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We all know that throughout the world the birth of Jesus is being directly and indirectly celebrated on this day.
Stripping all the Roman Catholic implications away from it, “Christ’s Mass” in its original Latin form, best means, “Christ being sent,” though this meaning is all but lost today.
Later “Christ’s Mass” came to symbolize all that God sent to us in Jesus Christ which includes salvation, true worship, new commandments – the Good News.
After this all the rites and rituals (that are supposed to represent Christ – the eucharist etc) were included in the “Christ Mass.”
As time wore on we know that the term was sort of welded together and “Christ’s Mass” became “Christmas” which was soon tied to winter snows, festivals, lights, gift giving and a laughing merry man named Santa Claus.
Today some of the world’s most ardent atheists celebrate Christmas without any religious connection to the day whatsoever.
Many pagans feel they have the right to make such a switch since the ties to winter and snow and lights and trees originated with them – and before they were meshed with the Birth of Jesus.
From a religious sense however, and in the end, without the original Christ and all He did, was (and now is) we ought not be surprised that the day today has returned to its pagan origins and for most is absent “all things Christ” but full of “all that is in the world.”
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I would like to begin our short time together today by inviting all here to physically recall the day Jesus came into the world – and we’ll do this by holding a free will communion. Meaning it is open and free to you if you are willing to receive it.
On both sides of me we have the elements of Christian communion which represent the main physical elements of Jesus human body – unleavened bread typifying his untainted flesh and the wine, a symbol of His blood which He shed – His own life blood – to make propitiation for sin.
We note that Jesus was certainly flesh and blood but that an element of His person is often overlooked in communion – His Spirit.
Romans 8:9 speaks of the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ being one in the same, saying:
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”
Philippians 1:19 calls the Spirit “the Spirit of Jesus Christ,”
Speaking of Jesus Paul also said:
2nd Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
In the face of all of this I would suggest that while we are remembering Him through physical representations of His body (in unleavened bread and wine) and that it is the Spirit of Christ, or “Christ living in us” that moves us to remember Him, as Paul says us in Galatians 2:20:
“But Christ lives in me.”
And so here WE – individually – have the opportunity to choose to ingest these elements into our bodies by the very Spirit of Christ abiding in us.
And in this we discover “communion,” with Him.
(beat)
So in the Spirit of a true Christ Mass, please feel free to come forward and then ingest these elements as you are moved.
We will sit in silence for a few minutes in reflection of this gift given to us by God who so . . . loved . . . the . . . world.
The grape juice is on the ________ and the fermented wine is on the ____________.
(play Silent Night while people take communion)
An Illustration of Christ
Christmas Day
December 25th 2016
Milk
Because this day is the celebration of Jesus Christs birth I, in turn, want to offer all of you a gift in His name.
It used to be that when I arrived at conclusions I was excited to share them with all who would hear. Not so much anymore.
The fallout is painful as I watch people I know and love move along, unable to receive what I share.
But peace if possible, but truth always.
A scriptural summary of all I say will be given to at the door you as you leave to enjoy the day so you don’t need to worry about trying to take notes.
We are also putting the verses up for you so you don’t have to look back and forth from your Bibles to me over and over again.
Like the best of gift’s I offer this to you freely and from the bottom of my heart – and like all gifts you have the right to receive it or reject it.
May God send His Spirit to deny or confirm.
Suppose for a moment that you possessed an actual photograph of Jesus. It was in living color but came with no frame.
If I were to make you a truly “hand-made picture frame” I would go and hack down a tree, shape and cut the wood, take ore and melt it down, shape some of it into nails, put the frame together and present it to you from my heart as something to benefit your life.
The gift would come from me (and the inspiration that moved me to create it) but in reality the material the gift was made of would have come from God. And though I would have gone to some extremes to make it “from scratch” I merely would have just taken “scratch that God has given us” and put it all together for your benefit.
This is what I want to offer you all today – a gift I have put together out of “scratch” provided by God.
But instead of forming a frame for a picture you possess I am going to try and attempt to provide you with the picture itself . . . a biblical picture of Jesus Christ extracted and formed by pre-existing materials given to us by God – the Word of God.
I have not originated the material. I am just presenting to you in a gift I’m titling, An Illustration of Jesus.
Notice I have not called it, The Illustration of Jesus. There are a number of them out there so this is An Illustration.
There are those who picture Him as a ghost or apparition . Those who say He never existed. Those who call Him a good man or even “a prophet.”
