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The Key To Joy: Where It Began
Luke 2:8–11
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
It is Christmas Eve, and the limitation of our acknowledgment respecting the birth of Christ extends ONLY to the fact that indeed there was a day that he came into the world, born of a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph (Lk 1:27), conceived in her of the Holy Ghost (Mt 1:20), and announced of the angel of the Lord in this passage, to those who kept watch over their flocks by night.
It is the account of history that has been told of ancient times that a Saviour, Christ the Lord, would come into the world to rescue mankind from his sin, and give to all eternal life who believe in him.
It is the account of the beginning of our joy, the eternal sprouting of the seed of our first faith. That Faith being the KEY TO JOY and WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
“Good tidings of great joy”, is how the gospel is presented that we see for the first time in the historical context of the scriptures, and it refers to the birth of the Saviour himself.
This is THE “good tiding”, aka The Gospel, and not just a gospel, not just “Good News”, but Good tidings of “Great Joy”. In the greek language it is “μεγα χαρα”, χαρα being transliterated into the English language as “hurrah”, or “hurray”. With the greek word for Great, we also get the word Mega. The news of the the coming of Christ into the world is Mega Hurray, or best translated as we have it in the scriptures as “Great Joy”.
Truly, there could not be a greater joy in all the world than this joy. The coming of the promised one, the one for which all the scriptures speak of.
When Jesus condemned the Pharisees who read the scriptures he said to them,
John 5:39
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
And now we have the angel of the Lord here testifying to the Great Joy that Christ is finally come.
Beloved this is where it all began.
The beginning of your great joy was believing the Gospel. YOUR JOY BEGAN BY FAITH. Christ our Lord was the “Light that lightened the Gentiles” and you have experienced his light in you as your life revived when you believed the Gospel.
The greatest joy in your life was when you believed God by Faith….
My beloved Christians, and beloved children of the Living God, hear my words please I beg of you;
if the beginning of your great and eternal joy was by faith, should not your temporal joy be maintained in living by faith?
Is this not this the reason for which God had chosen to have written “The just shall live by his faith”?
Turn forward to Romans 1 that we may have the context of the phrase in the LIGHT of our eternal joy.
Romans 1:16–17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
If, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” 2 Cor 13:1, what are we to say when this very principle, established in the Old Testament book of Hosea, is repeated no less than three times in the New Testament?
If the key to our eternal joy is our faith in Christ, does it not therefore stand to reason that the key to our temporary joy is to LIVE BY FAITH?
Our Joy Was Pr
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By Hope Baptist ChurchThe Key To Joy: Where It Began
Luke 2:8–11
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
It is Christmas Eve, and the limitation of our acknowledgment respecting the birth of Christ extends ONLY to the fact that indeed there was a day that he came into the world, born of a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph (Lk 1:27), conceived in her of the Holy Ghost (Mt 1:20), and announced of the angel of the Lord in this passage, to those who kept watch over their flocks by night.
It is the account of history that has been told of ancient times that a Saviour, Christ the Lord, would come into the world to rescue mankind from his sin, and give to all eternal life who believe in him.
It is the account of the beginning of our joy, the eternal sprouting of the seed of our first faith. That Faith being the KEY TO JOY and WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
“Good tidings of great joy”, is how the gospel is presented that we see for the first time in the historical context of the scriptures, and it refers to the birth of the Saviour himself.
This is THE “good tiding”, aka The Gospel, and not just a gospel, not just “Good News”, but Good tidings of “Great Joy”. In the greek language it is “μεγα χαρα”, χαρα being transliterated into the English language as “hurrah”, or “hurray”. With the greek word for Great, we also get the word Mega. The news of the the coming of Christ into the world is Mega Hurray, or best translated as we have it in the scriptures as “Great Joy”.
Truly, there could not be a greater joy in all the world than this joy. The coming of the promised one, the one for which all the scriptures speak of.
When Jesus condemned the Pharisees who read the scriptures he said to them,
John 5:39
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
And now we have the angel of the Lord here testifying to the Great Joy that Christ is finally come.
Beloved this is where it all began.
The beginning of your great joy was believing the Gospel. YOUR JOY BEGAN BY FAITH. Christ our Lord was the “Light that lightened the Gentiles” and you have experienced his light in you as your life revived when you believed the Gospel.
The greatest joy in your life was when you believed God by Faith….
My beloved Christians, and beloved children of the Living God, hear my words please I beg of you;
if the beginning of your great and eternal joy was by faith, should not your temporal joy be maintained in living by faith?
Is this not this the reason for which God had chosen to have written “The just shall live by his faith”?
Turn forward to Romans 1 that we may have the context of the phrase in the LIGHT of our eternal joy.
Romans 1:16–17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
If, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” 2 Cor 13:1, what are we to say when this very principle, established in the Old Testament book of Hosea, is repeated no less than three times in the New Testament?
If the key to our eternal joy is our faith in Christ, does it not therefore stand to reason that the key to our temporary joy is to LIVE BY FAITH?
Our Joy Was Pr