OUR DAILY BREAD 18TH JANUARY 2025 DEVOTIONAL SATURDAY ODB MESSAGE
Our Daily Bread 18th January 2025 Devotional TOPIC: Made Right with Jesus
BIBLE IN YEAR: Genesis 43-45; Matthew 12:24-50
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KEY VERSE: For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation. – 2 Corinthians 6:2
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
2 Corinthians 5:21-6:2
TODAY’S ODB INSIGHT
At its heart, Paul’s statement in 2 Corinthians 5:21 that Jesus “had no sin” shows us the magnitude of Christ’s work through His life and death. The Greek word translated “had” (in some versions “knew”) suggests an intimate acquaintance with something. Jesus knew of sin and its consequences, but it was something he’d never experienced Himself. He had no intimate, personal acquaintance with sin.
Much like the first humans who had no personal experience with sin until they took the fruit of the tree of knowledge (Genesis 2:25–3:7), Christ didn’t sin. But “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us” (2 Corinthians 5:21)—or “to be the offering for our sin” (nlt)—so that humanity could be reconciled to God forever.
OUR DAILY BREAD 18 JANUARY 2025 – SATURDAY ODB DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE:
“We’re ready to board our flight to Montego Bay,” came the announcement. I was traveling as a speaker for and leader of a high school group on a missions trip to Jamaica. I reached into my backpack for my boarding pass and passport—and panic hit. My passport was gone!
Our group boarded the plane without me, and I faced four days of frantic efforts trying to get a new passport. After hundreds of phone calls, a fruitless trip to Washington DC, a long drive back to Grand Rapids, Michigan, two days in a nearby city, and the help of our local congresswoman’s office—I finally got a new passport and could join my group in Jamaica.
A passport. A simple little book—but my only guarantee to where I wanted to go. As hard as I worked to get that new document, its value pales in comparison to something that will determine our eternal destination: faith in Jesus, which is the only guarantee of receiving salvation from our sins and new life in Him.
Scripture says, “Now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). Paul was describing the reality that the dawn of salvation arrived in Christ. By believing in Him, we can experience God’s love and His redemptive, restoring work in all creation. Today, let’s make sure that we truly know what it means to “be made right with God through Christ” (5:21 nlt).
REFLECT: How has Jesus provided the way for you to receive salvation? What does it mean for you to trust Him as your Savior?
PRAY: Dear Jesus, thank You for providing the way for me to receive salvation from sin and death.
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