Day 11 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us. (John 1:14, AMP) Jesus carried something in human flesh that, up until His coming, had not been done before. In the Old Testament, a physical structure [...]
Jesus, The Resting Place
Day 10 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ (John 1:33) When Heaven opened on the day of Jesus’ baptism, it released Someone [...]
Jesus, The Man Who Tore Open Heaven
Jesus, The Anointed One
Jesus, The God Man
Day 7 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, But stripped Himself [of all privileges [...]
Jesus, God With Us
Day 6 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (John 1:14) One of the most prominent identities of God that we celebrate during Advent is Emmanuel, which means God with us (see Matt. 1:23). We read Scriptures about this reality and sing beautiful songs about [...]
Jesus, The Witness to the Father
Jesus, The Witness of the Father
Day 4 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Jesus Christ, the faithful witness… (Revelation 1:5) Jesus is a witness in two dimensions. Today, we are going to explore the first dimension, and this involves Jesus being the faithful witness of the Father. No one sees God the Father more closely and more clearly [...]
Jesus, The Incarnate One
Day Three of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional “The supreme mystery with which the gospel confronts us lies not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth became the ‘second [...]