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T. </span>Spence</p><br /> </div><br /> <div class="body-text"><br /> <p></p><br /> <p><br /> Luke 2:7 states, “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling<br /> clothes, and laid him in a manger | Straightway Online was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.” Our beloved, despised, rejected Saviour did not only have compassion on him, but He also “went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast.” It is through His great merits at Calvary that He is able to come to us; He is able to bind up all the wounds from our life of sin, pouring in the oil of the Holy Spirit and wine of sanctification to bring about a full restoration of life unto Him. Oh, how the providences of God have been supporting and transporting us along. </p> <p> Finally, He took us to the “inn,” a <i>pandocheion</i>, a palatial hotel, certainly the opposite of the <i>kataluma</i>. Because of His poverty for us, we will be the spiritually rich ones when His redemption is fully wrought in us. </p> <p> It is our prayer that during this Christmas season God will richly bless your life and family. Let us ever be conscious of the fact that He was born to die for our sins. He was born in the outhouse stables of a <i>Kataluma</i> in order to take us to the palatial <i>Pandocheion</i>. It truly must be said, “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities” (Psalm 103:10). </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>