{"id":1222,"date":"2015-01-07T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theteachingsofdrmike.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2015-01-07T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:47:57","slug":"god-us-christmas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/god-us-christmas-message\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD WITH US: THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Dr. Mike Jones<\/p>\n<div><strong>Many people see Christmas as a time to think of the baby Jesus in a manger. And in a humbling manner, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that thought process: but the central truth of the Christmas story is this: God wrapped Himself in human flesh as an infant, in a manger.<\/p>\n<p>So, this Christmas, let\u2019s think of the great truths of the Incarnation. It\u2019s remembering the birth of Christ and the mystery of the Incarnation, that\u2019s found in 1 Timothy 3:16, \u201cAnd without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be found giving Him reverent <em>worship<\/em>. Remember, the shepherds were seen glorifying and praised God for the birth of Christ Jesus the Messiah. In scripture, we see them rejoicing, when the angels proclaimed that in Bethlehem was born a Savior, Christ the Lord \u2013 of all and over all.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, this is the time of the year when people tend to be more open to the gospel during the Christmas holidays. We should take advantage of their sensitivity and <em>witness <\/em>to them of the saving grace of God through Jesus Christ to forgive sin.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Dr. Mike Jones Many people see Christmas as a time to think of the baby Jesus in a manger. And in a humbling manner, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that thought process: but the central truth of the Christmas story is this: God wrapped Himself in human flesh as an infant, in a manger. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-library","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}