The REAL Christmas

Christmas—not the popular Christmas devoid of Christ but the “real” Christmas, you know, A Charlie Brown type Christmas. Where Linus, the smallest of the littles who, after the fashion of Isaiah 11:6, leads them to the “real” meaning of it all. What’s the hub bub all about?  The writer of Hebrews nails it.

"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they."  (Hebrews 1:1-4)

In a little over 100 words, the open minded can see clearly just who the little babe in the manger is.  The One spoken of is not a phantasm, a spirit being, apparition, or an angel. He is profoundly, “God Incarnate” literally, God with flesh--fully God while being fully Man. He is not an iteration of God, a version of God, an inspired individual reflecting God, but in the words of Isaiah, He is Immanuel—God with us and there are no others like Him. The whole point of Hebrews 1 is to make it clear that Jesus is superior to any and all, above the created order being the Creator Himself. He is the FINAL Word to mankind.  In the words of singer song writer Michael Card:

“He spoke the Incarnation and then so was born the Son
His final word was Jesus, He needed no other one
Spoke flesh and blood so He could bleed and make a way Divine,
And so was born the baby who would die to make it mine.”

Which is why Chapter 2 begins “Therefore” meaning, consequently, in light of who Jesus is from chapter 1, "…we must pay much closer attention to what we have HEARD, lest we drift away from it."  (Hebrews 2:1)

This is the challenge of modern day Christmas—to stay fixed upon the Inspired, Infallible, Inerrant, Authoritative WORD of God who became flesh and dwelt among us.