January 30
CHRIST our FORERUNNER (Heb 6:19-20): A forerunner (prod’-rom-os) is “one who comes in advance to prepare for those who follow.” Even today world leaders send an emmisary on ahead to see how they will be received; if the forerunner is...
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January 29
CHRIST the MAKER: “Behold I make all things new” (Rev 21:5). To create all things new is one of His most famous achievements.…In the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, all things are new. To the wisest mind, if unrenewed,...
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January 28
CHRIST the COMPASSIONATE: “When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them” (Mt 9:36). D.L. Moody tells of visiting, with his daughter, a poor woman whose little girl had drowned. Her drunkard husband sat insensible in the...
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January 27
CHRIST the WAY (Jn 14:6). T.H. Darlow writes: In the Acts of the Apostles we find that the earliest Christians often spoke of their faith simply as “the Way.” Our Lord had set them an example when He said, “Narrow...
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January 26
CHRIST the APOSTLE (Heb 3:1). Christ is the ultimate apostle or messenger from God to man. How do we come to know Him? Through the OT types and shadows that point to Him, the prophecies that speak of Him, the...
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January 25
CHRIST is GOD: “‘They shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with us’” (Mt 1:23). Griffith Thomas states: “Christ claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews. He claimed to be the Redeemer. He claimed to be the...
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February 24
CHRIST the GLORY of GOD: “who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person” (Heb 1:3). While the heavens declare the glory of God, the revelation they impart is inadequate for the needs of life....
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January 24
CHRIST our TEACHER: “No man ever spoke like this Man!” (Jn 7:46). Christ’s words, as recorded, are comparatively few. The longest discourse takes fifteen minutes to read aloud. The whole of His words could be printed in a pamphlet of...
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January 23
CHRIST our MEDIATOR: “But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, since as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was based on better promises” (Heb 8:6). A mediator (mes-ee’-tace) at its simplest is a middle man,...
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