What is the greatest story ever told to mankind. The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The greatest Gift to us all is Jesus, the gift of Everlasting Life.
As we celebrate Christmas lets not forget the reason for the season!! I do not have much of my own to say but these words are taken out of the NIV translation bible book called Believe by Randy Frazee.
For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord almighty will accomplish this.
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was in him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a Lamb to the slaughter, and as sheep before its sharers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgement he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death. Though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the Lords will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life and offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53: 1-12
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