Dec. 25, 2021 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Silent night, holy night.
All is come.
All is bright.
Roman light.
Send every night.
Sleep in heaven with grace.
I've said it a few times already this evening.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll say it one more time for sure.
What an honor it is to be with you, our listening family here on Christmas night of this year.
That silent night from so long ago is what we'll be talking about in this, the final hour of the final show of our broadcasting gear.
And back with us this evening is Pastor Brett McCatey of the Christ the King Reformed Church in Charlotte, Michigan, just Charlotte, North Carolina.
And there's nothing that substitutes for an in-person fellowship of believers, but if you cannot find a faithful church in your area, please go to charlottetreformed.org and join the online fellowship there.
You can catch Pastor Brett's sermons every Sunday morning.
And I know a lot of people in our audience that do.
I was just saying, it's kind of ironic.
We were talking about I come from an Episcopalian background.
You're from a Southern Baptist background.
We don't have anything to be proud of at denominational headquarters for either denomination now.
And we go to Christ the King Reformed and Brett McCarty when we want somebody in the spiritual realm to appear on our show.
He is the kind of pastor that it's going to take, the kind of man of God it's going to take to lead us out of our current doldrums.
And we are going to take as little of the time remaining as possible.
You will hear very little from Keith Alexander and I. We're going to focus on the birth of Jesus Christ and to help us share the biblical accounting of that is Pastor Brett.
Without further ado.
Pastor, welcome back and Merry Christmas.
Thank you very much and Merry Christmas to both of you as well.
And you all think far more highly than me than is warranted.
But let's begin to talk about the Christmas story, the Christian Christmas story.
Perhaps the most famous story after the Christian Christmas story is Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol.
And this starts with these lines.
Maldiv was dead to begin with.
There's no doubt whatever about that.
This must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can come of the story I'm going to relate.
Well, the Christian Christmas story is similarly like Dickens' story, has a backdrop without which nothing wonderful could come of the story I'm going to relate.
And that backdrop fallen from God's hand was cast out of the paradise that he was put in as a penalty for rebellion against his creator.
This is taught in the first book of Genesis.
And actually, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the gospel story that tells of the coming of Jesus makes no sense whatsoever apart from Genesis.
Because the Christmas story there is the beginning of the story of how paradise lost was paradise restored.
So the whole context of our story requires that we understand that apart from God's solution and providing Jesus Christ for man's rebellion, man remains in his fallen paradise state and is without God and without hope.
Another thing we should say here at the outset is that the Christian Christmas story presupposes the reality and the existence of the supernatural.
Christians believe in God creating the world in six days.
Christians believe that God created Adam and Eve out of, and then Eve out of Adam's sweat.
Christians believe in talking snakes.
We believe it all.
And without believing it all, none of the Christmas story would make any sense.
So we start the Christmas story, James, with the fact that after man's rebellion, God promised someone who would restore paradise loss.
God said to the serpent who had been the agent of Lucifer, quote, and I'll put open warfare between you and the woman and between your people of darkness and her people.
The champion of her people shall fatally crush your head and you shall bruise his heel.
Thus we see the contest was set and Christmas tells a story of how this promised coming champion mentioned here in Genesis 3, how this promised coming champion of God came to pass.
So before God's champion and our champion comes, however, long millennium pass, there's the expectation that God is going to provide his champion immediately.
As our mother Eve gives birth to Cain, she says there, Behold, God has given me a man.
And the idea that's hinted at there is, this is the one that's promised that's going to deliver us from our sin and restore us to paradise.
However, of course, we know with Cain and later again with Seth, the hopes are not fulfilled.
Indeed, so long as they'll wait that people begin to mock the idea that God will ever send a champion to deliver his people from sin and restore them to paradise.
A proverb begins to circulate among the Hebrew people: quote, if you have a sapling in your hand and someone should say to you that the Messiah has come, stay and complete the planting and then go greet the Messiah.
And so the idea was that it was just a myth.
They didn't believe in it anymore.
And thus we understand why our favorite Christmas hymns have the lyrics, or one of them, long lay the world in sin and error pining.
The world was waiting for the promised champion who would deliver the world from its bondage.
So the Christmas story has all that as a backdrop.
And then it tells how God finally provided a champion to deliver us from our continual rebellion against God.
