CHRISTMAS
- A Savior Is Born
Luke 2:11
“For
unto you is born in the city of David, a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
(Luke 2:11)
The world
is desperately searching for a saviour who
will bring about economic security, racial
harmony and world peace!
St. Paul warned
concerning these last days: “For when
they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh unto them, as travail
upon a woman with child; and they shall
not escape”. (1 Thess. 5:3)
Twenty seven
hundred years ago an Old Testament prophet
announced, “I create the fruit of the
lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off,
and to him that is near, saith the Lord;
and I will heal him. But the wicked are
like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There
is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked”.
(Isaiah 57:19-21)
Jesus Christ
warned, “I am come in My Father’s
name, and ye receive Me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him will ye
receive”. (John 5:43)
He was prophesying
His rejection by the Jewish nation, whom
He had come to save. They would reject their
long awaited Messiah King and tragically
be deceived by a lying, counterfeit called
Anti-Christ!
They will
receive “that wicked one” to their
destruction and terrible hurt! How tragic
and sad! No wonder Jesus wept over Jerusalem.
He exclaimed, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that killest the prophets, and stonest
them which are sent unto thee, how often
would I have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your
house is left unto you desolate”. (Matt.
23:37-38)
St. John declared:
“He came unto His own, and His own
received Him not. But as many as received
Him, to them gave He power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on
His name”. (John 1:11-12)
SIN BRINGS
SLAVERY & DEATH!
St. Paul
wrote: “For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord”. (Rom. 6:23)
WHY IS THIS
SO IMPORTANT? The Bible says, “For
all have sinned and come short of the glory
of God”. (Rom. 3:23)
Again St.
Paul states, “Wherefore, as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death
by sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned:” (Rom.
5:12)
HERE IS
THE GOOD NEWS - “For when we were
yet without strength, in due time Christ
died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die.
“But
God commendeth His love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us. Much more then, being now justified
by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him”. (Rom. 5:6-9)
Jesus declared,
“For the Son of man is come to seek
and to save that which was lost”. (Luke
19:10)
The Angel
of God announced the good news to the Judean
shepherds so long ago: “Fear not: for,
behold, I bring you good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people. For unto
you is born this day in the city of David
a Savior, which is Christ the Lord”.
(Luke 2:10-11)
A message
of Great Joy - How wonderful! A Savior has
been born! And this Savior is Jesus Christ,
King Messiah!
The prophet
Micah had foretold His coming with pin-point
accuracy many years earlier: “But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little
among the thousands of Judah, yet out of
thee shall He come forth unto me that is
to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old, from everlasting”.
(Micah 5:2)
Wise men -
probably from Iran (Persia) - followed His
star to Jerusalem where they inquired,
“WHERE IS HE WHO IS BORN KING OF THE
JEWS? FOR WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST,
AND ARE COME TO WORSHIP HIM”. (Matt.
2:2)
The Bible
refers to Jesus, the Coming Messiah as,
‘The Star out of Jacob’:
“I shall
see him, but not now: I shall behold him,
but not nigh: there shall come a Star out
of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
and destroy all the children of Sheth.”
(Numbers 24:17)
No wonder
God used a star to guide the wise men in
their search for the ‘King of the Jews’!
PEACE
ON EARTH!
The angel
choir sang, “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward men”.
(Luke 2:14)
There is only
one way to receive peace in our spirits
and minds - individually and collectively
as a nation - and that is to receive Jesus
Christ into our hearts and lives and be
born again by the Holy Spirit and the Word
of God!
“Forasmuch
as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things, as silver and gold,
from your vain conversation received by
tradition from your fathers; But with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot: Being born Again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
for ever.” (1 Peter 1:18,19,23)
HERE IS
SOME Bad News & The Good News!
Isaiah pinpoints
our major problem: “All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all”. (Is.
53:6)
It is true
that we were all born in sin. We are sinners
by birth as well as choice and the wages
of sin is death!
Jesus warned,
however, that in the last days there would
be false Christs and so-called Saviours
who would deceive the “very elect if
possible”.
We are being
invaded in these last days by thousands
of weird clairvoyants, witch doctors, hypnotists,
spiritualist mediums and Eastern philosophers
who make up the New Age Movement.
