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Christmas Traditions, and the Meaning of it All! - FF E20
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Christmas is amazing! The dads share about the things that make their Christmas so special, while also sharing about why Christmas is important at all! Enjoy and have a Merry Christmas!
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Welcome and Introduction
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Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Preacher Dad podcast. My name is Jared and I am the Preacher Dad and I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. And our Fatherhood panel wants to wish you a Merry Christmas
Christmas Traditions and Family Activities
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too. So this episode here on Fatherhood Friday is all about Christmas and some of our favorite traditions, our favorite movies.
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We hope that you're encouraged and blessed by the things we have to share with you from our families and to yours here at Christmastime. We've had a wonderful time this season, and we hope that you are blessed and will return next season for more Fatherhood far Friday and the Preacher Dad podcast too.
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So thank you so much for
Sponsorship and Church Invitation
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listening. As always, this podcast is brought to you by Cornerstone Fellowship. Cornerstone Fellowship is located in just a little north of Tombsboro, Georgia, in the heart of the middle of nowhere, Georgia.
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And we would love to love you if you'd like to come visit. Whether in person or online, you can find us on Facebook, or you can also look us up at cornerstonefellowship-ga.org to find out more about
Favorite Christmas Traditions
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us. All right, without any further ado, let's start Fatherhood Friday, and Merry Christmas.
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Well hello everybody, welcome to this final episode of Fatherhood Friday for this this season. We sure are grateful that you're here, all two dozen of you, two dozen people here today, or probably something like that. You know, I was thinking, that doesn't sound like a lot, but I mean, two dozen people in some churches, that would be like, wow, that would be a great Sunday attendance for some folks, so.
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We're glad all of you are out there. And we are looking forward to discussing a little bit of our Christmas traditions and Christmas ideas. ah Christmas is most people's favorite holiday.
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And so we are excited to share that with you today. um i wondered if the if you if you fathers, our fatherhood panel here, would have some favorite Christmas traditions that you'd like to share with us, some things that maybe you do in your family that maybe other families would like to incorporate.
Unique Family Traditions
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Matt, why don't you kick us off with a Christmas tradition?
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Sure. So growing up, um really all I can remember, go to one grandmother's house Christmas Eve, one grandmother's for Christmas Day, and I would hunt the rest of the break.
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That's all I did. I don't remember, truly, I don't remember us watching movies, doing any kind of like, cookies or anything. It was just Christmas Eve, Christmas day, and then hunting camp the rest of the week. So, um, but we have, um, we try to make it really fun.
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Now it's hard work. At least the beginning, we didn't, when I'm decorating, having to get everything out of the, out of the attic. I'm sure y'all can relate to that, but, but that's a ton of work, but, um, but we start usually the right after Halloween and start putting it, putting all the decorations up.
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And so, this is Well, May's excuse is we go to Alabama every year for Christmas. so she wants to That's like the last week and a half of the year. So she wants to start a week and a half, two weeks early. Good logic. That's good logic.
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Yeah. So really, I don't think we have any like unique things that we do. I mean, we we just we watch a ah movie every single week, at least one, if not two Christmas movies.
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And we could talk about that at some point as well, Jared, if you want. Because I'm sure we've got some good ones. Um, we spent all day on black Friday, literally seven hours making cookies and decorating them.
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That was fun. Um, the kids make ornaments. Um, and then besides that really just, yeah, having fun. Any other kind of way we can, we can, can think of, but not, we don't prefer this tradition, but it's happened a lot lately.
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is we'll end up traveling to Alabama. We'll leave on Christmas Eve and get there on Christmas morning. So we wake up in a hotel on Christmas morning. I'm sorry, we'll wake up at a hotel on Christmas morning, usually go to the pool, swim for a little bit, open presents, and then drive the west rest of the way and we get there like 12 or one o'clock on Christmas Day. So we've done that several times and that's fun.
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That's a unique tradition.