There are some who paint Him as the first created spirit-son of Heavenly parents (with us coming in thereafter as his spiritual siblings).
And the vast majority of Christian-based faiths refer to Him as the second person of the Holy Trinity – meaning there is one God who is composed of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Some say He was not God, others say that say He was actually the Father (who became the holy Spirit) and the illustrations go on and on.
We can find them by the dozens in religious swap meets around the world, with all of them having been drawn and replicated for hundreds and even thousands of years.
And for just as long people have taken them and hung them on the walls of their minds and hearts.
My views are in no way superior to others but I can say I have searched to know His identity for nearly fifty years – and from a very early age – and I do take all I believe of Him from the material provided contextually and as honestly as possible.
Having the right picture of God and His Son is beyond vital to true worship . . . and more.
Jesus Himself said in John 17:3:
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
First, we note that Jesus Himself makes a distinction between “the Only True God” and Himself, “whom God sent.”
(read it again)
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee . . . the . . . only . . . true God, and Jesus Christ . . . whom thou hast sent.”
At this point I want to offer you a number of Propositions that will all contribute to our Illustration of the Lord. The first proposition I want to make is:
PROPOSITION
THE PASSAGES
There is One God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ.
What does the Bible have to say about this?
2nd Corinthian 1:2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1st Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1st Corinthians 1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1st Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
2nd Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
1st Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Have you ever been confused by the interpretations of Men when you read passages like this?
I have. But so far the scripture plainly explains that there is One God and there is one mediator between God and man . . . “the Man Jesus Christ.”
Just who was this Man Jesus Christ? Where did He come from? Is and was He any different than the rest of us?
Very much so. So let’s examine the Word contextually and see if we can better illustrate Him. We’ll continue with our second proposal:
The One God spoke all things into existence.
All through the Genesis account of Creation we read that the One God spoke . . . and then what the One God said, happened. For instance . . .
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
There are many, many more like this – the One God said, and what He said came to be.
Perhaps when we think of God speaking we think of vocal cords vibrating and sound passing though a throat and over a tongue and through lips forming Words.
In this anthropomorphic view we fail to understand that God is Spirit and His “Words” are Spirit.
Unlike our words, all of God’s words are living, they have power, they never die or go away. They have the very power of life in them.
Quite frankly, because God is Spirit and His Words are spirit God Words ARE Him. They are truly an extension of Himself.
John makes this plain when he says at the introduction of His Gospel
Proverbs 1:23 says:
“Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
As you all know thirteen verses later in this very same chapter we read . . .
John was speaking of Jesus the Man here when he said:
“And the Word was made flesh.” He doesn’t say the “pre-existent spirit of the Man Jesus” was made flesh. He does not say that Jesus was a man out of a woman like all other people that was made flesh.
He says plainly that 1) the Word of God 2) was MADE flesh and dwelled among us.
In the Christmas carol of Old, What Child Is This, we sing:
Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,
The Cross be born, for me, for you,
Hail hail, the Word made flesh
The babe, the Son of Mary.
There is One God.
He spoke all things into creation.
His Words are the One God.
Those Words were made flesh.
And dwelled among us.
In the Man, Jesus of Nazareth.
The Son of Mary
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
While walking upon this earth, how was the “Word made flesh” known?
Did they call Him God? Listen to how Peter speaks of Him to the gathering on the day of Pentecost:
Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
From all of this, we now understand how “the One God, created all things by Jesus Christ!”
God spoke and His living Words created all things – and His Living Words were made flesh in the Man Jesus Christ.
From this we better comprehend Colossians 1:16-17:
We know that at birth The Word of God made flesh was given earthly name Jesus and an earthly title Christ (for Messiah) so we know the One God (named Yehovah) did NOT have a person with Him named Jesus Christ in the beginning. These were earthly titles.
But He had His Words with Him from the Beginning. They are Spirit, they are life, they are powerful. And they were from God and were God. And they were made flesh.
Colossians 1:16-17 For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: and he is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
In the Man, Jesus of Nazareth, – born of a woman, born under the Law. Listen to what Galatians 4:4 says
Jesus of Nazareth was a man who was made – Paul says it twice here – God’s Only Begotten Son was made of a woman, His Only Begotten Son was made under the law. His Only Begotten Son breathed oxygen – chest heaving up and down, and was a human who felt pain, and man who had a mind, will and emotions.
Now listen – while this man, this Only Begotten Son of God was human – (READY – LISTEN) He was constructed in a way that was forever different from all other human beings to ever exist.
