The magnificent Word of Lord God - Adonai - Ancient of Days

Rev. 7:12. Ps. 18:28 (MN III), Ps. 119:105 (KJV) Memorial moment/Rev. Dr Scott Murray/"Written by the Spirit"/Luther's aftonbön och morgonbön (Plant a tree...)

 "For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness".
 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

(Thanks to Egyptian brother and friend MN III for the Bible places from Ps 18:28, Ps. 119:105)

"Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen." (Rev. 7:12)

 "Ancient of Days" (OGC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD-bsIGgYI0

Thy Word (Amy Grant)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFthmW-MCww


"You restore my soul" (Sarah Hart Pearsons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrxyGTe0Nc&feature=player_embedded


"Break every chain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ncg2pLYks

Adonai (Paul Wilbur)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJIloFhFCJk




Memorial Moment (Rev. Dr Scott Murray) WRITTEN BY THE SPIRIT

"When teaching children the catechism, occasionally a child who really does know his memory assignment cannot remember how the passage begins and the harder he thinks about it, the more impossible it is that he should come up with the correct phrase. At that moment, a judicious gift of a word or two on the test page will open the floodgates of memory. So too God has seen to it that we should receive His own Word with His own finger. He began the flow of His divine Word through Moses and all the prophets and the apostles, by condescending to put His finger into the words that appeared on the two tablets of stone when giving the Ten Commandments. He well started what all the inspired penmen would subsequently offer from their own humble styli held in ink stained fingers. They then continued what God had begun and honored by His own practice on Sinai's hill. The God who wrote with His own finger also inspired the humble penmen sent by Him.

Moses wrote at God's command what God desired for His people to know in the Pentateuch, Genesis-Deuteronomy. God's own writing added glory to their task of writing. The inspired authors would write as God had when He gave the Decalog. God our Father also intended that we should hear His voice from the lips and pens of His spokesmen. Israel was commanded to hear this Word given through Moses. They were to put the Word given to Moses everywhere because these words were God's: "And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates" (Dt 6:6-9). These are not the things that are commanded for merely human words. God spoke and He spoke through Moses. Now what was written would vouchsafe to Israel a deposit of the truth, so that she did not have to await a constant purification of the oral tradition, but could constantly return to the Word of God as penned by Moses.

The church is now tied to the written Word. We no longer await a new revelation, for the divine self-disclosure was made full and complete in the person of Christ. The Spirit uses the written Word of God to write the will of God upon the hearts of the faithful. So what was written on tablets of stone is written upon human flesh. The Old Testament Word prefigured the New. The New Testament Word exceeds the Old because it places the glory of Christ upon the tablets of the human heart. The church is given the deposit of truth not in some nebulous tradition, supposedly available everywhere and at all times, but in the Word of God in Scripture."


Martin Chemnitz (Examination of the council of Trent)

"It does much to shed light on the dignity and authority of holy Scripture that God Himself not only instituted and commanded the plan comprehending the heavenly doctrine in writing but that He also initiated, dedicated and consecrated it by writing the words of the Decalog with His own fingers. For if the writing of the sacred books had first been done by men, an exclusion of more than two thousand years could have been argued, where in the better times of the world and among the most outstanding patriarchs the doctrine of the divine word was transmitted without writing, by living voice. Therefore God Himself and His own fingers made a beginning of writing in order that He might show how much importance should be connected with this method, according to which the purity of the doctrine is to be preserved to posterity by writings.

"For the fact that he took tablets of stone on which to write the words of the Decalog there is another reason, which is explained in 2 Corinthians 3. In order that those things which were either to be written through men of God, adorned for this by miracles and divine testimonies, or to be approved by them after they had been written, should not have a lesser authority or no authority at all for the confirmation of dogmas and the refutation of errors, God chose not to write the whole Law Himself, but having written the words of the Decalog, He gave Moses the command that he should write the remainder from His dictation. And in order that the people of God might be certain that this Scripture of Moses was not introduced by the will of man but was divinely inspired, God gave the testimony of Moses authority through many mighty miracles before, after, and during the writing itself.

"We have thus shown two things for the most ancient sacred history. First, that the purity of the heavenly doctrine was not preserved always and everywhere through tradition by the living voice but was repeatedly corrupted and adulterated. Second, in order that new and special revelations might not always be necessary for restoring and retaining purity of the doctrine, God instituted another method under Moses, namely, that the doctrine of the Word of God should be comprehended in writing."

 Prayer:

Lord God, You granted Your Word to Moses and all the holy prophets and apostles as men carried along by the Holy Spirit. Help us to listen to this Word as it is, indeed, the Word or God. Amen.

Memorial Moment 2 August, 2012 "Written by the Spirit"
Rev. Dr Scott Murray 



Aftonbön (och morgonbön) av Martin Luther/Rev. Lars Borgstrom

http://skattkistan.predikan.se/#category2 

The Gospel by Rev. S Sjoqvist
http://betrakt.blogspot.fi/2012/07/aslan-kristus.html


Hörnstenen/Kulmakivi (Rev. Henrik Perret)
http://www.teolinst.fi/index.php/julkaisutvalikko/kulmakivi-hoernstenen/438-hornstenen-3-2012


http://gnesiolutheran.com/a-summary-of-martin-luthers-christology-in-the-psalms/
"The Psalter ought to be a dear and beloved book, if only because it promises Christ’s death and resurrection so clearly, and so typifies His kingdom and the conditions and nature of all Christendom that it might well be called the little Bible. It puts everything that is in all the Bible most beautifully and briefly, and is made an Enchiridion, or handbook, so that I have a notion that the Holy Ghost wanted to take the trouble to compile a short Bible and example-book of all Christendom, or of all saints."


Rev. P T McCain:
http://cyberbrethren.com/2012/08/03/commemoration-of-joanna-mary-and-salome-myrrhbearers/




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