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29/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Saturday, August 29, 2026

“And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God” (Genesis 14:18).
“They shall call thee [Jerusalem], The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 60:14).
For the past few days we have spoken about the city of Babylon, and how it represents man in all his pride. Now we would like to look at another city — a city that the Lord loves. You have probably heard of it, and read about it, both in the Bible, and in the news today — the city of Jerusalem. The city of Jerusalem is in the news a lot today, as the nation of Israel claims it as its capital, yet many in the Muslim world consider it to be their sacred city too. There is constant fighting over it, although the nation of Israel controls it with its army.
Jerusalem is a very old city, and many consider that the reference in our first verse to Melchizedek as “king of Salem” as a proof that the city of Jerusalem existed away back in his day, nearly 4000 years ago. What we know definitely about Jerusalem dates from about 1000 B.C., although it is mentioned in Egyptian history under another name about 1400 B.C. Before David was king the Jebusites had settled there, and they were not definitely defeated until David’s time.
Perhaps no city in the world has been fought over as much as Jerusalem. It was destroyed at least twice, attacked more than fifty times, and captured and recaptured forty-four times. Under David and Solomon the city became the capital of Israel, and evidently was very beautiful. Much later, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, the city was destroyed and then eventually rebuilt. It came under Muslim control in the seventh century A.D., and continued in this way until the British took it over during World War 1.
Today, Jews, Muslims, and Christians all have a strong interest in Jerusalem, and the eyes of the whole world are focused on it. But the day is coming when it will be the capital, not only of Israel, but of the entire millennial earth. Only when the Lord Jesus Christ comes to reign during the millennium will it again be called the “city of peace,” which is what Jerusalem means. (Salem is the Hebrew word for peace.)

28/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Friday, August 28, 2026

“And great Babylon come in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath” (Revelation 16:19).
“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all” (Revelation 18:21).
Here again, at the end of the Bible, we find the name of Babylon mentioned again. It is obviously not the same as the tower of Babel we read about in Genesis, nor is it the city of Babylon in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. This time it is the great religious and political system of things that will develop in the world after the Lord comes and takes us home to heaven. At that time, the pride of man will reach a tremendous height, and they will even think, at one point, that they can fight against God.
We will not go into a lot of detail about all that is going to happen, but we will only point out that the same pride that started away back in the time of Ni**od and continued into the time of Nebuchadnezzar, will still be present even after we are safely at home with the Lord. The name of Babylon is the name used to describe that pride, and it will an awful thing to see. Yet we read that when the Lord brings down judgment on that whole system, it “shall be found no more at all.” God hates pride, for as we have noted before, the pride of man takes the glory that belongs only to God, and gives it to man. God is going to bring down all of man’s pride, so that His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, can be exalted above all else.
Many people on this earth at that time will be very sad when this happens, for a lot of business and commerce will be lost when that whole system is gone. The lives of many people will be disrupted. But God must do this, so that His kingdom can be established. All the evil must be taken away so that the Lord Jesus can reign over the earth as the rightful King.

27/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Thursday, August 27, 2026

“O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field” (Daniel 4:31-32).
“And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this” (Daniel 5:22).
One of the reasons why the name Babylon is mentioned so often in the Bible is that it is connected with the pride of man. As we saw yesterday, man’s pride started away back in the book of Genesis, and that pride is there all the way through man’s history. It will be the same pride that God will judge, after every true Christian has been called home at the Lord’s coming for us.
When Nebuchadnezzar became so proud, the Lord changed him to be like an animal, with hair that grew like eagles’ feathers, and nails like birds’ claws. (Yes, that really happened! You can read about it in Daniel, chapter 4). He also ate grass like a cow. Then, after seven years, the Lord gave him back his right mind and his kingdom, and he honored the Lord. He recognized that the Lord was the only true God, and that he, the great Nebuchadnezzar, was only a man.
Later on, after Nebuchadnezzar had died, his grandson Belshazzar became king, and he too was very proud. You can read about him in Daniel, chapter 5. Belshazzar was actually the son of Nebuchadnezzar’s daughter, whose name was Nitocris. Instead of learning from what had happened to his grandfather, Belshazzar worshipped the Babylonian gods, and then dared to bring the gold and silver vessels that had been taken from the temple in Jerusalem, and drink wine from them. While they were doing this, they praised all those false gods.
But then the Lord allowed a hand to appear suddenly, and it wrote on the wall of the palace where all this was going on. Can you imagine how frightened Belshazzar was, when that hand appeared, and wrote on the wall something he could not understand? But while he was frightened, he does not seem to have repented before God, and the Bible tells us that he was killed that very night. The Persians were camped outside the city with their army, and Belshazzar felt that they would never get into the city. But they managed to dam up the Euphrates River, and then just came under the wall where the riverbed was. All that big wall did not protect the city, when God was ready for the Babylonian empire to end!

