December 29
CHRIST the MERCY SEAT: “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood” (Rom 3:24-25). The word “propitiation” (hilasterion) can also be translated “mercy seat.”...
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December 28
CHRIST the MYSTERY: “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh” (1 Tim 3:16). We have invested a full year exploring the wonders of Christ. Yet surely we have only begun. It is “eternal...
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December 27
The UNRESTRICTED CHRIST: “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Rom 8:32). With Christ, it’s all or nothing. When we...
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December 26
THIS SAME JESUS: “This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). “He is coming! He is coming!” cried the prophets, wrote the...
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December 25
JESUS: “You shall call His name JESUS” (Mt 1:21). James Hastings writes: “We meet the name for the first time in Numbers 16:16, where we read that “Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua” (meaning “Jehovah is salvation”). Jesus...
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December 24
JESUS the ONE to KNOW: “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us” (1 Jn 3:16). M.S. Braithwaite tells about a poor homeless waif, whose street name was “Little Broomstick.” She took sick one Christmas,...
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December 23
JESUS the DOVE MAN: “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased’” (Lk 3:22). An old...
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