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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 359, 25 December 2025  -Merry Christmas   
      
   Preamble thoughts   
      
   Psalm 42:5   
      
   5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Why are you cast down, O my soul?   
   And why are you disquieted in me?   
   Hope in God,   
   for I will yet thank Him   
   for the help of His presence.   
      
   [5] Why art thou cast down, O my soul?   
   And why art thou disquieted in me?   
   Hope thou in God:   
   For I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.   
      
   Isaiah 9:6-7   
      
   6 (Isa 7:14; Mt 28:18; Lk 2:11) For unto us a child is born,   
   unto us a son is given,   
   and the government shall be upon his shoulder.   
   And his name shall be called   
   Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,   
   Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.   
   7 (Isa 37:32; Da 2:44) Of the increase of his government and peace   
   there shall be no end,   
   upon the throne of David   
   and over his kingdom,   
   to order it and to establish it   
   with justice and with righteousness,   
   from now until forever.   
   The zeal of the Lord of Hosts   
   will perform this.   
      
   [6] For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government   
   shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,   
   Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.   
   [7] Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon   
   the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it   
   with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of   
   the LORD of hosts will perform this.   
      
   2 Thessalonians 2:16   
      
   16 (Jn 3:16; 1Th 3:11) Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself,   
   and God our Father, who has loved us and has given us eternal   
   consolation and good hope through grace,   
      
   [16] Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath   
   loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through   
   grace,   
      
   2 Corinthians 4:16-18   
      
   Living by Faith   
      
   16 (Ro 7:22; Isa 40:31) For this reason we do not lose heart:   
   Even though our outward man is perishing, yet our inward man   
   is being renewed day by day.   
   17 (Ro 8:18; 1Pe 5:10) Our light affliction, which lasts   
   but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding   
   and eternal weight of glory,   
   18 (Heb 11:1; 2Co 5:7) while we do not look at the things   
   which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.   
   For the things which are seen are temporal,   
   but the things which are not seen are eternal.   
      
   [16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet   
   the inward man is renewed day by day.   
   [17] For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a   
   far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;   
   [18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which   
   are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things   
   which are not seen are eternal.   
      
   Romans 5:5   
      
   5 (Gal 4:6; Php 1:20) And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God   
   is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.   
      
   [5] And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in   
   our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.   
      
   1 Peter 1:3-5   
      
   A Living Hope   
      
   3 (1Co 15:20; 2Co 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,   
   who according to His abundant mercy has given us a new birth into a living   
   hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,   
   4 (Col 1:5; 2Ti 4:8) to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does   
   not fade away, kept in heaven for you,   
   5 (Eph 2:8) who are protected by the power of God through faith for   
   a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.   
      
   [3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according   
   to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the   
   resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,   
   [4] To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not   
   away, reserved in heaven for you,   
   [5] Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to   
   be revealed in the last time.   
      
   1) Jesus Christ coming onto the world as a baby   
      
      
   Mark 1:1   
      
   1 (Mt 14:33) The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.   
      
   [1] The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;   
      
   Luke 1:1-4   
      
   The Prologue   
      
   1 Whereas many have undertaken to write a narrative of those things   
   which are most surely believed among us,   
   2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning   
   were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,   
   3 it seemed good to me also, having accurately investigated all things   
   from the very beginning, to write to you an orderly account,   
   most excellent Theophilus,   
   4 that you might know the certainty of the things which you have been told.   
      
   [1] Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration   
   of those things which are most surely believed among us,   
   [2] Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were   
   eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;   
   [3] It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all   
   things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent   
   Theophilus,   
   [4] That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast   
   been instructed.   
      
   John 1:1-18   
      
   The Word Became Flesh   
      
   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,   
   and the Word was God.   
   2 He was in the beginning with God.   
   3 All things were created through Him, and without Him nothing   
   was created that was created.   
   4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.   
   5 The light shines in darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.   
   6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.   
   7 This man came as a witness in order to testify concerning the Light,   
   that all men through Him might believe.   
   8 He was not this Light, but was sent in order to testify   
   concerning the Light.   
   9 The true Light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.   
   10 He was in the world, and the world was created through Him,   
   yet the world did not know Him.   
   11 He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.   
   12 Yet to all who received Him, He gave the power to become sons of God,   
   to those who believed in His name,   
   13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,   
   nor of the will of man, but of God.   
   14 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory,   
   the glory as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.   
   15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, "This was He of whom I said,   
   'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.' "   
   16 We have all received from His fullness grace upon grace.   
   17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came   
   through Jesus Christ.   
   18 No one has seen God at any time. The only Son, who is at the Father's side,   
   has made Him known.   
      
   [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the   
   Word was God.   
   [2] The same was in the beginning with God.   
      
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