Devotional Readings, M'Cheyne Bible Reading Notes

Jeremiah 17 & Acts 8 – False and True Ways.

Jer 17:7  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

Jer 17:8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the

year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

We can wish for the above to be true, but if it is false the LORD will surely know.

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

In Acts 8 we meet Saul/Paul, Peter, Phillip and another Simon.

And we witness this early false teaching…..

And note how the people accepted this false teaching.

Act 8:9  But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Act 8:10  To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

Act 8:11  And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Read on to see the rest of the story.

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