25/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

“For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16).
These verses may seem hard to understand, but if we know how things were done when this epistle was written, it becomes clear. In the days of the Roman Empire, the army often went on military campaigns against other nations and peoples. If the army returned to Rome victorious (and usually they did!), they brought quite a few captives with them. The proud Roman general would ride through the streets of Rome, amid the cheering of the people. With him would be the captives in chains, some appointed to die, and some allowed to live. All along there would be clouds of sweet-smelling incense and perfume sprayed into the air, which everyone could smell.
That sweet-smelling perfume meant something different to those condemned to die, and those who would live. It smelled nice to both groups, but to those who knew they would live, it was a reminder that the Romans had showed mercy to them. But to those who were condemned to die, it was a reminder that they were doomed, even though the perfume was the same.
The gospel is like that. It is a wonderful story of God’s love, and to those who accept it, it means eternal life, and a life with Christ in heaven for all eternity. To those who reject the gospel, it is still a beautiful story, but it reminds them of eternal judgment, for refusing God’s love.
Wherever we go, if we speak about the Lord Jesus and His love, it is a “sweet savor to God.” God loves to hear us speak well of His beloved Son. But that sweet savor means something different to those who are saved, and those who are lost.

24/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Monday, August 24, 2026

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us” (Romans 8:37).
When we do anything that is competitive, we all like to win. Also, we like to see those whom we support, win too. I can remember driving by the football stadium one Lord’s day afternoon, in the city where I grew up. The home team in our city had just lost the game to another visiting team, and many of the local fans were not happy. I saw one man walking along the sidewalk who was so upset that he was kicking every parked car he passed, just to work out his frustrations. But how can we be more than conquerors? After all, if we win, we win. How can we do more than win?
Perhaps we can use an illustration. Back in the days of sailing ships, they sometimes encountered severe storms. Then they had to take in the sails, and just let the wind carry them wherever it blew. Then, after the storm was over, they would get things back together, check their position, and try to get back on course. If they got through the storm and had no damage to the ship, they would say they had conquered. They had made it through the storm.
But suppose that after the storm, when they checked their position, they found that instead of blowing them off course, the storm had driven them right on course, and that they were much closer to their destination than if the weather had been nice. Instead of working against them, the storm had worked for them! That would be a case of being more than a conqueror.
It is often that way in our lives. The storms the Lord allows in our Christian pathway do not blow us off course. They are working for us, not against us, and through those storms we learn lessons we could not learn any other way. Also, we learn the Lord’s care of us, and how He can protect us. We could not learn that kind of thing in heaven, for there will be no storms up there. We have to learn all that down here, but we will have the memory of it for all eternity.

23/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Sunday, August 23, 2026

“I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (Philippians 4:11).
The Apostle Paul had many different experiences in his life. Some of them were rather difficult, and others were very pleasant. You can read about some of those difficult experiences in 2 Corinthians, at the end of chapter 11. But Paul had learned to be content in whatever state he found himself.
Notice that he says he had “learned” to be content. Paul was no different naturally than any of the rest of us. He did not naturally like hard circumstances; he would have liked everything to go smoothly for him. But that is not the way we learn things in our Christian life. Paul had to learn to be content in whatever situation he was, and so do we.
How could Paul be content in difficult circumstances? It was because he knew that the Lord had placed him in that situation, and that the Lord had a purpose in doing it. He knew that he had something to learn wherever the Lord placed him, and perhaps the Lord also had something for him to do there. Most important, he knew that wherever he was, the Lord was with him, and would give him the strength to do what He had for him to do there. We learn far more in difficult situations than we do when things are going smoothly for us.
Although it is not the main meaning of this verse, we can also use it to speak about how the Lord has made us. He has given us our bodies, our brains, our abilities, and our spiritual gifts. Sometimes perhaps we look at others, and wish we had the abilities or gifts that they have. But just as the human body is made up of many different parts, so believers do not all have the same abilities. As we saw with John the Baptist, the important thing is to use what the Lord has given us, where He wants us to use it. That is what pleases Him

22/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Saturday, August 22, 2026

“John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this Man were true” (John 10:41).
We saw yesterday that John the Baptist was given a high honor by the Lord Jesus, because he was willing to be where the Lord wanted him, and he did what the Lord gave him to do. However, as I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s meditation, there was one other important reason why the Lord Jesus commended John so highly.
In our verse today, the people commented that John had not done any miracle. God could have given John the Baptist the power to do miracles, but He left that for the Lord Jesus to do. As the Messiah, it was His place to perform those miracles, to prove who He was. But the people also commented that everything that John had said about the Lord Jesus was true. At first this might seem like something very simple to us, but there is a deeper meaning to those words.
John the Baptist never talked about himself, or boasted about who he was, and the work he was doing. When the people asked him who he was, he said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord” (John 1:23). But John always said a lot about the Lord Jesus, and who He was. He told the people to get ready for Him, as the rightful King of Israel. He could say in John 3:30, “He [the Lord Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease.” It was also for this reason that the Lord commended John the Baptist
It is rather sad that some people who want to serve the Lord want to be given credit for it, and want to have a place of honor. I have some Christian friends that, whenever I talk to them, within five minutes want to tell me how much they are doing for the Lord. However, you and I know that the only One who is worthy to be honored is the Lord Jesus. John the Baptist understood this, and always talked about the Lord Jesus, not about himself. The people recognized this, and it caused many to believe on the Lord Jesus. That is the way it should be in our lives.

