In thinking about the wonderful miracle that we are celebrating, that “God so loved that He gave!” and that “unto us is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord!” I am captivated by the eternal and temporal consequences of Christ’s coming.
In Christ we are saved from the chains of fear. In Christ we are saved from the dominion of fate. In Christ we are saved from the guilt of fault. Oh what a Savior!
Indeed fear, fate, and fault would have sunk our ignorant, sinful, guilt-ridden souls into perdition but JESUS CAME! And He came for you!
The heathen despair and languish under the mistaken notion that there is no hope. It is hard for them to imagine that there is a way for their worldly circumstances to improve or their eternal destiny to change. They suppose that fate has shut them in, shut them out, and shut them down. BUT JESUS CAME! And He came for them. And He came for you!
In the Christmas Carol, “Angels from the Realms of Glory” we often neglect this powerful verse.
Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
Doomed for guilt to endless pains,
Justice now revokes the sentence,
Mercy calls you; break your chains.
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
He came for you! He came to be your Savior.
Change your mind and accept Christ.
Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.
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