In the carol, O come, O Come, Emmanuel, we sing about the key of David.

What does that mean?

Nancy DeMas Walgamu tells us the key is Jesus.

He holds the key to the wisdom that you need to live this life.

He is the key of David, the key to everything that you need as a child of God.

Yeah. the key to everything that you need as a child of God. This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The First Songs of Christmas.

For December 16th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh. Revive Our Hearts wants to bring you timeless truths for every season of life,

and today Nancy will show you some beautiful truths of the gospel, found in a classic Christmas carol.

She's continuing in a series for Advent called

Come Adore, the gospel in carols. During these days at the beginning of Advent, we're talking

about a number of Christmas carols. They've been recorded on a CD where I play the piano.

It's called Come Adore and some beautiful instruments that we,

musicians that we recorded down in Nashville to help make these carols just a lovely way to

celebrate the season. There's a link to more information about Nancy C.D. Commodore in the

transcript of today's program. So be sure to check it out. Here's Nancy again.

Now, we're talking about one of the oldest Christmas carols, maybe the oldest one that is sung today.

It's called, oh come, oh come, Emmanuel. We introduced it yesterday and we said that the origin

dates back to the 8th or 9th century.

It originally was a seven-stand-up poem that was sung responsibly.

Scripture would be read, and then a stanza of this would be sung or recited each day of the

week leading up to Christmas.

And the stanzas of this great carol, this great hymn, express longing and

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