What is the point of this carol service? I do not
understand it at all...
It is
singing about the promise and fulfilment concerning Jesus Christ coming into
the world
My annoyance with the whole carol business is that
people in my town finish carol singing and get going into fornication and
uncleanness. It’s made me hate carol singing since.
O dear, we must make a distinction between
what is good, and those who abuse it. Jd 1:4 (ISV) For some people have slipped in among
you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this
condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into
uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah. From the very first reading the promise of the saviour from sin who
will destroy the works of Satan is made
in the garden of Eden by God. Gen 3:15(MKJV) And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between
your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His
heel. Even His virgin birth is implied by
calling Him “The seed of the woman”
Okay, so the lessons recount the promises
about the Messiah’s coming through the ages.
Not simply restating the promises but now giving specific clues, and
directions. His identity and events surrounding His birth are clearly stated in
prophecy. He would come through Abraham, (Gen 22: 17, 18 (MKJV) that in blessing I will bless you, and
in multiplying I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and as
the sand which is upon the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of
His enemies. And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.) be a descendant of King David, and be born in Bethlehem: Mic 5:2(ISV) "As for you, Bethlehem of
Ephrathah, even though you remain least among the clans of Judah, nevertheless,
the one who rules in Israel for me will emerge from you. His existence has been
from antiquity, even from eternity.
From eternity? Which man is from eternity. Is this an
exaggeration?
Not at all. This uncovers the truth that the
Messiah is divine - not a created being, but the Son of God. The readings then
connect up with the fulfilment of these promises in the message of the Angel
Gabriel to Mary, and how Jesus was born in a manger in that Bethlehem, a
descendant of King David and seed of Abraham. Unfortunately at His birth His
people rejected Him as they do today. Jn 1:11-14(ISV) He came to his own creation, yet his
own people did not receive him. However, to all who received him, those
believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children, who
were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire,
but from the will of God. The Word became flesh and lived among us. We
gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son,
who is full of grace and truth.
Mmmh. Nice history. I appreciate Carol Service better
now. Thanks.
History? Living reality. The word of God can
be made flesh in you right now if you ask Him in. That’s the whole point. The
promised Saviour has come. Let Him be born in us today.
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