The good news is this.

The good news is there's a proclamation of salvation.

The good news is the pervasiveness of that salvation reaches to everybody and anybody.

The good news is the person of that salvation is none other than the anointed king and priest

and prophet of God who is none other than God himself.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Thanks for letting us be part of your Christmas Eve celebration. Today you're going to have an opportunity to understand, perhaps for the first time,

one of the easier parts of God's word to misunderstand. It's that portion of Luke chapter two that says, on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. What those words really mean might surprise you.

Stay here for some profound Christmas truth as John continues his study called

the Promise of Christmas. And now with today's lesson, here's John. The beautiful old Christmas

Carol asked the question, what child is this who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping? Who is this

child who determines the eternal destiny of every human who has ever or will ever be born? Who is this child who determines the eternal destiny of every human who has

ever or will ever be born? Who is this child? The angel says a savior who is Christ the

Lord. Let me talk a little further about that. The selection of the word courias here

for Lord, that's a very important selection.

There were two words in the Greek language, still are, I think, that could be used to refer

to Lord or Master. One is Curias and the other is despotes. And if you study the background

of those two words and even how they've sort of come down

to us, we have a word in English despot.

When we think of the word despot, we think of someone who's in authority and someone who's

in power but with a certain level of high-handedness, don't we?

Or a certain kind of illegitimacy or abuse or unearned, undeserved power.

To say someone is despotic or a despot is to assume that they have somehow garnered power that they don't really

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