Reading
SAA Notes
Opposition arises when some people’s profits are challenged. Such opposition today from groups, who make money out of religion, drugs, abortion, prostitution, and many other profit enterprises, should not surprise us.
SJA Notes
* Holy God, thank You for teach us from Your word today.
“And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.”
Imagine saying that gods made with our human hands are not gods!
The world will not accept the truth of who God is, nor will it accept the life of a believer that has been irrevocably changed by the Holy Spirit bringing new life into dead hearts.
A dead heart and stubborn will ignores that idolatry is folly, and embraces rejection of our Creator God.
But. A heart made new, a mind that is renewed by and in the spirit, wants to be singular in devotion to its Saviour God!
In Christ we have _freedom_ from the tyranny of sin, from human nature seeking power and wealth.
The dead heart is not truly free.
But in Christ we are!
* Dear God,
Thank You for making our dead hearts alive in You.
Thank You for freeing us from the chains of sin that wrap so tight.
Thank You for giving us life!
Amen.