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Denominations ? or rather to redeem people out of all the nations upon the earth. In heaven there is only one body of believers from before Calvary to the day of Christs return. Some say that the denomination’s were of God but I rather think that they were created from people who quarrelled over the bible and caused divisions amongst themselves leading to splits and factions like we have seen for hundreds of years now. But still despite this being the case God continues to save people everywhere. James asked, from where do wars come from? And the simple answer is that they are created from themselves out of their own evil passions. So I guess if we each practiced what Jesus did with washing the disciples feet we would learn at least what real humility actually felt like.

In proper context Jesus was telling the disciples that they were His friends and that He was going to the cross to lay down His life for them But in doing so He was referring to all afterwards who would believe on Him for their own individual Salvation that they too would become His friends.

There is a old hymn that says “What a friend we have in Jesus….”

Greater Love has no man/ woman… to lay down their lives for their friends. Thank God His love is Greater still.

June 23rd

Acquaintance with grief

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:3.

We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do not reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin. We take a rational view of life and say that a man by controlling his instincts, and by educating himself, can produce a life which will slowly evolve into the life of God. But as we go on, we find the presence of something which we have not taken into consideration, viz., sin, and it upsets all our calculations. Sin has made the basis of things wild and not rational. We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life. The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue. If sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed. There is no possible ultimate but that. The climax of sin is that it crucified Jesus Christ, and what was true in the history of God on earth will be true in your history and in mine. In our mental outlook we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin as the only explanation as to why Jesus Christ came, and the explanation of the grief and sorrow in life.

June 23

“When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.” (Matt. 14:29, 30.)

PETER had a little faith in the midst of his doubts, says Bunyan; and so with crying and coming he was brought to Christ.
But here you see that sight was a hindrance; the waves were none of his business when once he had set out; all Peter had any concern with, was the pathway of light that came gleaming across the darkness from where Christ stood. If it was tenfold Egypt beyond that, Peter had no call to look and see.

When the Lord shall call to you over the waters, “Come,” step gladly forth. Look not for a moment away from Him.
Not by measuring the waves can you prevail; not by gauging the wind will you grow strong; to scan the danger may be to fall before it; to pause at the difficulties, is to have them break above your head. Lift up your eyes unto the hills, and go forward—there is no other way.

“Dost thou fear to launch away?
  Faith lets go to swim!
Never will He let thee go;
’Tis by trusting thou shalt know
  Fellowship with Him.”