Monday
7-13-15 (Home, Modesto, California)
Scripture
reading: Isaiah 15-18 Heb 10
S=Scripture O=Observation A=Application P=Prayer SOAP for
the soul.
S.
Heb 10:19-20
And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly
enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. This is the new,
life-giving way that Christ has opened up for us through the sacred curtain, by
means of his death for us. NLT
O. It’s a love story. The
entire book written to devout Hebrews is a treatise to the contrasts of the Old
Covenant and the New. The Old Covenant was only a shadow, an illustration
of the New. The tabernacle with the heavy curtain separating sinful men
from a Holy God could only be entered once a year by the high priest, carrying
the blood of a sacrificed animal and this as the risk of his life. God,
the Father, was teaching us the seriousness of sin and showing us that He was
offering us a way out of our guilt and subsequent condemnation. All of
the Old Covenant ritual looked forward to the coming of Christ. God loved
and would send His Son. Jesus, the perfect sacrifice, because of His love…
would offer his body and blood for the entire sinful human race. And now
by trusting in Him we have open access to go behind the curtain, that was torn
from top to bottom the moment Christ died, and without fear and we can enjoy an
intimate relationship with Our Creator God.
A. What am I going to do about
it? How am I going to react to Christ’s sacrificial gift of love?
Will I say, “Ho hum. I think I’ll go to church now and then so that
everybody with think I’m a pretty good guy.” Or will I fall at the feet
of the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, confess my sin, my
pride, my hopeless state and accept his offer to… now cleansed by the blood of
His sacrifice, step across the threshold into the Holy of Holies… into precious
fellowship with God, my Creator?
P. Father God, I come to You
today not in my own goodness or anything I could have done. I enter with
absolute confidence through Your Son’s perfect sacrifice, once for all time and
for all men. Without fear I now enter Your presence to tell You that I
love You. And as I do, once again I sense Your eternal love flooding
over my soul.
Ralph
His Love
By Ralph
Hiatt 1979 (Sheet music below)
His love brought Jesus down to me.
His love nailed Him to Calvary’s tree.
His love, His perfect love,
His great o’er powering love,
Reached down and lifted me from sin
Chorus:
His love is flooding o’er my soul.
His love is flooding o’er my soul.
His love is cleansing me,
His love caressing me,
His love is flooding o’er my soul.
His love pours from a rugged cross.
Water and blood flow mingled down.
Offering a cleansing river,
Washing earth’s vilest sinner,
His love now floods my needy soul.
His love rent heaven’s veil in two.
Opened the door for me, for you.
Made peace with God, my Father,
Restored me to my brother,
His love joins men and God as one.
His love compels me to behold
Millions yet waiting to be told.
His love gives me the vision
Of men in sin’s dark prison
Listen! Love calls, “So send I you!”
Spanish
chorus:
Su amor me
inunda el corazón
Su amor me
inunda el corazón
Su amor,
perfecto amor,
Su poderoso
amor
Su amor me
inunda el corazón
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