Christmas
Today is the day that has been proclaimed since the beginning and preformed "at the appointed time." Though God's Love has always been with us since the creation, His manifestation of that Love in bodily form came through Jesus Christ.
Hereto we celebrate that memory in the fact that by His (Jesus) birth we are given access to forgiveness by faith, and the promise of heaven "where we will be with Him forever."
For most this is the meaning of Christ, He is the definition of "salvation" but that's pretty much it.
But the Word Christ goes much deeper than that in completion.
He is:
The Alpha and Omega
Which means literally "the beginning and the end", also "from the beginning (Gen 1:1) to the end (Rev 22:21), and from the beginning of time (no known point as God/Christ is without time) to the end of time (no known point as there is no time in God, only in His creation, but HIs creation is in a time state so we can know the 'shortness of our days', and the need to accomplish His goal of "believing on the Lord Jesus Christ to be forgiven our sins and grow in "fellowship with Him."
The Great Physician
"By His stripes we are healed!" His healing power was manifest before His "stripes" were set upon Him by healing the sick, cleansing the leapers, giving sight to the blind, straightening the crooked back and shriveled hand, and many more "manifestations", to many to be mentioned here.
What was the reason for these manifestations of healing???? Simply put: so God's glory could be shown, and His Love of man manifested in concert with the Truth (His Word) being spoken. When the Truth is spoken God will manifest His "signs and wonders" to bare witness to that "Eternal, set you free, make you whole Truth", which is Jesus Christ; the hope of glory and all that God the Father has finished, in and through Him, for us to participate in.
The Supreme Power over the Devil
So that we can be aware of, unencumbered by, unoppressed by, set free from, and have authority over "the destroyer of our souls. That in His name (Jesus) every knee should bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. He (this) is true freedom. Protected under the wing of the Father from all evil by His grace through Christ and faith in that name.
The giver of the Comforter
"I go to the Father so that I can send you the Comforter," who is the power of God to "enable" all of us to "posses the land," and "having done all you could do to stand then just stand with all the armor that God has given us for battle, against spiritual wickedness." He (the Comforter) will also "teach us and remind us of all the things He (Jesus) has said and taught." Remember He (the Comforter) is the Mind of Christ that reveals to us, (a revelation given), what is the Truth of God and empowers us to "do the things that Jesus did and greater things."
Our Provider
"He will fulfill all your needs through Christ Jesus our Lord."
Multiplication of the loaves for food. Raiment for clothes. A sound mind. Fearlessness in the overcoming of trouble. Life (eternal) for physical death.
There are many more things that could be said about what God the Father finished for us in His Son Jesus Christ for our use of and the taking by faith, but this shall sustain us for now.
All this and more was given, settled, and acquired by faith on that first Christmas morn.
God bless and keep through out the year.
Merry Christmas
Love
J&E in Tn
Hereto we celebrate that memory in the fact that by His (Jesus) birth we are given access to forgiveness by faith, and the promise of heaven "where we will be with Him forever."
For most this is the meaning of Christ, He is the definition of "salvation" but that's pretty much it.
But the Word Christ goes much deeper than that in completion.
He is:
The Alpha and Omega
Which means literally "the beginning and the end", also "from the beginning (Gen 1:1) to the end (Rev 22:21), and from the beginning of time (no known point as God/Christ is without time) to the end of time (no known point as there is no time in God, only in His creation, but HIs creation is in a time state so we can know the 'shortness of our days', and the need to accomplish His goal of "believing on the Lord Jesus Christ to be forgiven our sins and grow in "fellowship with Him."
The Great Physician
"By His stripes we are healed!" His healing power was manifest before His "stripes" were set upon Him by healing the sick, cleansing the leapers, giving sight to the blind, straightening the crooked back and shriveled hand, and many more "manifestations", to many to be mentioned here.
What was the reason for these manifestations of healing???? Simply put: so God's glory could be shown, and His Love of man manifested in concert with the Truth (His Word) being spoken. When the Truth is spoken God will manifest His "signs and wonders" to bare witness to that "Eternal, set you free, make you whole Truth", which is Jesus Christ; the hope of glory and all that God the Father has finished, in and through Him, for us to participate in.
The Supreme Power over the Devil
So that we can be aware of, unencumbered by, unoppressed by, set free from, and have authority over "the destroyer of our souls. That in His name (Jesus) every knee should bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. He (this) is true freedom. Protected under the wing of the Father from all evil by His grace through Christ and faith in that name.
The giver of the Comforter
"I go to the Father so that I can send you the Comforter," who is the power of God to "enable" all of us to "posses the land," and "having done all you could do to stand then just stand with all the armor that God has given us for battle, against spiritual wickedness." He (the Comforter) will also "teach us and remind us of all the things He (Jesus) has said and taught." Remember He (the Comforter) is the Mind of Christ that reveals to us, (a revelation given), what is the Truth of God and empowers us to "do the things that Jesus did and greater things."
Our Provider
"He will fulfill all your needs through Christ Jesus our Lord."
Multiplication of the loaves for food. Raiment for clothes. A sound mind. Fearlessness in the overcoming of trouble. Life (eternal) for physical death.
There are many more things that could be said about what God the Father finished for us in His Son Jesus Christ for our use of and the taking by faith, but this shall sustain us for now.
All this and more was given, settled, and acquired by faith on that first Christmas morn.
God bless and keep through out the year.
Merry Christmas
Love
J&E in Tn
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