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²³“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).²⁴When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. ²⁵But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.(Matthew 1:24-25)

“…, Jesus Christ is Lord,...”(Philippians 2:11)

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was with God in the beginning. ³Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.(John 1:1-4)

⁶Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.⁷If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.(John 14:6-7)

 ¹Afetr Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.²For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.³Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.⁴I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.⁵And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.(John 17:1-5)

 “…, gods made by human hands are no gods at all.”(Acts 19:26) “…, idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.”(Revelation 9:20)

“…, Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? ²⁰You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.” ²¹(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

²²Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. ²³For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

²⁴“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. ²⁵And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ²⁶From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. ²⁷God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

²⁹“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. ³⁰In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. ³¹For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”(Acts 17:18-31)

⁵In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: ⁶Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; ⁷rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! ⁹Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)

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¹³I remain confident of this:

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¹⁴Wait for the Lord;

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God, I am gladly thankful to You for loving and taking care of us, healing and defending us. Thank you for Your blessings in every area of my life. Today, I rejoice and praise You and confidently wait for you, knowing that You are working behind the scene on my behalf; and that You have good things in store for my future in Jesus’s name! Amen.