FEBRUARY 13

MORNING

Upon the likeness of the throne was the

HE man Christ Jesus.--Made in the likeness of men . . . found in fashion as a man.--Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death.

      I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore.--Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.--What if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?--He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.--In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

      Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God.

EVENING

HE first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a living spirit.

      As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.--I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

      In him was life; and the life was the light of men . . . As many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

      It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.--The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.