Joy to The World!
White Horse Inn
Sola Media
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When the angels appeared before the shepherds in Bethlehem, they came bringing a message of “good news” rather than tips for improving our life or the world around us. On this program, the hosts will discuss the nature of the Christian gospel and its roots in the Old Testament promises of a coming redemption. They’ll also discuss the relationship between good news and the “great joy” that we experience in response (originally aired 12-24-17).
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| 0:00.0 | Why is it important to stress the fact that this is an announcement of good news that brings joy? |
| 0:08.0 | Well, it's good news because God isn't showing up in his wrath, he's showing up in his grace and his mercy and he's come to do something that we can't |
| 0:17.0 | do for ourselves to live the righteous life to be actively obedient to be our representative so that we can be acceptable to God and on top of that to pay our |
| 0:28.0 | debt. |
| 0:29.0 | There can't be any possible better news than that. |
| 0:41.0 | Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. |
| 0:47.0 | From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called The White Horse, the Reformation came to the English-speaking world. |
| 0:54.8 | Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn. |
| 0:58.8 | Hello and welcome to another edition of the White Horse Inn as we're continuing |
| 1:06.4 | our reflection on the meaning of Christ at Christmas and we're taking a look |
| 1:12.4 | especially at the theme of joy at Christmas. Why joy to the world. That famous hymn that we sing at this time of the year written in 1719 by Isaac Watts is really |
| 1:26.3 | based on Psalm 98 here's the famous hymn that you know so well joy to the world |
| 1:31.9 | the Lord has come, let Earth receive her king. |
| 1:35.9 | Let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature sing. Joy to the world, the Savior |
| 1:42.0 | reigns. Let men their songs employ, while fields and floods |
| 1:47.3 | rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy. |
| 1:52.1 | No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the |
| 1:56.2 | ground. He comes to make his blessing flow far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations |
| 2:06.0 | prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love and to discuss what it means that joy came bodily into this world |
| 2:18.0 | from heaven. We have a great panel today. Steve Parks is a Lutheran minister and is also professor of |
| 2:27.0 | theology at Concordia University in Irvine, California. We also have the pleasure again of having Whitney Gamble with us. |
| 2:36.0 | Whitney is professor of theology at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California. |
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