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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

If any (or almost any) approach to God is as good as another, how do we make sense of the Bible’s insistence on monotheism, its consistent rejection of all forms of idolatry, and the missionary impulse — that the nations would turn to the true God — running from Genesis to Revelation? Most crucially, pluralism cannot do justice to the privileged place the Bible gives to Jesus Christ. Every knee must bow before Him. He will judge all peoples. The God of the Bible, revealed as Yahweh in the Old Testament and incarnated at Jesus Christ in the New, is nothing if not a universal God who accepts no rivals. To reject the unique person and work of Jesus Christ is to make an utter mockery of the Bible. To reject His claims is to reject God Himself and to steal from Him the glory that is rightly His. Ultimately it is to turn one’s back on the Bible and on the God of the Bible.
Tim Challies

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Bible Reading: JAN11: Genesis 31-33

Jacob’s 20 years of servitude end in chapter 31, but he must still go back to Bethel and make things right with God. The next several chapters record several crucial experiences in Jacob’s life, as he makes his way from…

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Bible Reading: JAN10: Genesis 28-30

In a very real sense, the rest of Genesis presents the life of Jacob, including his trials with Laban, Esau, and his own sons. The story of Joseph is actually a part of Jacob’s history. Jacob traveled about seventy miles…

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Bible Reading: JAN09: Genesis 25-27

Sarah lived to be 127 years old. After her death Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore him six sons, and from this marriage came the Midianites. Moses married a Midianite some 500 years later! Abraham died…

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Bible Reading: JAN08: Genesis 22-24

Satan tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but God tests us to bring out the best! The most severe tests do not come from people, but from the Lord; and yet the greatest blessings always accompany them….

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Bible Reading: JAN07: Genesis 19-21

In chapter 18 one of the three heavenly visitors who visited Abraham was the Lord Jesus Christ. However, it should be noted that Christ did not accompany the two angels who visited Lot in chapter 19. Lot was in the…

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Bible Reading: JAN06: Genesis 16-18

Today’s reading covers the birth of Ishmael, the changing of Abram’s name to Abraham, the Abrahamic covenant confirmed and made everlasting, and the promise of Isaac. There is a practical lesson concerning the birth of Ishmael. Rather than allowing God…

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Bible Reading: JAN05: Genesis 13-15

In today’s reading we see that Abraham did leave Egypt and God forgave him and restored him to fellowship. But God could not overrule the sad consequences of the trip to Egypt. There was a loss of time and testimony….

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Bible Reading: JAN04: Genesis 10-12

In chapter 12 God calls Abraham. This chapter begins one of the great adventures of the Bible, Abraham’s walk of faith. God called Abraham to begin the fulfillment of His promise in Genesis 3:15 to sent a Saviour to the…

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Bible Reading: JAN03: Genesis 7-9

The last ten verses of chapter 9 record the shame and sin of Noah and Ham. Noah was more than 600 years old. He had been an obedient servant of God for many years, yet he fell into sin and…

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Bible Reading: JAN02: Genesis 4-6

In chapter 3 we read of man sinning against God by disobeying His Word; in chapter 4 we read of man sinning against man. James 1:15 warns us that sin begins in a small way, but grows and leads to…