Until the Whole World Hears // Receive Your King: The Kingdom at Christmas

Every year, we celebrate Holy Week—Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter—months prior to Christmas. It’s just how the calendar works out, but it is kind of backwards. We observe the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry before we ever commemorate his birth! But this hindsight view of Christmas-after-Easter gives us an interesting and illuminating perspective on the coming of Jesus Christ into our world. It allows us to notice signposts in the Christmas account; events pointing ahead to the new reality that Jesus would usher into the world through his life, ministry, death, and resurrection. We start to feel the first ripples of coming revolution that would change the world forever. When we filter the events of Christmas through the lens of Jesus’ inauguration of the Kingdom of God at Easter, the story of Christmas becomes more wonderful than we could ever imagine.

It was another quiet evening in Bethlehem...until the silence of the night was split by shouts of joy from a group of shepherds. This ragtag group of men had witnessed something unbelievable—something incredible—and they had to tell everyone. And that’s how it is in the Kingdom of God...it’s so life changing that when you encounter it, you can’t help but share it.

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