Today the book with the title “Are you really born again?” by Kent Philpott came again to my mind. The book has been on one of our book-shelves for a long time, but I have never read it. Today I looked through it.

“Are you really born again?”

John 3:3

Other questions come also to my mind. Here they are:

Matthew 15:13

“He replied, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.'”

That are the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Are you really planted by the heavenly Father of the Lord Jesus Christ?

John 6:44

“‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ….'”

Are you really drawn by the Father?

Ephesians 1:4

“For HE chose us  in him before the creation of the world…”

Are you really chosen in him before the creation of the world?

First Peter 1:1

“To God’s elect, strangers in the world,….”

Are you really elected?

Matthew 7:14

“But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

Are you one of the few?

We are hearing and reading so much today.

I WANT TO DO WHAT THE BEREANS DID.

Acts 17:11

“NOW THE BEREANS WERE OF MORE NOBLE CHARACTER THAN THE THESSALONIANS, FOR THEY RECEIVED THE MESSAGE WITH GREAT EAGERNESS AND EXAMINED THE SCRIPTURES EVERY DAY TO SEE IF WHAT PAUL SAID WAS TRUE.”

BLOOD upon the tip of his right ear!  BLOOD upon the thumb of his right hand! BLOOD upon the great toe of his right foot.

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In my reading of the Bible, the Word of the Living God,  I have arrived at book number three of the Bible, the book of  Leviticus. It has 27 chapters. It is all about the Levites, the priests of God. At the beginning of the year I started at Genesis 1:1. Genesis means “beginnings”.

Today I read Leviticus 14:14: “The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear  of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.” (Leviticus 8:23)

What is the meaning of that?

I remember a book by D. L. Moody on my book shelf  explaining that verse. But I cannot remember when I heard a sermon from the book of  Leviticus. Do you remember? If so, please let me know. It is a widely neglected book.

The book by Dwight Liman Moody is called: “Sovereign Grace”. D. L. Moody lived from 1837-1899. He is called the ‘prince’ of the Evangelists. D. L. Moody had his own school and even Abraham Lincoln came one day to be a listener in the school of Mr. Moody. The school was so famous. Abraham Lincoln became president of America in 1860.

The book “Sovereign Grace” by D. L. Moody is a very, very old book. I cannot find the date when it was printed in the book. I remember finding it in a second hand shop (Kawakawa?). I bought it for exactly 5o cents. It says so in the book. The name of one owner is also written in the book and Kawakawa (Name of a place). I have said it before and I am saying it again: It seems to be that I pick up my best books in second hand shops for almost nothing.

Leviticus 8:23 “Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.”  Read also Leviticus 14:14!

D. L. Moody asks the question: “What does it man?” He admits that that was another verse he used to stumble over.

— Blood on the ear. — Blood  on the hand. — Blood on the foot.

But in the book he says that he now understands.

— Blood on the EAR.

Without it we cannot hear the voice of God.

— Blood on the HAND.

That we may work for God. Moody says,  “No man or woman can do  anything to please God until they have believed on his Son.”

— Blood on the FOOT.

To walk with God. Moody again, “God never walked with the Israelites until the blood  was sprinkled in Goshem.”

GOD’S HALL OF FAME

This crowd on earth

They soon forget

The heroes of the past.

They cheer like mad

Until you fall

And that’s how long you last.

But God does not forget

And in his Hall of Fame

BY JUST BELIEVING IN HIS SON

Inscribed you’ll find your name.

I tell you, friends,

I would not trade

My name however small

Inscribed up there

Beyond the stars

In that celestial hall.

For any famous name on earth

Or glory that they share

I’d rather be an unknown here

And have my name up there.

-Unknown

There are people who have a list called:

“My Favorite Maxims”.

The Collins Concise Dictionary:

maxim a brief expression of a general truth, principle, or rule of conduct.

I have a list called:

“My Favorite Verses from the Bible, The Word of the Living God”.

First Corintians 3:11

“FOR NO ONE CAN LAY ANY FOUNDATION OTHER THAN THE ONE ALREADY LAID WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST.”

Isaiah 30:15

Second Corinthians 3:17

To be continued!

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One of the latest ads in the paper called COFFEE NEWS at the present time is about a Fully Equipped Gym. It is all about HEALTH AND FITNESS. At the top of the ad you can read:

“NEW YEAR – NEW YOU

MAKE 2010 YOUR YEAR!”

I still remember when the Lord Jesus Christ made 1958 MY year. That was in the month of September, the second of  September to be exact in the evening. I remember exactly the place where it all happened.

That is now almost fifty two years ago!

It was surely a NEW YEAR for me. Until then I was going into the wrong direction. From the second of September 1958 I was on the right way. From the second of September 1958 I was a NEW PERSON. The Bible, the Word of the Living God says in Second Corinthians 5:17 ……. ( Pleae read the verse in the Bible!)

“MAKE 2010 YOUR YEAR!”

Or rather let the Lord Jesus Christ make 2010 your year!

Come from DARKNESS into the LIGHT!

Come from DEATH into LIFE!

Become a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ!