And the angel said; to the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David (Bethlehem) a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
[Lk 1:11]
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, Isaiah, that: “A virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name Emmanuel ...which being interpreted is, God with us.”
[Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23b]
Hence, the shift: from “without” to “within;” or, as Pastor said; “God did happen to us {mankind}, in a most intimate/vital way; over against the very ordained 'laws' of nature, that He himself established and upholds...such that the “unlimited” {God} was irrevocably joined to “limited” {mankind}.”
ThenSingsMySoul:
MILD HE LAYED HIS 'GLORY' BY,
BORN THAT MAN NO MORE MAY DIE,
BORN TO RAISE THE SONS OF EARTH;
BORN TO GIVE THEM SECOND BIRTH.
HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING,
GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING!
