| Teacher: Rusty Kennedy Series: Christmas |
Rusty's Notes
The ABCs of Christmas from Luke 2
A - Angels from the realms of glory, Telling of the Christmas story.
B - Bethlehem beckons with joyful accord; Come hither, come see and worship the Lord.
C - Christ was born on Christmas Day, Asleep in a manger, a bed made of hay.
D - Divine and holy is Thy Birth; Angels give flight o'er all the earth.
E - Everlasting Father Lord of all, Look with mercy and love on us all.
F - "Fear not," said the angel, one night long ago. "I bring good tidings, to earth below."
G - "Glory to the Son," we sing, "Christ is our Prophet, Priest and King."
H - Heavenly hosts, their watch are keeping, Precious child so sweetly sleeping,
I - Immanuel, we sing Thy praise, Thou Prince of Life, Thou Fount of Grace.
J - Joy to the world, the Lord is come, Born in a manger, God's only Son.
K - King of Kings, prophets foretold, Now all men His love behold.
L - Love is a gift He gives to all. To each of us, both great and small.
M - Messiah and Savior--for this He came-- Live in our hearts and there remain.
N - Night so holy, silent and still, Proclaiming joy, peace and good will.
O - Odors of Edom and offerings divine, Myrrh from the forest and gold from the mine.
P - Peace on earth, good will from heaven, Souls redeemed and sins forgiven.
Q - Quietly He came to earth To give us all a second birth.
R - Rejoice, give thanks and loudly sing, Glory to the New-born King.
S - Shepherds watched their flocks by night While Wise Men followed the heavenly light.
T - Tidings of great joy I bring; Good news from heaven the angels sing.
U - Unto us a Child is born On this happy Christmas Morn.
V - Virgin-born, Immanuel, Let every tongue Thy praises tell.
W - Wise Men from the East, they came To worship and praise His holy name.
X - X is for Christ when in Greek it is read, A Savior, the Lord, so the angel said.
Y - Yonder shines brightly the heavenly star Showing the way to those from afar.
Z - Zeal was bestowed on God's only Son From His childhood years till His work was done.
(Donna O'Briant ©1997 Compliments of Joni and Friends PO Box 3333 Agoura Hills, CA 91376 www.joniandfriends.org)
There is a verse that for me sums up the real meaning of Christmas better than any verse in the Bible.
It is just one verse tucked away in a forgotten corner of the New Testament.
2 Corinthians 8:9 - "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.”
That sentence sums up the great truth behind Jesus’ birth.
A — He Was Rich
Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America. Here’s the top 13 from that list:
1. Bill Gates
Net Worth: $81B
Source of wealth: Microsoft
2. Jeff Bezos
Net Worth: $67B
Source of wealth: Amazon.com
3. Warren Buffett
Net Worth: $65.5B
Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway
4. Mark Zuckerberg
Net Worth: $55.5B
Source of wealth: Facebook
5. Larry Ellison
Net Worth: $49.3B
Source of wealth: Oracle
6. Michael Bloomberg
Net Worth: $45B
Source of wealth: Bloomberg LP
7. Charles Koch
Net Worth: $42B
Source of wealth: diversified
7. David Koch
Net Worth: $42B
Source of wealth: diversified
9. Larry Page
Net Worth: $38.5B
Source of wealth: Google
10. Sergey Brin
Net Worth: $37.5B
Source of wealth: Google
11. Jim Walton
Net Worth: $35.6B
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
12. S. Robson Walton
Net Worth: $35.5B
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
13. Alice Walton
Net Worth: $35.4B
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
After further perusing the entire list, I can report two things to you:
- The Average Rich fly first class.
- The Medium Rich charter a jet.
- The Super Rich own the jet.
- The Incredibly Rich own the airline.
- But Jesus Christ owns the skies.
- When the Bible says, "He was rich," it is speaking of what he had before he left heaven to come to earth.
- All the glory of God radiates from him (Hebrews 1:3). - He shared glory with the Father before the world began (John 17:5).
- All things were created through him (John 1:3).
- All things hold together in him (Colossians 1:17).
- He upholds all things (Hebrews 1:3).
