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Dec.13.06: Light for the Day - "The
Real Christmas Story"
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-- John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made
His dwelling among us.
We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only,
Who came from the Father, full of Grace and Truth.
-- John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that He gave
His One and
Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish
but have Eternal Life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn
the world, but to save the world through
Him.
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"Shall We Share the Truth this Christmas?"
This Christmas Day, while we sit with our family and friends
Shall we share the truth of how it all began?
Will we brag on what gifts we gave and received?
or will we share with our children in what we believe?
The season has lost it’s meaning to some
so few share how the season had really begun.
The Birth of Christ was a Gift from above
A Gift from God to prove His great love.
Children may ask for material things
We need to give them the story of what God’s Gift brings
Although we give them gifts from our heart
Keep Christ in their Christmas right from the start.
The presents they get will get broken or lost,
some presents are given at a great cost.
but no value can be placed on the REAL Christmas Story
So remember this Christmas to give God all the Glory!
Sing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus this year
For, if not for Him there would be no great cheer.
Sing a few carols, reminisce about the past
Share the REAL story of Christmas,
It’s the One present that definitely will last.
-- Lynn
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"The True Meaning of Christmas"
Jesus Christ was born this day
So many years before
He came a servant to the lost
Though He was Lord of Lords
We celebrate this joyous time
Reflecting on His Birth
Not born in a mansion, but a stable
As if He had no worth
He came so He could identify
With the human heart of man
And gave His life as a sacrifice
Offering a better plan
A plan that reconciles us back
To our loving Father God
Bringing hope and redemption from
Sins ruling iron rod
For this is the only reason that we
Should celebrate this day
To become focused on anything else
Would take the meaning away
So let’s arise with joy in our hearts
And share it with everyone
The meaning of Christmas will always be
The Birth of Jesus – God’s son
-- M.S.Lowndes
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-- Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you (the serpent) and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head,
and you will strike His heel.
-- Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:
The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son,
and will call Him Immanuel ("God with us").
-- Isaiah 9:6-7
6 For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the
government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be
no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over His kingdom,
establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty
will accomplish this.
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-- Luke 2:13-14
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
the heavenly host praising God and saying:
14 "Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"
-- Matthew 1
17 Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.
{Or <Messiah.> "The Christ" (Greek) and "the Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "the Anointed One."}
18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
19 Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
21 She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus {"Jesus" is the Greek form of "Joshua," which means "the LORD
saves."}, because He will save His people from their sins."
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
23 "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14) -- which means, "God with us."
24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
25 But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.
-- Matthew 2
1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
2 and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw His Star in the east and have come to worship Him."
3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
5 "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:
6 "’But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a Ruler who will be the Shepherd of My people Israel.’"
(Micah 5:2)
7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the Child. As soon as you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him."
9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
10 When they saw the Star, they were overjoyed.
11 On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the Child and His mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him."
14 So he got up, took the Child and His mother during the night and left for Egypt,
15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called My Son."
(Hosea 11:1)
16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah (31:15) was fulfilled:
18 "A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
20 and said, "Get up, take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the Child’s life are dead."
21 So he got up, took the Child and His mother and went to the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,
23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."
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