{"id":1032,"date":"2020-12-20T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:06:47","slug":"christmas-time-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/20\/christmas-time-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Time is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"697\" src=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Web-Verse-82-Luke-2-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1033\" srcset=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Web-Verse-82-Luke-2-11.jpg 843w, http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Web-Verse-82-Luke-2-11-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Web-Verse-82-Luke-2-11-768x635.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><figcaption> \u201c<strong>For unto you is born this day in the city of David<\/strong><br><strong> a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord<\/strong>\u201d<br> Luke 2:11 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been a very crazy year. So much has happened. So\nmuch has changed. It is hard to believe that the year 2020 is almost over. And\nit doesn\u2019t really feel like Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you remember watching <strong><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/strong>?\nAs it opens, Charlie Brown is declaring to Linus, \u201cI think there must be\nsomething wrong with me. Christmas is coming, but I\u2019m not happy. I don\u2019t feel\nthe way I\u2019m supposed to feel. I just don\u2019t understand Christmas, I guess.\u201d He\nthen continues by telling Linus all of the things he likes about the Christmas\nseason, but that he still isn\u2019t happy. \u201cI always end up feeling depressed,\u201d\ndeclares Charlie Brown. Linus tells Charlie Brown that only he could turn a\nwonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you remember how the show progresses, Charlie Brown is in\ncharge of the Christmas program. He finds that everything he does turns into a\ndisaster. In the midst of it all, he declares that he really doesn\u2019t know what\nChristmas is all about. He then cries out, \u201cIsn\u2019t there anyone who can tell me\nwhat Christmas is all about?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linus steps up declaring that he knows what Christmas is all\nabout. All should remember what Linus quotes to everyone: \u201c<strong>And there were in\nthe same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock\nby night.&nbsp;And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of\nthe Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.&nbsp;And the angel\nsaid unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy,\nwhich shall be to all people.&nbsp;For unto you is born this day in the city of\n<\/strong><strong>David<\/strong><strong> a Saviour,\nwhich is Christ the Lord.&nbsp;And this <em>shall be<\/em> a sign unto you; Ye\nshall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.&nbsp;And\nsuddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising\nGod, and saying,&nbsp;Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good\nwill toward men<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 2:8-14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people in the world today seem to forget: What Christmas\nis all about. In the cartoon <strong><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/strong>, the point\nis made. It is not the giving and receiving of Christmas gifts, the sending of\nChristmas cards, the commercialism that Christmas has become, and not even the\nChristmas programs that people try to make happen. The simplicity of the\nChristmas message is lost on the masses. It is purely what the angels told the\nshepherds in the field that night so long ago: \u201c<strong>For, behold, I bring you\ngood tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.&nbsp;For unto you is\nborn this day in the city of <\/strong><strong>David<\/strong><strong>\na Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201d The good tiding of great joy\nwas the birth of Jesus, the Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. One must understand\nthat Christmas is about the greatest gift ever given: <strong><em>Jesus<\/em><\/strong>. God\nso loved us that He sent His only Son (see John 3:16).\nThen one must believe in what Jesus did when He came. He came to die (because\nof our sin). He came to give us life (because we cannot pay the penalty for our\nsin). Whoever will believe in Him, though they were dead in their sins and\ntrespasses, yet shall he live. (Remember what Jesus declared to Martha, \u201c<strong>Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,\nand the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live<\/strong>\u201d\nJohn 11:25). Each person must\nunderstand that Christmas is remembering the giving of the greatest gift given\nby God. It is available to anyone. But it must be received. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you know what Christmas is all about? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you received God\u2019s gift (Jesus) into your heart and life? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-biblical-path-of-life\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gMKCIBKSpV\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/how-to-be-saved\/\">How to be Saved<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How to be Saved&#8221; &#8212; The Biblical Path of Life\" src=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/how-to-be-saved\/embed\/#?secret=mbbG0GoyMF#?secret=gMKCIBKSpV\" data-secret=\"gMKCIBKSpV\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a very crazy year. So much has happened. So much has changed. It is hard to believe that the year 2020 is almost over. And it doesn\u2019t really feel like Christmas. Do you remember watching A Charlie Brown Christmas? As it opens, Charlie Brown is declaring to Linus, \u201cI think there must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[461,593,595,147,80,358,594],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-christ","tag-christmas","tag-fear-not","tag-gift","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-shepherds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}