Jesus was in deed the great Jehovah of the Old Testament, who left His Father’s royal courts on high and condescended to come to earth as a babe born in the most humble of circumstances. His birth was
foretold centuries earlier by Isaiah, who declared prophetically, “For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace”.

This Jesus Christ of whom we solemnly testify is, as John the Revelator declared, “the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.” He
“loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever
and ever”

The Savior of the World

He was and is the Son of the Almighty. He was the only perfect man to walk the earth. He healed the sick and caused the lame to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear. He raised the dead. Yet He
suffered His
own life to be taken in an act of Atonement, the magnitude of which is
beyond our comprehension.

Luke records that this was so great that “his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” The suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross of Calvary, just a few hundred
meters from Gethsemane, included both physical and spiritual
“temptations, … pain, … hunger, thirst, and
fatigue, even more than man can suffer,” s “except it
be unto death”.

After the agony of Gethsemane came His arrest, His trials, His condemnation, then the unspeakable pain of His death on the cross, followed by His burial in Joseph’s tomb and the triumphant coming
forth
in the Resurrection. He, the lowly babe of Bethlehem who two millennium
ago walked the dusty roads of Palestine, became the Lord Omnipotent, the
King of Kings, the Giver of Salvation to all. None can fully comprehend
the splendor of His life, the majesty of His death, the universality of
His gift to mankind. We unequivocally declare with the centurion who
said at His death, “Truly this man was the Son of God”

Our Living Lord

Such is the witness of the testament of the Old World, the Holy Bible. And there is another voice, that of the testament of the New World, wherein the Father introduced His resurrected Son,
declaring,
“Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased

Added to all of this is the declaration of modern prophets: “And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he
lives!”

No event of human history carries a more compelling witness than does the reality of the Resurrection. His followers on two continents testified of it. Uncounted millions of men and women through
the ages
have suffered, even unto death, for the witness in their hearts that He
lives, the Savior and Redeemer of all mankind, whose Atonement came as
an act of grace for the entire world. How long and how great is the
concourse of brave and humble people who have kept alive the name of
Jesus and a testimony of His Redemption!

Now He has come again, in the latter days, to bless us and warm our hearts, to quicken our faith and bring us sure and certain knowledge of His living reality. We, of all people, can sing:

Joy to the world, the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King!
Let ev’ry heart prepare him room,
And Saints and angels sing.
(“Joy to the World,” )

We honor Him, we worship Him, we love Him as our Redeemer, the great Jehovah of the Old Testament, the Messiah of the New Testament.

The Son of God

And so at this Christmas season, we sing His praises and speak our words of faith and gratitude and love. It is His SPIRIT in our lives that stirs within us more kindness, more respect, more love,
more
concern. It is because of Him and His teachings that we reach out to
those in trouble, distress, and need wherever they may be.

It is proper during this season when we commemorate His birth that we remember the Lord Jesus Christ in reverence and with love. He has done for us what we could not do for ourselves. He has
brought meaning to our
mortal existence. He has given us the gift of eternal life. He was and
is the Son of God, who 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”

God be thanked for the gift of His Son, the Redeemer of the world,
the Savior of mankind, the Prince of Life and Peace, the Holy ONE

HE IS OUR SALVATION . . . . . . . CAN I GET A WITNESS . . . . . . . . COME ON . . . . . . . . AMEN !!!!!!!!

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