Faith for Daily Living No. 451 Jul-Aug 2012

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Table  of Contents 

Title Page  
Preface  
About this eBook  
Between Ourselves  
The Holy Spirit 
FfDL website & FFDL Student Edition 

Daily Readings for July 
July 2012 
Su  Mo  Tu  We  Th  Fr  Sa 
1  2  3  4  5  6  7 
8  9  10  11  12  13  14 
15  16  17  18  19  20  21 
22  23  24  25  26  27  28 
29  30  31     
A prayer for the day 

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Table  of Contents 

Daily Readings for August 
August 2012 
Su  Mo  Tu  We  Th  Fr  Sa 
    1  2  3  4 
5  6  7  8  9  10  11 
12  13  14  15  16  17  18 
19  20  21  22  23  24  25 
26  27  28  29  30  31  
Where is heaven? 
Holy ought 
Your July Bible Readings 
Your August Bible Readings 
Important Information (cont from pg ii)  
The Faith for Daily Living eBook  
Abbreviations    
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Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
I dwoonn’dt ekrn oifw y oifu y oeuv ehr agvet htahde tfheee lsinamg eth eaxtp tehreie nCcher isbtuat nI
I don’t know if you have had the same experience but I
foafitehn ifs nodn t hthaet obnaec kp hforaoste? oIrf syeonut esnecee ,t hae v esrtsaete o fo af hsoymen
ofen fnd that one phrase or sentence, a verse of a hymn
coor nag rteegxatt fornosm ysocur ipctouurled ggeetts thhoaldt iomf pmrees ssio nt.o Asnpde ayko. uI
or a text from scripture gets hold of me so to speak. I
ckoeuepld rfeepeel avternyg ditis ianp mpoyi nhteadd a os ra hruesmumlt.ing it to myself for
keep repeatng it in my head or humming it to myself for
quiIt e rae cwehnitlley bgeofot reh oitl d“ woefa rsa nit seinlft eoruets”t nsog tob osopke acka –ll eodr
quite a while before it “wears itself out” so to speak – or
“sOompeertahtinogn eWlsoer tldak”.e sIt oisv ecro. mAlpwilaeyds ibty i sJ asosomne M staantedmryekn atn odf
something else takes over. Always it is some statement of
pthueb lfiashitehd t hbayt WwEoCrk Isn titesr nwaatyo innatol. mIt yis pinetresonndaeld “ avso caa pbrualyaeryr
the faith that works its way into my personal “vocabulary
gouf ifdaeit hfo”.r Christans and contains informaton about every
of faith”.
couRnetrcye nitnly tPhaeu lw’so crldai.m S othmaet “inAtlel rtehsitnngsg wfaocrtks teomgeetrhger.
Recently Paul’s claim that “All things work together
Pfoerr hgaoposd tthoe t hmeomst t hstaatr tlolivneg G(foodr ”m hea sa bt eaenny traaktein)g i sm teo ofvnedr
for good to them that love God” has been taking me over
tinh atth ins wChaiyn. aI tt hcoemree asr efr onmow R 1o0m5a mnsi ll8io:2n8 C ahnrdis tita niss .t hWeh KilJsVt
in this way. It comes from Romans 8:28 and it is the KJV
Ctrharnistlaatnoitny. iMs dye mclointihnegr inw ansu ma blaeyr sp rine amchoestr oafn Edu srhoep eh,a idt ias
translaton. My mother was a lay preacher and she had a
gwronwdinegrf uels seewrmheorne o. Inn t Lhaist tne Axtm thearitc Ia s thhaellr ne eavreer 5 fo03rg meti.l lSiohne
wonderful sermon on this text that I shall never forget. She
Chhadri setnadnusr.e Idn a I lnodti oa,f awdhviecrhs itwye, h parvoinbga bleye nre wgaidrdo waesd t iont ahlelyr
had endured a lot of adversity, having been widowed in her
Hmiindddule i nth ifratitehs, wthitehr ea cahreil ds etov ebnrtinyg o unpe amndil laionn u Cnhbroirsnt aonnse,
middle thirtes with a child to bring up and an unborn one
a(ms ew!e) lsl talsl oonn et hheu nwdarye. dIt awnads stehvee ngtrye amt idlleiopnr eMssoiosnle mofs .t hIne
(me!) stll on the way. It was the great depression of the
Rthuisrstieas, wanhde rseh feo hr aodv enro s pervoefnetsys iyoenaarls t trhaeinyi ntrgie tdo tfoal el braadcikc aotne.
thirtes and she had no professional training to fall back on.
rJeulsitg iaosn s,h aen wd apse gresetcnugte ad l i tClher isshtoapn gs,o tinhge rteh ea rSee cnoonwd nWinoertldy
Just as she was getng a litle shop going the Second World
tWhraere c ammileli oann dC hfroisrcteadn ibtse lcielovseursr ei.n Oan lpyo hpeurla itnodno mofit aobnle
War came and forced its closure. Only her indomitable
hfauitnhd rpeudll eadn dh efro rtthyr omuigllhio –n sa.n Od nh ear wlifoer eldx-pweirdien bcaes tish atth e“arell
faith pulled her through – and her life experience that “all
athrein gms owreo rpk etoopgleet hfeorll ofowri nggo oCdh rifis tyoaun ittyru tsht aGno da”n.y I oftnhde rI
things work together for good if you trust God”. I fnd I
foafitehn. Shoa, vsea dt oa sp itr eisa tcoh s tehei s ommees soaf gteh et otr amdyitsoelnf a–l cbheucrachueses
ofen have to preach this message to myself – because
lsoos imnga nmy etmhibnegsrs d, othne’tr ese iesm m tuoc hb ef owr owrkhiincgh otuot bfoe rg groatoedf ualt,
so many things don’t seem to be working out for good at
athned tplmenet. yI na btohuots ew thimche st ow fe ehl ahvoep etofu “l.s oldier on” hoping
