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The Wednesday Word - 17 August, 2022 A.D.

  The Perfect Christ and His Perfect Gospel.   Part 1  by  D .G. Miles McKee   2 Samuel 22:31: “ As for God, His way is perfect”   Christ is perfect (Hebrews 5:9). As a result of this perfection, His work is also perfect (Hebrews 10:14). When, from the cross, He uttered that famous word, “Finished” (John 19:30), He declared that His redemptive work for us was perfect. What a joy to know that Christ’s redemptive work is finished and complete. As we have often noted, there is nothing in it that should be out of it, and nothing out of it that should be in it.   Since Jesus is the perfect One without spot or wrinkle (1 Peter 1:18-19), everything that He touches is coloured with His perfection. He is the embodiment of ‘Sinless Perfection‘.  That means believers are also sinlessly perfect … in Him.   By faith, we now see the representative man standing between us and the Father. By faith, we see ourselves clothed in Christ’s perfection. We no longer need to contrive ways and means by which t

THE LORD HATH GLORIFIED HIMSELF

"Sing, O ye heavens; for the L ORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the L ORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel."   -Isaiah 44:23 [KJV] Come, my soul, and join this universal hymn of praise, this lovely evening. Surely, if the Lord, by His servant the prophet, calls upon all nature, both the animate and inanimate parts of creation, to join in the melody, well may "the redeemed of the Lord say so! " The heavens shall sing the song of redemption; for angels rejoice over converted sinners. The earth shall join the song; for the curse pronounced on the ground is taken away by redemption. Yea, the very trees of the desert, the most remote from the peopled city, in beholding the felicity of God's chosen, shall clap their hands also.   And mark, my soul, what is the running verse and chorus of this blessed song? It is Jehovah's glory; "for the Lo