Christmas in the Christmas story tells the story of how God brings paradise restored in Jesus Christ.
Christmas tells it tells how our sin nature begins to be healed.
And as we hinted at, the Old Testament scripture hints at all we might expect to find in the champion.
However, while there are many who are thought to be long-expected champions there in the Old Testament, ultimately none of them are the champion.
But finally, finally, things begin to store, to stir.
God is on the move.
First, we are given the account of the providential birth of the one who would be the herald of the champion.
This herald's name was John, and his birth is recorded in the Bible in such a way that it's clear that God's at work.
He's moving again.
The time of silence has ended between the intertestamental period.
An old woman long past childbearing age, a woman named Elizabeth.
She conceives a child that is to be the herald of the long-promised champion.
His name is John, and his purpose is to announce the time of fulfillment is at hand.
The champion has finally come.
Paradise is going to be restored.
Man is going to be healed, healed.
And nothing is going to stop the arrival of the Messiah.
He is the champion who will restore paradise and deal with the self-inflicted sin problem that mankind has that he's carrying to the ceiling of Adam.
Narrow, we're now at the opening of Matthew and make it clear that again, as I said, God is on the move.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pastor Brett McAtee, our guest, and really one of the most, the most important message of the year in this, our final hour of the year.
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He's with us for the remainder of the hour on this, our Christmas night.
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Thanks again to Pastor Brett McAtee for being with us tonight to share with us the biblical accounting of the birth of Jesus Christ.
He's with us and we talk about this.
What a point it is that we make to remember Jesus at Christmas and at Easter.
Certainly Christ's victory over death may be the more important of the two, but there is certainly not a time of year that's greater than Christmas when it comes time for that sense of community and fellowship that we share with our families and our friends.
And this is a real treat tonight.
So Pastor Brett, back to you.
Thanks.
In the first segment, I just tried to set the table.
I tried to give the background of the necessity of the coming of Jesus.
And we got to the point where John was on the way and we saw the supernatural way in which John arrived.
But second, Matthew teaches us that God has so superintended history that this champion that was promised in Genesis 3, that is the Lord Jesus Christ, is from the exactly correct racial and ethnic line that God himself said that his champion had to descend from.
So as an aside here, we might say that we see that the Christmas story teaches, unlike what we're hearing today and every quarter, that race is not a social construct.
Jesus had to come not only from the Hebrew people in general, he had to come after long generations from a particular tribe, that is the tribe of Judah and a particular family.
He had to be of the tribe of Judah, of the family of David.
Both Matthew and Luke go out of their way to demonstrate through the lineage that are given, to demonstrate that God has been so superintending history in a miraculous supernatural fashion that for generations and generations,
God made sure that the right genetic line would be kept clean so that it would be undisputed that Jesus as his champion to deliver people from sin could not have his royal credentials questioned.
He was the lion of the tribe of Judah, who as to his genetics, Paul says in Romans, was a descendant of David, and who, as Isaiah says, is a branch from Jesse's stump.
So this is just the first supernatural miracle in the Christmas story.
We're going to continue to doubt the supernatural and see the wonder of the coming of Jesus.
The Christmas story finds Mary, introduces us to this grown woman, perhaps who's as young as 14 or 15, being visited by an angel.
And then she's told she's going to conceive a child, quite apart from the rudimentary requirements necessary to normally create a child or to conceive a child.
She's going to remain a virgin in this child's conception.
Further, her virgin conception is a fulfillment of a prophecy given hundreds and hundreds of years prior.
There in Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14.
And the virgin shall be with child.
We see again that if we refuse to embrace the bald supernatural of genetic lines, for example, being protected through centuries, of angels' visitations and a virgin birth and of ancient prophecies fulfilled, we can't be Christians and we can't have any understanding of the purpose of the coming of Jesus.
Without the supernatural, all it's all a fairy tale and we're stupid to believe in these things.
In this Christmas story, then we should pay attention especially to the name that the child is given, the child that was promised to Mary.
The angel tells Mary that they give the name of God's champion, the one who's going to reverse the consequences of sin, the one who's going to restore us to paradise.
He's going to be given the name Jesus, and then it says, for he shall save his people from their sin.
The name Jesus literally means Jehovah is salvation.
In Hebrew, that same name is Yeshua, Joshua.