How? This human Son of God had the One God as His Father. Jesus was His Only Begotten (made of a woman) Son.
In other words, God made a human being His actual, literal only begotten Son. He made us creations But in Jesus He made an actual Son.
Nobody before or after was or will ever be like Him. But the key to this is to remember that Jesus of Nazareth was made. The Writer of Hebrews puts it this way:
Now, how was He made? This is so important. He was made of God and of Man. God’s spirit overshadowed Mary and she conceived, by the Power of God, and the Babe – LISTEN – had a DNA unlike ANY other because His Father bestowed in Him His fullness and His Mother bestowed hers.
Next Proposition:
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Then the One God, who had promised redemption to the Nation of Israel through a Messiah, sent Jesus of Nazareth to them. Listen closely to the Word of Luke in Acts 10:
Remember the first Proposal”
“There is One God” – and according to His promise He raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus of Nazareth.
Is the forest starting to clear? Is the illustration starting to take shape and form and in a light maybe you have not seen Him before?
If so, we begin to understand why Jesus would distinguish so clearly in John 17 when He said:
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
Acts 10:36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Then (in Acts 13:23 and speaking of king David) we read “Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:
What else did the One God do in and through Jesus of Nazareth? Again, in Acts 2:36, Peter says:
Ever wonder why scripture refers to the One God and then distinguishes between the One God and Jesus by calling Him “the Lord and Savior?” all the time?
I would humbly suggest that this is because the One God so loved the World He merged (His living Word by the Spirit) with human flesh, creating the Man, Jesus of Nazareth, His ONLY begotten (human made Son) to act as an intermediary that could and would save the World – thereby coming to the world as our Savior and our Lord and then becoming our Lord and Savior only after passing through mortality.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
What else did the One God do with Jesus of Nazareth? While on Earth Jesus was a man “appointed and anointed” by God. (That is what “Christ” means “anointed one”)
Acts 10:38 says it well.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
This is from Peter in preaching to Cornelius. He could have said God the Son came and saved us. Nothing doing! He clearly delineates between God and Jesus of Nazareth, whom God appointed, and gave Him the Holy Spirit and Power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil . . . ( “for God – the One True God) – was with Him.
He wasn’t Him. But He was with the Man Jesus of Nazareth in His very DNA! In this way He was truly God with us!
Going back to Acts 2:22 what did Peter say there?
Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
“Which God did by Him.”
What else did the One God do in and through His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ? He, the One and Only God, raised the One and Only Jesus up from the grave
Now this is all taking us somewhere important. We would fully expect the Son of God to walk a perfect life, would we not? Nothing less, after all, He was the Son of God, right?
We would expect the Son of God to perform miracles and signs – like walking on water – nothing less. The Son of God would do such things.
We would fully expect the grave to have no power over the God’s human Son, right? It did not.
But as a Man, God’s first and only begotten Son out and from the Human Race, He had to choose, had to learn, had to overcome all things as a means to reconcile us to His Father and then assume His rightful place at His right hand as Lord and Savior.
Some people are uncomfortable with Jesus being God’s Only Human Son, they say things like “Jesus had an advantage over the rest of the Human race because God was His Father,” or they say, “He was fully human – fully, and therefore just like us!”
Has that ever bothered you intellectually? This hyperbole of Jesus being “fully God” and “fully man?” Or maybe have you wondered about Him having an “advantage over the rest of us” and therefore able to do what He did?
Did Jesus the Man have an advantage to the rest of the human race! Of COURSE HE DID! He is Our Lord and Savior, God’s Only Begotten Son! We are not in competition with Jesus. God made and gave Him to save us, not compete with us. And save us He did.
Having done so . . .
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Acts 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Acts 13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Jesus of Nazareth fully redeemed humankind from the Fall. He has done what the One God from on high could not accomplish (listen) either by relying on the goodness of Man (meaning Adam) nor by bestowing His Law upon us – (meaning the Nation of Israel).
Loving us so much He took His very living Word, and with the Seed of a woman MADE His only begotten Son by the Holy Spirit, and God with us – saved us.
Having had the victory Jesus BECAME – listen – Jesus became both the author and the finisher of the faith!
He merited the title Lord and our Savior of the World. As a result we look directly to Him – and no other, as Hebrews 12:2 says
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(of the One God – we now have a righteous mediator, a Lord and Savior, a King of Kings and Lord of Lords! – to the One True God.)
