February 26: Psalm 26:2; Psalm 51:6; Psalm 119:59–60; Lamentations 3:40; 1 Corinthians 11:28; Hebrews 10:19–22; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1–2; Genesis 9:12–13; Genesis 9:16; 2 Samuel 23:5; Acts 13:32–33; Hebrews 6:18; Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 4:3 - a podcast by Crossway

Let us test and examine our ways, and return to theLord!

Prove me, OLord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.—Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.—When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies; I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.—Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.—We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins.—Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Psalm 26:2(Listen)

2   Prove me, O LORD, and try me;
    test my heart and my mind.¹

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Psalm 51:6(Listen)

6   Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
    and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

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Psalm 119:59–60(Listen)

59   When I think on my ways,
    I turn my feet to your testimonies;
60   I hasten and do not delay
    to keep your commandments.

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Lamentations 3:40(Listen)

40   Let us test and examine our ways,
    and return to the LORD!

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1 Corinthians 11:28(Listen)

28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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Hebrews 10:19–22(Listen)

The Full Assurance of Faith

19 Therefore, brothers,¹since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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1 John 1:9(Listen)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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1 John 2:1–2(Listen)

Christ Our Advocate

2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

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Around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.

“This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud…. I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”—An everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure.—So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

“And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus.”

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Genesis 9:12–13(Listen)

12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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Genesis 9:16(Listen)

16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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2 Samuel 23:5(Listen)

5   “For does not my house stand so with God?
    For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
    ordered in all things and secure.
  For will he not cause to prosper
    all my help and my desire?

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Acts 13:32–33(Listen)

32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,

  “‘You are my Son,
    today I have begotten you.’

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Hebrews 6:18(Listen)

18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

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Hebrews 13:8(Listen)

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

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Revelation 4:3(Listen)

3 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.

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