- He is the ruler of the kings of the earth (Revelation 1:5).
- Before he was born, he was the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).
Luke 2:11 tells us the true identity of the babe in the manger: “For unto you is born this day in the City of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord”.
Suppose you thought about it this way: Take the ten richest men and women who ever lived . . .
And the ten most powerful rulers who ever ruled . . . Add the ten wisest men who pondered life's questions. Throw in the mightiest generals who ever went to battle . . .
Add the ten ten strongest athletes in every sport . . . And the ten most mesmerizing orators . . .
Plus the ten greatest political leaders . . .
And any ten other great men and women left on the earth . . .
Throw in ten top Super Heroes
Calculate their accumulated wealth . . . power . . . influence . . . skill . . . genius . . . wisdom . . . insight . . . ability.
Whatever that vast sum comes to, Jesus had more in heaven.
-No man or collection of men could come close to him.
- He was rich.
- He didn't leave heaven in search of riches.
- All the money in the universe was his for the asking.
- Theologians speak of the pre-existence of Jesus Christ. That simply means that before Bethlehem, the Son of God existed from all eternity in heaven.
- Not as a pauper or a beggar, but in glorious splendor. That's the A of the ABC's of Christmas--He Was Rich.
- But that is only part of the story. Christmas begins with what happens next.
B — He Became Poor
What does it mean? He was rich in eternity. He became poor in time.
He left heaven for a remote village in a forgotten province, to join a despised race, to be born of an obscure teenage peasant girl in a stable, wrapped in rags, placed in a feeding trough instead of a crib.
This much we all know.
-But notice the verb—He became poor. Not, he was made poor. That's what happens to us. We are made poor by circumstances.
- But he himself, of his own free will, became poor. That's something we would never do.
- He voluntarily gave up the riches of heaven for the poverty of earth.
- He who was richer than any man has ever been gave it up freely and became poorer than any man has ever been.
- We understand riches. And we understand poverty. But to choose poverty is beyond us and something we would never do.
- But that is the heart of the gospel. The richest person in the universe, of his own free will, became poorer than the poor.
-Theologians also have a word for this. They call it the incarnation.
-The idea comes from John 1:14 which says, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." I love how The Message puts it: “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.”
-Jesus left the glories of heaven to move into our neighborhood and become just like us.
-He knows what we’re going through because he has lived here himself.
-In what sense did Christ become poor?
- He left the glories of heaven for the sadness of earth. - He stooped to enter the world through a mother’s womb.
- He became a dependent creature.
- He endured rejection and ridicule.
- He refused to return evil for evil.
- He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Read this from Ray Pritchard:
Two thousand years ago, a man was born contrary to the laws of life. He lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity. He was the child of a peasant woman and worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was 30. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home, never wrote a book, never held public office. He never went to college and never set foot in a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born.
He possessed none of the usual traits that accompany greatness. He had no credentials but himself. In his infancy he startled a king; in childhood he puzzled doctors; in manhood he ruled the course of nature, walked upon the billows as if on pavement, and hushed the sea to sleep. He healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for his service.
While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed on a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for the only piece of property he had on earth—his coat. When he was dead, he was taken down and laid in a borrowed tomb.
-Why would Jesus choose to live this way? The answer is simple and profound. He became like us because that was the only way he could save us.
- He didn't mail a letter or shout from heaven.
- He did the one thing we could understand. God himself came down and entered the human race.
- He became poor like us so that forever we would hear him saying, "I love you."
- No one forced him to do this. No one took the crown of heaven from his brow.
- No one removed him from the throne.
- No one stripped him of his royal robes.
- He removed his crown of glory that he might wear the crown of thorns.
- He left his heavenly throne that he might lie in a feeding-trough.
- He exchanged his royal robes for swaddling clothes.
- No one forced poverty upon him.
- He gave up the glories of heaven for the misery of earth that we might share the glories of heaven with him.
- If Christ had been born in a palace, the poor would always wonder if God cared about them.
- If Christ had been born with the riches of the world, we would think he took advantage of being God’s Son.
- What do we see at Bethlehem?
