A stunning prophecy was given in yesterday's reading:
“For the time is coming,”
says the LORD,
“when I will raise up a righteous descendant
from King David’s line.
He will be a King who rules with wisdom.
He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
And this will be his name:
‘The LORD Is Our Righteousness.’
How amazing that this identity of ‘the Lord is our Righteousness’ is specifically linked with the Righteous Descendant! Yesterday's reading also contained the interesting command about not calling the Lord's message a ‘burden’. I did not read the NLT for that section and there is a note in yesterday’s PDF file about that section.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/jer.24.nlt
The exuberant finale to the psalms!
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/psa.150
Yesterday's reading in 1 Corinthians started out with Paul rebuking the Corinthian Christians for taking their fellow believers to court before secular judges. Paul returned briefly the theme of sexual sin. Then, in supporting his points, Paul gave some of the most amazing verses in all Scripture about our position in unity with Christ. Chapter 6 ended with these words:
17… the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Translation notes:
1Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain [totally] from sexual relations.a
22And remember, if you were a slave when the Lord called you, you are now free in [because you are joined with] the Lord. And if you were free when the Lord called you, you are now a slave of Christ.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/1co.7
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