Thursday, December 11, 2014

A) WHAT IS CHRISTMAS ABOUT? - B) WHAT CHRISTMAS AIN'T ABOUT!!

ST. MATTHEW 1: 21 & 23

AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THOU SHALT CALL
HIS NAME JESUS: FOR HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR
SINS.
BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHE SHALL
BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL,
WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS, "GOD WITH US".

ST LUKE 1: 30-33

AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT MARY: FOR THOU
HAST FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD.
AND BEHOLD, THOU SHALT CONCEIVE IN THY WOMB, AND BRING
FORTH A SON, AND SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS.
HE SHALL BE GREAT, AND SHALL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE HIGHEST: AND THE LORD GOD SHALL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF
HIS FATHER DAVID:
AND HE SHALL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOR EVER; AND
OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END.

ST LUKE 2: 10-11

AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT: FOR, BEHOLD,
I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, WHICH SHALL BE
TO ALL PEOPLE.
FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID
A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST, THE LORD.


WHAT CHRISTMAS AIN'T ABOUT.....

CHRISTMAS AIN'T ABOUT THE TREE, THE LIGHTS OR THE FIREPLACE STOCKINGS....
CHRISTMAS AIN'T ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, THE ELVES OR
THE REINDEER....
CHRISTMAS AIN'T ABOUT THE SHOPPING, THE FEASTING,
THE DRINKING OR THE PARTIES.....

CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT GODS GIFT OF SALVATION FOR THE
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD....JESUS CHRIST WAS AND IS THAT
GIFT....THE GIFT OF REDEMPTION AND ETERNAL LIFE....
FREE TO ALL WHO RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR
SINFUL STATE.....

TITUS 2: 11-14

FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH
APPEARED TO ALL MEN.
TEACHING US THAT, DENYING UNGODLINESS AND WORLDLY
LUSTS, WE SHOULD LIVE SOBERLY, RIGHTEOUSLY, AND
GODLY, IN THIS PRESENT WORLD;
LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE, AND THE GLORIOUS
APPEARANCE OF THE GREAT GOD AND OUR SAVIOR
JESUS CHRIST:
WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US
FROM ALL INIQUITY, AND PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PECULIAR
PEOPLE, ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS.

.....TO THOSE WHO INVITE THE LORD JESUS INTO THEIR HEARTS,
TO LIVE A NEW SPIRITUAL LIFE, DEDICATED TO HIM AND GOD
THE FATHER AND CREATOR OF ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND IN
THE EARTH....

ROMANS 10: 9-10

THAT IF THOUGH 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.
FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS;
AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION.



                                                            RONALD J LAMB








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