The Cross As the Way of Peace by JC Ryle

Look steadily at Jesus on the cross, if you want to feel inward peace. Look to anything of your own, and you will never feel comfortable.

Your own life and doings, your own repentance and amendment, your own morality and regularity, your own church-going, your own Bible-reading and your prayers, your own almsgiving and your charities, – what are they all but a huge mass of imperfection? Rest not upon them for a moment, in the matter of your justification. As evidences of your wishes, feelings, bias, tastes, habits, inclinations, they may be useful helps occasionally. As grounds of acceptance with God they are worthless rubbish. They cannot give you comfort; they cannot bear the weight of your sins; they cannot stand the searching eye of God. Rest on nothing but Christ crucified, and the atonement He made for you on Calvary. This, this alone is the way of peace.

Source: JC Ryle Daily Devotions - Facebook

Is the third temple being built in Jerusalem now?

Nov 2, 2024 Open line on moody radio hour 2

Listener:

My question is: I heard there's a third temple being built in Israel, does it have any correlation with Jesus's second coming?

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik @1:17

https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=621073&hour=2

Summary of the answer:

There is no building of the third temple in Jerusalem as of now. There is a small group called the temple mount faithful who wants to build the temple and Dr Rydelnik believes the group is not driven by spirituality but mostly by politics. They don't like Israel to allow the Waqf to control the administration of Al-aqsa and the Dome of the rock. They have built some aspects of the temple in a sense like the menorah, so that when the temple is ready they will have some rudiments of the edifices of the temple in place.

God is the source

God owns everything that we own, including giving us life, that we may still live to earn money.

Deuteronomy 8

18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. -nkjv

18 But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. -kjv

18 But you are to remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, in order to confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. -nasb

18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today. -niv