The Liberator
And a very, very blessed and Happy Christmas to all my dear friends!
This is Angus Buchan with a thought for the day on 25th December 2020. And what a lovely day it is!
I would like to go straight to the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 1 and verse 23, a verse which most of us know:
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
That was prophesied hundreds of years ago by the prophet Isaiah, in Isaiah, Chapter 7 and verse 14.
Peace! Shalom! May the peace of Jesus be with you today!
My dear friend, He has come to set you and I free.
If we look at John Chapter 8 and verse 36:
“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed”.
Oh, I love Him so much.
He is our Liberator, yes - that very small, young, defenceless baby.
You see, in Christ Jesus, there is no more death, but life eternal.
Where sin once abounded grace abounds even more because of what happened today.
A liberator - what is a liberator? He is one who sets you free, especially from imprisonment or from oppression.
That is what the Oxford Dictionary tells us.
God has come down from Heaven and become one of us.
General George Patton - they called him, “Old blood and guts.” He was a three star general from the United States army and he liberated my late dad from a Nazi Prisoner of War Camp in Germany in 1945, with thousands of other men.
Those men were thin, they were shriveled, they were starving men, and they were so pleased to see the liberation army coming into that prisoner of war camp, that they literally picked up the Jeep in which the General was sitting and carried it and the general into the camp.
2000 years ago, King Jesus came down to earth, but not as a mighty warrior general, but as a very, small, defenseless, unselfish, innocent baby.
And He has come with an opposite Spirit. He has come with The Spirit of undefiled love, forgiveness, hope, faith - and today, he wants you and me, my dear friend, to do exactly the same.
There are so many fearful, sick, lost souls in the world at the moment, like never before and they need to meet the Baby from Bethlehem, and you and I have been chosen to tell this dying world that there is indeed hope in Jesus.
You know, I would rather be in a rowing boat in a storm with six metre waves, going around Cape Horn in South America, with Jesus in the rowing boat with me, than to be in a luxury liner like the Queen Mary, sitting on a lake without a wave, without Jesus.
With Jesus Christ, we will overcome., with Jesus Christ we will succeed and with Jesus Christ, there is eternal hope.
Today in amongst all the presents and the phone calls and the zoom and Skype calls, and all the food that you are going to eat, please take time out to sit with The Liberator of a dying world, and thank Him for what He has done for you and me.
May God bless you, and thank you for being such a kind friend to me and Jill and our family.