Celebrating Christmas at Home
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That is kind of unique. And then we do, and and now that I'm thinking about that, when we are traveling on Christmas Day, We try to um try to give like a hundred dollar gift card, visa card or something to somebody, whether it's a hotel worker or someone in a restaurant.
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If restaurants are even open, I don't know. We try to find somebody to to do that just to bless them. Oh, great. ah Tony, what about you? What are some traditions in your family? My ah my favorite family tradition is being the exact opposite of Matt.
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I have told all of my kids that if we celebrate Christmas before Thanksgiving is over, then Jesus will cry. And I've actually heard them tell their friends that. so I like, i think of it like a, you know, like you're, you're reducing the sauce, right? So you start out with a whole bunch, but you got to let it roast for a little bit and condense and condense and condense to get all that flavor.
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ah try to do the same thing with the Christmas season. You know you can't, you can't let it go on for four quarters. you know it's it's got to have its own designated spot in place to really condense the seasoning and the flavor of it and make it real deep and rich. So, um, but the, uh, I, my favorite family tradition is, uh, it's kind of squashing the Christmas spirit whenever we're before Thanksgiving and then go wild. Like the second Friday shows up. So we get the lights out. We, uh, we watch Christmas movies like crazy, uh,
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Definitely one of my favorite family traditions is also my very sweet, beautiful and talented wife gets a bug to start making all kinds of sweet treats of every kind under the sun.
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um Whatever. It's funny because her dad will like start ramping up sending her like recipes and stuff this time of year too because he knows um she's very easily ah encouraged to experiment with different things.
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She's just awesome. So I... I like it when she experiments with the the Christmas seasonal treats. There's some some repeats that will show up year after year and then a lot of creative new ones that show up. and They're all bangers. They're all freaking awesome. Interesting.
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I gained about 40 pounds through the month of Christmas. I think I would gain at least twice that.
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so it's It's a great time. its just the For us, it's it's really a lot more about the the feeling of the home than it is anything else. And especially we we do a lot more, I think, decorating inside than outside. So there's a lot more ambiance inside of our house to kind of distinguish the season and kids love it. I love it.
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Um, it's very cozy and, and it's old school too. Like the, i was actually talking to my wife about this. I don't, this is never really by intention, but it just kind of turned out this way. Like, um I was watching something that where it seems like there's there's been a natural cultural push towards decolorization of everything.
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like Car colors have gotten a lot more muted, a lot more white and grayscale. Home decorations, including mine, are white and gray. like It's all very muted and colorless. and you know When you look at a good Christmas tree, you look at one that has every color of the rainbow on there versus one that's all white and pristine. and um you know The mine just goes towards the more neat and clean one as though that's the the picture of of opulence and and professionalism and prestige.
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And we're not we're not that. We're ah we're the whole rainbow threw up on the walls type people. So we ah we love color. And I like having the old school Christmas trees that have all the different color lights and bulbs and mismatch assorted of everything on there. And it's just it just reminds me of my childhood where yeah where the kids help and put...
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put everything where they can reach, not necessarily where it should go. And yeah right it looks like, it looks like the kids have been there and I love it. I love it a lot. And they do too. And it's, that's something remember even growing up when I was a kid, like we always got to help mom decorate the Christmas tree. And I can't imagine the one of them will looked like something you'd want to show a friend, but they were always special. So that's, that's kind of what we go for is, is, you know, how the, the family participation in trying to,
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create an atmosphere of of celebration and comfort during this
Favorite Christmas Movies
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time of year. And the we love it. It's a lot of fun. Awesome. it's It's not super over the top. We don't have, you know a million decorations everywhere or anything like that, but we have fun with what we have. And it's it's definitely leaving a special mark with kids that what was the kids. What was the first movie y'all watched on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Tony?
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Well, we failed a tradition there because obviously you go to Elf. That's the first one. You have to watch that first and usually third and fifth as well. but yeah We like Elf, but it's not our go-to.
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On the day of Thanksgiving or the day after, we watch Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby.
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I don't even know that one. Not on my radar. Missing out. That's when the the song of White Christmas was first introduced. Really? Yeah.
