Warmest Christian Greetings, 2023
Let me share with you how warm my greetings really are, no matter how many years I have written this as a greeting to introduce my annual letter it is as fresh today as the first time I sent it out. These letters beam with cordial love and a profound hope, but the warmest of all was the regal birth announcement, fit for a King. I can imagine blurry-eyed shepherds awakening in Boaz field while keeping watch over the flock by night. What a love story that was to bring a Moabite widow, named Ruth, into the lineage of David as found in Matthew's account of the generational connection linking the ancient past with the redemption story.
There is little wonder why even today the birth announcement of an angelic host still explodes with wonder as it is told as it is read as poetry or heralded in song:
1. From the very beginning when man has a problem God has a Plan.
2. Before time when there was no time God foresaw man’s need for a redeemer, a
near kinsmen.
3. God anticipated, even then, a perfect sacrificial lamb would be needed to satisfy
the law code and the law, even before the law would be written.
4. Sin was the problem Christ was the cure and God would provide for Himself a
Lamb.
5. $Warm Christian Greetings”,
$Why would we call them warm? $For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him would not perish but have
everlasting life.” There is no warmer greeting than the birth of the Christ Child.
6. Just as God looked down on the first Adam and said, $It is not good for man to be
alone, He has also said, ” I will make for the second Adam, a helpmate and she
will be unspotted from the world. God has chosen to bring her out from the ranks
of fallen man.
7. There could be no redemption if there had not been the birth of a Son, who was
fully inspected and overcame death, hell and the grave, as a spotless lamb.
8. Yes, this is not a truth, which came as a fulfillment to all God required. This the
Truth, Veracity Himself, Sovereignty, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
9. The personification of Humility, wrapped in swaddling clothes, covered with flesh
and blood. Divine Deity the Fullness of the God Head bodily, who tasted death for
us. Very God-Very man, whom to know is life eternal.
$To confess Him with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead is the supernatural passage into His Kingdom; No less miraculous than the Virgin Birth.”
BORN ONCE DIE TWICE, BORN TWICE DIE ONCE
THE WARMEST CHRISTIAN GREETING IS “MERRY CHRISTMAS” AND OUR
SALUTATION TO THE ENTIRE WORLD IS “WE DON'T WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN WITHOUT YOU!”
In that all mankind has been created in his image and likeness, I cannot fathom God's masterpiece spending eternity in torment, the thought alone breaks my heart.
So I am praying for you to have the warmest of Christmas Greetings.
You have made our year, warmed by you. As we look, we look back on 2023.
I JUST CAN'T KEEP FROM SAYING IT ONE MORE TIME, WARM CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,
PASTOR CLEDDIE KEITH AND GAYNELL