And we know what a warrior Joshua was.
This champion then that was long ago promised in Genesis 3 after man's first rebellion is going to save man from his rebellious nature.
And it's hinted at that he is going to be God's warrior in order to do so.
And so now we begin to tease out the wonder of the Christmas story that man, despite ruining self-inflicted wound, despite his fall from paradise, God is going to provide a champion, a Messiah, in order to restore him to paradise, in order to cure his sin, in order to have that man might once again have concourse or peace with God.
So the Christmas story doesn't make any sense apart from the supernatural.
And apart from the reality that the majority meaning of Christmas is that God has provided someone who will deal with the rebellion of our sin and the sin of our first parents by taking it away, by paying the just punishment that sin deserves, and by giving God.
And so turning God's just anger away, away from us by the paying of the debt man owes to God holiness as incurred by man's rebellion.
And so we see that there's a linkage between Christmas and Easter because in the cradle, there is a cross.
Christmas makes no sense apart from all that is participating in Jesus Christ's coming.
When we learn the name of Jesus and Jehovah's Salvation, we learn that man can have no peace with God apart from coming underneath the umbrella of the safety that can only be found in Jesus Christ.
Jesus came, our Christmas story teaches us that man might be safe from God.
This is why Jesus' name is Jehovah is salvation.
Because apart from Jesus, apart from embracing him, it's the case that Jehovah is not salvation, but Jehovah is damnation.
And all those who haven't closed with Christ, all those who are not under the umbrella of his safety, all those who are not wearing his righteousness, only can find God as damnation.
So now we're at the point in this true supernatural story that marries with child, but the wonder of it all is still ahead of us.
There's still much to be teased out.
We see in the Christmas story the arrival of the shepherds.
And the wondrous thing about these shepherds, well, it's several fold.
First of all, keep in mind the shepherds have been assigned task, of course, of watching over flocks.
But these shepherds are not watching just over any flock.
These shepherds, it's thought by many, are watching over the flock from which the sacrificial lambs are taken in order to offer up a sacrifice in temple worship.
If this is the case, then the angels announced the birth of Christ as the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world to those shepherds who spent their lives watching over the flock from which the lambs for sacrifice were taken.
And it would be a beautiful thing, a beautiful picture of indeed that's what is going on here.
They who watched the lambs would be sacrificed are now called to behold the Lamb of God, the fulfillment of all their work.
Secondly, we'd say about the shepherds, it's interesting in this culture, shepherds were at the bottom of the societal pecking order.
They weren't even trusted to be witnesses, so they were never called to be witnesses in a court sitting we're talking about here.
So God decides to bring shepherds who in this culture are the least of these to be witness to the one who is the greatest of these, Jesus the Messiah.
He is the champion of God who is assigned the task of curing man of his sin and so restoring him to paradise.
We would say also about the shepherds.
Interesting.
And we'll pick this theme up when we come back.
Ladies and gentlemen, the most important story we could share with you at Christmas time, it is Christmas night.
We're celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ here on TPC with Pastor Brett McAtee.
We'll be right back.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a time for reverence and awe, but also a time of celebration.
And we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ tonight with Pastor Brett McAtee, who is the husband of a wife without peer, the father of three children who walk as heroes in the land, grandfather of nine.
He is the author of Iron Inc. which is committed to thinking God's thoughts after him.
And he is the pastor for now 20 years, over 20 years, of Christ the King Reformed Church in Michigan.
Charlotte Reformed.org is the website.
Pastor McAtee, you're doing an excellent job breaking down this most important of stories, and we'd ask you to continue to do so now.
My privilege.
And of course, we're condensing, condensing, condensing here, trying to get to the heart of the matter.
But we left off with the shepherds.
We just want to say one more thing about them.
They're admirable because the minute they leave, they go in haste to spread the news about the gospel.
They become evangelists about what they've seen and heard.
And would that we would become as adamant and as excited as the shepherds to spreading the news of the Christ.
Now we move to other actors upon the scene that God has moved.
We turn to the kings of the east.
Now, they probably don't show up to a couple of years after.
Jesus may be a toddler by the time they show up, two, three years old.
And they're kings of the east.
They come from the east.
Now, we want to pause there just a second and notice that there's a theme in scripture that whenever men are moving eastward, that is to the east, they're moving away from the presence of God.
