Joy to the World.......the Lord has Come.
Let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare Him room.....and heaven and nature sing
Joy to the world the Saviour reigns.....Let men their songs employ.
While fields and floods, rocks hills and plains,
Repeat the sounding Joy.
He rules the world with trurh and grace.....and makes the nations prove,
The glories of His righteousness and wonders of his love
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THERE IS JOY WHEN THE KING IS RECEIVED
--"Joy to the world! The Lord is come! Let earth receive her king;
let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing."
Historically, we know that not everyone was joyful when Jesus was born. King Herod was anything but joyful when the Magi from the East inquired about the birthplace of a new King. To Herod, Jesus was a threat.
While Herod saw Jesus as a Threat, the Wise Men saw Jesus as a promised Saviour, and they came to worship Him.
THERE IS JOY WHEN THE SAVIOUR REIGNS
--"Joy to the earth! The Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ;
while fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, repeat the sounding Joy."
Receiving Christ is the important first step. But then we must go on to let Jesus Reign in our lives. While he was living here on earth, Jesus encountered large crowds who were ready and willing to receive him...... But they were not at all ready to let him take charge. They still wanted Him to do things their way ….......
Folks are like that. There are a lot of people today who are more than willing to receive all the good things Christ wants to offer them. But they don’t want Him to try to take charge of their business ethics, their entertainments, the language they use when under pressure, or their public image. They don’t want Jesus to be in charge of where they live, or who they date, or who they marry, or what kind of career they choose.
If you try to RECEIVE Christ without letting Him REIGN in your life, you will miss out on one thing: JOY. You see, indecisiveness and hypocrisy can actually zap the JOY out of life. There comes a time when you have to admit that you are not fooling anybody.
Jesus knows what will give you JOY. He knows the person who will suit you best in marriage. He knows the kind of work that is made for you. It has been said that Joy is the by-product of obedience. That sums it up pretty well.
THERE IS JOY WHEN THE TRUTH RULES WITH GRACE
--"He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love."
This last verse tells why Jesus brings JOY. JOY comes because He rules with a perfect balance of TRUTH and GRACE. You see, sometimes truth is not very gracious. When I hear someone say, “Well, I just told it like it was,” I know they probably just offended someone by going heavy on the TRUTH and light on the GRACE. I like this old saying:
“Truth without love is dogmatism,
Love without truth is sentimentality,
But truth with love is true Christianity.”
Jesus brings joy because He is the perfect balance of truth and grace. He is the truth, the life, and the way.
Let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare Him room.....and heaven and nature sing
Joy to the world the Saviour reigns.....Let men their songs employ.
While fields and floods, rocks hills and plains,
Repeat the sounding Joy.
He rules the world with trurh and grace.....and makes the nations prove,
The glories of His righteousness and wonders of his love
...............................................
THERE IS JOY WHEN THE KING IS RECEIVED
--"Joy to the world! The Lord is come! Let earth receive her king;
let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing."
Historically, we know that not everyone was joyful when Jesus was born. King Herod was anything but joyful when the Magi from the East inquired about the birthplace of a new King. To Herod, Jesus was a threat.
While Herod saw Jesus as a Threat, the Wise Men saw Jesus as a promised Saviour, and they came to worship Him.
THERE IS JOY WHEN THE SAVIOUR REIGNS
--"Joy to the earth! The Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ;
while fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, repeat the sounding Joy."
Receiving Christ is the important first step. But then we must go on to let Jesus Reign in our lives. While he was living here on earth, Jesus encountered large crowds who were ready and willing to receive him...... But they were not at all ready to let him take charge. They still wanted Him to do things their way ….......
Folks are like that. There are a lot of people today who are more than willing to receive all the good things Christ wants to offer them. But they don’t want Him to try to take charge of their business ethics, their entertainments, the language they use when under pressure, or their public image. They don’t want Jesus to be in charge of where they live, or who they date, or who they marry, or what kind of career they choose.
If you try to RECEIVE Christ without letting Him REIGN in your life, you will miss out on one thing: JOY. You see, indecisiveness and hypocrisy can actually zap the JOY out of life. There comes a time when you have to admit that you are not fooling anybody.
Jesus knows what will give you JOY. He knows the person who will suit you best in marriage. He knows the kind of work that is made for you. It has been said that Joy is the by-product of obedience. That sums it up pretty well.
THERE IS JOY WHEN THE TRUTH RULES WITH GRACE
--"He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love."
This last verse tells why Jesus brings JOY. JOY comes because He rules with a perfect balance of TRUTH and GRACE. You see, sometimes truth is not very gracious. When I hear someone say, “Well, I just told it like it was,” I know they probably just offended someone by going heavy on the TRUTH and light on the GRACE. I like this old saying:
“Truth without love is dogmatism,
Love without truth is sentimentality,
But truth with love is true Christianity.”
Jesus brings joy because He is the perfect balance of truth and grace. He is the truth, the life, and the way.
