Should we Celebrate Christmas?

Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So we see that there seems to be many myths around Christmas.

We see that Jesus actually might not have been born in a stable as many think.

He definitely probably wasn't born on December 25th. There were probably three wise men that came to visit him.

And they didn't visit him at his birth. With all these things, should we celebrate

Christmas? Well, it is good to set aside a day, even if it's just one day of the year, that we celebrate the fact that God Almighty, the

King of Kings, Creator of the Universe, left heaven and came into humanity as a human being for the explicit purpose that he would one day die a gruesome death.

Though he was sinless, he came that he might die a sinner's death, that you may have eternal life.

Though you and I are guilty, Jesus Christ, the Almighty God, came and died in our place that we could be set free.

Is it good to celebrate Christmas? Well, there's nothing special about December 25th. There's nothing special about much of the nativity things that many people think of when they think of Christmas.

Nat's not even getting into the other things that people think of with Christmas trees and all of that. But here's the important thing.

It is good that we celebrate a day that we worship God and thank

God for what he did on our behalf, that he became a punishment of death, a punishment of sin on our behalf, that he paid the eternal fine that we owe, that we could be his children.

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