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Merry Christ-mas!



Christmas is “more than boxes and bags,” its more than roast beast and a tree. Christmas is about Christ. About God coming into the world! In the Eastern Church they fixate on two doctrines: The Incarnation and The Holy Trinity. The reason every Orthodox Church has a Madonna holding the Christ Child is to emphasize the Incarnation, God become flesh. While there is much I disagree with the Eastern Church on, including the Filoque (John 14:26, John 15:26, John 20:21-22 proves The Filoque), I do appreciate the emphasis on The Incarnation, especially at Christmastime. 

The True Story of Christmas is not about jolly man in a red suite or flying reindeer, but about a Child, and not just any child. God could have left mankind in this state of fearing perdition, but He chose to suspend His position and become weak and vulnerable like us (Philippians 2:4-12), even to the point of becoming a helpless baby! 


Xmas is a time to lovingly ponder our glorious Savior and all He did for us. It like Easter is about Emmanuel, God With us! As we light candles we think on how The Lord Jesus is the Light of The World come down to live among us. The Incarnation is pivotal to our faith for the apostle John the beloved said, “This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God,” (1 John 4:2), and “For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh (real human body). Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.” (2 John 1:7). Christmas is a time of year we can shout with carols that Christ came in the flesh! We can sing O Come Immanuel, or Away In A Manger and testify that The True God became a human being is that He may grow up and die on the cross for our sins and raise from dead to defeat death’s power (Hebrews 2:1-15).  Amen. 

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