Yesterday I received a forwarded video. After watching it, I felt very uncomfortable, because I was afraid that this video brings a very wrong message about Christmas, and would mislead thousands of Chinese people. This video encouraged everyone to \u201cstop Christmas\u201d and not to celebrate Christmas. According to the video, Christmas is a holiday for the Westerners, it is a day of great revelry, a day when the siege of the Eight-nation coalition took place in China.<\/p>\n
Dear friends, after watching this video, do not \u201cstop Christmas\u201d. Think about what Christmas truly means. What does it mean? Let me explain by using the three words that comprise the Chinese word for Christmas – \u201cHoly\u201d, \u201cBirth\u201d, \u201cDay\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHoly\u201d, is \u201cHoly Son of God Jesus came from heaven\u201d. Jesus was not a Westerner. He was born nearer to the East, also called the Near East. We are people of the Far East, he was an Israelite of the Near East. He came from heaven, coming down from God above, so he is not a Westerner, nor from the East. He is from above, born in Israel, as a Jew. Dear friends, Christmas is not a Western holiday, it is a holy holiday, given to the world from above.<\/p>\n
\u201cBirth\u201d is \u201cBorn to die and save sinners\u201d. Jesus came from heaven, was born as a man. What was his purpose? He had only one: to die on the cross for you and me, and rise on the third day. So Christmas is for Good Friday and Easter. Jesus\u2019 name means \u201cGod saves.\u201d Dear friends, Jesus came to the world not to condemn people, but to love people. He did not come to kill, but to be killed, to be nailed to the cross as the substitute for our sins, and to save us sinners. If you are willing to trust Jesus as your savior, you will receive new life, more abundant life. Please trust in Jesus now, call upon his name, and cry out to him: Lord Jesus, please save me! Let us call upon the Lord together. Lord Jesus, save me! Jesus has now saved you! Hallelujah. Now you can celebrate Christmas and proclaim God\u2019s great love.<\/p>\n
So \u201cDay\u201d is \u201cDay to proclaim God\u2019s great love\u201d. Christmas is a season of love, it is a day of celebration for all, a day to proclaim God\u2019s great and holy love. Christmas is certainly not a day for revelry, nor a day for parties and carousing. \u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son [Jesus], that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\u201d (John 3:16) \u201cBut God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.\u201d (Romans 5:8). When we receive God\u2019s great love, we can proclaim his great love. Friends, please receive God\u2019s great love, please join us in celebrating God\u2019s great love.<\/p>\n
Christmas is:
\nHoly Son of God Jesus came from heaven
\nBorn to die and save sinners
\nA Day to proclaim God\u2019s great love.<\/p>\n
May God bless you and your loved ones: Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n
By Rev Dr Tie King Tai<\/span><\/strong>\nSCAC President<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday I received a forwarded video. After watching it, I felt very uncomfortable, because I was afraid that this video brings a very wrong message about Christmas, and would mislead thousands of Chinese people. This video encouraged everyone to \u201cstop Christmas\u201d and not to celebrate Christmas. According to the video, Christmas is a holiday for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,185,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}