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NOVEMBER 6
162 I rejoice at Your word
As one who finds great treasure.
163 I hate and abhor lying,
But I love Your law. 2:4 signs…wonders,…miracles…gifts. The
164 Seven times a day I praise You, supernatural powers demonstrated by Jesus
Because of Your righteous judgments. and by His apostles were the Father’s divine
165 Great peace have those who love confirmation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, His
Your law, Son (John 10:38; Acts 2:22; Rom. 15:19; 1 Cor.
And nothing causes them to stumble. 14:22; 2 Cor. 12:12). This authentication of the
166 LORD, I hope for Your salvation, message was the purpose of such miraculous
And I do Your commandments. deeds. the Holy Spirit. The epistle’s first refer-
167 My soul keeps Your testimonies, ence to the Holy Spirit refers in passing to His
And I love them exceedingly. ministry of confirming the message of salva-
168 I keep Your precepts and Your tion by means of miraculous gifts. Mentioned
testimonies, elsewhere in the epistle are the Holy Spirit’s
involvement in the revelation of Scripture (3:7;
For all my ways are before You.
10:15), in teaching (9:8), in presalvation opera-
Proverbs 28:13 tions (6:4, perhaps His convicting work; 10:29,
common grace),and in ministry to Christ (9:14).
13 He who covers his sins will not
prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes by the grace of God, might taste death for
them will have mercy. everyone.
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all
Hebrews 2:1–18
things and by whom are all things, in bringing
Therefore we must give the more earnest many sons to glory, to make the captain of
2 heed to the things we have heard, lest we their salvation perfect through sufferings.
drift away. For if the word spoken through 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who
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angels proved steadfast, and every transgres- are being sanctified are all of one, for which
sion and disobedience received a just reward, reason He is not ashamed to call them
3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a brethren, saying:
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salvation, which at the first began to be spo-
ken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by “I will declare Your name to My
those who heard Him, God also bearing wit- brethren;
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ness both with signs and wonders, with various In the midst of the assembly I will sing
miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according praise to You.”
to His own will? 13 And again:
5 For He has not put the world to come, of
which we speak, in subjection to angels. But “I will put My trust in Him.”
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one testified in a certain place, saying: And again:
“What is man that You are mindful
of him,
Or the son of man that You take care
of him?
7 You have made him a little lower 2:14 partaken…shared. The Greek word for
“partaken” means fellowship, communion, or
than the angels; partnership. “Shared” means to take hold of
You have crowned him with glory something that is not related to one’s own
and honor, kind.The Son of God was not by nature “flesh
And set him over the works of Your and blood,”but took upon Himself that nature
hands. for the sake of providing redemption for
8 You have put all things in subjection mankind. death…power of death. This is the
under his feet.” ultimate purpose of the Incarnation: Jesus
came to earth to die. By dying, He was able to
For in that He put all in subjection under him, conquer death in His resurrection (John
He left nothing that is not put under him. But 14:19). By conquering death, He rendered
now we do not yet see all things put under Satan powerless against all who are saved.
him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little Satan’s using the power of death is subject to
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lower than the angels, for the suffering of God’s will (Job 2:6).
death crowned with glory and honor, that He,

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