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Almost always we look at the Christmas Story from our viewpoint. Seldom, perhaps never, have we thought of it from the viewpoint of God the Father. My favorite from all of the Christmas texts, Old Testament and New, is Romans 8:32. The late Paul Rader expressed it graphically in the following poem:
That Christmas Day, if you were God, And that was your Son on that stable sod. Wrapped for death with its sin cursed sting, Would you have made the angels sing? Would you have sent a lovely star To guide the wise men from afar? While weaklings did what haters bid? Our loving Heavenly Father did. On the Calv’ry road, if you were God And that was your Son ’neath the scourging rod Bearing pain and bitter loss Would you have nailed Him to the cross?
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Would you have let Him suffer so That sinners might salvation know? While this He did their sins to rid? Our loving Heavenly Father did.
Fellowship between Father and Son had been inexpressibly sweet through all eternity and also in the days when our Lord was here on earth. Often He went out before the break of day to pray and hold communion with His Father. He spent nights in prayer. Often there was praise upon His lips, saying, “ Father, I thank thee!” Always there was the utmost of confidence in His Father on the part of the Son. There was implicit obedience, for He had come to do the will of Him who sent Him. The Lord Jesus had come to die. He was the lamb of God, slain from the founda tion of the world in the foreknowledge of God, to take away the sin of the world. So, at this Christmas season, share with the Wheaton College family throughout the world the eternal truths of Romans 8 :3 2 ... “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also give us all things?”
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PRESIDENT We at Wheaton thank you who have -WHEATON COLLEGE shared in helping us to proclaim , the Father’s viewpoint of Christmas “For Christ and His Kingdom” . . . Since 1860 , , . , , , 6 throughout the world. W H E A T O N , I L L I N O I S GRADUATE SCHOOL . CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC • NURSING PROGRAM • HONEY ROCK CAMP . BLACK HILLS SCIENCE STATION • WHEATON ACADEMY DECEMBER, 1964 7
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