Many of them
are subtle liars who mix occultism and nature
worship with the Bible, in order to deceive
the spiritually ignorant and unlearned into
becoming Lucifer’s (dumb-dumb) slaves!
BILLY
GRAHAM’S CO-EVANGELIST WARNS!
In late 1983,
Dr. John Wesley White wrote: "PETER
POCKLINGTON was one of the top runners for
the Conservative Leadership of Canada...losing
out to Brian Mulroney...In a highly publicized
court case...PSYCHIC RITA BURNS contended
(and Pocklington did not deny it)... the
would-be future Prime Minister confided
to her: "Everyday I look at myself
in the mirror and say: You are a god. People
do your will because you are a god".
(MacLeans, Oct. 10/83; The Tor. Star, Oct.
14,15)
WHY IS
THIS SO ALARMING?
"First
John says: “Antichrist shall come”:
but before he does there would be “the
spirit of Antichrist” issuing in “many
antichrists” (1 John 2:18; 4:3).
Jesus projected...“take
heed that no man deceive you. For many shall
come in My Name saying, I am Christ; and
shall deceive many.. if any man shall say
unto you, Lo here is Christ, or there; believe
it not. For there shall arise false Christs,
and false prophets”. (Matt. 24:4,
5, 23, 24)
A number of
years ago the weird John Lennon actually
thought he was Jesus Christ and even wilder,
'The White Gloved One's mother Katherine
stated that Michael Jackson (WACKO JACKO)
might be the "incarnation" of
the Messiah. And the spokesman for Rev.
Moon, Matthew Morrison replied to his own
question, "Is Moon the Messiah? That's
what he is".
Dr. White
wrote, "St. Paul prophesied that the
actual Antichrist, when, as “the man
of sin”, he was “revealed, the
son of perdition (he’d be) worshipped..
showing himself that he is god”. (2
Thess. 2:3,4)
"So we’re
seeing the POCKLINGTONS, as harbingers
of the antichrist, talking to themselves:
“You are god. People do your will because
you are god”. It is only one of a dozen
such suitings in the media over the last
month.
"Elsewhere
in politics Peter Newman wrote of a provincial
premier as a “messiah” or at least
a “prophet” (MacLeans, Oct. 17/83).
David Miller writes that some 15% of our
physicians are alcoholics or drug addicts
because they have to be so “God-like”
(Tor. Star, Oct. 2/83). Pop idol Robert
Charlebois is welcomed by his fanatical
fans as “like a god” (Tor. Star,
Oct. 15/83). In sport, a World Series superstar
is adulated by millions, as “someone
to…worship” (John Lynn in the
Tor. Star, Oct. 15/83).
DOES ALL
OF THIS IMPLY THAT CANADIANS ARE BECOMING
MORE AND MORE ANTICHRIST? YES!
"The
'Star' polls people it reckons to be leading
literary figures, and asks them if they
could take five people, from any age of
history, home to dinner, who would they
be? Not one chose Jesus Christ (see Star,
Oct. 1/83). Pontius Pilate was chosen.
"And
Canada’s fifth bestseller currently
is ‘A Time For Judas’ in which
Morley Callaghan extols the ATTRIBUTES OF
JUDAS ISCARIOT (MacLeans, Oct. 17/83).
"We’ve
already noted that St. Paul describes the
coming Antichrist as “the son of perdition”
(The Scriptural description of Judas).
"And
how does Jesus Christ come off in our official
Canadian posture? Brenda Taylor and Victor
Goldbloom of the Canadian Council of Christians
and Jews go before the House of Commons
Committee on Racism to plead for the removal
of Christian pageants and the singing of
Christmas carols from our public schools.
"In short,
eliminate any mention of Jesus Christ as
Someone to be worshipped or adored from
our schools. It’s alright, of course
to curse His name in the prose of the books
used, the lyrics of the songs sung, or classroom
chit chat. Chalk that one down to antichrist
in our schools."
WHAT DOES
ALL THIS MEAN TO US?
We know that
many are desperately searching for an answer
to their problems. And we also know that
only Jesus Christ has the solution and is
the answer to our every need!
Satan is a
liar and deceiver and is desperately trying
to enslave this world's 6 billion inhabitants.
We also know that he is a loser in the First
Degree!
JESUS CHRIST
IS THE WORLD'S ONLY SAVIOR!
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