A CHRISTIAN CAROL
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Hebrews 13:8 (KJV 1900)
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
The God Of The Past, Present, And Future
A Christmas Carol Summary
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly, cold-hearted creditor, continues his stingy, greedy ways on Christmas Eve. He rejects a Christmas dinner invitation, and all the good tidings of the holiday, from his jolly nephew, Fred; he yells at charity workers; and he overworks his employee, Bob Cratchit. At night, Scrooge's former partner Jacob Marley, dead for seven years, visits him in the form of a ghost. Marley's spirit has been wandering since he died as punishment for being consumed with business and not with people while alive. He has come to warn Scrooge and perhaps save him from the same fate. He tells him Three Spirits will come.
The first spirit to visit Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Past.
He takes Scrooge back to the days of his youth.
The Past
Some of us have put God off, placed Him on the shelf for emergency purpose only.
1. Some of us when we were young our parents took us to church, we were raised in Sunday school.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
We often believe that God will always be there when we call.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Christmas Present
When the clock strikes again, the Ghost of Christmas Present visits Scrooge. After touching his robes, the ghost whisks Scrooge off to witness various households joyously preparing for Christmas. At Bob Cratchit’s modest home, he sees his employee’s family for the first time. Scrooge wants to know more about Bob’s small, happy boy who is crippled. The spirit tells him the boy is Tiny Tim, and that the boy will die if his future isn’t changed.
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Christmas In The Distant Future
The final spirit to visit Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. This silent spirit takes Scrooge to the funeral place of a widely despised man. Although Scrooge is appalled at the deceased man’s treatment, the spirit is unable to show him anyone that is sad to have the man gone. Rather, his peers will only attend the funeral if lunch is provided, the man’s domestic workers steal from him to make some money, and one couple celebrates because their outstanding debt to Scrooge is now sorted.
Where do you see yourself a million years from now?
Where are you going?
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.