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I thought I was older than you. I don't know how I don't didn't know that. Well, see, you're not as intelligent or as well-formed as I am, so that's probably the explanation there. That's got to account for some of it. fear I hope so.
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Yeah. Matt, what ah what what Christmas movies do you guys have? What's your go-to? Yeah, so Elf, Home Alones, the Santa Claus with Tim Allen.
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oh they good We just recently did as a Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger. yeah's and Classic 90s Christmas. And one um that my family watched in theater last year, and we got it in the mail today, and I'm looking forward to watching it, is The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Are y'all familiar with that book? Yeah.
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but Yeah. we've listened We listen to the book every year on the way to Alabama, and it's one of our favorites. And the movie came out, and they loved it. And so I'm looking forward to watching it tomorrow night, I think. so Cool.
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Yeah. Those are a few. Yeah. ah My absolute favorite Christmas movie, hands down, is the movie It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. know that one.
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It might be my favorite movie, period. I'm not sure if I could say it's absolutely the favorite movie, but it's far and away my favorite Christmas movie. I i probably cry every year when we watch it, if I actually am paying attention to the to the story. But, man, it's just such a great film, and I just so much enjoy it.
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It's not as good as Gladiator, but it's it's a good movie. Yeah.
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Yeah. ah Nate had some technical problems. Nate, are you back with us? You tell me. ah Can you hear me? I can hear you. Okay, well, that's good.
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So I guess we're talking about favorite Christmas movies now? Yeah, ah but you can you can throw in a Christmas tradition there too if you like. Yeah, was i mean but I'll pick pick up where I left off. Something my wife grew up doing. um They would put up their Christmas tree on Halloween. They didn't celebrate Halloween growing up. I thought that was cool. And so that's something that we've continued since we got married.
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Um, that's probably our only actual tradition that we have. Um, you know, we, we usually split up going between my parents' house and her parents' house, either on the same day or we take turns, uh, that kind of stuff. But, uh, as far as tradition, that's pretty much all we got. Um, movies.
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Yeah. I'm right there with you, Matt. I like the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. That's actually the first one we watched this year. So, um, I usually like to wait until the kids go to bed and watch the best Christmas movie of all time, which is diehard with Bruce Willis. So yeah, that's, that's my favorite. Um, Elf's good to my, my girl. Actually, i say that my girls did watch, they did watch the Grinch that actually we watched that. We watched that before, um before the Santa Claus. In fact, I think we watched that before Thanksgiving, if I'm not mistaken, but the new one with, uh,
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ah Benedict Cumberbatch. So. Another one. Yeah, it's the people that made Despicable Me made a new animated one. It's actually pretty good. um' it's I remember that one.
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I think the one with um Jim Carrey is the best. I like like that one. It's funny. You know, I grew up watching that one, but I have not seen it in a long time. That one creeps out my kids.
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Like every time they see the banner come up, they're like, oh, gross. What is that? Like, it's a Christmas movie. It is disturbing to see so many weird-looking noses. speaking of Speaking of Jimmy Stewart, Jared, something we watched last year at our work Christmas party was Shop Around the Corner.
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i don't know if you've seen that one, but that's a that's a Jimmy Stewart movie. That's a good one. had never heard of it until we we watched it.
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Jimmy Stewart is ah really good in just so a lot of films. A lot of films does just are really really good job.
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Mary? We'll have to cut that in post. You say so, Jimmy. Yeah. Oh, man. Love me some Jimmy Stewart.
Theology of Christmas
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ah You know, I really um get inspired at this time of the year because I just have come to see how important the incarnation is to our faith.
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Because, um you know, the the Bible says that if you're testing a spirit and to know whether or not the spirit is of the Lord, you've asked the spirit to say whether or not Jesus came in the flesh.
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And if the spirit says he came in the flesh, then he is of God. And if the spirit does not say Jesus came in the flesh, It is not a spirit of God. ah You know, if Jesus was not manifested, God himself manifested as a human being, we're not saved because it had to be a human sacrifice that was made in our place.
