On the other hand, if man cannot save himself spiritually if he is headed for an eternity without God and is unable to reverse his condition then Jesus Christ had to come. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Each year when I read the Christmas story, I am impressed with the role that the angels play in it. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. The words of the angel to Joseph confirmed Joseph's authority and responsibility in the naming of Mary's child. There is a sense in which the world will never know even one of these three types of peace until the return of Jesus Christ. Like the message to Mary, this message also has four parts: Also, like the message to Mary, it has an important emphasis which, in this case, is the proclamation of joy. When the angels had departed, the shepherds decided to go to Bethlehem. But the circumstances were not good. We are told of them that they "returned glorifying and praising God." But if the second type of peace is not something automatic that is, if you have to find it how do you find it? So, according to Tillich, who popularized this approach in his three-volume Systematic Theology and in his lectures, salvation can therefore be applied "to every act of healing: to the healing of sickness, or demonic possession, and of servitude to sin and to the ultimate power of death" 6 It means "reuniting that which is estranged, giving a center to what is split, overcoming the split between God and man, man and his world, man and himself. We see His grace. Why We Celebrate The Birth Of Jesus | Hearinnh The word "pact" also comes from it. I am not referring to activity, of course. It implies a diving beneath the surface. King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Will Graham Devotion: The Criminal on the Cross. 2023 BGEA The reasons why they became witnesses are that there was an event, a great event, and that others very much needed to hear of it. Now when you acknowledge a person's true worth or express a proper opinion of him, you may be said to be glorifying him. J At this point our Bible text comes in, for it is a report of how those who witnessed the first Christmas observed it. It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.. On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it. So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover. The difficulty with this approach does not lie in the thought that the biblical view of salvation is unrelated to such themes. But over against this dying world was Jesus. There are two kinds of amazement. What Does The King James Bible Say About Celebrating Christmas Nor would Joseph have known.