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Slave of Jesus Christ, passion to spread the good news of Jesus Christ to the world.

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[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.

Dates. Places. Names you can check.

Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.

Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.

Now read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer.

One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.

They dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

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[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.

Dates. Places. Names you can check.

Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.

Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.

Now read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer.

One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.

They dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

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[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.

Dates. Places. Names you can check.

Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.

Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.

Now read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer.

One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.

They dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

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A PERFECT Example of How to Casually Share Your Faith with Strangers https://t.co/tLCTcwH8Ev via @YouTube

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Freedom 250 presents Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving, live from the National Mall. https://t.co/iA0BkfS3Hv

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@PeteHegseth Hello Pete, next month try Mark Dever from https://t.co/3jszWXkAhr You are in my prayers - Onward Christian Soldiers, blessings ...

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Masters Seminary Intro webinar - https://t.co/tBQe9fQic0

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Update from CENTCOM Commander on Operation Epic Fury:

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@MollySOShea How are you doing, Molly?

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@JulianGoldieSEO Please send notebooklm SOP, thanks.

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@EthanChoi7 Hi Ethan, is this available in PDF?

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Biblical figures validated by archaeological finds -https://t.co/RaEHfTZKoN

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Biblical figures validated by archaeological finds

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@mariomoschetta @omooretweets Can you walk me through how it is done? Thanks...

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@newstart_2024 Check on Grok - this can damage the eye.

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@JulianGoldieSEO Hi Julian, AI agents SOP please- thanks.

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The Truth About Christmas — John MacArthur

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

Jesus possessed equality with God, but He was willing to let go of it.

The Theology of Christmas — John MacArthur // December 20, 2009

So on the one hand, it wasn’t something He had to snatch because it didn’t belong to Him. And on the other hand, it did belong to Him, but it was not something that He clutched with a death grip, if you will. He was willing to give it up. So willing that verse 7 says, “He emptied Himself” - He emptied Himself. That is just a powerful statement. The Greek verb means to pour out until it’s all gone, to pour out until it’s all gone. Just exactly of what did He empty Himself? Well, some people might think He emptied Himself of His deity but He didn’t because He couldn’t. That’s His nature - that’s His being - that’s His essence.

And some might think He divested Himself of the form of God and became only a man. That’s not possible because the very essence of God’s nature is manifest inseparably from its characteristics and attributes, and so He didn’t give up His nature as God and He didn’t give up His attributes as God. Well, what did He give up? Of what did He empty Himself? Well, the New Testament lays it out for us.

He remained fully God but, for example, John 17:4, He said, “Father, give me back the glory I had with you before the world began.”
He emptied Himself of His glory, His divine glory. His glory in this world was veiled. On the Mount of Transfiguration, He pulled His flesh back and gave them a little glimpse of His glory, you remember? But He veiled His glory when He came into this world.

He set His glory aside and gave up His honor. According to Isaiah 53, there was no beauty in Him that men would desire Him. He was despised, He was rejected. And we know that unfolds in the New Testament. He was hated. He was treated with scorn. He was shamed. He was spit on. He was beaten. He gave up His honor, gave up His riches.

Second Corinthians 8:9 says He was rich, but for our sakes He became poor. It doesn’t mean He was earthly poor, it means He divested Himself of all the treasures of heaven and came down and lived in a humble village and ate with the rest of the people in His family and walked the dusty streets and lived divested of incomprehensible, limitless heavenly treasures. He even gave up the independent exercise of His own will. He said, “I came not to do my will but the will of Him that sent me,” John 6. He said, “I only do what the Father tells me to do. I only do what the Father says. I only do what I see the Father do. I do what pleases my Father.”

So He gave up His own personal authority, His own independent exercise of that authority. He gave up the use of His omniscience. He said, “I don’t even know when the second coming is going to happen. No one knows but the Father, not even the Son of man.” He gave up the use of His omnipotence. He could have called a legion of angels to defend Him, but He did not do that.

So He gave up His glory, His honor, His riches, the independent exercise of His will. He even gave up a favorable relationship with His Father eventually because He was hanging on the cross, made sin for us, and He said, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Those are the things that He emptied Himself of. It’s a deep mystery of wisdom and power, but it’s true. This is the nature of His humiliation. This is the nature of His love.