I had one pastor tell me that when in battle that you may pick up any sword around you long as it cuts. It is not cheating to use Pinks commentary and a pastors devotion that was e-mailed to me this week to make up everything I post or send out today. I rather look at it as being blessed right along with you or sharing the good news that it pleases Him to give me on occasion. Or better yet, using anothers straight sword to cut with. I pray no matter who is regarding the sword or what the shape or size of the weapon that God guides it and us and pierces the hearts of those that He died for.
Extra Credit: We read today of Gods choice and His conviction. Today the bonus read is on Has God given EVERBODY the right to choose. By Scott Price
Scott Price, the author of todays extra credit or devotion, is the pastor of the Doctrines of Grace Church in Ross, Ohio. They will be having a Bible conference November 11th, 12th, and 13th. For more information e-mail Scott at gospeldefense@juno.com.
Jhn 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Jhn 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
- Did Jesus want saved from what was to come?
This was the beginning of the Saviors travail ere the new creation could be born. He was seized by an affrighting apprehension of that dying of which He had just spoken. His holy soul was moved to its very depths by the horror of that coming hour. It was the prelude to Gethsemane. It reveals to us something of His inward sufferings. His anguish was extreme; His heart was suffering torture, horror, grief, dejection, are all included in the word (troubled). And what occasioned this? The insults and sufferings which He was to receive at the hands of men? The wounding of His heel by the Serpent. No, indeed. It was the prospect of being made a curse for us, of suffering the righteous wrath of a sin-hating God. (What shall I say?) He asks, not (What shall I choose?) There was no wavering in purpose, no indecision of will. Though His holy nature shrank from being made sin, it only marked His perfections to ask that such a cup might pass from Him. Nevertheless, He bowed, unhesitatingly, to the Father’s will, saying, (But for this cause came I unto this hour.) The bitter cup was accepted. From a commentary by A. W. Pink
