I like this song and I like this quote. The song is from Cowboy Copas, a guy killed in a plane crash with Patsy Cline. The quote is from CFW Walther an old Lutheran guy from the 1800's. They both put Christmas in the right perspective.
What happened in Bethlehem was the fulfillment of that eternal decree of the heavenly Father. As soon as His Son become man, the unbearable burden of all humanity's sin was laid upon Him. And so, as Christ, God's sacrificial lamb for the sins of the whole world, lay in a hard crib in a dark stable, the eyes of God looked into the future to see His Son already dying on the cross. Therefore, this atonement for sins, by which God's offended holiness and righteousness were satisfied and men were reconciled to Him, was already as good as accomplished.
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