- A frightened father, an exhausted mother, a dirty stable in wintertime, swaddling clothes and a feeding trough.
- There he is, ignored by the mighty and powerful—the Deity in Diapers.
- Immanuel—God with us. It's so simple that you know it must be true.
- Only God would have done it that way. That's the B of the ABC's of Christmas—He Became Poor There is one more truth about Christmas we must know if we are to discover the true meaning of this day.
C — That We Might Become Rich
Here is the purpose of Christmas. He came so that we who were poor might become rich. How does that happen?
Abraham was credited grace.
We were given the gift of grace.
All the grace of God is available to me by virtue of my relationship with Jesus Christ. Think of it. All the riches . . . all the power .
- All the prestige of his good name is mine.
- But someone will say, "You don't deserve that."
- Indeed I didn't. That's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. If I deserved it, I wouldn't need Jesus. But through my life in Jesus Christ & Jesus Christ in me, suddenly I am a rich man.
- The theologians have a word for this as well. They call it the doctrine of imputation. It's what happens when I come to Jesus Christ.
- He takes my sin, and I take his righteousness. I don't earn it; it is imputed to me. It is gifted to my account. That's grace by association.
- When I come to Jesus Christ, I come as a pauper in the spiritual realm. My hands are empty, my pockets bare, I have nothing to offer, no claim to make.
- All my good works are as filthy rags; my resume is filled with failure.
- All my life I have gone two steps forward and three steps back.
-But when I come to Christ, I am fed, clothed, filled, forgiven, crowned with every good thing. He takes away my rags and puts around me the robe of his righteousness.
- Everything that was against me is gone.
- Everything I lacked, I now have.
- Once I was poor. Now I am rich.
- That's the grace of God.
- And it happened because of Christmas.
- He who was rich became poor for my sake that I through his poverty might become rich.
- Most of us don’t feel rich. I have already mentioned that my name is nowhere on the list of billionaires. But what of it?
Here, then, are the ABC's of Christmas: A — He was rich B — He became poor C — That we might become rich That's the true meaning of Christmas. Let us rejoice this year that these things are true, and let us teach them to our children and grandchildren that they may know what this season is all about.
Because Christ became poor, we are now the richest people in the world.
http://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/the-abcs-of-christmas-2015-edition
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Alpha and Omega.
Desire of All Nations.
Firstborn from the Dead.
Master.
Light of the World.
Bread of Life.
Water of Life.
I Am.
The Door.
The Way, the Truth, the Life.
The Resurrection and the Life.
Chief Cornerstone.
Captain of our Salvation.
Lord of the Hosts of Heaven.
Author and Finisher of our Faith.
Faithful and True Witness.
Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
King of Kings.
Lord of Lords.
He’s the King of Righteousness.
He’s the King of Glory.
No means of measure can define His limitless love.
He’s enduringly strong.
He’s the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world.
He’s God’s Son.
He’s the sinner’s Saviour.
He’s the centrepiece of civilization.
He is the loftiest idea in literature.
He’s the only one qualified to be an all sufficient Saviour.
He supplies strength for the weak.
He sympathizes and He saves.
He strengthens and sustains.
He guards and He guides. He heals the sick.
He cleansed the lepers.
He forgives sinners.
He blesses the young.
He’s the key to knowledge.
He’s the wellspring of wisdom.
His life is matchless.
His goodness is limitless.
His mercy is everlasting.
His love never changes.
His Word is enough.
And His yoke is easy. And His burden is light.
I wish I could describe Him to you. Yes…
He’s indescribable!
He’s incomprehensible.
He’s invincible.
He’s irresistible.
You can’t outlive Him, and you can’t live without Him.
Death couldn’t handle Him, and the grave couldn’t hold Him.
Yeah! That’s my King, that’s my King.
(Adapted from "My King" sermon by Dr. S.M. Lockridge)
Lord Jesus, what miracles you have done. We were naked, and you clothed us. We were hungry, and you fed us. We were thirsty, and you gave us living water. We were poor, and you made us rich. We were guilty, and you forgave us. We were lost, and you found us. We were dying, and you saved us. Glory to your name forever! Amen.
