10/07/2026 – “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might.” Revelation 5:12 / Bible reading: Revelation 5 / and more below!
“When it comes to his own portrait, Christ paints it under the shadow of the cross, with the browns and grays and blacks of realism. No frame. No fame. No spotlight. It’s the truth on display. It’s the Man of Sorrows, who was acquainted with grief – the One who was pierced through for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities.
We give Him our highest praise as we sing, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.”
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Soli Deo Gloria!
Comment:
In Jonathan Cahn’s “Sapphires” devotional this morning, he notes that it took Leonardo DaVinci three years to paint the Lord’s last supper. He concludes: “The truth is, it’s very easy to become distracted from the Lord, even by good things of the Lord. But there’s nothing as beautiful as He is. So whatever is in your life, whether good or bad, don’t let it become the thing you dwell on. You only have one focus, one first love, and one redeemer. Let your heart be filled up with Him only.”
“My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection form among the dead.” Philippians 3:10 / Under the section titled “Knowing Christ”.
And finally, I urge y’all to let the messenger John Gill tie scripture around this verse to bring in the power and virtue that flows into eternity from Christ’s substitutionary atonement for our sin. Conclusion: We can’t get our head around it all, it is just too amazingly joyful.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/philippians-3-10.html
As I’ve noted before, the best of men are men at best, but John Gill is my personal closer when it comes to single verse commentary. He covers every single verse in the Bible. Trust me, if you had a hard copy book of this commentary, it would be many times thicker than your Bible. So, you may want to mark this website for ready reference as needed. And somehow, he found time to preach every Sunday in a country church in England.
And I have hard copy of Matthew Henry’s commentary , which is around 2,000 pages, and he doesn’t even separate it verse by verse, marking the verses by parenthesis.