08/28/2025 – “Let us live by faith, strengthen what we know is true – the reality, the power, and the goodness of God.” / Hebrews 10:23 // See bible verses extension – Section: Exhortations to Godliness: Hebrews 10: 19-25 – below. (Devotion 1 of 4, just for today)
The Name on The Cubes
Thursday, August 28, 2025
I was watching some people playing the game “Boggle” where you shake up cubes with letters and then try to make words out of the adjacent letters. The people playing weren’t believers. When they finished coming up with their words, I said to them, “There’s one word everyone missed.” “What word,” they asked? “Jesus – Look it’s right there.” And of course, it was. Then I added, “Isn’t it something how you can miss something even though it’s right in front of your eyes?” They didn’t appreciate my comment. But it’s true – and not just for unbelievers, but even for believers. Even Mary Magdalene didn’t recognize Messiah, though he was right in front of her eyes. There are times in your walk when you won’t see, feel, or sense God’s presence, or His love. But no matter what you see or feel… He’s there, right beside you. He always keeps His word and He promised He would never leave you. Orthodox Jews live by the Laws of Moses as interpreted by their rabbis. Virtually everything in their life is governed by law or one tradition or another. Think of how zealous they are, how careful, how vigilant they are in following what they know of God. How does that compare with most believers? Do most believers you know treat the Word of God as seriously, or as reverently as the Orthodox treat their laws and traditions? Chances are they don’t. Chances are, you may not either. And yet Messiah told us that between the two – the righteousness of the Pharisees, and the righteousness of His disciples, it is to be the righteousness of the disciples under the New Covenant, which is greater. You in the New Covenant are to be more devoted, zealous, loving, pure, self-disciplined, giving, studious, reverent, and more holy than they. If that is not the case, start making it so today. For the New Covenant is not lower but higher than the Old. Thus the disciples of Messiah are to be more holy and vigilant than the Orthodox.
From Message #1326 – The Fire and the Sword
Scripture: Hebrews 10:23
TODAY’S MISSION – Today, no matter what you see or feel, live by faith, strengthen what you know is true – the reality, the power, and the goodness of God.
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I encourage y’all to read and pray on Hebrews Chapter 10, in its entirety, titled “The Perfect Sacrifice” . But here is the section verses 19 through 25, titled “Exhortations to Godliness”:
“Therefore, brothers since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He has inaugurated for us, through the curtain (that is, his flesh); and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works, not staying away from our meetings as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.” (Hebrews 10: 19-25)
Soli Deo Gloria!
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