TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

Christmas has always been one of my favorite Holidays.

I can remember my grandmother had a long black Zenth stereo with a record and an 8 track player on it.

Bishop Morris she had a few RPM 45 Adapters around the house just in case she wanted to play her 45’s.

I remember during the week of Christmas you could as she prepared the Christmas meal for that week she would have her music playing throughout the house by way of that long black heavy Zenth stereo with a record and 8 track player on it.

We’d Hear:

*Go tell it on the Mountain that Jesus Christ is Born by the “Blind Boys of Alabama

*The Bride Groom Cometh by Father Charles G. Hayes and the Cosmopolitan Church of prayer choir

And sometimes she’d set it where The Temptations singing *Silent Night, Holy Night could play over, and over, and over and over again.

Nate telling us about Chestnuts roasting on open fire and Jack Frost nipping at your nose

BUT I’M STILL WAITING TO HERE SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS!,

Society has become so commercialized that we are squeezing out the authenticity that JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON BECAUSE IT OFFENDS THE CULTURE IF YOU MENTION CHRIST!,

You can’t say Merry Christmas anymore because now its Happy Holidays, Seasons greetings, or the one I cannot stand the most Merry X-Mas.,

Churches , towns, and villages have been sued because of Nativity Scenes but they’ve been burning crosses, hang “Make America Great Again” signs and they call it freedom of speech and no one says anything, But when it comes to JESUS, they put us on court order and restrictions.

The Prophet Isaiah has told us “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace”.

There are sales here , there, and everywhere but we forget to thank God for the greatest gift ever wrapped and given to mankind and that is JESUS!!!! , O he was wrapped, Luke the Physician tells us in Chapter 2 that he was wrapped.,

He was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.

This is the first time that Jesus was wrapped but it want be his last. This wrap serves as a symbolic event from Luke 2to John 19

· Luke chapter 2 he is wrapped in swaddling Clothes

· John Chapter 19 he’ll be Wrapped in Linen

· Luke chapter 2 he’s placed in a manger

· John Chapter 19 he’s placed in a borrowed tomb

INTRODUCTION

When you read the remainder of the birth narrative in the Gospel of Matthew, King Harrod has heard

Gold - King

Frankincense - Man

Muir - Saviour

King -