'And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.'

When Pharisees denounced Christ's disciples for not observing their ceremonial excesses, He gathered all around Him and gave a vital principle of true faith. From this we learn the only valid approach to God, and may enter into new life and a walk with Him.

A sudden burst of praise breaks into Paul's epistle, showing that praise punctuated his life constantly. And such praise! Here he provides our worship agenda for us, virtually defining true worship, and challenging us to bring worthy homage to our King eternal.

'The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.'

'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.'

The supreme, sure statement that says everything that is important about life, its purpose, its chief problem and its highest experience and goal - knowing and walking with God. Nothing in life except this is certain and trustworthy. Here are nine words that transform lives.

What Paul meant in calling himself the chief of sinners, and why the Lord showed such mercy to him. His testimony is set as the first of millions that would give gospel light and guard faithful churches from nominalism (or believing without experiencing true conversion).

'O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.'

Here are astonishing and unexpected words. A dying Saviour in extreme agony looks upon a vast crowd, screaming out insults, hatred and abuse, and prays, 'Father, forgive them!' Here is Christ's mighty love, the definition of forgiveness, and how the prayer is answered.

The moral law was intended to show our need of forgiveness. Believers are not under its power to condemn, but salvation has inscribed its positive virtues in our hearts to be our 'voluntary' aim and longing - the highest mark of grace.