A - Angels from the realms of glory, Telling of the Christmas story.
B - Bethlehem beckons with joyful accord; Come hither, come see and worship the Lord.
C - Christ was born on Christmas Day, Asleep in a manger, a bed made of hay.
D - Divine and holy is Thy Birth; Angels give flight o'er all the earth.
E - Everlasting Father Lord of all, Look with mercy and love on us all.
F - "Fear not," said the angel, one night long ago. "I bring good tidings, to earth below."
G - "Glory to the Son," we sing, "Christ is our Prophet, Priest and King."
H - Heavenly hosts, their watch are keeping, Precious child so sweetly sleeping,
I - Immanuel, we sing Thy praise, Thou Prince of Life, Thou Fount of Grace.
J - Joy to the world, the Lord is come, Born in a manger, God's only Son.
K - King of Kings, prophets foretold, Now all men His love behold.
L - Love is a gift He gives to all. To each of us, both great and small.
M - Messiah and Savior--for this He came-- Live in our hearts and there remain.
N - Night so holy, silent and still, Proclaiming joy, peace and good will.
O - Odors of Edom and offerings divine, Myrrh from the forest and gold from the mine.
P - Peace on earth, good will from heaven, Souls redeemed and sins forgiven.
Q - Quietly He came to earth To give us all a second birth.
R - Rejoice, give thanks and loudly sing, Glory to the New-born King.
S - Shepherds watched their flocks by night While Wise Men followed the heavenly light.
T - Tidings of great joy I bring; Good news from heaven the angels sing.
U - Unto us a Child is born On this happy Christmas Morn.
V - Virgin-born, Immanuel, Let every tongue Thy praises tell.
W - Wise Men from the East, they came To worship and praise His holy name.
X - X is for Christ when in Greek it is read, A Savior, the Lord, so the angel said.
Y - Yonder shines brightly the heavenly star Showing the way to those from afar.
Z - Zeal was bestowed on God's only Son From His childhood years till His work was done.
(Donna O'Briant ©1997 Compliments of Joni and Friends PO Box 3333 Agoura Hills, CA 91376 www.joniandfriends.org)
There is a verse that for me sums up the real meaning of Christmas better than any verse in the Bible.
It is just one verse tucked away in a forgotten corner of the New Testament.
2 Corinthians 8:9 - "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.”
That sentence sums up the great truth behind Jesus’ birth.
A — He Was Rich
Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America. Here’s the top 13 from that list:
1. Bill Gates
Net Worth: $81B
Source of wealth: Microsoft
2. Jeff Bezos
Net Worth: $67B
Source of wealth: Amazon.com
3. Warren Buffett
Net Worth: $65.5B
Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway
4. Mark Zuckerberg
Net Worth: $55.5B
Source of wealth: Facebook
5. Larry Ellison
Net Worth: $49.3B
Source of wealth: Oracle
6. Michael Bloomberg
Net Worth: $45B
Source of wealth: Bloomberg LP
7. Charles Koch
Net Worth: $42B
Source of wealth: diversified
7. David Koch
Net Worth: $42B
Source of wealth: diversified
9. Larry Page
Net Worth: $38.5B
Source of wealth: Google
10. Sergey Brin
Net Worth: $37.5B
Source of wealth: Google
11. Jim Walton
Net Worth: $35.6B
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
12. S. Robson Walton
Net Worth: $35.5B
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
13. Alice Walton
Net Worth: $35.4B
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
After further perusing the entire list, I can report two things to you:
- I am not on that list.
- I don’t know anyone who is.
- The Average Rich fly first class.
- The Medium Rich charter a jet.
- The Super Rich own the jet.
- The Incredibly Rich own the airline.
- But Jesus Christ owns the skies.
- When the Bible says, "He was rich," it is speaking of what he had before he left heaven to come to earth.
- All the glory of God radiates from him (Hebrews 1:3). - He shared glory with the Father before the world began (John 17:5).
- All things were created through him (John 1:3).
- All things hold together in him (Colossians 1:17).
- He upholds all things (Hebrews 1:3).
