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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

What Jesus Said About Himself

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music, transcribed with the King's Heralds, Del Delker, Brad Braley, and HMS Richards, the Voice of Prophecy speaker.

♪ Angels we have heard on high, Sweetly singing o'er our plains, And the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains.

Glory, glory, Glory be to God, glory be to God on high.

What the gladsome tidings be, which inspire your heady song?

Come to Bethlehem and see him whose birth the angels sing.

Come adore on bended knee, Jesus Christ, the newborn King.

Glory to God, glory to God, Glory to God, to God on high.

The King's Heralds have just recorded a new arrangement of 1 of the best loved carols, Silent Night.

It is for 2 quartets with first tenor solo and done by multiple recording.

Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.

God is brown, young virgin, mother and child, holy infant so tender and mild, Tender and mild in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

Silent night, holy night, shepherds quake at the sight.

Glory stream from heaven afar, Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia.

Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born.

♪ From all his bright, from young virgin, mother and child, O infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace.

Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the birth of Jesus Christ, Thine only Son, our Lord.

We thank Thee, O God, for the message to this earth of peace and goodwill to men.

Bless our broadcast today, that we may bring his message of hope to the hearts of the millions.

A place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God.

A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us who bow before thee, near to the heart of God.

♪ Amen ♪ Let's use our gift of the Word of God to the glory of the giver and to the satisfaction of our personal needs.

Del Delker and the quartet join now to bring us a Spanish carol that has been heard on our Voice of Prophecy broadcast in the language of Central and South America.

La Virgen Lava Pañales or The Virgin Washes Swaddling clothes.

Y los pajaritos cantan y el agua se va riendo.

Pastor es venid, pastor es llegad, adorar a un niño adorar a un niño que ha nacido ya.

El niño Dios se ha perdido Y todos la están buscando Pastores venir, pastores viengan adorar al nino, adorar al nino que ha nascido ya.

And And now, just before HMS Richard's message for today entitled, What Jesus Said About Himself.

The King's Herald sing a contemporary carol about Jesus' birth, death, and coming again.

♪ Long ago in a Bethlehem manger, Long ago our Lord was born, Came to earth a lowly stranger, came to earth on Christmas morn.

Sing we now in joyful chorus, Christ is born, Christ is born.

Long ago he died to save us, crucified upon the tree.

Long ago he died and gave us life and immortality.

Sing we now in grateful chorus, Salvation free, Salvation free.

Soon our Lord will come in glory, come proclaim that happy day.

Day of sweet redemption story, God will wipe all tears away.

Sing we now in joyful chorus, Christ will come, Christ will come.

At this happy season of the year, when friends remember friends, family reunions are taking place and a spirit of Christian fellowship envelops the world, we here at the Voice of Prophecy headquarters wish to send greetings to all our fellow believers and to all friends everywhere.

Our subject is what Jesus said about himself.

There are people alive on earth today who have no birthday, that is, no record was made of their birthday, or the record has been lost, or in some other way the actual date of their birth has been forgotten.

Yet the fact that they are alive proves that they were born.

They do not have a birthday as far as records go, but they do if they only knew when it is.

Nobody knows the exact day that Jesus was born.

If it had been very important for us to know, surely the record of it would have been clear in Holy Scripture.

Ancient traditions have suggested various dates as Christ's birthday, among them the 25th of December, which is popularly called Christmas.

He spoke as never man spake before or since.

Therefore he was born and we thank God for it.

The ancient prophet Isaiah had declared, Behold, a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son.

And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God with us.

That prophecy written 700 years before the birth of Jesus was truly fulfilled.

For large numbers of people this part of the Advent story has lost its meaning.

Lukak describes how dramatically this is illustrated in the experience of Life magazine in preparing its Christmas issue not long ago.

A photographer had been sent to the school of San Rocco in Italy to get pictures of the wonderful Tintoretto murals of the Nativity.

He tried to photograph these exquisite paintings in natural color, but failed.

He used every conceivable kind of light, but he was not successful.

The colors just wouldn't come true and clear.

On very careful examination it was discovered that these wonderful murals of Christ's nativity had been overlaid with 4 centuries of varnish, dirt, and dust.

The radiant beauty of the original colors would not shine through.

At last a photographer tried polaroid light and then the authentic colors were caught by his camera.

What a perfect parable this is of the real meaning of Christmas or rather the Advent story.

For centuries it has been overlaid with traditional varnish, with commercial dust and dirt, until it has become only the sweet story of a baby in a manger, for whom we may be moved with pity, or the occasion of organized, commercialized, vulgar carnival and celebration, So that millions today fail to see the glorious, wonderful, majestic and eternal fact of the Emmanuel, God with us.

We are liable to forget that Jesus came not to propound an idea but to do a work.

For that redemption it was necessary that he take human nature, that he become truly man and yet remain God.

The Incarnation, Christ's coming in human flesh, was necessary because of sin to accomplish the atoning sacrifice of redemption on the cross.

Christ was God with us as a means to an end, and that end was our salvation.

He did and here are his words in John 3 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Using this name, Emmanuel, God with us, in its wider sense, the truth is that God was in Christ, as the Apostle Paul said, reconciling the world unto himself.

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