37-3-255 (Week 37, Day 7, Year 255)

PSALM 87 (7verses) PRAISE OF ZION  “D” ZION, GOD’S CHOSEN CITY. “A hymn celebrating the coming of other nations to Jerusalem.”

THE JOY OF LIVING IN ZION.  Of the Korahites.  A Psalm. A Song.

This Psalm lifts Jerusalem up for praise.  “the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the Dwellings of Jacob.”  This is a Psalm which glorifies Jerusalem as the city of God.

JOHN 9

JOHN 9: 1-41  A SIGN, TRIAL, AND TESTIMONY – THE HEALING OF A MAN BORN BLIND

JOHN 9: 1-12 THE HEALING

JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN BLIND

JOHN 9: 13-34 JESUS TRIED IN ABSENTIA

JOHN 9: 35-41 FINAL VERDICT

THE PHARISEES WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED

THE BLIND WILL SEE-All humans cannot see the LORD except in our faith.

TRUE BLINDNESS

ISAIAH 53-54

This tells of the effect of the death of the servant.

SPREAD OUT! THINK BIG!

ISAIAH 52: 13- ISAIAH 53:12 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EXALTATION OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. “The fourth and final servant song portrays the suffering of the servant and his ultimate exaltation.”

ISAIAH 53: 1-12 “The intense suffering of the servant is defined vicariously:…”

ISAIAH 54: 1-17 RESTORATION OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE LORD AND ZION. APOSTROPHE TO ZION. “Like other major sections of Second Isaiah 49:1-54:17 closes with a hymn (42:13, 44:23, 48:2—22).”

EPHESIANS 5

EPHESIANS 4: 17- EPHESIANS 5:21 APPEAL FOR A CHANGED WAY OF LIFE

EPHESIANS 5: 1-20  Sexual sins are the primary focus in these verses.  Singing brings joy, not sexual sins.

WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP

Praise and sing to and for God.

EPHESIANS 5: 21 “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.”  I believe this is a bridge verse between the covenant of obedience made by the believer and the mystery of the church which is explained by marriage.

EPHESIANS 5: 22- EPHESIANS 6:9 RULES FOR HOUSEHOLD RELATIONSHIPS

EPHESIANS 5: 22-33 “The marriage relationship is to be modeled on that between Christ and the church, in which the church’s purity was achieved through Christ’s death and continual care.”

WIVES AND HUSBANDS-Genesis 2:24

RELATIONSHIPS: wives and husbands