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- Subject: "One Bread, One Body", Jan 8
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- Friday, January 8, 1993
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- I John 5:5-13 Psalm 147 Luke 5:12-16
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- ONLY JESUS
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- "God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." --I John 5:11
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- Some people maintain there are many ways to God, and Jesus may be the best
- Way. However, Jesus did not call Himself the best Way but _the_ Way, the
- only Way to the Father (Jn 14:6). "The testimony is this: God gave us eternal
- life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever possesses the Son possesses life;
- whoever does not possess the Son of God does not possess life" (I Jn 5:11-12).
- God's life is in Jesus His Son, and only in His Son. "Through Him all things
- came into being, and apart from Him nothing came to be" (Jn 1:3). Jesus
- Christ is "our only Master and Lord" (Jude 4). "There is no salvation in
- anyone else, for there is no other name in the whole world given to men by
- which we are to be saved" (Acts 4:12).
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- Any saving work in the world, even in the lives of those who haven't heard
- the gospel, is done by Jesus. Therefore, we exist to evangelize, to tell the
- world about Jesus. We want "to bring all things in the heavens and on earth
- into one under Christ's headship" (Eph 1:10). Because Jesus is the only Way,
- Truth, Life, Savior, Lord, and God, we must be His witnesses even to the ends
- of the earth (Acts 1:8).
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- Prayer: Father, on these last few days of the Christmas season, may I give
- others Christmas by giving them Christ.
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- Promise: "Jesus stretched out His hand to touch him and said, `I do will it.
- Be cured.' Immediately the leprosy left him." --Lk 5:13
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- Praise: Beverly took the good news of Jesus to India.
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- From "One Bread, One Body", reproduced with permission.
- Nihil Obstat: Rev. Edward J. Gratsch
- Imprimatur: +Most Rev. James H. Garland, V.G.
- Archdiocese of Cincinnati, August 17, 1992.
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