I haven't got time to give you all the scripture quotation that shows that.
But what's interesting here is that the kings now are coming from the east.
They're not going to the east.
They're coming from the east.
And this would be indicative of the fact that they're moving into the presence of God.
But keep in mind, this is a theme that you find in the Old Testament.
To move eastward is to move away from God.
The kings of the east are coming from the east.
So moving towards God to worship Jesus.
We're not told how many men there were.
Of course, legend has it, we three kings.
But there may have been many, many more than that.
We just don't know.
But they come and they follow that supernatural star.
That's another thing we could spend half an hour on talking about, but time doesn't allow us.
But God hung that supernatural started throughout their past so that the star hung over where his child was born.
The kings of the East in the Christmas story are not Hebrews, but Gentiles, and that's important as well.
Some think these Gentile kings retain a residue of knowledge about the long-promised champion God as the Messiah.
They retain a knowledge about him coming to heal man of his rebellion because the famous Hebrew named Daniel once lived among them.
And so it's thought that because Daniel was once there, it was a repository of knowledge that was left there.
And these kings, these astronomers, were familiar with that knowledge and knew about the coming promised Messiah.
Their importance in the story is several fold.
These kings are representative of the fact that Jesus has come to save both the lowborn, as we see in the shepherds, but he's come to save the highborn, that is the kings of the East.
So our economic status is not anything, whether it's lowborn or highborn, that stands in the way of coming underneath the authority of Jesus Christ.
Secondly, about those Gentile kings, we would say they represent the fact that Jesus has come to save men from every tribe, tongue, and nation, and not just the Hebrews.
Jesus is God's champion for all nations, for all men, for all the elect.
Indeed, the Jews, according to God's predestined plan, will reject God's champion, will reject Jesus, thus opening the door for the Gentiles to come in.
And the kings of the East, those wise men, are pictures of that.
We have, that is, we Gentiles, have interest in God's champion because the Jews rejected their Messiah that all men must bow to if they're to have peace with God and if they're to be delivered from their idols and their sin.
So the wise men thus are instrumental to the Christmas story for their present there to worship Jesus is promissory that we Gentiles, you who are listening now, can have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We would say also the kings of the East come to offer worship.
This teaches that the only mindset that mortals should have towards the one who cures our sin is that of worship.
Also, there is the manner of gifts that the wise men bring.
They're pregnant with meaning, these gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
The gold is a gift befitting a king, and Jesus was and is a king.
The frankincense was a gift bespeaking the divinity of Jesus.
And the myrrh is a gift that points to the fact that Jesus was a man.
Let's break this down.
Gold, as everybody knows, is associated with kings.
Gold is, we might say, the middle of royalty, exuding wealth and majesty.
And when the last represented the gifts of gold to Jesus, they were acknowledging and recognizing that Jesus is king of kings and lord of lords.
It points then to the royalty of Jesus that he received gold as a gift.
We look at frankincense, and that was often used as a type of incense or perfume.
And then Jews would use it in temple worship.
So frankincense was mixed with oil that was then used for the anointing of the priest of Israel.
By offering the gift of frankincense, the wise men, these kings of the East, were pointed to the reality that Christ is our high priest.
And while the priesthood was established to stand as representatives of Israel, Jesus would be our ultimate representative, and he would be perfectly righteous and pleasing to God the Father.
It shows in that gift of frankincense, it shows Jesus' complete divinity apart from us.
He is our great high priest representing us, falling then to God.
And the myrrh.
Myrrh is actually seemingly a rather inappropriate gift in most circumstances.
Myrrh in the ancient world was a resin that was often used for medicinal purposes, but it was also used specifically for embalming a dead body.
You wouldn't think that was much of a gift for an infant king, an infant, or for a king for that matter.
However, it turns out to be a rather appropriate gift for Jesus, appropriate because this child was born to die, born to be a sacrifice for sin, born to be embalmed and laid in a tomb that could not keep him.
And so the myrrh here, folks, is the most appropriate gift for those with eyes to see.
Jesus could not be God's champion, could not be the one who restores paradise to us without death as a cross and as the penalty for sin.
And the myrrh is a picture of the fact that he is born to die.
And having set this forth, let's not forget the part of the Christmas story where Jesus is born in Bethlehem.
