Open the Bible UK Daily

About Open the Bible UK Daily

3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.

Publisher

Colin Smith

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jul 2023

Latest episode

25 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1,183 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Oct 2026

   Is It Really Possible to Know That God Loves You?

   Note then the kindness and the severity of God. Romans 11:22 No generation has been so often told that God loves us, and no generation has struggled more to experience God’s love. One reason for this is that our ideas about God’s love have become sentimental. We have failed to take God’s wrath seriously, and losing touch with God’s wrath, we’ve lost touch with His love. When you grasp this truth of the Divine wrath, you will begin to see the extent of the Divine love. Your eyes will be opened to what was happening at the cross, and how this was an outpouring of God’s love for you. The Divine wrath shows you what you were saved from, and it tells you what it took to save you. When you see the Divine wrath poured out on the Divine person at the cross—God absorbing the wrath of God—you will know that God loves you. The Son of God endured this to redeem me? That is true love. Grasp this and your soul will begin to sing, “Love so amazing, so divine, deserves my soul, my life, my all.” Maybe you thought that God’s wrath shows how much God hates you. Can you see, through the cross, that it might show how much He loves you? Maybe this truth has caused you to hate God. Could it be that today, through the cross, this truth might bring you to love God?

2. 

   24 Oct 2026

   Why Did Jesus Come into the World? Why Did He Have to Die? And What Was the Cross All About?

   Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace. Isaiah 53:5 Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). On the cross, He became the sin bearer: “He himself bore our sins in the body on the tree” (1 Pet. 2:24). “He… bore our sins” means that Jesus came under all the consequences that sin brings. On the cross, He absorbed the Divine wrath. He entered into all that hell is, so that those who come to Him should never know what it is like. Jesus absorbed the wrath of God for us, so that we could know the love of God through Him. Have you taken this truth seriously? This is a truth that should make us tremble. If it were not for the grace and mercy of God to us, personally, in Jesus Christ, we all would endure a future in which we were against God and God was against us forever, a future in which we have no place for God and God has no place for us. People who reject Jesus will endure the gnawing of an activated conscience in which they see the full extent of their own sin. They will have clear knowledge that there is a God of love and that they could have been reconciled to Him, but now He is beyond their reach because they chose to live without Him. They will live with unending regret and a loathing of self because of their own wretched choices and the miserable consequences. They will experience an ongoing rebellion against God that keeps foaming up from within, from which there is no deliverance. Like the addict who keeps going back to what he knows is destroying his life, apart from Christ we would all spend an eternity in the company of those who are in rebellion against God, with no one to blame but ourselves. Have you considered what Jesus has saved you from?

3. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Why Is It So Important to Believe the Right Things about God?

   We were by nature children of wrath. Ephesians 2:3 This does not mean that if we do some bad things, the wrath of God will come on us. We are children of wrath by nature. That means, by nature, we are absorbed with self and drawn to sin. By nature, we want to be our own gods. By nature, we were under the wrath of God. Some people say, “I cannot believe that if a person doesn’t believe the right things about God, he or she will go to hell.” But John tells us, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him” (John 3:36). John does not say, “If you reject Jesus, God’s wrath comes on you.” He says, “If you reject Jesus, God’s wrath remains on you.” It’s already there. By nature, we are children of wrath. Your reaction to this teaching about the wrath of God will tell you whether you have really embraced the truth we looked at about our sinful nature. The reason that all people are liable to the wrath of God is that God must destroy sin and sin is in us by nature. The new heaven and the new earth will be the home of righteousness, so sin can never enter there. But sin is in us by nature. That’s the problem. So, by nature, we can never enter. If we were to enter, which we cannot, we would defile the place that God is making. We need to be made holy first, and that is why we desperately need Christ. Can you see today why, apart from Jesus, it would be impossible for anyone to get into heaven?

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