20/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Thursday, August 20, 2026

“But, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to Him in all things, who is the Head, the Christ” (Ephesians 4:15 JND).
It is a wonderful experience to watch things grow, whether in a natural way, or a spiritual way. I grew up on a farm, and always enjoyed watching fruit trees and other farm plants grow. We all love to see children grow too, and mature in the right way.
The Lord wants us to grow too, in a spiritual way, and encourages this in His Word. But sometimes we may feel that we are not growing the way we should, and I have known a number of young people who felt that if only they lived somewhere else, or were connected with a different group of Christians, they would grow better. However, sometimes the Lord allows us to be placed where naturally we would not like to be. Let me tell you a story.
I grew up in southern Ontario, Canada, near the city of Hamilton. Hamilton always was, and still is, mainly an industrial city, but the land around it is some of the best farmland for growing fruit in all of Canada. The land below the so-called Niagara escarpment is sandy and easy to work with, but that on top of the escarpment is hard. I had a good friend who was much older than I (he was born in 1882!), and who owned a fruit farm on the escarpment. One day a fruit inspector came from the Ontario government, to look at his fruit. My friend saw a basket of beautiful big peaches in the back of his car, which he had gotten from a farm below the escarpment. My friend was embarrassed to show the inspector his peaches because they were so much smaller. But the inspector picked up one of his peaches and bit into it. His face lit up, and he exclaimed, “What wonderful flavor! Could I have some of them?”
My friend was surprised, and remarked that the inspector already had much bigger and nicer looking peaches from below the escarpment. But the inspector said, “Yes, they look beautiful, but they don’t taste nearly as good as yours!” As an inspector, he knew that good ground would grow nice looking fruit, but that the best flavor is often found in fruit grown on hard ground.
It is often the same in our lives. The Lord may allow us to grow up to Him in difficult conditions, but that kind of ground often produces the best fruit in our lives. Let us not complain about our situation, or wish we were somewhere else. We can produce fruit wherever we are, and even in what we feel is hard ground. (If you do not understand what the Niagara escarpment is, look it up on the internet. I do not have space to explain it here.)

19/08/2026

Growing in Grace

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

“The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned … pray unto the Lord, that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people … And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole … and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived” (Numbers 21:7-9).
Eventually the people realized that they had sinned in complaining about their good food, and in speaking against the Lord, and against Moses. They asked Moses to pray to the Lord, so that He would take away those awful serpents. Perhaps some of us are praying that way too, and asking the Lord to take away this Covid virus. But we see that Moses did not pray this way; it simply says that he “prayed for the people.” Moses realized that there was a deeper problem, and so he prayed for the people.
When Moses prayed, the Lord did not take away the serpents. They were still there, and still biting people. They needed to be reminded of the seriousness of what they had done in speaking against the Lord, and against Moses. But the Lord did something else, and you probably know the story well. The Lord told Moses to make a serpent of brass, and put it on a pole. Whenever someone had been bitten by a serpent, he had only to look at the serpent on the pole, and he would live.
You and I might have thought that having to look at a brass serpent was the last thing that people would want to do, if they had been bitten by a serpent. They would hate the sight of it! Yet that was the only way to be healed. All this has two good lessons for us.
First of all, the serpent of brass is a picture of the Lord Jesus, and we see this in John’s gospel. See if you can find the verse in John that mentions this serpent of brass. It is a picture of the Lord Jesus bearing our sins, so that we do not have to bear the punishment for them. The Lord wanted the children of Israel to realize that He could not forgive their sins, unless someone bore the punishment for them.
But there is another lesson for us here too. The Lord wanted the children of Israel to think about all that God had done for them, and all His power. If you remember, it was their own fault that they had to wander in the wilderness for forty years, for they had rebelled against the Lord, and refused to go into the land of Canaan. Also, they had learned lessons in the wilderness that they could not learn any other way. Now once again they were having to learn a lesson, and to see how the Lord could deliver them from the bite of the serpents.
It is the same for us in this Covid problem. The Lord has allowed it so that we all learn something. Also, He is going to bring us through it!

19/08/2026

Propagating Jesus Christ and His words alone is my business. Did you know Him already? Congratulations, if not, He is calling on you Today. Mathew 11 v 28. You will be happy you answer Him, Good Morning.

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