Young Christians Calendar – Saturday, November 14, 2026

November 2026

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life” (1 John 5:13).

A short while ago the father of a Christian friend of mine died. He was a true Christian, and when he died, he went to be with the Lord. A short time later my friend told someone at his work that his father had died, and that his father had gone to be with Christ. But his coworker said, “You mean, you hope he is with Christ.” “No,” my friend said, “I know my father is with Christ, because the Word of God says so.

There are many things that are uncertain in the world today, and sadly, there are many people who say things that they know are not true. But God cannot lie, and when He says something in His Word, we can fully trust Him. God wants us to know that we have eternal life, because we believe on His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Friday, November 13, 2026

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“Ye were the servants of sin…being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Romans 6:17-18).

When we accept Christ as our Savior, we receive a new nature—a life that cannot sin. However, we still have the old sinful nature, and it is just as capable of sinning as before! All of us who are saved know that. So now a believer in the Lord Jesus has two natures.

If we are careless and allow the old sinful nature to act, we will sin. This does not mean that we are suddenly part of the family of the devil again, but we are acting like the devil’s family. We are still part of God’s family, but we are not acting like it. But God wants us to be like His family, and we do this by allowing the new nature to act in our life.

We need to remember that every time we sin, we are acting like the family of the devil. This is a very solemn thought!

Thursday, November 12, 2026

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“In Him [the Lord Jesus] is no sin” (1 John 3:5).

“The devil sinneth from the beginning…in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil” (1 John 3:8,10).

In our two verses for today we have a description of the two families of people that are in this world. Either we belong to the family of God, or we belong to the family of the devil. Some people would be insulted if they heard this, but it is true. Everyone in this world belongs to one of these two families. There is no such thing as a third family.

The Lord Jesus could not sin, for He has a nature that cannot sin. Those who are saved have also been given a new nature—a nature that cannot sin. But the devil cannot do anything but sin, and those who are not saved have a nature characterized by sinning.

Somebody may ask, What happens then when a true believer sins? How does that happen? We will see tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

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“And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth Himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:3).

Yesterday we saw that already we are children of God, but that we do not yet look like it. It will not be until the Lord comes that we will get our glorified bodies. However, there is one way that we can be like Christ in this world, and that is by purifying ourselves. We cannot change our bodies, but we can live and walk in a way that honors the Lord Jesus.

If we are truly saved, we have a new nature that wants to please the Lord. He wants us to let that new nature display itself in our lives in this world. It is true that none of us does it perfectly down here in this world, but when other people see the way we behave and live, they ought to realize that we belong to Christ. Today God wants us to be morally like Christ; in a coming day we will be perfectly like Him, both morally and physically.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

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“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2).

It is a wonderful thing to be a son (or child) of God! If we are truly saved, we have been brought into His family, and we belong to Him. Our verse today reminds us of this wonderful truth, but it also reminds us that while we are down here in this world, we do not look like children of God. Because sin has come into this world, we have bodies that are subject to aging, disease, and eventually death, if the Lord does not come first and take us home to be with Himself.

However, when the Lord does come, we will immediately have “bodies of glory”—bodies that are perfectly like Christ’s body. Later, when the Lord Jesus comes back to this world in power and glory to set up His kingdom and to reign, we will come with Him. At that time the whole world will see that you and I are perfectly like Christ. The Lord wants us to enjoy this hope, and to look forward to it!

Monday, November 9, 2026

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“For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways” (Psalm 91:11).

“The angels…are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for [take care of] them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Hebrews 1:13-14).

As we go about our daily lives, we do not often think that the Lord has placed angels around us to look after us! We arrive home safely, even from a trip to the grocery store, and may not think that an angel may have redirected another car so that we passed safely by without an accident. We may miss a plane flight and feel frustrated, but perhaps the angels were saving us from harm in some way. Maybe there was someone else sitting in that airport that the Lord wanted us to meet and talk to that day.

When the Lord makes a promise to us in this way, it does not just mean “sometimes”! Every day we are lovingly watched over and guarded by His angels! Let’s be sure we thank Him daily for His care.

Sunday, November 8, 2026

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“They that hate Me without a cause are more than the hairs of Mine head: they that would destroy Me, being Mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away” (Psalm 69:4).

When the Lord Jesus suffered on the cross, He felt it keenly that so many hated Him—more than the hairs of His head. Do you realize that there are more than 100,000 hairs on the heads of younger people? All these people wanted to destroy the Lord Jesus, just because they did not like Him. Why did they not like Him? It was because He told them that they were sinners before God, and could not get eternal life by their own efforts.

But in spite of all this hatred, the Lord Jesus willingly went to the cross, and our verse tells us that He “restored that which [He] took not away.” It was man that had sinned and brought sorrow, pain and death into this world, but it was the Lord Jesus who suffered for sin, and made a way for men and women to be saved from all this. In fact, His work on the cross gave man much more than he had before sin came into this world. As a result of what the Lord Jesus did, we will spend eternity with Him in heaven, and eventually sin and all its sad effects will be totally removed from this entire universe. The restoration will be complete, and more than complete!