Dec. 21, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Mary, did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you delivered would soon deliver you.
Mary, did you know that your baby boy would give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy would calm the storm with his hand?
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And when you kiss your little baby, you kiss the face of God, the blind.
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Well, that's what Christmas is truly all about.
And Christmas is a day during which we lay down our swords and we allow ourselves to reflect on the beauty and the majesty of this special and spiritual time of year.
And the battle will begin anew in the coming month, the coming year, the coming decade.
That all starts next week.
But today, tonight, we encourage you to let the music, let that song especially stir your spirit, your soul.
And remember, we're here to protect and preserve a culture and a faith that has given light to a dark world.
And it is our duty to ensure that that flame is never extinguished.
And I am very happy and honored and proud this third and final hour before Christmas to have my pastor with me.
He will be, of course, familiar with longtime listeners of this show.
He's most recently with us back in the springtime to share an Easter message.
Well, back with us tonight to share a very special Christmas message in this, our last hour before Christmas.
Pastor, great to have you.
James, it is so good to see you.
Always is.
Got to visit with your beautiful wife and little children.
I still am convinced that the kids got most of their DNA from her.
Thank God.
But it's good to visit with them and your mom and dad for a few minutes.
It's been a good, it's kind of been an old home week.
Well, we're always at home and we're together.
And for all my life, you've been a part of it.
So it's always good to be with you, whether it's on the radio, at church, at some eating, and we can put away some food wherever we're at.
But I know we're going to be sharing the biblical accounting of the Christmas story tonight for everyone tuned in this evening.
But first, you've got something a little special and unexpected, in fact.
Well, I've got a little short story I wrote several years ago, and we'll be sharing that.
But one of the things I like to do is just talk about Christmas itself and what it is.
Recently, someone was at my home, and I decorate my home.
I have a Christmas tree, but everything else in my home is nativity scenes.
I don't know how many I've got, maybe 10 or 15.
Some of them are, I don't know, a foot tall.
Figures are a foot tall.
Some of them are a little tiny.
I picked them up over the years.
And the reason I do that is Christmas is the most, it's just a wonder.
I can't conceive of what it is.
We were lost.
When I say lost, I don't mean we lost our way.
What I mean outside of Christ, we were doomed to hell.
And if you're outside of Christ Day, you're doomed to hell.
We have no hope at all if it is not for Christ in our lives.
And to think that we were in this horrible situation.
And God stepped up out of glory into a cow stall in order to rescue us and to save us, to give us life and hope here and now, and then to give us an eternity with him.
It is the most amazing story.
I can't comprehend it.
Every once in a while, I'll be reading portions of the Christmas story, and it just blows me away to think of what we celebrate at Christmas time.
And one of the things I love, James, the whole, everybody celebrates Christmas.
When I say Christmas, I don't mean Santa Claus.
People that hate Christianity, they put up Christmas decorations, and you know what they do?
They put up the theme of green and red, green for the evergreen, red for the blood of Christ.
People that hate Jesus still put up those.
They put up all these lights.
You know what the lights are about?
Jesus is the light of the world.
The star that's on top of the Christmas tree was what the wise man will use to be guided to where his birthplace was.
And it's a symbol of the Holy Spirit guiding us to him.
You can find people that operate in a crackhouse.
And yet they have all the symbols of the God that saved us when we were absolutely unsavable.
What an amazing story.
And it continues to go on.
Well, you know, it's interesting you put it that way, Pastor, because I was talking with one of our guests earlier in the evening that believer and non-believer alike alike feel that tug of the Christmas spirit at Christmas time.
And it is something that, you know, transcends, you know, it transcends an ability to comprehend.
It really does.
And, I mean, you just see it.
You see it everywhere.
You see it in the department store.
You see it in the public decorations.
You know, there was a time when we used to have the public would have, the city would have decorations that were Christian in nature.
And they moved away from them.
And they moved away from them.
But still they have the lights.
Still they have the red and green theme and everything.
You know, the Christmas tree itself is an evergreen, represents everlasting life.
It's everywhere we look.
And There is a Christmas spirit that really permeates.
You know, I don't mean to make fun of other holidays, but there's no 4th of July spirit.
I love the 4th of July.
Nobody talks about, oh, I'm in the 4th of July spirit.
