by Ray Viola | Dec 21, 2023 | Devotionals
The celebration of Christmas is not the celebration of something, it is the celebration of Someone, and that Someone is Jesus Christ. Let’s just take a moment to ponder and wonder at what God did when He became a man. Somehow, in a miraculous, marvelous, mysterious...
by Ray Viola | Dec 20, 2023 | Devotionals
As we saw yesterday, the very first promise of the incarnation of the Messiah was given in Genesis 3:15: “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” This prophecy of...
by Ray Viola | Dec 19, 2023 | Devotionals
The incarnation, or human birth of Jesus Christ, was not His beginning. Jesus Christ is Emmanuel, God with us. He is the Uncreated Word Who was in the beginning with God, and was God Himself! This is what Scripture declares to be the blessed mystery of godliness. God...
by Ray Viola | Aug 10, 2023 | Devotionals
The message of the incarnation is a God-centered, vertical-focused message. Throughout Scripture the greatness and majesty of The Lord is repeated, in order to humble the pride of man and reveal to them their need for a Lord and Savior. Today we will be looking at...
by Ray Viola | Aug 25, 2020 | Devotionals
As we come to the close of our study in Romans, Paul mentions “the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret since the world began” (Romans 16:25). This word “mystery” is not to be understood as it is used to describe a crime mystery. This word describes...