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um And, you know, I just think about so many scriptures, but one that sort of has stuck out a little bit more lately is from John chapter one.
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And it says, in the beginning was the word. And the word was with God and the word was God. The word is Jesus Christ. He is the Logos, the revelation of Christ, the revelation of of the Godhead is the Logos and he is God. And then it says in verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus had fingernails. He had knuckles. He had earlobes and eyeballs and He had probably some BO.
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You know, he had hair growing in weird places, probably. I mean, the man did get to 33 before he got a glorified body. So, you know, I don't know if he was able to grow as manly a beard as Tony is Sports, but he he he had a beard, you know. He had to ah deal with all the stuff guys have to deal with. And, um you know, he was a real, living, breathing human being.
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And that is in incredibly important to our faith. It's just as important as the resurrection. And, you know, the resurrection is the focal point of history, but the resurrection doesn't mean anything to our salvation. If it wasn't a real life human being who was dead and then rose back to life again, if he was just some sort of spirit, or if he was, you know, in some sort of a coma that, you know, the Da Vinci code people like to talk about, you know, then, then it doesn't, it, it doesn't mean anything.
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But if he was a human being, as well as being fully God, being fully man, dying in our place as our sacrifice, a perfect man, the only perfect man ever, to die for us, for our sins, and then come back to life again.
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All of that requires the incarnation. And so when, you know, i read scripture passages or i i hear songs that talk about Hail the incarnate deity. Charles Wesley was really good at Christmas songs. Hark the herald angels sing. Glory to the newborn king. Peace on earth and mercy mild. God and sinners reconciled. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see. Hail the incarnate deity.
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Hark the herald angels sing. Glory to the newborn king. That kind of theology you don't get in him today, folks. And and it's just really, really, I think, very, very powerful. And i I think Christmas is an incredibly good time to remind people of why we celebrate and why Jesus is so important.
00:18:13
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What do you guys think? Skillet needs to remake that song next. What? Skillet needs to redo that song next. Well, it would have great theology in it, even if it didn't like the song.
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They did like ah like a hard acid rock version of Emmanuel, but they kind of got a lot of They got a lot of attention. funny um The funny thing is, I don't know why that one got all the attention because that's what they sound like. That's what they always sound yeah for like. For 30 years. yeah And that's not guy by any means by any means the heaviest Christian music out there. It's way heavier than that. but yeah ah ah Hey, let's talk about that real quick because that was a um that was interesting. I listened to James White, Dr. James White, talking about that song and the music video that they put out.
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For Okum, Okum, Emmanuel. And when they filmed the music video, they chose to begin the video with him sitting in a hospital bed, um an empty hospital bed after somebody had just passed away. And that first verse talking about the grave, and he was he was basically just saying, you know, i had never put two and two together that this song is so deeply talking about the human condition that we all face death. And that we are hopeless without Christ, but O come, O come, Emmanuel. He is our our hope. And so – and then you know obviously O come, O come, Emmanuel, then the light bursts forth, and you know we have the hope of Christ now. But they – he was just talking about how well they portrayed that in the video where often we can kind of hear lyrics on the radio 30 million times in a season and kind of – they lose their meaning. But to to put it in a kind of a new artistic way kind of opens up um or it's a is a good reminder – of of you know what's actually being sung in the lyrics so
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Oh, no. I haven't heard the song, so I will reserve my opinion. I'm pretty confident I'm going to go with a different version than the heavy metal version of Emmanuel. They put out two.
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They put out two versions. They did a soft version and a hard version.
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the The soft version of a heavy metal version of Emmanuel? Well, there's only it's pretty much soft, the whole song, and then like the last 30 seconds they do this crazy metal breakdown. and So they did a soft version where they cut that part out.