This likewise is a supernatural fulfillment because for hundreds of years prior, it was prophesied in Micah that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.
This is what the wise men of Herod came and told him that Jesus would be born there.
And they knew that because it was in Micah 5:2.
And that is where Jesus is born.
But Bethlehem is also significant because Bethlehem literally means house of bread.
And so we find that Jesus, who later scripture teaches, is the bread of God coming down, that this Jesus, who is the bread of heaven, is born appropriately so in the house of bread.
And of course, we couldn't have eternal life ourselves if it were not for the case that God gives us himself in Christ as we come to the sacrament and partake of the bread.
Then there is in the Christmas story the idea of Herod.
The Christmas story finds again the supernatural in Herod, if only because the scripture hundreds of years prior prophesied that this demonic would do exactly what he did in his thing to kill Jesus.
Herod, you might know, was a pretender to the throne of Israel.
Herod was Eli and so no leader of Israel, and many of the nation understood that.
And as such, Herod was forever insecure about his throne.
He was always willing to kill anybody who might have aspirations for the throne.
Herod, he competes with Nero for wickedness.
And when the wise men come to him reporting of one who would be the king of the Judahites, and that he had been born, Herod was troubled, and the scripture says all Jerusalem would not amazing.
That maniac, when troubled, would make sure everybody was troubled with him.
So Herod goes on a killing rampage and finds him departing before Herod's sword can fall on Jesus.
And again, all of this was prophesied in the Old Testament before it finally came to pass.
And we'll pick that up again as we return.
Ladies and gentlemen, the great pastor Brett McAtee, one more segment remaining in our Christmas night broadcast.
And as a matter of fact, for the entire broadcasting year here, we're happy, honored, privileged to be able to spend it with Pastor Brett talking about this most important of happenings.
Stay tuned.
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As you all know, Roe versus Wade has resulted in some of the most permissive abortion laws anywhere in the world.
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Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother's womb in the ninth month.
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It has to change.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the The last word you'll hear from me this broadcasting year is one last message of thanks.
Thanks to our listening audience.
Thanks to every guest who appeared with us this year.
Thanks to our staff and crew, to Keith Alexander, to my wife, to our families whose support enables us to do this.
I got a note from a listener who thanked my wife for 17 years of missing out on Saturday date nights.
Yes, that's where we're at.
And thanks, of course, to Brett McAtee for being with us on Christmas night.
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I look forward to this time of year, of course, to sharing with you some of this Christmas music on the air.
And it all culminates, of course, with the broadcast nearest to Christmas on most years.
Of course, this year, it is Christmas night itself.
And Pastor Brett McAtee, with the last 10 minutes, it's entirely yours to finish up on this most history-changing of events.
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And we in the McAtee household wish the Edwards family and everybody at the Political Cesspool a most Merry Christmas.
We left with Herod, and of course, we noted that he was not in Israel.
He was the ancient enemies of Israel.
He goes on his killing rampage, but God protects the holy family and leads them out away from Herod's sword back into Egypt.
They escape to Egypt.
And Matthew records all this.
And what's interesting, what Matthew does is Matthew largely in the Christmas story recapitulates Jesus in light of Israel.
So Israel was the disobedient younger son, but Jesus is now the disobedient older son who comes and gets right everything that Israel got wrong throughout the Old Testament.
Time does not allow us to get into those details, but Matthew's gospel in terms of the Christmas story is a story of recapitulation, how Jesus succeeds where Israel failed.
And so in all of this, though, in everything that we've had to say, we also have to remember that with our celebration of Christmas, we are celebrating that the king has arrived.
He's come.
And with the coming of the king, there is the reality that he brings the kingdom.
Jesus, when he begins his ministry, says, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand, which means it's right upon you.
It's on the cusp.
So when the king comes, he brings a kingdom.
And when Christmas rolls around each year, it's a celebration not only of salvation, the salvation that's been won in Jesus Christ, but it's also a celebration that goes as far as the curse is found as a hymn joy gives us.
It's a triumph that is Christmas that we are guaranteed will continue to come in Jesus Christ.
The king has come and now all lesser teams must make obese.
the Fauci's, the Sorrows, the Gates, the Rothschilds, the demonic politicians of the New World Order drunk on a denachrome will either bow before Jesus as king or will spend eternity sharing quarters with Satan in hell.
