September 13
CHRIST the JOY-BRINGER: “Enter into the joy of your lord” (Mt 25:21). Look at how the Savior brought not just joy, but GREAT joy, into the world. The wise men, searching arduously for the Child-king, “saw the star” and “rejoiced...
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September 12
“The SPIRIT of CHRIST” (Rom 8:9). The Venerable Bede (c. 672–735) was an author, teacher, and scholar. His work, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title “The Father of English History.” In writing about Pentecost, he...
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September 11
JESUS RULER OF ALL: We are told that God “will manifest in His own time, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15). What a discovery that will be to...
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September 10
CHRIST the PEACEMAKER: “My peace I give you; not as the world gives…” (Jn 14:27). During her second year in Yangchen, Gladys Aylward, a London parlor maid who went to China in 1930, was summoned by the Mandarin. A riot...
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September 9
CHRIST in the KNOW: “His disciples said to Him, ‘See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By...
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September 8
WHAT the SON was “MADE” (ginomai) or BECAME in His RESURRECTION and EXALTATION (Part 3): “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36). “Being made so much better than the angels, as He has...
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September 7
WHAT the SON was “MADE” (ginomai) or BECAME through His CRUCIFIXION (Part 2): “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death” (Heb 2:9). Not only so, but “being found in fashion...
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September 6
WHAT the SON was “MADE” (ginomai) or BECAME in His INCARNATION (Part 1): In the next three devotionals, it should be noted that when Scripture says the Lord was “made” something, it was never against His will—in fact, always with...
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September 5
CHRIST the COURAGEOUS: “I am with you always” (Mt 28:20). I just read an incident about John Calvert, an Englishman among Fiji savages. The king’s daughter was ill, and Calvert was asked to provide medicine. But as she improved, the...
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