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Tuned
to ChristBy Paul Chappell
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Thursday, Feb 9, 2012
"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and
that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be
perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the
same judgment."
1 Corinthians 1:10
In his book The Pursuit of God, author A.W. Tozer
wrote the following:
"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred
pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically
tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being
tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to
which each one must individually bow. So one hundred
worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away
to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they
could possibly be, were they to become 'unity'
conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive
for closer fellowship."
In his letter to the church in Corinth, Paul draws
attention to disturbing news that believers had been in
contention with each other. People who supposedly had
the same goals and desires had been fighting and working
against each other.
With any sort of human interaction, there's likely to
be a difference of opinion or some sort of contention.
We aren't all robots, so naturally we'll butt heads with
other people. But as believers we should be so focused
on Christ and the advancement of His kingdom that we
forget the petty differences and work toward His
glory.
When you're tuned to God and His will, you'll find
that the little differences between you and others don't
matter as much. Fighting over church responsibilities or
seating preference seems trivial in light of the
salvation of others.
How tuned are you to Christ's will? If you find
yourself disagreeing over petty things, take some time
to rethink the purpose of the church and your role in
it. Ask God to keep you focused on His will rather than
your own.
Today's Rooted Principle:
Great things can be
accomplished for God's glory when we're fully tuned to
Him.
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Old Testament
Reading
Leviticus
6 |
CHAPTER 6
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass
against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that
which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in
a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his
neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was
lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in
any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned,
and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took
violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully
gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the
lost thing which he found, 5 Or all that
about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore
it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to whom it
appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering
unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock,
with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the
priest: 7 And the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be
forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in
trespassing therein.
8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This
is the law of the burnt offering: It is
the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the
altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the
altar shall be burning in it. 10 And the
priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the
ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt
offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the
altar. 11 And he shall put off his garments,
and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes
without the camp unto a clean place. 12 And
the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall
not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it
every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon
it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace
offerings. 13 The fire shall ever be burning
upon the altar; it shall never go out.
14 And this is the law of the meat
offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the
LORD, before the altar. 15 And he shall take
of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering,
and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which
is upon the meat offering, and shall burn
it upon the altar for a sweet savour,
even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and
his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in
the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation they shall eat it. 17 It shall
not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto
them for their portion of my offerings
made by fire; it is most holy, as is the
sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
18 All the males among the children of Aaron
shall eat of it. It shall be a
statute for ever in your generations concerning the
offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that
toucheth them shall be holy. 19 And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, 20 This is
the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall
offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering
perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof
at night. 21 In a pan it shall be made with
oil; and when it is baken,
thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of
the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet
savour unto the LORD. 22 And the priest of
his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it:
it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it
shall be wholly burnt. 23 For every meat
offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall
not be eaten.
24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying,
This is the law of the sin offering: In the place
where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin
offering be killed before the LORD: it is most
holy. 26 The priest that offereth it for sin
shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in
the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof
shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood
thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon
it was sprinkled in the holy place. 28 But
the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken:
and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both
scoured, and rinsed in water. 29 All the
males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is
most holy. 30 And no sin offering, whereof
any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle
of the congregation to reconcile withal in the
holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in
the fire.
CHAPTER 7
1 Likewise this is the law of the
trespass offering: it is most holy. 2
In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall
they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof
shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat
thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the
inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, which is by the flanks,
and the caul that is above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away: 5 And the
priest shall burn them upon the altar for an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a
trespass offering. 6 Every male among the
priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy
place: it is most holy. 7 As the sin
offering is, so is the trespass offering:
there is one law for them: the priest that
maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
8 And the priest that offereth any man's
burnt offering, even the priest shall have to
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath
offered. 9 And all the meat offering that is
baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the
fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that
offereth it. 10 And every meat offering,
mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron
have, one as much as another.
11 And this is the law of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto
the LORD. 12 If he offer it for a
thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled
with oil, of fine flour, fried. 13 Besides
the cakes, he shall offer for his offering
leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his
peace offerings. 14 And of it he shall offer
one out of the whole oblation for an heave
offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the
priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace
offerings. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice
of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten
the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any
of it until the morning. 16 But if the
sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a
voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that
he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the
remainder of it shall be eaten: 17 But the
remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day
shall be burnt with fire. 18 And if
any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not
be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that
offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul
that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. 19
And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing
shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as
for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
20 But the soul that eateth of the
flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that
pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness
upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people. 21 Moreover the soul that shall touch
any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of
man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable
unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto
the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people. 22 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, 23 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of
sheep, or of goat. 24 And the fat of the
beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is
torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye
shall in no wise eat of it. 25 For whosoever
eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that
eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood,
whether it be of fowl or of beast,
in any of your dwellings. 27 Whatsoever soul
it be that eateth any manner of blood,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings
unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of
the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30 His
own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that
the breast may be waved for a wave offering
before the LORD. 31 And the priest shall burn
the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's
and his sons'. 32 And the right shoulder
shall ye give unto the priest for an heave
offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth
the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall
have the right shoulder for his part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder
have I taken of the children of Israel from off the
sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them
unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for
ever from among the children of Israel.
35 This is the
portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the
anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD
made by fire, in the day when he presented them
to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them
of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed
them, by a statute for ever throughout their
generations. 37 This is the law of the
burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin
offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the
consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace
offerings; 38 Which the LORD commanded Moses
in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the
children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the
LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
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New Testament
Reading
Matthew
25:1 |
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be
likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and
went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five
of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their
lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the
wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all
slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there
was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out
to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose,
and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish
said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps
are gone out. 9 But the wise answered,
saying, Not so; lest there be not enough
for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and
buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to
buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went
in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins,
saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he
answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you
not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither
the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
14 For the kingdom of
heaven is as a man travelling into a far
country, who called his own servants, and
delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto
one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another
one; to every man according to his several ability; and
straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that
had received the five talents went and traded with the
same, and made them other five talents.
17 And likewise he that had
received two, he also gained other two.
18 But he that had received one went and
digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
19 After a long time the lord of those
servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. 20
And so he that had received five talents came and
brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained
beside them five talents more. 21 His lord
said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I
will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into
the joy of thy lord. 22 He also that had
received two talents came and said, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained
two other talents beside them. 23 His lord
said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make
thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of
thy lord. 24 Then he which had received the
one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou
art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and
gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And
I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth:
lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him,
Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest
that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have
not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to
have put my money to the exchangers, and then at
my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and
give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be
given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that
hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into
outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
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Proverb of the
Day
Proverbs
9 |
1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath
hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed
her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also
furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth
her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the
city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn
in hither: as for him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat
of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have
mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and
go in the way of understanding. 7 He that
reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he
that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself
a blot. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate
thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9 Give instruction to a wise
man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just
man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy
is understanding. 11 For by me thy
days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life
shall be increased. 12 If thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest,
thou alone shalt bear it. 13 A foolish
woman is clamorous: she is simple,
and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth at
the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of
the city, 15 To call passengers who go right
on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let
him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in
secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not
that the dead are there; and that
her guests are in the depths of
hell.
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