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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Those are two good statements but they are true (or should be) all year long and yet we must completely change gears this time of year.
We remember his death and yet, while we may choose songs in keeping with the theme, they are songs we sing all year around. No special tree... it doesn't require this annual reconstruction of our worship that Christmas does.
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I don't think I can answer the question, except His birth was the Promise fulfilled. The long awaited Messiah for the Jews, and yet He adopted the whole world.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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