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Devotional: November 24th

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"And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."Luke 10:18 It deserves our utmost attention and prayerful consideration to see, by the eye of faith, the display of wisdom and power shining forth in the way in which the all-wise God sent his dear Son"to destroy"or, as the word is in the original, to unloose"the works of the devil"(1 John 3:8). Satan had, so to speak, spun a raveled knot when he cast the cords of sin round man’s heart. This tangled and tight-drawn knot could not be cut through as by a sword of omnipotent power; but had by infinite wisdom and patience to be unraveled through its whole length. The work which Satan had done was to be undone. Disobedience had to be repaired by obedience -- the voluntary obedience of the Son of God, and therefore of infinite value. Sin had to be atoned for by sacrifice -- the sacrifice of the nature which had sinned, in union with the Person of the Son of God, and therefore deriving from it unspeakable efficacy. Death had to be destroyed by the ever- living Son of God submitting to die. The law must be magnified by being obeyed by him who by his divine Person is above law. The Law-giver must be the Law-fulfiller. He who is the ever-blessed One must be made a curse; and the holy One of Israel, who knew no sin, must be"made sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.""Who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle?"asked the Lord"I would go through them,"is his answer (Isaiah 27:4). So our blessed Lord went through these thorns and briers set against him in battle. He thoroughly went through all that he undertook; and by going through unraveled the work of Satan.

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