Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
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January 28 “These men are grumblers, complainers, who walk after their own lusts. Their mouths speak arrogant words, and they flatter others to gain profit.” — Jude 16

Stop Complaining and Strive to Be at Peace With All

All sin is ultimately against God, as David said, “Against You, You only, have I sinned” (Psalm 51:4). But it is also true that we do sin against one another very often. Paul says we should “Do all things without murmuring and disputing” (Philippians 2:14). Yet how much of what goes on in many homes, even Christian homes, involves complaining, grumbling, murmuring, and arguments? We should be serving God gladly,... More
January 27 “Do all things without murmuring and disputing…” — Philippians 2:14

On Avoiding Murmuring

When Paul tells the Philippian Christians to do all things without murmuring, we should remember that just a moment before that he told them to work out their salvation with fear and trembling. Not work for your salvation—to work it out, for it is God who is working in our hearts. How are we to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling? Well, he says that we are to do all things without murmuring and disputing. The word... More
January 26 “Immediately fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. And the king saw the back of the hand that wrote.” — Daniel 5:5

The Handwriting on the Wall

As noted before, one night, Belshazzar the king of Babylon held a great drunken feast. They brought out the golden vessels and silver goblets which his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the temple in Jerusalem before he destroyed it. And so Belshazzar called for the vessels and the goblets of the temple of Jerusalem so that his lords and princes, his women and wives and concubines might drink out of the golden goblets from the... More
January 25 “Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.” — Daniel 5:1

Is the Bible Reliable?

Our text today speaks of Belshazzar the king, and the critics have fastened their talons on these words. For some time, they used to say, “Ah ha. Here again we find one of the many mistakes of the Bible.” They would claim there was no such king of Babylon as Belshazzar, and that furthermore the son of Nebuchadnezzar, which Daniel 5:2 says was Belshazzar, is conclusively proved by the monuments to be none other than Nabonidus, and... More
January 24 “While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his officials, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.” — Daniel 5:2

Babylon the Great

“Babylon the great.” The name is significant. It reminds us of every nationstate that has raised itself against the true God, of every nation that down through the centuries has persecuted the people of God. And King Belshazzar was the avatar, or incarnation of that very spirit of Babylon, which mocked the true God and looked contemptuously upon the rest of the people of this world. There was never before, and perhaps never... More
January 23 “To him who overcomes I will give permission to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” — Revelation 2:7

Sticking With It

Jerry Falwell once said, having worked with Christians in the political arena for some 15 years, that he had learned something. He had learned that when Christians lose, they quit, and when they win, they quit. All politics aside, we need to learn to develop greater perseverance in our service to the Lord. We live in a world where many people are quite unstable, and they are tossed to and fro with the waves, as James talks about those who... More
January 22 “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you were born I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.’” — Jeremiah 1:4-5

The Tragedy of Abortion

Since January 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court gave us abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy, America has taken the lives of more than 57 million unborn babies. This is a horrible crime for which we will give an account. At one time, I was talking with a gentleman who was involved in a suit with an abortion clinic. I suppose we really shouldn’t use the term “abortion clinic” because a clinic is someplace... More