00:21:46
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Well, all of that musical discussion aside, Nate, you're right. The song there does really speak to the human condition um, you know, and ransom captive Israel here that mourns and lonely exile, you know, yeah it, it, it is speaking of ransoming us from our, our sorrows and our pain. And that is why the angel said, rejoice and be exceeding glad for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior who is Christ, the Lord, you know and And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest. Why were they saying glory to God in the highest? Because God had accomplished, had sent his son to the earth in such an incredibly profound way. The God becoming man.
Christianity's Unique Perspective
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God becoming man is something, I don't know if it's totally unique to Christianity. it's certainly didn't happen the other religions, but I don't know that the other religions really talk about God becoming one of us. They talk about God being separate of us. But in Christianity, our God understands what we suffer because he came and suffered under the same curse and took our curse upon us, upon him.
00:23:10
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You did touch on something there that is one of the most beautiful uniquenesses of the Christian faith. the The God becoming a man thing, that is a unique aspect of Christian faith. And a lot of other false religions Man can elevate to God.
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Man can be good enough or righteous enough or zen enough or in one and with the universe enough to transcend into that plane. Only in Christianity is the the the condition of man insurmountable but for God coming across the divide.
00:23:43
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And that's it's a beautiful thing because that's what people genuinely, truly experience. ah people know themselves well enough that we're, I'm not transcending nothing.
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I don't have the capacity. I don't have the mind. I don't have the discipline. I'm not getting anywhere, but for God reaching across into my own depravity and and rescuing me through the vehicle of Jesus, through Jesus becoming one of us.
00:24:09
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One of the the cool attributes of Christmas that I've only just recently been starting to try to bring my kids to awareness of is that Jesus, Jesus was born, um, and started his, his, uh, his incarnation, through Mary, but that wasn't the first time he existed, but Jesus existed long before he was born and his, his, um, his spirit and his involvement in humanity goes all the way back into speaking the world and into existence.
00:24:45
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And that the part of the beauty of him choosing to become a man is that this was the first a perfect form of humanity that he created was, you know, he he created the the ah the the human figure.
00:24:58
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It was a work of art for him. It was a perfect thing that he he first established and we destroyed it. And he came back and and reset it. And he didn't reset it by making it.
00:25:10
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Yeah, he didn't reset it by making it this you know beautiful Michelangelo sculpture of you know what we what we carnally think of, he came back and perfected it through action and through perfect spiritual unity with the body.
00:25:27
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And that's that's something that Adam had and blew away through through his laziness and sin. And then he came back and showed us that it's it's not completely destroyed. It's redeemable, that the perfect creation that he had originally designed for us is is coming back.
00:25:47
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it's It's going to be restored. And he showed us the gateway to it. And that's that's a wonderful element of Christmas um to to think into our future and into into God's designs for us, that there's there's there's a lot of intent behind us, behind what we are, behind humanity itself.
00:26:06
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And so much so, That when Jesus came back, he didn't didn't come back as an elevated spirit. He didn't come back as you know this perfect angelic warrior. He came back as one of us.
00:26:18
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oh Because this this is this was the form that pleased him the most. to To come as one of us. And to bring us along into what he's going to make all of us one day. After our day of resurrection.
00:26:31
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So, it's ah it's it just such a big story. It's such a big story. The Christmas... the The theology of Christmas is so deep and all the details surrounding Christmas, they're they're just massive. like We've been going through a lot of Old Testament history. and We've been reading through it. I joked a while ago about boring my kids to death with Deuteronomy. where We finally made it up to Judges into kind of some of the good stuff.
00:26:57
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and there's um I'm looking forward to when we start getting to Ezekiel and Daniel and a lot of the more good feeding stuff. but um some of the Some of the details of Christmas are just they're just beautiful um ways to wrap up all of what the Old Testament was pointing to.
00:27:17
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And i think I think one of the cool um things to ponder, it's not as I can't say this is necessarily a biblical perspective because there's there's certainly no scripture that backs it up. But if you look at the history and the geography of what's going on in that world at the time, you look at the three Magi coming you know out out of the east to come try to find the the savior the the through the signage of the star, um there's there's a lot of evidence to suggest that these are the remnants of the schools of Daniel that were the part of the remaining Jews that didn't come back to reestablish Jerusalem.
