![]() ![]() My daughter is usually one of those people who requires more sleep but she’s always up for a celebration so I guess she made an exception for him that day. ![]() “The entire point is to be respectful of the fact that other people around here need more sleep than you.” Obviously wide awake, he and his sister figured their best option was to sit between me and their father and chat until six. “Happy birthday son, but it’s too early, go back to sleep. Also, while he and I often get up early, it’s rarely that early. Waking up at the crack of dawn is not everyone’s jam in our household. I’ll just say right off the hop here that it was his ninth birthday and he absolutely could have looked at a clock and read the time. Owing to his good will and pleasure, by his appointment and constitution, as an instance of love to him, and that he might, as man, and Mediator, be honoured, and in all things have the pre-eminence, and all for the good of his chosen ones: now the knowledge of this by his disciples, must greatly confirm the mission of Christ, render him very suitable to them, cause them to entertain a greater esteem for him, lead them into some admiring views of the grace of God, in giving so much into Christ's hands for them, and engage them the more cheerfully to obey his commands.My son’s birthday was late last month so of course at 5:15 in the morning of his Big Day the entire family was abruptly awoken when he loudly questioned if it was time to wake up. That all things whatsoever thou hast given me Īll temporal things, the world and the fulness of it all power in heaven, and in earth, or a power of disposing of all things for his own service, as Mediator all spiritual things, the covenant of grace, with all its blessings and promises, the Spirit of God, with all his, gifts and graces, a fulness of all grace for his people, yea, eternal life and glory and everything relating to his mediatorial office and character, power to perform miracles, knowledge and wisdom to preach the Gospel, strength to procure the salvation of his people every thing to qualify him for the government of church and the judgment of the world: The Syriac version reads it ( tedy), "I have known" and so the Persic and Gothic versions, contrary to most copies and other versions, which read, as we render, "they have known", that is, the disciples and apostles of Christ: ![]()
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