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NASB | Luke 2:14 "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 2:14 "Glory to God in the highest [heaven], And on earth peace among men with whom He is well-pleased." |
Subject: Spirit of Christmas |
Bible Note: “What is the spirit of Christmas? Worship, in a word, worship...nothing more and nothing less. And, you know, as you look back over the Christmases of the ages, and we do that every Christmas season, we go back through history. I'll tell you how we do it. We do it when we sing the carols. Do you realize that we've sung carols from as far back as the fifth century that have gone through several translations and finally reached us? And we've sang carols from the fifteenth century, the eleventh century, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, the sixteenth...as well as the nineteenth. And as you go back through the history of the Christmases and you touch those Christmas carols, you touch the most brilliant poets and articulators of Christmas truth and their attitude is always worship, it's always been worship.”... -- John MacArthur, Jr. ...“One of my favorite poets of the nineteenth century is Christina Rosetti who lived from 1830 to 1894. Christina was the daughter of Italian immigrants, a woman of great beauty, it is said, striking beauty. A woman if immense poetic talent, a devout Christian once engaged to a Roman Catholic who promised to convert. When he had second thoughts, she broke the engagement and remained single all her life. Through that life she wrote some of the most magnificent poetry, all of it a tribute to Christ. She wrote this poem and it was set to music twelve years after her death. "In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone. Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow in the bleak midwinter long ago. Our God, heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain. Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign. In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed, the Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ. Angels and archangels may have gathered there, cherubim and seraphim throng the air, but His mother only in her maiden bliss worshiped the beloved with a kiss." Then she ends with this great, great stanza, "What can I give Him, poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I'd give Him a lamb. If I were a wise man I'd do my part, but what can I give Him? Give my heart." That's worship.”... -- John MacArthur, Jr. © 1997 Grace to You http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/80-152.HTM WOS |
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