
Day-After-Christmas Tradition
“In those days CAESAR AUGUSTUS issued a decree that a CENSUS should be taken of the ENTIRE Roman world.” —Luke 2.1
No Christmas, Just
“The Word BECAME FLESH and made His DWELLING among us.” —John 1.14
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Phone a FRIEND, BACKUP Plan, CONSCIENCE Reliever, COMFORTER
“But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call Him JESUS.’ He will be GREAT and will be called the SON of the MOST HIGH. The Lord GOD will give Him the THRONE of His father DAVID, and He will REIGN over Jacob’s descendants forever; And of HIS KINGDOM there shall not be an end.” – —Luke 1.30-33
“His KINGDOM will never END.” —Luke 1.33b
Jesus is
Is Jesus MY King?
Unlike all other kings, Jesus rarely intrudes; rather, Jesus regularly
A KING was
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, MAGI from the east came to JERUSALEM and asked, ‘Where is the ONE who has been born KING of the Jews?’ We SAW HIS STAR when it ROSE and have come to WORSHIP Him. When King HEROD heard this he was DISTURBED, and ALL JERUSALEM with him.” —Matthew 2.3
“When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the MESSIAH was to born.” —Matthew 2.4
Messiah: Anointed One
Christ is not a name; Christ is a
και συναγαγων παντας τους αρχιερεις και γραμματεις του λαου επυνθανετο παρ αυτων που ο χριστος γενναται. —Matthew 2.4
“We’ve allowed the person to define the term rather than allowing the
Jesus, God’s Anointed One
Jesus, King
“But I wonder whether people who ask God to INTERFERE openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the END of the world. When the AUTHOR walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so BEAUTIFUL to some of us and so TERRIBLE to others that NONE of us will have any CHOICE left? For this time it will be God WITHOUT DISGUISE; for this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either IRRESISTIBLE LOVE or IRRESISTIBLE HORROR into every creature. It will be TOO LATE then to CHOOSE your side. There is no use saying YOU CHOOSE to lie down when it has become IMPOSSIBLE to stand up. That will not be the time for CHOOSING: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have CHOSEN, whether we realized it before or not. NOW, TODAY, this MOMENT, is our chance to CHOOSE the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will NOT last forever. We must TAKE it or LEAVE it.” —C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity
“When HEROD had called together all the people’s chief PRIESTS and teachers of the law, he ASKED them where the MESSIAH was to born.” —Matthew 2.4
“‘In Bethlehem in Judea,’ they replied,” —Matthew 2.5a
“Then Herod called the Magi SECRETLY and found out from them the EXACT time the star had APPEARED.” —Matthew 2.7
“He sent them to BETHLEHEM…” —Matthew 2.8a
“The Day AFTER Christmas.”