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A Conversation With Richard Bewes The Incarnation: God Within Reach
Q: Yet so many people fail to see the wonder of Christ. Christmas is little more than another holiday to them. Why is that?
A: I suppose it's the same reason that caused King Herod to be anxious. There is a debate at Christmas that asks, "Who is this Person in the manger?" There is a displacement. If He is the King, then someone else cannot be king. That caused Herod's anxiety. When those wise men came, they acknowledged that Jesus was the King. They came as Gentiles from the outside world. You would think that God would tell the Jewish hierarchy first, but God chose Gentiles. Or you would think that the Roman Emperor would have been informed that a little boy had been born in his reign, but instead, it was the shepherds. It is very simple; those who were poor in spirit saw this truth and received it. The disadvantaged welcomed it, as did the blind, the crippled, the outsiders. The irony is that you can be well within the establishment and the church and still miss it. You have to have the heart of a child to receive it.
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Q: Yet so many people fail to see the wonder of Christ. Christmas is little more than another holiday to them. Why is that?
A: I suppose it's the same reason that caused King Herod to be anxious. There is a debate at Christmas that asks, "Who is this Person in the manger?" There is a displacement. If He is the King, then someone else cannot be king. That caused Herod's anxiety. When those wise men came, they acknowledged that Jesus was the King. They came as Gentiles from the outside world. You would think that God would tell the Jewish hierarchy first, but God chose Gentiles. Or you would think that the Roman Emperor would have been informed that a little boy had been born in his reign, but instead, it was the shepherds. It is very simple; those who were poor in spirit saw this truth and received it. The disadvantaged welcomed it, as did the blind, the crippled, the outsiders. The irony is that you can be well within the establishment and the church and still miss it. You have to have the heart of a child to receive it.
for more: http://billygraham.org/DMag_Article.asp?ArticleID=626
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