THE ANGELS' DOXOLOGY TO GOD – Part 2

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For WEDNESDAY, 28TH  DECEMBER, 2022.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

 General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: THE ANGELS' DOXOLOGY TO GOD – Part 2pm

MEMORIZE: "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11.

SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 2:10-14.

"Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. "And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

EXPOSITION:

The angels' doxology to God, and congratulations of men, upon this solemn occasion, Lu 2:13-14. Their songs revealed these two major messages:

1. Let God have the honour of this work: 

Glory to God in the highest. God's good-will to men, manifested in sending the Messiah, redounds very much to his praise; and angels in the highest heavens, though not immediately interested in it themselves, will celebrate it to his honour, Re 5:11-12.  Glory to God, whose kindness and love designed this favour, and whose wisdom contrived it in such a way as that one divine attribute should not be glorified at the expense of another, but the honour of all effectually secured and advanced. Other works of God are for his glory, but the redemption of the world is for his glory in the highest. 

2. Let men have the joy of it: 

On earth peace, good-will toward men. God's good-will in sending the Messiah introduced peace in this lower world, slew the enmity that sin had raised between God and man, and resettled a peaceable correspondence.  If God be at peace with us, all peace results from it: peace of conscience, peace with angels, peace between Jew and Gentile.  Peace is here put for all good, all that good which flows to us from the incarnation of Christ. All the good we have, or hope, is owing to God's good-will; and, if we have the comfort of it, he must have the glory of it. Nor must any peace, any good, be expected in a way inconsistent with the glory of God; therefore not in any way of sin, nor in any way but by a Mediator. Here was the peace proclaimed with great solemnity; whoever will, let them come and take the benefit of it. It is on earth peace, to men of good-will (so some copies read it), to men who have a good-will to God, and are willing to be reconciled; or to men whom God has a good-will to, though vessels of his mercy.  See how well affected the angels are to man, and to his welfare and happiness; how well pleased they were in the incarnation of the Son of God, though he passed by their nature; and ought not we much more to be affected with it? This is a faithful saying, attested by an innumerable company of angels, and well worthy of all acceptation, That the good-will of God toward men is glory to God in the highest, and peace on the earth. 

PRAYER POINTS:

Father, Let me experience and dwell in your peace that your birth and death have brought to the world in Jesus name.

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Revelation 10-13.