- He is the ruler of the kings of the earth (Revelation 1:5).
- Before he was born, he was the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).
Luke 2:11 tells us the true identity of the babe in the manger: “For unto you is born this day in the City of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord”.
Suppose you thought about it this way: Take the ten richest men and women who ever lived . . .
And the ten most powerful rulers who ever ruled . . . Add the ten wisest men who pondered life's questions. Throw in the mightiest generals who ever went to battle . . .
Add the ten ten strongest athletes in every sport . . . And the ten most mesmerizing orators . . .
Plus the ten greatest political leaders . . .
And any ten other great men and women left on the earth . . .
Throw in ten top Super Heroes
Calculate their accumulated wealth . . . power . . . influence . . . skill . . . genius . . . wisdom . . . insight . . . ability.
Whatever that vast sum comes to, Jesus had more in heaven.
-No man or collection of men could come close to him.
- He was rich.
- He didn't leave heaven in search of riches.
- All the money in the universe was his for the asking.
- Theologians speak of the pre-existence of Jesus Christ. That simply means that before Bethlehem, the Son of God existed from all eternity in heaven.
- Not as a pauper or a beggar, but in glorious splendor. That's the A of the ABC's of Christmas--He Was Rich.
- But that is only part of the story. Christmas begins with what happens next.
B — He Became Poor
What does it mean? He was rich in eternity. He became poor in time.
He left heaven for a remote village in a forgotten province, to join a despised race, to be born of an obscure teenage peasant girl in a stable, wrapped in rags, placed in a feeding trough instead of a crib.
This much we all know.
-But notice the verb—He became poor. Not, he was made poor. That's what happens to us. We are made poor by circumstances.
- But he himself, of his own free will, became poor. That's something we would never do.
- He voluntarily gave up the riches of heaven for the poverty of earth.
- He who was richer than any man has ever been gave it up freely and became poorer than any man has ever been.
- We understand riches. And we understand poverty. But to choose poverty is beyond us and something we would never do.
- But that is the heart of the gospel. The richest person in the universe, of his own free will, became poorer than the poor.
-Theologians also have a word for this. They call it the incarnation.
-The idea comes from John 1:14 which says, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." I love how The Message puts it: “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.”
-Jesus left the glories of heaven to move into our neighborhood and become just like us.
-He knows what we’re going through because he has lived here himself.
-In what sense did Christ become poor?
- He left the glories of heaven for the sadness of earth. - He stooped to enter the world through a mother’s womb.
- He became a dependent creature.
- He endured rejection and ridicule.
- He refused to return evil for evil.
- He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Read this from Ray Pritchard:
Two thousand years ago, a man was born contrary to the laws of life. He lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity. He was the child of a peasant woman and worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was 30. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home, never wrote a book, never held public office. He never went to college and never set foot in a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born.
He possessed none of the usual traits that accompany greatness. He had no credentials but himself. In his infancy he startled a king; in childhood he puzzled doctors; in manhood he ruled the course of nature, walked upon the billows as if on pavement, and hushed the sea to sleep. He healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for his service.
While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed on a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for the only piece of property he had on earth—his coat. When he was dead, he was taken down and laid in a borrowed tomb.
-Why would Jesus choose to live this way? The answer is simple and profound. He became like us because that was the only way he could save us.
- He didn't mail a letter or shout from heaven.
- He did the one thing we could understand. God himself came down and entered the human race.
- He became poor like us so that forever we would hear him saying, "I love you."
- No one forced him to do this. No one took the crown of heaven from his brow.
- No one removed him from the throne.
- No one stripped him of his royal robes.
- He removed his crown of glory that he might wear the crown of thorns.
- He left his heavenly throne that he might lie in a feeding-trough.
- He exchanged his royal robes for swaddling clothes.
- No one forced poverty upon him.
- He gave up the glories of heaven for the misery of earth that we might share the glories of heaven with him.
- If Christ had been born in a palace, the poor would always wonder if God cared about them.
- If Christ had been born with the riches of the world, we would think he took advantage of being God’s Son.
- What do we see at Bethlehem?