Nobody talks about, oh, I'm in the Labor Day spirit.
They don't even talk about the Thanksgiving spirit.
You know what people say?
Oh, I've gotten into Christmas spirit.
That's right.
And there is a spirit of Christmas.
A spirit that we're going to be continuing to share.
As a matter of fact, one of our listeners just nailed the spirit.
The beauty of being utterly lost and then rescued and finding hope in total darkness is reborn every day through Christ and people.
That's good to say anyway.
And especially so at Christmastime.
And we're going to continue to celebrate Christmas.
We're going to share with you the Christmas story, according to the Bible, with my pastor, David Rogers, in just a moment.
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The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again.
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the Lamb.
Mary, did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know that your Lord would one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your baby boy is high?
Talking about Christmas songs, Pastor, Mary, did you know?
Well, I love that story.
You know, Mark Lyry wrote that.
To my knowledge, it's the only song he ever wrote.
Well, you know, you actually stole my thunder on that.
You know, so many of the carols and hymns we've played tonight were written, you know, 100, 200 years ago.
Mary, did you know, which I think really, really captures what Christmas is all about, probably better than any of the standards that we know and love, is a relatively new song, and it was written by a comedian.
I mean, it's one of the most serious, beautiful songs written by a comedian.
Yeah, yeah, it's great, and I love it.
It is one of my favorites.
But talking about the Christmas spirit, very quickly, Pastor, I've really got to make this incredible lady one of our contributors because everything she sends is so spot on.
Even Santa Claus himself, which was sculptured after St. Nicholas.
St. Nicholas, she writes, is part of that tender love that tugs on people's heart.
A wonderful, generous saint and bishop of the church who loved the Lord and embodied his mercy and grace.
And it's still beloved a millennium and a half later.
So even in Santa Claus, they can't truly escape the true meaning of Christmas.
That's true.
What have you got for us?
James, several years ago, I wrote a little story.
I call it Gabriel's story, and it's Gabriel's, my idea of Gabriel's account of the Christmas story.
And if Pastor's, I'll commentate this.
Pastor's putting on his glasses, and he's trying to keep the mic close as he goes to his papers.
Here we go.
I'll be the, I can't even remember.
Am I the play-by-play or the color commentator?
Anyway, we're going to see how he does.
Here's a story that I wrote.
Gabriel is speaking, and he says, at last it's time.
I guess you can say time.
When you live in eternity, time is a difficult concept.
Call it what you will.
Waiting for this day is awful hard on angels.
It was especially hard on me.
Most people think that we angels understand more about what God's up to than we really do.
You see, it's you humans that he has chosen to reveal himself to, not angels.
We simply watch and wonder and awe at what he does.
And he always does the most marvelous things when he's demonstrating his love for you.
Well, I'll remember when he made man, after six days of creation, making the moon, the earth, the stars, after he had made the land and the sea and the planets and the animals, he made you.
Well, at least he made the first one of you.
God reached down into the red, soft earth and scooped up a mixture of dust and clay.
Then with great tenderness and care, he shaped and molded it.
Looking deep into its form, the master did something that I'd never seen him do before.
He drew a deep, fresh, a deep breath of freshly created air, and from deep within his being, he blew into his own breast into man.
He gave him something that he had never given any of the animals.
He gave him a soul, a life in the image of God.
And once it began, it would never end.
Holding up man for inspection, my Lord looked long and deep into this first of his creations and knew that he loved him right away.
God loves man.
Like I said, I don't know as much as you might think, but God sends me to deliver messages.
I have also listened over the centuries to the prophets as they've told of this coming day.
I talked to other angels, and from that, I have gathered that this is the start of the day.
It's hard.
It's not impossible to know what God is doing or why he's doing it.
Take Mary, for example.
She's a nice enough girl.
She loves God like most Jewish women.
But she comes from such a common people, and she's so young.
She's never had a child.
How will she know how to take care of him?
Mary's father is a godly man, but he's not a prophet or a priest or anything.
And Mary's fiancé, Joseph, he's a hard worker who waits for the coming of the Messiah, just like a lot of other Jewish men.
He isn't anything extra.
The most that can be said for either of them is that they are the house of, they are of the house of David, but so is half of Israel.
I could hardly believe it when my Lord sent me to Nazareth to all places to tell these two that the Son of God is going to be born.
