May 7
CHRIST the MAN of SORROWS: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isa 53:3). C.H. Spurgeon writes, “Sometimes God sends His love letters in black-edged envelopes. He allows us to taste the...
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May 6
CHRIST the RANSOM: “Then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom’” (Job 33:24). In most cases, during a kidnapping, a ransom price is demanded under threat of...
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May 5
CHRIST the LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT: “The last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). “It ought not to be passed by,” says Dr Lightfoot, “that Adam, receiving from God the promise of Christ—that the seed of the woman shall bruise...
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May 4
CHRIST the AUTHOR of ETERNAL SALVATION (Heb 5:9): General William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, looked into the future and warned what he saw as the dangers ahead: “1. Christianity without Christ; 2. Religion without the Holy Spirit;...
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May 3
CHRIST our PLACE PREPARER: “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also”...
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May 2
CHRIST the BEGINNING: In John 1:1, the Lord Jesus is spoken of as “In the beginning.” This chapter declares Him as the Eternal God, for before any created thing—all of which He made (v 3)—He existed. In 1 John 1:1,...
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May 1
CHRIST, DEATH’S CONQUEROR: “Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him” (Rom 6:9). Circus hand Alfred Mace was a most unlikely young man to be listening to William Carter...
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