- A frightened father, an exhausted mother, a dirty stable in wintertime, swaddling clothes and a feeding trough.
- There he is, ignored by the mighty and powerful—the Deity in Diapers.
- Immanuel—God with us. It's so simple that you know it must be true.
- Only God would have done it that way. That's the B of the ABC's of Christmas—He Became Poor There is one more truth about Christmas we must know if we are to discover the true meaning of this day.
C — That We Might Become Rich
Here is the purpose of Christmas. He came so that we who were poor might become rich. How does that happen?
Abraham was credited grace.
We were given the gift of grace.
All the grace of God is available to me by virtue of my relationship with Jesus Christ. Think of it. All the riches . . . all the power .
- All the prestige of his good name is mine.
- But someone will say, "You don't deserve that."
- Indeed I didn't. That's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. If I deserved it, I wouldn't need Jesus. But through my life in Jesus Christ & Jesus Christ in me, suddenly I am a rich man.
- The theologians have a word for this as well. They call it the doctrine of imputation. It's what happens when I come to Jesus Christ.
- He takes my sin, and I take his righteousness. I don't earn it; it is imputed to me. It is gifted to my account. That's grace by association.
- When I come to Jesus Christ, I come as a pauper in the spiritual realm. My hands are empty, my pockets bare, I have nothing to offer, no claim to make.
- All my good works are as filthy rags; my resume is filled with failure.
- All my life I have gone two steps forward and three steps back.
-But when I come to Christ, I am fed, clothed, filled, forgiven, crowned with every good thing. He takes away my rags and puts around me the robe of his righteousness.
- Everything that was against me is gone.
- Everything I lacked, I now have.
- Once I was poor. Now I am rich.
- That's the grace of God.
- And it happened because of Christmas.
- He who was rich became poor for my sake that I through his poverty might become rich.
- Most of us don’t feel rich. I have already mentioned that my name is nowhere on the list of billionaires. But what of it?
Here, then, are the ABC's of Christmas: A — He was rich B — He became poor C — That we might become rich That's the true meaning of Christmas. Let us rejoice this year that these things are true, and let us teach them to our children and grandchildren that they may know what this season is all about.
Because Christ became poor, we are now the richest people in the world.
http://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/the-abcs-of-christmas-2015-edition
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Alpha and Omega.
Desire of All Nations.
Firstborn from the Dead.
Master.
Light of the World.
Bread of Life.
Water of Life.
I Am.
The Door.
The Way, the Truth, the Life.
The Resurrection and the Life.
Chief Cornerstone.
Captain of our Salvation.
Lord of the Hosts of Heaven.
Author and Finisher of our Faith.
Faithful and True Witness.
Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
King of Kings.
Lord of Lords.
He’s the King of Righteousness.
He’s the King of Glory.
No means of measure can define His limitless love.
He’s enduringly strong.
He’s the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world.
He’s God’s Son.
He’s the sinner’s Saviour.
He’s the centrepiece of civilization.
He is the loftiest idea in literature.
He’s the only one qualified to be an all sufficient Saviour.
He supplies strength for the weak.
He sympathizes and He saves.
He strengthens and sustains.
He guards and He guides. He heals the sick.
He cleansed the lepers.
He forgives sinners.
He blesses the young.
He’s the key to knowledge.
He’s the wellspring of wisdom.
His life is matchless.
His goodness is limitless.
His mercy is everlasting.
His love never changes.
His Word is enough.
And His yoke is easy. And His burden is light.
I wish I could describe Him to you. Yes…
He’s indescribable!
He’s incomprehensible.
He’s invincible.
He’s irresistible.
You can’t outlive Him, and you can’t live without Him.
Death couldn’t handle Him, and the grave couldn’t hold Him.
Yeah! That’s my King, that’s my King.
(Adapted from "My King" sermon by Dr. S.M. Lockridge)
Lord Jesus, what miracles you have done. We were naked, and you clothed us. We were hungry, and you fed us. We were thirsty, and you gave us living water. We were poor, and you made us rich. We were guilty, and you forgave us. We were lost, and you found us. We were dying, and you saved us. Glory to your name forever! Amen.
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