Joseph didn't have a clue at first.
He was dumbfounded.
I'll never forget his he's, I'll never forget his standing there with his mouth open as I spoke, to the wonders of the word of the Christ Cause coming.
I guess that I don't.
I don't.
I guess it was normal enough.
Men seldom know what to do when they learn a baby's coming.
I, I'm still not sure that he gets it, but Mary got it.
She went straight to her cousin Elizabeth's home and when Mary told her of the birth, Elizabeth unborn baby, leapt in her room.
She laughed and cried and sang all night.
The old priest Zachariah, Elizabeth's husband, sat silent, sat silent over them listening to what they had to say.
He couldn't say a word.
An angel had gotten his tongue and he couldn't speak, but all but warm, salty tears ran down his cold war his, his worn cheeks.
They were like, they were tears of joy.
You see, it had uh, it had been sent an angel that I had been sent to tell him that his son John, would be the forerunner of promised one.
Hold on right there, pastor.
We're gonna, we're gonna, pause right there.
What pastor's reading to you right now, ladies and gentlemen, is a story that he wrote.
It's entitled Gabriel's Story uh, which was written by my pastor.
He's sharing it with you right now, reading it as we go, and we're gonna wrap that up in the next segment and then get to the biblical accounting of the Christmas story before time runs out this evening.
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Die and sinners reconcile.
Joy for all ye nations rise.
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With its anecdotes proclaimed, Christ is born in Bethlehem.
Hark the herald angels sing.
Glory to the new born king.
Well, that's what we're doing at Christmas and always and have my pastor here with us tonight.
Pastor, when you were last on with us, you were saying during the commercial break you were stammering too much, but you had said on the last show, you let it be known what I had known.
Of course, you let it be known to the audience at large when you were on an Easter that you had, of course, suffered a stroke not too long ago.
And I can remember visiting with you in the hospital, and it wasn't a slam dunk that you were going to be reading at all ever again, maybe not even walking.
And God's restored you to a great degree.
Doing the best he can with what he has to work with.
No, just kidding.
But you're doing great.
You take all the time you need.
And I know you're sharing with the audience now a story that you had written.
What's the story doing?
What's the purpose of the story?
Well, just to take another look at the Christmas story, everything that I say is according to Scripture, but a lot of stuff's not in Scripture.
It's just my imagination.
So you're imagining how it might have been to have been Gabriel retelling some of these things.
So continue on, and then we'll get to the actual biblical accounting in our last segment of the hour.
Gabriel said, Now at Long Fast, the time has come.
Mary and Joseph have made the long trip to Bethlehem.
For some reason, it's beyond me.
God has chosen this old barn as a place for it to happen.
As Joseph makes a bed of hay for he and Mary and the child, it's deserted of cattle now.
Little do they know that while a baby, well, excuse me, while men are aware of what's happening, all the creatures in the unseen world are straining to get a look.
I've never seen so many angels in one place on earth at the same time.
Suddenly, the word is handed down from on high.
It's now the fullness of time.
I've seen countless births.
They're all pretty much the same.
But this one is not like any others.
There's a cry of praying for the mother.
Joseph does what he can.
Then in a moment, he steps from glory into a cowshed.
Through the open door of a virgin's womb, heaven has invaded earth.
The conquering king draws into his lungs the stale breath of a sin-ridden planet.
The Prince of Glory opens his eyes in the universe's ghetto of iniquity.
All of heaven watches and listens as the king of kings cry of myrtle pern.
It's his first, but it won't be the last tear that he sheds in this wretched planet.
I hear whispers across the galaxy.
It's begun.
They're referring to the battle for men's soul.
While angels watch and marvel at the grandeur of his coming, the councils of hell plot their coming battle.
Even they know that everything is either won or lost in this place in these days.
The next few years will settle once and for all whose planet this is.
To the conqueror goes the souls of men.
My king holds those souls as a priceless treasure.
The dark forces of Lucifer and the Son of the morning plan their worst, plot their ultimate schemes.
They know that this sleeping babe, they know who the sleeping babe is.
And through them, the thought of this strikes terror in their beings.
Now for the celebration to begin.
Just above the Judean hills, out of the side of the city, a host of angels gathers.
The Father has said that he wants the magnificent news to be told to shepherds camping out guarding their flocks.
