What is the meaning of Christmas?
Is it about gifts? What gifts?
Is it about the birth of a baby?
Is it about journeying wise men?
Is it about angels?
Is it about shepherds?
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There is no story quite as beautiful, or which can stir the soul of the humble quite to the depths, as this glorious story can of the birth of our Redeemer. …
2.
When [Christmas morning] comes some will bow their heads in humble supplication to the Father of Lights for the blessings they have received through the sufferings of his beloved Son, and will read the wondrous story with grateful praise. Others, unfortunately, who know little, if anything at all, of the debt they owe to the Son of God, will celebrate, not in praise and humble prayer, but in blasphemous drunken revelry, without the least thought of the significance of the birth of the Man of Galilee. …
3.
There has been too much lip-service among the professed followers of the Son of God and too little real worship based upon the integrity of his teachings.
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The angel declared to the shepherds on that glorious night, that he brought tidings of great joy which were for all people, but quite generally the people everywhere on the face of the earth, have refused to receive the blessings of those tidings. They have not been willing to forsake their sins, to humble themselves and place their lives in harmony with the Master’s teachings.
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Because “Christ” means that Jesus is the Anointed King, “Christian” means to recognize and submit to the Kingship of Jesus.
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