LUKE 2:14 “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!” (nkjv) (and Luke 2:1-20)
CHRIST BORN OF MARY!
1: AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED. THIS CENSUS FIRST TOOK PLACE WHILE QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNING SYRIA. SO ALL WENT TO BE REGISTERED, EVERYONE TO HIS OWN CITY.
4: JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE , OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS BETROTHED WIFE, WHO WAS WITH CHILD. SO IT WAS, THAT WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE COMPLETED FOR HER TO BE DELIVERED. AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.
GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!
8: NOW THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE FIELDS, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, AND THEY THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. THEN THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, “DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD. AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU: YOU WILL FIND A BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, LYING IN A MANGER.
13: AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD AND SAYING: “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!”
15: SO IT WAS, WHEN THE ANGELS HAD GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO HEAVEN, THAT THE SHEPHERDS SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, “LET US NOW GO TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THIS THING THAT HAS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD HAS MADE KNOWN TO US.” AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE AND FOUND MARY AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYING IN A MANGER.
17: NOW WHEN THEY HAD SEEN HIM, THEY MADE WIDELY KNOWN THE SAYING WHICH WAS TOLD THEM CONCERNING THIS CHILD. AND ALL THOSE WHO HEARD IT MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TOLD THEM BY THE SHEPHERDS. BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART. THEN THE SHEPHERDS RETURNED, GLORIFYING AND PRAISING GOD FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD HEARD AND SEEN, AS IT WAS TOLD THEM.
Wow God, what an amazing Birth Announcement this was about Your Son, our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth!
Good morning my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so wonderful to be able to talk to you all this morning on this day, just 8 days before we celebrate Christmas. I love, LOVE, L.O.V.E this season of celebrating the Birth of Jesus! I really love this season for just that reason too; to celebrate the birth of God’s Son…..GOD’S SON’S BIRTH…. imagine that! And God the Creator of the Universe, and of you and me, wants to celebrate His Sons birth with us. In a spectacular way; in a life changing way. Like when His angels lit up the skies of Heaven with His Glory, as they announced the LORDS birth.
I also love it for the spectacular light shows and elegant home decorations. I love the festivities, gatherings of family and friends and even strangers, and delicious food. I love the extra opportunities to bestow our generosity upon those who are less fortunate. I love that there is an out flowing of love “in the air” around this season that is so real that it is almost tangible. I just LOVE CHRISTMAS! CHRISTmas. Who would ever want to take “Christ” out of Christmas? Come on world; the Birth of Jesus is the reason for the Christmas celebrations. The Divine Giver God gave His Gift of His Son to us, His children, here on earth. Jesus is the Reason for the Season! (as the saying goes) This is just another example of a Truth that Supersedes fact. {The name of this blog : ) }
Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, we come to you with love and adoration. We come to You with thanksgiving swelling up in our hearts for Jesus Christ our LORD! Please help us to light up Your world with Your world changing light, like Your angels lit up Your skies with Your Glory on that Victorious night over 2000 years ago. You tell us to be Your light in a darkened world.
That night when You personally made Your Birth Announcement that Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son our LORD Jesus Christ was born! When PURE LOVE was born. When life changing PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING was born! When the DIVINE HEALER, PROVIDER, REDEEMER, MIGHTY COUNSELOR was born. When the KING of kings, LORD of lords, MAGISTRATE of magistrates, the ONE AND ONLY GREAT POTENTATE was born as a Baby in a manger.
Thank You LORD. We love You, we praise You, we worship Your Holy Name! Help us to love our “brothers and sisters” as You want us to, no matter what part of the world they live in. Help us to reach out in love to all mankind, all humanity with Your love. Raise us up to represent You the way that You want to be represented; not the way we think we “feel like” representing You. Please protect all of these Your people LORD for all generations. Please keep Your angels around them. In Jesus Precious Name we pray and thank You in advance. Amen. Glory to God!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!
Well, I am so blessed to be able to spend some days with my 2 youngest granddaughters. They have been patiently, (or not so patiently), been waiting for me to write to you all.
I just wanted to make a couple of observations from this Scripture story about Jesus Birth.
We learned in Bible College that throughout Scripture God has included many historical facts. We see that the government officials of that day were named. This is historical proof of the birth of Jesus in that day and time. God includes so many historical facts throughout His Bible because His entire Bible/WORD is about His Son Jesus.
The Old Testament includes types and shadows of Jesus and is referred to as “Jesus Concealed”, (by some). The New Testament is of course Jesus the LORD when He actually lived in a Human Body as God Incarnate on this earth and is referred to as “Jesus Revealed.” These historical facts also help those who are atheists, agnostics, of other faiths and world views to know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you free!
It is beneficial for those who are extremely educated and sadly may think that they “know more than God”. As for me personally, I have always believed in God and Jesus and Holy Spirit, the One and Only Triune God, by Faith. But when I also found out about all of the Historical facts; I was overly amazed. It also made me wonder how the Scholars of the Jewish faith missed their own Messiah when all of the facts , truths, and prophecies completely depict just Who this Jesus Christ of Nazareth is…. the LORD! The Messiah!
We notice that Mary and Joseph were betrothed or engaged at the time and yet Mary gave birth to Jesus our LORD. This is because Jesus is of course God’s Son and of God’s miraculous birth process. Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit putting Gods Seed, Jesus, into her womb. (I hope I am explaining this correctly.) This God’s best miracle, I think. Joseph is His earthly father, perhaps like a stepfather that we have now days. Mary, a teenage bride, was obedient to God, taking the chance that she could even be killed or stoned because she was pregnant and not married in that culture in that day and time.
We see that God’s angel made the announcement. Then multitudes of other angels joined in singing glorious melody about God’s Son, the Newborn Baby King of the whole world. God’s Glorious light was shining all around the shepherds and lighting up the entire sky. God the Father, God Jesus’ Father, was so proud of His Son as He made His Birth announcement known to the whole world.
We see that God chose to make His announcement to shepherds who watch sheep for a living and who were living out in the fields. God did not go to the rich, the elite, the scholars, the kings. He chose to make His announcement to His shepherds. He told them what they would behold with their eyes that would let them know that this was His Son. That is exactly what they found when they arrived in Bethlehem and found this King Jesus wrapped in swaddling cloths in the manger.
Then they left and told this story; glad tidings of the good news of Jesus’ birth to the world. As we should go and tell the whole world of the Gospel; of the Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection, Soon Return and Eternal Reign of this Jesus Christ our LORD the King of the world. And tell people how they can all have a personal, intimate, daily, moment by moment relationship with our LORD. We are not created to live this life without Him.
I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, I love you and you are always in my prayers. Most importantly Jesus loves you. (Sorry, I can’t totally proof read for errors, my grandchildren are ready to go….NOW!)