Seeing this sort of stuff troubles, has seeing all these things troubles me.
Why not tell it in the capital, in the holy city of Jerusalem, or to have, I might not tell it to the mayor or the king or rabbis, but our master often chooses the common folks for these things.
It is as if he prefers to start with the least and work his way to all.
The shepherds are asleep, so I have to wake them.
Have no fear, good.
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to everyone.
A child has been born to you this day in the city of David.
He is Christ the Savior.
You will recognize him because he'll be wrapped in crawls and laying in a feed trough.
Now the choir sings.
I wish you could hear it.
It is the largest host of angels I've ever seen outside of heaven.
The volume causes the ground to shake under the shepherd's feet.
They range from one end of hearing to the other.
The voices blend like only angels could.
The music alone is enough to fill the souls and lift the spirit of mortal men on high.
But the majesty of the message is what sweeps their worst fears away.
They hear what they hear because of Emmanuel.
Listen to what they see, what they hear.
Oh, come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord.
So that was Gabriel's story, a short story that you wrote, telling a fictitious accounting, but also one rooted in, of course, eternal truths, how Gabriel would have told the Christmas story.
And you'll appreciate this message that came in just a moment ago, Pastor, talking about you.
That guy took a bullet for you and for the truth, so he deserves all the time in the world he wants.
What a sweet man.
When's the last time you were called sweet by anybody?
Not often.
Well, I appreciate you sharing that.
How long ago did you say you wrote that?
How long ago?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I've never even heard it even after all these years.
Several years ago.
Most people have not seen them.
I just wrote them for my own pleasure.
I just enjoyed writing them.
Fantastic.
Thank you for sharing it with us tonight.
And we're heading up on our next and final break before Christmas.
But when we come back, what I consider to be in many ways the main event of the entire program tonight, we're going to tell you the Christmas story as it comes directly from the Bible.
The way Gabriel told it in your story, Pastor.
Well, it could have been that way, but it was definitely the way that we're going to learn about next.
And before the music starts, before we get into that, because I want to start that and then have to stop.
But what do you got coming up next week?
Well, I've got a big family.
I have four daughters, son-in-laws, 11 grandchildren.
They're all here locally.
And before the next few weeks, we'll all be together in one place.
It's always a crazy time.
I can't conceive that there's 20 of us when we all get together.
And you still remember everybody's names.
Yeah, but I can't remember their birthdays.
I can't remember all that sort of stuff.
Thank goodness for that.
There's got to be a birthday every day with the kids and grandkids now.
Listen, every month there's at least one.
But it's a good family.
I love my girls.
They took care of me when I had the stroke and was in the hospital.
You know this, Jamie.
I mean, James, my youngest daughter was living in Corpus Christi at the time when I had the stroke.
And she and her family moved to Dubart where I live and moved in my house so they could take care of me.
That's a commandment about honoring your father and your mother.
And it's good to know that yours did that.
And of course, they would.
I know you don't have your headset on, so you can't hear that the music's playing.
We've got to take a quick break there.
And I know it'll be a great Christmas.
We've got to come up and see Ray Stevens again someday.
Yes, we will.
We'll be right back.
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All is come.
Peace.
Sleep in all the name.
Sleep in heaven.
Glory story.
Well, that music will get to you.
I mean, especially sung like that with all reverence as it should be.
And traditional choir.
You can't see, this is radio, not television.
You can't see what Pastor and I are seeing as we play this in the studio, but we found a rendition with a symphony and a choir, and they're all holding candles.
And it's nothing like it.
Let's nod, James.
And, you know, we're talking about the Christmas story.
We're going to read Luke 2 in just a minute.
And I like to read it from Old King James.
I'm an old geezer, I guess.
But to hear these words like I've heard them since I was a child stirs my heart, my spirit again and again to hear the marvelous story of the Lord's coming.
Well, let's do it.
I can remember all of these, all of the times I heard you share the story in church.
I know we have a limited amount of time left, about eight or nine minutes.
And this is, like I said, I think the most important part of the show that we're doing tonight.
And it has been a great show with Sam and Lacey and Courtney and everybody that's called in.
But tonight's show was built around this, the last show before Christmas.
