{"id":218,"date":"2013-12-20T04:47:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-12-20T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:52:26","slug":"christmas-is-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is Here Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baby<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baby Joel, born to live!<\/strong><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

People sing blithely about Christmas, not even realising what the word \u201cChristmas\u201d means. The following explanation is from Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia\u2026\u2026 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Christmas<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>(<\/b>Old English<\/span><\/a><\/b>:\u00a0Cr\u012bstesm\u00e6sse<\/i>, meaning\u00a0 \u201cChrist\u2019s \u00a0<\/b>Mass<\/span><\/a><\/b>“) is an annual commemoration of\u00a0<\/b>the birth<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u00a0<\/b>of\u00a0<\/b>Jesus Christ<\/span><\/a><\/b>and a widely observed cultural\u00a0<\/b>holiday<\/span><\/a><\/b>, celebrated generally on\u00a0<\/b>December 25<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u00a0<\/b>by billions of people\u00a0<\/b>around the world<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Have you ever stopped to think that although all babies are born to live, the only baby who was born to die was Jesus Christ? He came into the world for the express purpose of dying to take away mankind\u2019s sin. The angel told this to Joseph, the husband of Mary, \u201cYou are to call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins\u201d. (Matthew 1: 20-23)<\/p>\n

Peter tells us that it is only by the precious blood of Jesus Christ that our sins can be taken away (1 Peter 1:18-21), and that this was determined before the world was even created, before man was brought into being to sin. God knew, and Jesus knew, exactly what it was going to cost to bring a people to Himself, yet man was still created as he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baby Joel, born to live! People sing blithely about Christmas, not even realising what the word \u201cChristmas\u201d means. The following explanation is from Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia\u2026\u2026 Christmas\u00a0(Old English:\u00a0Cr\u012bstesm\u00e6sse, meaning\u00a0 \u201cChrist\u2019s \u00a0Mass“) is an annual commemoration of\u00a0the birth\u00a0of\u00a0Jesus Christand a widely observed cultural\u00a0holiday, celebrated generally on\u00a0December 25\u00a0by billions of people\u00a0around the world. \u00a0Have you … Continue reading Christmas is Here Again!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-3w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}