the tme. In those tmes we have to “soldier on” hoping
thaTt hwee rweiall lyla tewro sreryei ntgh e mgoaotde rt hiast wthaes wporerkvianlegn ocuet aolfl
that we will later see the good that was working out all
ptheers temcuet.on in many places. I personally have heard or
the tme.
readI hoof pCeh rtihsatta ynos ub ewinillg rkeiflledct i no nT utrhkee ylo, nPagk-tiestramn gaonodd Inedsias
I hope that you will refect on the long-term goodness
ionf rGeocden ats y weaerlls, and It hsauts pyeocut witi lhl abpep tehnes liovnin ag wseidrmero snc amley
of God as well, and that you will be the living sermon my
–m eostpheecri awllays i.n North Africa. Pray for those fellow-believers
mother was.
whoG ohdo lBdl ethses iyro faui,th in the midst of hostlity and danger.
God Bless you,
Yours in Christ,
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THE HOLY SPIRIT
Denis Scot
(N.B. This artcle contnues the teaching began in Mr Scot’s artcle
published on p 2&3 of our May/June editon)
n our last teaching we looked at the event of Pentecost and
Iof how the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples of Jesus – so
that they were said to be born of the Spirit. However, being
born of the Spirit is not the same thing as being baptsed in the
Spirit. Jesus himself made this abundantly clear in his Farewell
Discourse to the disciples at the Last Supper when he spoke of
the coming of the Spirit as a future event, and on the eve of
his Ascension, Luke tells us that Jesus said: “I am going to send
you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city untl you
have been clothed with power from on high” (Lk 24:49 NIV).
That helps us to make the transiton to Acts chapter 1:
“Afer his sufering, he showed himself to these men and gave
many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to
them over a period of forty days and spoke about the Kingdom
of God. On one occasion, while he was eatng with them, he
gave them this command: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait
for the gif my Father promised (at Jesus’ baptsm), which you
have heard me speak about. For John baptzed with water, but
in a few days you will be baptzed with the Holy Spirit” (Acts
1:3-5 NIV).
Jesus could hardly have been clearer than that about what
was to happen! But there’s more: “You will receive power
(literally ‘dynamism’ in the Greek) when the Holy Spirit comes
on you (power for what? …), and you will be my witnesses
in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the
earth” (Acts 1:8 NIV).
There we have it. The Holy Spirit is the Father’s gif, through
his Son Jesus baptzing us with the Holy Spirit, so that we may
have power to be his witnesses … everywhere on this earth.
Ten days later, on the feast day of Pentecost, the promise
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to which Jesus referred was fulflled. His promises are always
fulflled.
To get this all into beter perspectve let us go right back
to the very beginning of Jesus’ ministry, to the tme when
John the Baptst saw Jesus coming to him to be baptzed and
heard the voice of his Father God say that “The man on whom
you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who
will baptze with the Holy Spirit”. Jesus is baptzed, the Spirit
descends upon him in bodily form like a dove” and the Father’s
voice is heard to say: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I
am well pleased” (John 1:32-34; Lk 3:22 NIV).
JESUS BAPTISES WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

In water baptsm, water is used by pouring or immersion
externally. In Spirit Baptsm, “living water” fows from within,
internally – “a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (Jn
4:10,13,14 NIV).
Crucially, John records that Jesus stood up in the Temple
on the last day of the feast of Tabernacles and proclaimed:
“If anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink. Whoever
believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living
water will fow from within him”(Jn 7:37,38 NIV).
You will remember that John interprets the meaning of
Jesus’ words in this way: “By this he meant the Spirit, whom
those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that
tme the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet
been glorifed” (Jn 7:39 NIV).
Therefore it was to be a future event that would take place
afer his glorifcaton, i.e. his Ascension. The book of Acts begins
with the account of that event and goes on to show how the
Holy Spirit that came upon them at Pentecost empowered the
disciples to witness to Jesus. They went far and wide spreading
Christanity throughout the Roman Empire within thirty years
of the death and resurrecton of Christ.
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