February 28
CHRIST the CARPENTER: “Is this not the carpenter’s son?” (Mt 13:55). “Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary” (Mk 6:3). Adam Clarke explains: “Among the ancient Jews, every father was bound to do four things for his son....
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February 27
CHRIST the SEED of the WOMAN: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Gen 3:15). Consider the glorious achievements of...
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February 26
CHRIST the AMEN: “These things says the Amen…” (Rev 3:14). “For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us” (2 Cor 1:20). Paul has just explained to the...
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February 25
CHRIST our SYMPATHIZER: “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses” (Heb 4:15). Blessed double negative! Yes, He can, and does, sympathize with His struggling people. Never is this seen more clearly than in...
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February 23
CHRIST our SHEPHERD: “I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own” (Jn 10:14). David, who well knew the characteristics of a good shepherd, describes in Psalm 23 the most convincing proof of...
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February 22
CHRIST the PLANNER of the AGES: “God…in these last days did speak to us in the Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages" (Heb 1:1-2, Young’s Literal Translation). Paul speaks of...
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February 21
CHRIST the TRUE VINE: “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (Jn 15:1). Christian service can be either overwork or...
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February 20
CHRIST our TRANSFORMER: “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor 3:18)....
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February 19
CHRIST our PEACE: “He is our peace” (Eph 2:14). Peace (Gk, eirene) is the “tranquil state of the soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and content with its lot” (W.E. Vine). True peace...
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