And in all those years in church, you could spend an hour just on the biblical accounting of the Christmas story because I think traditionally people look to Luke chapter 2 and we're going to be doing that right now.
But of course, you could go back.
And there's many other verses that tell about the birth of Christ and, of course, foretell the birth of Christ all the way going back to the Old Testament.
Well, the truth of the matter is that Jesus is on every page.
And the whole story is a Christmas story.
I mean, there's the Christmas story and the Easter story.
Everything else is just in Louisiana, they'd say land, yap.
All the other stuff builds around this one thing, that the Savior came, that he died, and that he's coming again.
You know, we talk about that.
I think that was one of the things we were going to talk about.
You got an amen from our producer in that in my headset.
But we had talked about the fundamentals of Christianity.
We were going to talk about that in Eastern.
I think we ran out of time.
And I certainly don't want to run out of time to get into this.
But that basically, that is pretty much.
You said the five fundamentals, and you can rattle them off real quick.
Five fundamentals.
You pressed me.
I don't know if I cannot.
First of all, that the scriptures are word of God.
It's the undisputed and fallible word of God.
The second thing is that Christ is the Son of God, born of a virgin.
The third is that he lived a sinless life.
The fourth is that he, well, I guess part of the third is he lived to send us life, and he died a vicarious death on our behalf.
And then the fourth is that he rose from the grave and ascended into heaven.
And the fifth is that he's coming again.
I'm going to tell you what.
One of my favorite scriptures says that every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
I think we put that to song on Sunday morning.
Yes, we did.
I was talking to a dear friend yesterday, and we have some theological differences, and that's okay.
Nobody agrees with other person all the time.
But my friend said this to me: when we get to heaven, God's going to straighten out everything that I believed is wrong, and he will.
I don't believe everything that I believe is right, but I know these five fundamentals, and I know what we said before.
He came, he died, he rose again, he's coming again.
Pastor, we've got five minutes left, and I have said all night we're going to share the biblical accounting of the Christmas story.
I don't want to shortchange it at all.
We've got five minutes taken away.
In Luke 2, the first verse says, And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
And every man, oh, excuse me, and this census was first taken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria.
So all went to be registered, everyone into his own city.
And Joseph went up to Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, to the city of David, which is in Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife.
And she was great with child.
So it was while they were there that the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, laid him in a manger, because there's no room for him in the end.
Now, there was in the same country shepherds abiding in fliels, keeping watch over their flocks by night.
And behold, the angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shrown round about them, and they were greatly afraid.
And the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you this day in the city of David, a Savior is born who is Christ the Lord.
This will be a sign for you.
You will find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
And suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, Glory be to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men.
You know, the thing that men desire most in their hearts is that they might have peace, peace with themselves, peace with each other, and most of all, peace with God.
We look for it in a lot of ways.
We look for it if we have enough money, if we have the right friends, the right spouse, if we can have the biggest car, and all those things, none of those things bring peace and happiness.
Peace comes from peace with God.
And the message of Christmas is peace on earth with goodwill toward men.
James, can we pray just a second?
Sure.
Father, I thank you so much that you love us.
My mind is and my spirit is blown away that the God of heaven would clothe himself with humanity, be born of woman, walk this earth, be crucified, and rise again so that he could deliver a scoundrel like me.
Father, thank you that you love us, that you have saved us, and that you're coming for us.
And we say all these things in the magnificent name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Pastor, thank you so much for coming out tonight, for being with us on the radio, for sharing that message here on the eve of Christmas.
And of course, you know, the promise of Christmas wasn't just that God sent his Son.
One thing to remember is that Jesus is God, you know, as we get into the Trinity and the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
And so, folks, we encourage you to embrace the gospel, embrace the word as it has been shared to you tonight by Pastor.
I love you, Pastor, and Merry Christmas to you.
Thank you again for being with us tonight.
Very, very, very special.
Always is when you're on.
It's an always honor to see you and an honor to be with you on the program.
I love your litter, listeners.
I love the people that I have had an opportunity to meet and people that love and support you.
Thank you, James.
Thank you, Pastor.
They love you too, and so do I. Ladies and gentlemen, Merry Christmas.
This has been our last show before Christmas.
Join us next week for the last show of the year, last show of the decade, in fact, our year in review show.
But Merry Christmas.
Enjoy that time with your family on Tuesday and Wednesday.