The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 89

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Che Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusBLisHeED BY THE EVANGELICAL LutmeraAN SyNopicaL CONFERENCE OF Nortit AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louls, Mo., as second-class matter.

i 5 Mo.,

No. 12.

Vol. XXX. St. Lo

The Christmas Message.

“Behold, 1 bring you good tidings of great joy, which
shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day, in
the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”

This is the Christmas message,
Say, do you take it in,

This wonderful redemption,

God's remedy for sin?

Do you at heart believe it?

Do you believe it’s true,

And meant for every sinner,

And therefore meant for you?
Then take this “great. salvation ;”
For Jesus loves to g

Believe! and you receive it
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Believe! and you shall live!

And if the Christmas message
Has now brought peace to you,
<e known the Christmas story,
For others need it too.

Soon, soon, our eyes shall see Him!
And in our homes above

We'll sing that sweetest story
Of Jesus and His love. Selected.

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The Savior Is Born.

The Savior is born! ‘This is the glad news
which is brought to us in the Christmas Gospel,
and which makes Christmas such a blessed season.
It should fill our hearts with thankful joy; for we
all need a Savior. We are sinners by nature, lost
and condemned, under the curse of the Law, under
the wrath of God. “For it is written, Cursed is
every one that continueth not in all things which
are written in the book of the Law to do them,”
Gal. 3, 10.

December, 19

We need a Savior to redeem us from sin and
damnation. We must have a Savior, or clse we are
lost forever. And that Savior must be God and
man in one person.
be a man that He might suffer and die; but as no
mere man could bear the sin of the human race,
together with the wrath of God and the curse of
the Law, nor satisfy infinite divine justice, nor
overcome death, hell, and the devil, it was neces-
sary that He should at the same time be true God.”

Just such a Savior was born unto us in the holy
Christmas night, when His birth was made known
by an angel, who brought the good tidings of great
joy: “Unto you is born this day, in the city of
David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” The
Savior born at Bethlehem is true man, born of the
Virgin Mary; but He is more than that. He is
at the same time true God, begotten of the Father
from eternity. Therefore the angel calls Him
“Christ the Lord.” It is God’s own Son who be-
came man and was born of the Virgin Mary, in
order to be our Savior. “When the fullness of the
time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a
woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that
were under the Law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons,” Gal. +, 4. 5. “God so loved the
world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life,” John 3, 16. :
bi The Savior is born! What should we do?
should by faith accept that Savior as our own.

“It was necessary for Him fo

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shall then have, not merely a merry Christmas, but
what is far more, a blessed Christmas. Our hearts
will then be filled with the true Christmas joy over
the birth of the Savior, in whom we have pardon
for all our sins and comfort for all our sorrows.