Luke 2:14
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men.
The message of Christmas is Christ, the very God, creator of the
universe entering into the world he created in flesh.
God became man.
God did it to reconcile himself to man and to end the war against
man’s sins.
The angels proclaimed it, Isaiah prophesied it and Christ showed
it in all he did.
God is not angry. He is not counting men’s sins against them.
God is love and all he does good towards us.
I will let Andrew Wommack explain better than me:
"What were these angels proclaiming?
They were announcing, “Peace. Good will toward
men from God!”
Prior to the advent of the Lord Jesus Christ,
God was at war against man’s sins. His wrath came upon people because of the sin
in their life. Many Christians haven’t mentally separated this out and really
looked at it. They just run everything in the Bible together. Yet a closer
examination of God’s Word reveals that there was a wrath and a judgment from
God against people in the Old Testament that is totally unjustified and wrong
in the New Testament. Why? Jesus ended the war between God and man. He made all
the difference!
Despite that, most people run all of this
together. They still think of God as being angry at our sins. They mistakenly
believe that there is still a war going on between God and man, and that every
time they sin that somehow or another it’s a new affront against Him. You’ve
probably heard people say, “God is ticked off!” and quote Old Testament
scriptures about the wrath of God falling on people. “God is angry today,” they
insist. “He’s dangling our country over hell by a thin thread that’s on fire,
and He’s just about ready to turn us over to the devil.”
Some Christians are
proclaiming that God is the One who sent the hurricanes and tsunamis that have
struck in recent years, and that He’s going to cause other disasters too.
Several well-known religious leaders stood up and declared that God was the One
who sent the terrorist attacks that happened in 2001, and that this was the
beginning of His judgment on our nation. They’re still proclaiming that there
is wrath from God towards men.
“God is not angry. There’s peace. He’s not upset
with you!” In spite of that truth, somehow or another, people today just love to
let others know just how “angry” God is, thinking that this will drive them
away from hell. That’s simply not the way it works.
The Lord has given us the ministry of
reconciliation:
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.
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