09/26/2025 – Morning Devotion / One verse commentary added.
A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He. Deut. 32:4
Him that judgeth righteously. I Pet. 2:23
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. II Cor. 5:10
Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Rom. 14:12
The soul that sinneth it shall die. Ezek. 18:4
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd. Zech. 13:7 ((*) – See Matthew Henry commentary below)
The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isa. 53:6
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Psa. 85:10
Mercy rejoiceth against judgment. James 2:13
The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6:23
A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Isa. 45:21
Just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Rom. 3:26
Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Rom. 3:24
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Soli Deo Gloria!
(*) – Matthew Henry Commentary – pgs. 1190 – 1191, Copyright, 1961 by Zondervan Publishing House, Ninth American printing – 1970:
“Here is a prophecy,
- Of the sufferings of Christ who was to be pierced, and was to be the fountain opened. Awake, O sword!, against my Shepherd, v. 7. These are the words of God the Father, giving commission to the sword of his justice to awake against his Son, when he had voluntarily made his soul an offering for sin; for it pleased the Lord to bruise him and put him to grief; and he was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, Isaiah 13: 4, 10. Observe, 1. How he calls him. ‘As God is my fellow’; for the thought it no robbery to be equal with God. He and the Father are one, ‘As Mediator, he is my Shepherd, the Shepherd that was to lay down his life for the sheep.’ 2. How he uses him: Awake, O sword! against him, If he will be a sacrifice, he must be slain, for without the shedding of blood, the life-blood, there was no remission. It is not a charge given to a rod to correct him, but to a sword to slay him; for God spared not his own Son.
2. Of the dispersion of the disciples thereupon: Smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. This our Lord Jesus himself, declares to have been fulfilled when all his disciples were offended because of him in the night wherein he was betrayed., Matt. 26:31; Mark 14:27. They all forsook him and fled. They were scattered everyone to hi sown, and left him alone, John 16:32.”