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eaning Of Christmas Misunderstood son to have a transplant "heart eye. kidney, and at the same time wlD allow thousands to starve to death and won't give a dime. I wonder what Christ would do? Alter all. it's Hfs "Birthday we are celebrating." That first Christinas gilt was not a gift to a child. It was the gilt of a child. Love prompts gifts to those near and dear. Greater love, unbounded love, prompts gifts of self and gifts of those nearest and dearest In order that the world may be blessed. Christmas Day has not ever, been counted as the one day of all the year for the giving of life in Gmistlan service. It Is a day set to celebrate the mantles God's wondrous gift to How better could that l tlon be celebrated than consecration of life to end for which the life of Jesus wasgpvan?£-*"-:.. .»u!- :w The gift of life is the most cost- . ly gift that can be made. The . man who gives millions does not give half as much as the man who gives himself fully, unre servedly with oneness of purpose as a servant of mankind. All other gifts are but toys and tlnseL s'-'ti Give your life to Christ today. _Li.' 'j.■, ' /VtSL'Ii. . . 3A & 11B 1 Special To The Post By Bar. JA Cuthbertsoo Isn't it amazing how we get "Spiritual Events" turned around from their true meaning and use them to satisfy ourselves or motives and moat of the time we mar them in Cod's sight. God did not and certainly the Bible does not tell us to celebrate the birth of Christ or to even re member his birth but over 39 times we will find the Bible talk ing about the resurrection and 14 times the resurrection of Christ Dying is not that impor tant as some might think. I've heard some folks say. "they won't know anything about it" Yes you will; you will be the flrfet to know long oefore the coroner pronounces you dead. I believe all of us should know by now that it is "appointed unto all men once to die" (Hebrews 9:27) Some think that this is all there ,• is to it If you would read a little further you will find , "then come the Judgment" meaning that death la not the «&d. There la a resurrection And in my opinion not these old bodies of oun as some believe, but a new body. PhllUpiana 3:21 says who shall change our vile body, that It may be fashioned like unto. His glorious body. 1 John 3:2 says "Beloved, now are we the sons of God. and It v doth not yet appear what we shall be: but w? know that when he shall appear (that is . Christ), we shall be like him: for we shall see him as he Is." But to dust goes these old bodies of ours where* JW*y coroe from. '•>» V*- ’ Genesis 3:19. Ecclesiastes 3:20, 12:7. Paul said in II Corinthians S|S to be absent from the body Is "birth, death and the*reau*reer i. tion" you will find that the most Important thing about this (rain of events is the resurrection, es pecially when wo are dealing with Christ ". ~ The atheist would say about - the birth of Christ. "So what? Babies are befog bora everyday, every hour, somewhere, .big,,, deal", and about His death (hat some atheists would say "So what? Thousands of people die everyday somewhere, somehow, big deal” Then comes the big boom on this atheist. "Tell me Mr. ft Mrs. Atheist, how many do you know out of all these thousands or millions you are talking: about" Was '"Stlf resurrected? I'll tell you . "Only one. the man called Christ Je sus". You may ask what about "Enoch and Elijah? Some say they did not die. Then I tell you to read Revelation 11:3-12. This will take cart of those two beys. So as we cord# to this "blessed day" of the year, it would be nice to. at least, give thanks to God for sending His son Into the world and not put so much em Is on buying and spending a lot of those who dont be the Messiah has come and ' are still looking for Him. Their stores will be decked out with lights, trees. Santa Claus and reindeers and none of this has anything to do with Christ's birthing day or death and cer tainly not His Resurrection. Why not look at JerttWah 10:1 6. The devil has many ways to get us to bow down to him; It may mean only picking up a present under a tree. So If we really want to serve Ood and reverence Christ on this 25th day of De cember. why not do as I heard Dr. L.C.; Riddick . the pastor of Mt. Carfoel Baptist Church did? He asked his members to "give to mission*through the chureh the same arttiunt they were going to spend oo-glfts." And I might add. liquor and beer. etc. Alter all it's Christ # birthday we are cele brating. This would be one gllft I believe Ood would accept- #nd ’ Mess u* for. That's what giving Is all abdut. Those wise men who c#me it) Bisthlehem of Judea, (Matthew 2:11) to present gifts to Christ, |ave to one they had nev- , er met Before and probably will never see again. (Matthew 2:12) We only give to those we expect J to receive from and crows them off our list next year If we don't. Check out our giving Lulce 0:33 35. .There |a nothing wrong with gtvtng-'^ The 'lptrit of giving Is good hot shack the motives be Mrxglir giving. Thgve are those who will give thousands of doflars fo one per ; mmsmjsmmm The Perfect Gift Anyone ^ ^ GIFT $ CERTIFICATES Available At All ^ Food Lion Stores
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