00:27:55
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And to to wrap up you know Daniel's you know final prophecies, prophesying the Messiah coming, and then you know some of the the end days that would come onto to humanity, it's it's a really it's a neat little bit of frosting on that, on that story that I think a lot of people think, Oh, I'm neat. These, these really smart people that were sky watchers decided to show up.
00:28:16
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It's, it's way bigger than that. Like these are, yeah these these are part of what God is trying to tell to wrap up the story of the ministry and, and, and the foretelling of Daniel to bring back, know, the, the thought of the people of Israel to pay, this is, this is Messiah time.
00:28:34
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All this stuff you've been reading about for 400 years. Well, it's, If you were keeping clock or keeping the clock, you would know it's time. and ah And they were. They were very meticulously.
00:28:47
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I'm sorry.
Symbolism of the Magi's Gifts
00:28:48
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Have you ever thought about the significance of the gifts the Magi brought? I've heard a lot of different postulations about it. um And that's well that's another cool thing to noodle through. Yeah. they you know Without going to diving too deep into it, gold is for the kings.
00:29:07
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And he was the king of kings. And so these Magi, they they understood what they were doing. They were bringing valuable gifts, but they were bringing gifts with meaning in them. And so they brought incense because incense is what you offer to a deity. It's what you burn as as a prayer. is It's what you offer to God.
00:29:25
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And it was very special. And then myrrh is what you use to balm a dead body. You embalm someone one with myrrh. it's It's used in burial rites.
00:29:37
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and And, you know, that is also incredibly significant that they knew, Magi knew at the beginning that this child was God, would also be king and would die for his people, die to bring redemption. You know, some people were able to pick up on the truth that was laid out by the prophets. And i just, ah I think that that's incredibly profound and powerful. that those magi knew that at the beginning.
Embracing Christmas Spirit
00:30:10
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Yeah. Anyway, Matt, final thoughts on Christmas?
00:30:16
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You know, I used, even though my family at at times will still call me Scrooge every now and then, I have been trying to make it more fun and um making a big deal of of it because it should be a big deal.
00:30:31
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um Like growing up, Like I said, with my traditions, we really didn't have any. It was just presence and, but you know, that was about it. but um But I think it's a good thing that we're doing.
00:30:44
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And the kids look forward to it. And we have good conversations and we sing lots of good songs. And we just see the beauty, you around our house with all the lights. And now, Tony, there a lot of the lights are white. They're not, they're not colorful. We've got some colorful lights. You're not as multicultural. You need some diversity in your life. You're not as multicultural as Tony is. Yeah. So, yeah, we're trying to make it a big deal, and I'm trying to have a good attitude about the high power bill. So, yeah.
00:31:22
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But just just thank God you don't have Chevy Chase's power bill. right Right. Oh, I was going to one more thing. And then we were talking about, you were mentioning song lyrics. um I do like to, and there's a bunch of, bunch of good ones, but, and Oh, Holy Night, a thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices.
00:31:39
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That's a good one as well. Great song for yonder breaks. Yeah. New and glorious morn. Yep. The new morning is dawned. A new morning is dawning for the world. Nate, what do you think? Last thoughts?
00:31:54
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I think um
00:31:59
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we – okay, so I cut out part of it. i don't know if maybe we talked about this already, but in the importance of celebrating Christmas, why we ought to – I view it as kind of the same reason that the Israelites built altars in the wilderness, yeah and it was to remember for the generations to come. And so um ah that's – it's so important to me to not lose heart and lose sight of why we celebrate what we do. And again, referencing back the paranormal episode again, we talked about in Revelation, the when war broke out in heaven when the child was born. That's talking about Christmas.
00:32:36
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And one of my favorite songs is a song called This Is War by a man named Dustin Kenger. And I'll read you the lyrics. It's a short song. And it says, This is war like you ain't seen.
