Hello everyone, welcome to follow him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm the co-host of a podcast called follow him and I'm here with my

Jolly old I was gonna say Jolly old Saint Nicholas John, but you're just Jolly. You're not old. You're just Jolly

Jolly old Jolly old Saint Jonathan

Jolly old Saint Jonathan

Who is here and we are joined by our good friend and just incredible scholar

Dr. Brad Wilcox. Welcome Brad. Great to be with you.

Now follow him favorites is where each of us John and I in our guest we choose a small portion of the lesson to go through.

So you John Brad you guys I think you know this drill the lesson this week is on the document the living Christ

So you get to choose one portion from the living Christ to to shares your follow him favorite John. Let's start with you

Oh, I I like this beginning of let's see one two three four the fifth paragraph

He rose from the grave to become the first fruits of them that slept and it always reminds me of this is the ultimate not just Christmas

but the resurrection and

The three levels of Christmas which we talked about in the longer podcast level one is Santa Claus and Rudolph and Ho Ho Ho

and Christmas trees and stockings and all that and it's great fun and yeah, and we love it and it's beautiful

But there's another level level two is the baby Jesus silent night

The shepherds hearing the announcement and going to Bethlehem and everything and we love that level as well

But we can't keep Christ in the manger the third level is the adult Christ level and I when I heard this from William

Be smart years ago it changed the way I seen Christmas carols in church. So here's your assignment next time you seeing a

Christmas Carol in church they're full of level two and level three we don't have any hymns in the hymn book about Santa Claus

That's level one, but there are hymns that have level two and level three for example

Heart the herald angel sing glory to the newborn King. Okay. That's that's level two the baby Jesus a

Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled. Oh, that's coming into the Atonement of Jesus Christ

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