Monday, February 6, 2012 at 9:09PM 
Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments
62. Q. What does the ninth commandment teach us?
A. To tell the truth and not to speak evil of others.
(Click through to read scriptural proof.)
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 7:10PM Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word;
But as Thou dwell’st with Thy disciples, Lord,
Familiar, condescending, patient, free.
Come not to sojourn, but abide with me.
Come not in terrors, as the King of kings,
But kind and good, with healing in Thy wings,
Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea—
Come, friend of sinners, and thus bide with me.
Thou on my head in early youth didst smile;
And, though rebellious and perverse meanwhile,
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee,
On to the close, O Lord, abide with me.
I need Thy presence every passing hour.
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.
Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
—Henry F. Lyte
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Friday, February 3, 2012 at 4:23PM 
In the conversation between Christ and Nicodemus, recorded in John’s Gospel, the Saviour showed that there are no spiritual activities without regeneration; in his first epistle, John labours the converse truth that there is no regeneration without spiritual activities. The fruits of regeneration are repentance, faith and good works. The regenerate believe rightly in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:1). They do righteousness (2:29). They do not live a life of sin (3:9; 5:18; the verbs ‘commits sin’, ‘cannot sin’, ‘does not sin’, express habitual actions, as the present tense regularly does in Greek, and not absolute sinlessness, as 1:8-10 makes clear). They experience faith’s victory over the world (5:4). They love their fellow-Christians (4:7). These are the marks by which the regenerate are known; for no man could do any of these things were he not born again. But we have no warrant for regarding anyone as regenerate without these marks. Any who lack them, whatever they may claim, are to be adjudged unregenerate children of the devil (3:6-10). Regeneration is known by its fruits.
Here, incidentally, is a sufficient answer to the question whether spiritual regeneration was a reality in Old Testament times. Fallen human nature was no less incompetent in spiritual things then than it is now. Had there been no regeneration in Old Testament times, there would have been no faith, and Hebrews 11 could never have been written.
From the chapter on regeneration in 18 Words: The Most Important Words You Will Ever Know by J. I. Packer.