00:32:48
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This winter's long, it's cold and mean. With hangdog hearts we stood condemned, but the tide turns now at Bethlehem. This is war and born tonight. The word is flesh, the Lord of light, the Son of God, the lowborn King, who demons fear, of whom angels sing.
00:33:05
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This is war on sin and death. The dark will take its final breath. It shakes the earth, confounds all plans. The mystery of God is man. One of my favorite Christmas songs.
00:33:17
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So those are my final thoughts. does that I've never heard of that one, but I'm definitely looking it up now. it goes yeah it's it's It's real I don't even know how to describe it Very raw, not not a lot going on It's not polished up not up Not a polished up radio song at all What's the is the name again? It's called This Is War By a guy named Dustin Kendrew Kendrew, however you say his name If you look up Jeff War, you're going to get a different song And that one's good too Well, it's not quite a Christmas
00:33:52
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song Oh man Well, i'll tell you what, people, if nothing else on this podcast, they get good recommendations for things to listen to because from it that's right we all have enough variety of interests and, ah you know, circles of information that we're, I mean, you you guys are constantly telling me things, ah people to listen to or ideas or thoughts and things that I hadn't considered. And i'm I'm mentioning things to you guys that you're like, oh, I haven't heard that. I'll check that out. So hopefully, if nothing else, our listeners have gotten some good some good tips. so
00:34:31
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Recommendations for sure. Good recommendations? i mean, here iss what it is it If you like skillet. ah so Anyway, folks, ah this has has been a real joy for us to ah come to you and to share some of these things with you on this platform, wherever you may be listening or watching. to this podcast. And so it's really a blessing for us to get together and and sometimes other friends get together and be able to share the truth and encourage each other. It's been really beneficial, I think, through this last couple of months for us to sharpen one another and encourage each other. And that has been helpful to me. And hopefully our listeners have gotten a little bit out of that as well. Can throw out one thing real quick?
00:35:22
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yeah I was going to let this go, but I feel like the Holy Spirit's nagging on me on this one. So I have to say something. But we had, you know, talking about like the importance of Christmas, it's it's certainly, you know, it's one of the few things where you feel significant pressure not to say anything about Christmas.
00:35:38
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When you're in and around the the workspace, you're in and around lost family or things like that, you know, the the social pressure comes to that happy holidays nonsense. So it's it's obviously ah something that's under spiritual attack.
00:35:52
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There's something about Christmas, like you were saying, Nate, this is part of what the demons fear, is this constant remembrance and celebration. And there's certainly been, it seems like a very loud and ah kind of a popular notion going around on on a lot of social media, liberal networks, that this is a a pagan holiday that roots back to it Druid wickedness in some kind of a fashion.
00:36:16
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um there's there's a man out there by the name of Westhoff. He has a lot of stuff on YouTube. He has a lot of stuff on pretty much every social media platform. You should definitely look into him. This man does an absolutely brilliant job of debunking all of that nonsense.
00:36:30
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And ah there's a lot of details that he gets into that are far beyond what I can remember
Debunking Christmas Myths
00:36:34
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here. Biggest thing is Christmas came first. Most of the, is everything about Christmas celebrations started almost immediately after Jesus left the earth.
00:36:43
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So it's there are a lot of historical and artifact evidence of Christians celebrating Christmas very, very, very early on in church history.
00:36:55
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And a lot of that other nonsense stuff doesn't show up for four or five, 600 years later. So there's there's a lot of of evidence to support that that's all that's all bunk. And the reason why it's out there right now is, like Nate said, it's because demons fear Christmas.
00:37:08
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So yeah be loud about it. Be proud about it. Wish everybody you know a Merry Christmas. We should sell t-shirts that say that demons fear Christmas. but
00:37:20
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ah Tony, I want you to know that the Holy Spirit is absolutely the programming director of
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00:37:25
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00:37:39
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00:38:21
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00:38:34
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And I hope that you have a merry, merry, Amen. We'll leave off the frigging animals.
00:38:45
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Merry Christmas, you frigging animal. All right. Thanks so much. God bless. See you next time. Bye, Alba.