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December 24 6:30 - 7:15 PM

Singing Traditional Christmas Carols Short Bible Message Regarding Christmas Apple Cider, Snacks & Candy Canes!!

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CLEMENTSVALE GOSPEL HALL

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

1Timothy 1:15

So begins the popular carol, but night and darkness can sometimes be unpleasant, even sinister. How often they are associated with foreboding and fear, so that people long for the day. In some respects that particular night was just another night, the same as the rest. Bethlehem was asleep, except for the few shepherds guarding their flocks in the nearby fields. But it was not really just another night! It was to be

O Holy Night

The Eastern sky was alight with the glory of the Lord. The message of the angels was glorious too, the promised Saviour had come! However, the circumstances of His coming were in great contrast to the angelic glory. There was no splendour, no pomp and no royal welcome. Just a baby born in a stable, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid to sleep in a manger bed by a peasant girl from Nazareth. But this tender infant was, in the words of the angel, Christ the Lord! The baby in the manger was in fact the Son of God, in great grace coming into our world to accomplish salvation for guilty mankind. And at what a cost! That manger at Bethlehem was the beginning of a perfect life which would lead to Calvary, where the Lord Jesus would offer himself as a sacrifice for sinners. Just as that holy night of His birth was turned into day by the glory of the heavenly messengers, the day of His crucifixion was turned into night as he suffered in loneliness on the cross. He voluntarily went into deep,

dense darkness and suffered as a sinless substitute for guilty sinners. Before His birth the angels word to Joseph was, Call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21) and now salvation is offered freely to every repentant sinner. Jesus is now risen from the dead. He is alive in Heaven from which he came. From that place of glory He invites every needy sinner to come to Him. Countless thousands have come to Him, the one whose

The night of the dear Saviours birth.

gospel is peace,

That great event had long been promised. No sooner had our first parents sinned in the Garden of Eden than God in grace had promised a Saviour, a Redeemer.

Long lay the world in sin and error pining

resting on Him alone for salvation. They have stood, as it were, by His cross, and heard the words, Christ died for our sins (1Corinthians 15:3), Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6), and they have said, He died for me.

The weary world rejoices

Then, suddenly, the darkness of this holy night was dispelled. An angel appeared to the shepherds, and with him a multitude of celestial beings.

How many there are who rejoice for that holy night when He came into the darkness of our world to turn our night into day? Do you rejoice, knowing Him as your Saviour?