JANUARY 26
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MORNING
Let us go forth unto him without the
camp, bearing his reproach. For
here we have no continuing city,
but we seek one to come.
ELOVED, think it not strange concerning
the fiery trial which is to try
you, as though some strange thing happened
unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch
as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;
that, when his glory shall be
revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy.--As ye are partakers of
the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the
consolation.
If ye are reproached for the name of
Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of
glory and of God resteth upon you: on
their part he is evil spoken of, but on
your part he is glorified.
They departed from the presence of
the council, rejoicing that they were
counted worthy to suffer shame for his
name.--Choosing rather to suffer affliction
with the people of God, than to
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
esteeming the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the treasures of Egypt: for
he had respect unto the recompence of
the reward.
HEB.
13. 13, 14. 1 Pe. 4. 12, 13.--2 Co. 1. 7.
1 Pe. 4. 14. Ac. 5. 41.--He. 11. 25, 26.
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EVENING
The Lord Jesus Christ . . . shall change
our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious
body.
PON the likeness of the throne was
the likeness as the appearance of a
man above upon it. And I saw as the
colour of amber, as the appearance of
fire round about within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and
from the appearance of his loins even
downward, I saw as it were the appearance
of fire, and it had brightness round
about. This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of the LORD.
We all, with open face beholding as
in a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the
Lord.--It doth not yet appear what we
shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for
we shall see him as he is.
They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more.--They sing the song of
Moses the servant of God, and the song
of the Lamb.
PHIL.
3. 20, 21. Eze. 1. 26-28. 2 Co. 3. 18.--
1 John 3. 2. Re. 7. 16.--Re. 15. 3.
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