Saturday, November 30, 2024

Ye Servants of God

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409 Ye Servants of God 1 You servants of God, your Master proclaim,    and publish abroad his wonderful name;    the name all-victorious of...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Quid pro quo? Not so much

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In Israelite theology, Yahweh, unlike the gods of the rest of the ancient world, has no needs. The gods of the ANE created the cosmos (and e...

Heralds of Christ

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406 Heralds of Christ 1 Heralds of Christ, who bear the King's commands,    Immortal tidings in your mortal hands,    Pass on and carry...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Divine favor?

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In summary, divine favor was always the objective. Both justice and ritual were time-honored means for gaining that favor, and wisdom was at...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The Great Symbiosis

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We refer to this as the Great Symbiosis because it represents the symbiotic relationship that framed the life, religious thinking, rituals, ...

Earth Has Many a Noble City

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405 Earth Has Many a Noble City 1 Earth has many a noble city;    Bethlehem, thou dost all excel:    out of thee the Lord from heaven    ca...

Walk in the Light

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403 Walk in the Light 1 Walk in the light! so shalt thou know    That fellowship of love    His Spirit only can bestow,    Who reigns in li...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Oh, those gods!

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Faithfulness, order, and justice were not qualities that were normally associated with ANE gods (though they desired that sort of behavior f...

Tozer for Tuesday

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Has our teaching made Christ bigger, grander, sweeter and more indispensably beautiful now than He was before? If He is, you have every good...

Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies

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401 Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies,    Christ, the true, the only Light,    Sun of Righteousness...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Where is your identity?

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The kings of the ancient world desired to label the things that were theirs. Bricks were stamped with their names, their images were placed ...

Brightest and Best

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400 Brightest and Best 1. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,    Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid;    Star of the East...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

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396 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly 1 Infant holy, infant lowly,    for His bed a cattle stall;    oxen lowing, little knowing    Christ, the bab...
Friday, November 22, 2024

They are treaty stipulations

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Once we recognize the presence of a stock treaty format in the Old Testament, the literary role of Israel’s legal sayings can be identiļ¬ed: ...

Gentle Mary Laid Her Child

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395 Gentle Mary Laid Her Child 1. Gentle Mary laid her Child    Lowly in a manger;    There He lay, the undefiled,    To the world a strang...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Torah as EULA?!

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In this sense we might compare the treaty stipulations with the end-user license agreement that accompanies most software purchases. Few peo...

Let All Together Praise Our God

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389 Let All Together Praise Our God 1 Let all together praise our God    Upon his lofty throne,    For he uncloses heaven today    And give...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

A gloss does not a meaning make

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Now, having arrived at a second plausible gloss, we are no closer to the meaning of the Niphal, because a workable gloss should not be confu...

Ought to, you should—or You will know?

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Israel’s judiciary system, like that throughout the ANE, was based on the wisdom of the judges, not on legislation. It involved a dynamic in...

Away in a Manger

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384 Away in a Manger 1 Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,    the little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head;    the stars in the heavens ...