To the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, he brings the future age to come, that is the age of restoration, paradise restored.
He brings that age with him.
And that age has come face to face with this present evil age.
And the age to come that comes with the babe Christ is rolling back the present evil age as the epics of time pass by in our history.
So Jesus, that child that we celebrate at Christmas has a victory.
And we as his people, we walk in that triumph and victory.
We, because Christ has come, we press the crown rights of King Jesus into every area of life, every calling, every institution.
Jesus, that child that came, who's king of kings and Lord of lords, he's the one who restored paradise and healed us of the sickness of sin by his work on the cross, calls his people, we who are his people, to disciple the nations.
And because of Christmas, we can command all men everywhere to repent.
So this Christmas season, my expectation, our expectation is that the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.
And that because they already now are his kingdom as he's seated at the right hand of the Father.
Our expectation now is that the glory of the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Our expectation is that because Christ has dominion, Christ shall have dominion.
This is our expectation at this Christmas season.
So our expectation because of Christmas is that the enemies of Christ will sue for peace, lest the sun become angry and those kings perish in the way.
Our expectation is that the sons of Allah and the sons of the demon God of the Talmud will bow to the kings of kings and the Lord of lords.
Our expectation because of Christmas is that before Christ returns, that's right, before Christ returns, that the globe will be converted and in space and time, every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father.
It is not the case in some quarters.
Indeed, many quarters in the church today want to insist that somehow when Jesus returns, the church is going to be surrounded by the enemy like Custer's troops that little bighorn and they're on the edge of despair and they're dying and it's almost all done.
And Jesus comes and he raptures them out and they escape.
That's not the Christmas Jesus.
The Christmas Jesus announces that because he is Lord, he will triumph over the whole globe and then will sue for peace.
So Christmas is a time to renew our confidence that though the wrong yet off so strong, God is the ruler yet.
And he's given over his rule to his king, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And he has set his resurrected regent that Jesus came as a child.
He has set that resurrected regent on Mount Zion to rule over the affairs of men.
So in light of all that, we say, Merry Christmas, and let's do battle for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
And that's why during this Christmas season, we can sing those Christmas songs that bespeak everything that I've covered in the few minutes that we've had together.
We can sing, hark the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.
Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.
Join all ye nations rise.
Join the triumph of the skies.
With the angelic proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem.
Hark, the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.
Christ by highest heaven adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord.
Late in time, behold him come, of a virgin's womb, veiled in flesh, the Godhead seat, the incarnate deity, pleased as men, man with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel.
Hark, the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.
Hail the heaven-born prince of peace.
Hail the son of righteousness.
Light and life to all he brings, risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he raises glory by, born that man no more may die.
Born to raise the sons of earth, born to give the second birth.
Hark, the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.
And so during this Christmas season, we celebrate the coming of Christ, the fulfillment of all that scripture spoken of in the Old Testament.
That which Abraham was waiting for, that which the prophets are standing on their tiptoes trying to see.
We celebrate the coming of Christ, but not only as a babe, but one now who is triumphant and rules over the affairs of men.
This is what Christmas communicates.
It communicates that we no longer have to go about wearing our sin, but rather that we can look to Christ and that we can have him pay for our sins.
Christmas announces everything that find between the pages of Genesis to Revelation.
And so this is a time of mirth and happiness and joy.
It is a time of giving.
It is decoration.
It is the Christians' highest time of the year.
And we celebrate it with all the fervor that we can muster.
And so from the McAtee household, to those listening all across the land, we say Merry Christmas to you and yours.
What a fantastic presentation, Pastor Brett McAtee.
Keith Alexander, I don't think I know we couldn't have ended our broadcasting year with anything more important.
Mike up, mic up.
Yeah, here we go.
We had you turned off there.
Just a quick 30-second response to what you heard from Pastor Brett and a wish of Merry Christmas to Pastor Brett.
Anything you'd like to say to take us into the end of this year?
Jesus is a new covenant.
Basically, the Old Testament judgmental job is turned into the God of love that basically, and also redefined whose God's people are, like in Matthew 22, 1 through 18, I believe it is.
The wedding guest.
And that's the good news for all of mankind.
Thank you, Pastor Brett.
Merry Christmas to you and to everyone.
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