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Evening, December 24 Scripture: “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”(Isaiah 40:5) We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and […] December 24 The Hidden Life “Your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3 The Spirit of God witnesses to the simple almighty security of the life hid with Christ in God and this is continually brought out in the Epistles. We talk as if it were the most precarious thing to live […] Morning, December 24 “For your sakes he became poor.” 2 Corinthians 8:9 The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but “though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor.” As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to […] Over Jordan with Singing Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee. (Deuteronomy 33:29) That archenemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in our experience we shall prove him a liar. He says that we shall […] December 24 Diamond in the Rough “The hand of the Lord hath wrought this” (Job 12:9). Several years ago there was found in an African mine the most magnificent diamond in the world’s history. It was presented to the King of England to blaze in his crown of state. The King sent […] |
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