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WITNESSES OF “THE POWER”

2𝑃𝑒 1:16 𝐾𝐽𝑉 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑦.

Today’s Devotional…

The apostles were eyewitnesses of the power of God which is the cross of Christ unto the salvation of mankind.

While all the prophets of old only saw the salvation of man ambiguously in visions, the apostles of Christ saw it physically by witnessing the sufferings and eventual death of Christ on the cross.

So when the apostles preached the salvation of men, they did not preach in doubt like the prophets of old who had no clarity of what they prophesied, but they preached with boldness, for they spoke about what they had seen with their very eyes.

It is difficult to believe that the sufferings and death of one young Hebrew boy many years ago could be responsible for the salvation of all men, except that you saw the sufferings yourself, or at least had fellowship with those who were themselves eyewitnesses.

This is because the sufferings of Christ were simply indescribable. But by the Spirit of God, in our fellowship with the apostles through the accurate records of the sacred scriptures, we have come to know that the cross was indeed the power and wisdom of God!

May the Holy Spirit take you into fellowship with the apostles of Christ, so that you may see the power and wisdom of God in the cross, and with the same boldness of the apostles, proclaim the perfection of man by all means, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

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Today’s Devotional…

Preachers of Christ are not motivational speakers, but devout men and women who preach Christ; from His birth to the cross, and to His glorification.

Nowadays, multinational speakers get so much attention and popularity that some pastors have decided to become motivational speakers, simply seasoning their talks with “a pinch of Jesus”. Laughable.

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May the Holy Spirit replace your hunger for motivational messages with the hunger for the gospel of the finished works of Christ, in His holy name. Amen

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May the Holy Spirit replace your hunger for motivational messages with the hunger for the gospel of the finished works of Christ, in His holy name. Amen

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