By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Real Independent News & Film
December 29, 2017
What if Christmas is a core value of belief in a personal God who
lived among us and His freely given promise of eternal salvation
that no believer should reject or apologize for?
What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all
believers?
What if Christmas is the potential rebirth of Christ in every heart
that will have Him, whether a believer or not?
What if Jesus Christ was born about 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem?
What if He is true God and true man?
What if this is a mystery and a miracle?
What if this came about as part of God’s plan for the salvation
of all people?
What if Jesus was sent into the world to atone for our sins by
offering Himself as a sacrifice?
What if He was sinless?
What if His life was the most critical turning point in human history?
What if the reason we live is that He died?
What if after He died, He rose from the dead?
What if He was murdered by the government because it feared
a revolt if it did not murder Him?
What if the government thought He was crazy when He said He
is a king but His kingdom is not of this world?
What if He was not crazy but divine?
What if when He said that He could forgive sins, He was referring
to Himself as God?
What if He is one of the three parts of a triune God?
What if this is an inexplicable mystery?
What if there is no power without mystery?
What if the power He possessed, He exercised only for the good?
What if He truly gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf,
musculature to the lame, hope to the disillusioned, courage
to the weak and even life to the dead?
What if He freely did these things but sought no acclamation
for them?
What if after each of these miracles, He disappeared into the
temple precincts or walked well past the crowd, lest the crowd
hail him as a temporal or secular leader?
What if there was in that towering personality a deep thread
of shyness?
What if He was shy about His Godness?
What if He was shy about His goodness?
What if He loved saving us?
What if He was joyful but did not want us to see His joy?
What if He knew all along how profoundly untimely and utterly
painful the end of His life on earth would be but He neither feared
nor avoided it?
What if His greatest display of love was self-restraint on the Cross?
What if most of the world that He came to save has rejected Him?
What if He still loves those who have rejected Him?
What if He still offers them salvation?
What if His offer is real and forever?
What if many folks today have rejected the true God
for government-as-god?
What if the government-as-god has set itself up as providing for all
secular needs in return for fidelity to it?
What if this seductive offer has been accepted by millions
in America?
What if the acceptance of this seductive offer of government-as-
god has ruined individual initiative, destroyed personal work ethic,
fostered cancerous laziness, enhanced deep poverty and impelled
thoughtless obedience to government in those who have accepted
it?
What if the defiance inherent in the belief of government-as-god
chills the exercise of personal freedoms for fear of the loss of the
government’s munificence?
What if government charity is really munificence with money
it has taken from those who work and earn it?
What if it’s then given to those who don’t?
What if it is impossible to be truly charitable with someone
else’s money?
What if Jesus came to set us free from the yoke of government
oppression and the chains of personal sin?
What if freedom is our birthright, given to us by the true God,
not by the government-as-god?
What if the true God made us in His own image and likeness?
What if the most similar likeness between us mortals and the
true God is freedom?
What if just as God is perfectly free, so are we perfectly free?
What if we have failed to preserve freedom and have permitted
governments to take it from us?
What if we are not full people without full freedom?
What if the world was full of darkness before He came
into it?
What if there is darkness still today but yet much light?
What if we recognize that He is the Light of the World?
What if Christmas is the birthday of the Son of God
and the Son of Mary?
What if we recognize the presence of the Son of God
and the Son of Mary in our hearts and among us?
What if the God-as-baby whose birthday we celebrate
is the Savior of the World?
What if we don’t mask this but live it?
What if we say with our hearts and mean with our words —
Merry Christmas?
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