The tension we live in between the two comings of Emmanuel is a reality that affects us all, but knowing that Emmanuel is God with us, present tense, ongoing, brings comfort and responsibility to share that comfort with a lost world. The mission of Emmanuel is to ransom the spiritually dead, redeem the spiritually enslaved, and restore the spiritually emaciated, and his successful mission is a truth that we can proclaim to the world.
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