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The Wednesday Word - 16 November, 2022 A.D.

  Jesus the Precious One, part V   “ Unto you, therefore, which believe He is precious ” (1 Peter 2:7). As we read the Acts of the Apostles we see that power, forgiveness and salvation are related to the precious name of Jesus.  Take, for example, in Acts 8 where we discover the story of Philip and the Eunuch.  As you remember, Philip the Evangelist was instructed by the Angel of the Lord to go to Gaza where he encountered an Ethiopian sitting in his chariot reading the Scroll of Isaiah.  Let’s take up this story from verse 32.   “ The place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.” And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?   The eunuch refers to Jesus as "some ot