the offering plate comes by, and you tossed in your offering, then someone says, “You know we ought to be putting in more today with the way prices are.” I am sure that never happened. How about at least giving a tithe? Some people have such a hard time giving ten percent to God who gave them everything they have but have no problem giving a waiter or waitress a fifteen to twenty percent tip even though all they did was to bring them a burger. Maybe we ought to forget tithing and start tipping God. It seems we respect our servers more that the King of Kings.   

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

  Really, we should not be guided by a tithe. From a loving heart for God, we should be willing to give to the Lord through the local church to help tell others what He can do for them. The Bible says honor God with our firstfruits, and He in turn will have no problem blessing us. It is not the money He wants; it is the heart of gladness toward Him for His own.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  SEPTEMBER 03, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Isaiah 49, 50     /     Psalm 59     /     Proverbs 3     /     John 2

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Psa. 119:89-176           /    1 Co. 6

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

Read The Owner’s Manual

SEPTEMBER 02, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    At one point in my life, I bought a minivan and a 100,000-mile warranty. During the time I had the warranty, if anything went wrong with my minivan, I would take it to the manufacturer’s representative to have it repaired. Once the warranty was up, (and as I am sure you are aware, more things began breaking after the 100,000 miles than before), I took it to another mechanic I knew. He referred continually to the manual for the minivan. When I brought it in and told him of a funny noise it was making, he got out a book, looked to see what parts were going to cost and what parts needed to be removed to replace that part. Why did he have those books? They were printed because the manufacture of the minivan knew what mechanics would need to know to repair it.

    Today our world is in a mess. People no longer count God as the one true God. Everyone thinks they have a better way of fixing things. This may sound new and unique to our time; however, it is not. Even when Jesus was living here on earth, people were rejecting him. They saw the miracles and still wondered if He was for real. We have the owner’s manual to life in the Word of the Scripture. He tells us how to fix the situations of life. However, people do not want to look in the book. Through the church and the Holy Spirit, God is still in the world He made. He is still among the people who He created. Yet they still are rejecting His advice. It is like tossing out the owner’s manual.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    Even God’s people seem to be too lazy to read the book for advice. They want to have the preacher or television tell them what God has said. You must be careful. There are still wolves in sheep’s clothing. If you do not know the Book, how will you know if they are right? READ THE OWNERS MANUAL! GOD’S WORD.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  SEPTEMBER 02, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Isaiah 47, 48     /     Psalm 58     /     Proverbs 2     /     John 1     

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Psa. 119:1-88           /    1 Co. 5

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

Thinking Of Heaven

SEPT 01, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Psalm 57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

      What comes to mind when someone says heaven? Do you think of Golden streets, Mansions, Angels, No sickness, No sin, and No work? How about rain? How about sunshine or storm clouds? What about birds and blue skies? Do any of those things come to mind? Usually not. Why, because we forget about the first heaven, we can see right above us every day. Cloudy skies filled with birds, planes, and the wind that blows fill this wide-open heaven above.

     How about the Moon? Do you think of the moon when you think of heaven? Are your thoughts of heaven ever filed with Mars, Venus, The Milky Way, Stars, Planets, Solar systems, and Galaxies? This is the second heaven. It is the outer limits of space we cannot really see completely with the naked eye. The second heaven is a vast region beyond our wildest imagination.

     No, these are not what people usually think of when they think of heaven. They think of the third Heaven where we all want to go and be with Jesus someday. However, our Psalmist today did not forget any of Gods created heavens. He said let God be exalted above the heavens and above all the earth. We do not need to wait to get to the third heaven that we have never seen to praise God. Let us praise Him, that He might be exalted today above the heavens which we have seen and can see every day.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

  When we need to think of the magnitude of our God, just look up in the heavens and see all that He created and controls. All of which He is above and beyond. What a magnificent God we serve. What an Awesome God.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  SEPT 01, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Isaiah 45, 46     /     Psalm 57     /    Proverbs 1     /     Luke 24

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Psa. 114-118           /    1 Co. 4

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

There Is Only ONE!

AUGUST 31, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Isaiah 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    Not only has God named Himself as Lord, which He is, He also says He is “THE LORD.” Not a Lord. Not one among many other Lords. He makes it impossible for you to choose another Lord because He says He is “THE LORD.” Reason then says if you follow anything or anyone else, they are an imposter Lord, and someday you will know this to be true.

    He also says there is “NO OTHER SAVIOUR.” Back when this verse was written they had many wooden and stone-carved gods, which people were trying to lift up. God says I am your only Saviour. I am your only Salvation. I am the only one who can save you and I have proven this in the history of your fathers. .

    Today we have several religions, beliefs, cults, and sects out there. Some churches today want us to all join hands and sing Kumbaya. However, the Lord says, “I am the only way of salvation.” We cannot link up with those who do not believe in this God as the one true God. We cannot endorse a faith that does not believe Jesus, God’s Son, is the one way of salvation. By supporting, or linking up with false teachers, in a way we are supporting them, and saying we think everything will work out in the end. IT WILL NOT. There is one God, One Salvation, One way to heaven. Let’s not give people a false hope.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell and asked for water from Lazarus. Oh, how terrible it would be to have people in Hell saying, “Why did you let me believe there was another way and just walk off into eternity without the one true God when you knew the truth.” Be a witness. Be an Ambassador. Be a good soldier for the one and only LORD.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  AUGUST 31, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Isaiah 43, 44     /     Psalm 56     /     Proverbs 31     /     Luke 23

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Psa. 109-113           /        1 Co. 3

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12