Since this victory, the One True God and His Only Begotten Son, OUR Lord, Savior and King work in tandem to redeem humankind.
Forty six times Jesus is called “the Son of God” in the New Testament.
Nearly double that (87 times) Jesus is called “the Son of Man.”
How many times is Jesus called “God the Son?” after the traditions of Man?
Never. Ever. (get Ready.) Because that is NOT what he entered the World being. What? Huh?
Many Christian scholars (and otherwise) insisted on saying that Jesus was “fully man” and “fully God.” Ever hear that?
Theologians call this the hypostatic union which speaks of the combined natures of God and humanity in one being.
No problem. Jesus was obviously God and Man in His DNA. That’s a hypostatic union.
But it’s the 100% claim that is troubling.
Not having a solution I’ve echoed the sentiment over and over not knowing any better.
But there are problems with this as no
“God is not human” and humans, while made in His image, are not God”.
What I mean by this is there has never been any human being alive (other than Jesus) whose Father is God.
Because of this I suggest that it is a stretch to call Him fully Man (again, since no Man on earth has ever had the spiritual genetics of God) or Fully God as no part of God has ever become human either! (before Christ, that is)
For me, and as difficult this will be for some, I tend to illustrate Jesus, instead of being “fully man” and “fully God” I see Jesus the Man as less than God (due to the presence of His flesh) and also less than Man, (due to the presence of God in Him).
Again, “less than God” because from the mouth of Jesus “God is Spirit” (and Jesus was flesh) and “less than man” because no other human has had God as their Father from birth!
So when I say “less than God” I mean “handicapped by the flesh” and when I say “less than human” I mean “empowered from birth by the DNA of God.”
It’s not that the fullness of God wasn’t in Him nor that He was less than human in flesh – he had the fullness of each – but it was the presence of the “other” that marginalized the fullness of the former.
Get it?
When the fullness of purity is woven together with threads of carnality the result is not improvement or the containment of purity but a legitimizing of such.
And if something fallen and evil is met and matched with something glorious it becomes less fallen and less evil and therefore NOT more human (but less).
In this way we understand how Jesus:
Condescended below all things.
We understand how He learned obedience by the things He suffered.
We understand how He did not know certain things. How He
Bled, suffered and even asked “God why He had forsaken Him.”
In this we understand how He died. God the Son does not die. The Son of God and the Son of Man can and did.
We are also able to understand how the anointed one was ultimately made “Lord and King” fully warranting a position at the right hand of His Father – as a glorified man, who allowed “the deity in Him” to reign over “the flesh surrounding Him” and God reconciling the fallen fleshly world to Himself through His only Begotten Son.
A couple more propositions:
1st Thessalonians 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
2nd Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace.
Titus 1:4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
Not God the Father and God the Son.
God the Father and the Lord – the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
As a result everything we do (in relation to God) is now “by or through” Christ Jesus.
He is our mediator, our Lord, our Savior and our King. Hence from scripture:
Romans 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 15:17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
1st Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1st Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1st Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2nd Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2nd Corinthians 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
1st Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1st Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
1st Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
We also know that all that we are and all that we do “by and through Jesus Christ” is for the Glory of the One God.
Philippians 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
1st Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Finally, we discover something really interesting in the Book of Revelation. All through the synoptic Gospels – Matthew Mark and Luke – Jesus is described in very human terms. If we were left with the synoptic Gospels alone we would have very very little evidence of the deity in Jesus.
His deity is really only realized by and through the Gospel of John – who also received and wrote the Book of Revelation.
In the first chapter John describes a vision He had of Jesus in heaven, one that was VERY different from the Jesus even He knew.
He records:
This is NOT the description of a human. It is plainly a description of a Man – with hair and eyes, and a voice of roaring waves – who reached what scholars call Apotheosis – divinity.
So while He entered life made of a woman, made under the Law, the Word made flesh, He overwhelmed His flesh by the Spirit and the Son of God inherited all that His Father had to give Him – everything, including full and absolute deity – something He did NOT possess while on earth due to His human nature.
To worship Him is to worship the One True God – there is no difference. We fall at His feet as if dead – for by and through Him God has reconciled the fallen human World to Himself.
And therefore . . .
“this is life eternal, to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent.”
Let’s Sing.
Revelation 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Do you hear what I hear?
The First Noel
Away in a Manger
What Child is this?
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Joy to the World
Angel’s we have Heard on High
O Come all Ye Faithful
Prayer
