Christmas Series: Joy to the World
Bible Stories
Matt Mullins and Todd Haymans
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the story behind the song Joy to the World. The Scripture it's based on doesn't have anything to do with Christmas BUT it is all about Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. |
| 0:12.8 | We are your hosts, Todd. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello. |
| 0:15.8 | And my name is Matt. |
| 0:16.8 | We're two friends and two ministers who love the stories of the Bible. |
| 0:19.8 | We want to tell you about them. |
| 0:21.0 | And buddy, we are smack dab in the middle of our Christmas series. |
| 0:26.1 | We are neck deep in Christmas snow, friend, oh. |
| 0:30.1 | So much snow. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, today, the Christmas Carol that we're going to discuss is Joy to the world. And Joy to the World is the most |
| 0:40.3 | published Christmas song in North America. If you look through your Christmas albums and it's, |
| 0:45.3 | you're looking through Mariah Carey, you're looking through 98 degrees Christmas, you're looking |
| 0:51.4 | through all your faves. You're probably going to see joy to the world. |
| 0:58.8 | But surprisingly, Joy to the World isn't a Christmas carol at all, buddy. |
| 1:05.7 | Really? What is it, Matt? It's a song that's based on Psalm 98. And this is where the psalmist is looking to not the first coming of Jesus. So he's not talking about Jesus' baby. He's talking about the |
| 1:12.4 | second coming of Christ. Okay, very cool. So Matt, it is kind of like Psalm 98 degrees. |
| 1:20.1 | Yes, that's where 98 degrees got their name from, this song. Yeah. That's good. The Book of Luke records several notable characters who waited with anticipation for the coming of the Messiah, |
| 1:33.1 | and they responded in joy when he appeared. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm talking about people like John the Baptist. |
| 1:37.9 | You remember he freaked out when he was in his mom's womb. |
| 1:40.9 | He flipped. |
| 1:42.0 | He did. |
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