JESUS CHRIST

THE MANGER

The manger shows the beginning of life to us of our Gentleman in the world, rather outside the world, rejected since it arrived, and Its history begins outside the inn, Lucas 2:7, which was a symbol than it would be also His death in the Cross, outside the other inn, of the spiritual, outside the temple of Jerusalem. But there is another inn where Christ is to the door and calls to enter him, if he is abre to Him, clearly, the inn of our heart.

The world did not receive the Gentleman, but invites It us to His house, to the one of the King, the house of God our Father. Christ is consequent with his own education since he comes to the world and he puts the other cheek, the one of the reception and the welcome, being hospedador, but to the way of a King, the King of kings, that treats like a kings to us: … I go, then, to prepare place for you… … in the house of my Father many dwellings it has… Gospel de Juan 14.

The two commonly manger has meaning used, so much to the place or species of stable like a talks about a container done of stone in which the food of the flock is put. Jesus denominates to Itself our Bread of the sky, that Bread ours of every day that in the famous oration we asked is given today, that is to say the Food to us of Its flock, the Church, yes, He himself as he says His Word to it, is the alive Bread, the alive Word on which we fed every day “I I am the life bread�?. Therefore he has was used to going to the manger every day to eat of Christ, to eat of the Bible, so that our spirit does not die of hunger. This is the food that there will be to share every day with our fellow. Because the Teacher already taught to us that there is another food that there are to eat, when he was with the Samaritan one and the disciples brought to him to eat; one talked about to make the will of the Father. The will of God and that will are in Its Word, Its Son Jesus Christ.

Ever since Christ is born in the manger of our soul, God does not find a gold throne but a nonworthy place of Him, where I reign, but where indeed to invite each to him of us in a personal and intimate oration, she enters to make a new creation, yes, in our own soul, because more we never return to be what éramos before being born again, and what happiness and celestial peace He to our lives brings.

That brave and humble it has been our God, that great example of comradeship, of pious and friendly, close, majestic and omniscient love Its form to love to us, coming to this world, a enemy world of Him, who had snatched His wife to him, the one who the Father gave him, and by that He decided to give Its life. That the great news for each of us, and all in unit, that It has come to this manger of our souls.

Next I will deal with each one of the figures the manger, in its spiritual meaning in which we will see as God shows the depth to us of Its work of salvation, in the principle, when it came to rescue to us of this world. I want to dedicate this Biblical study to one loved brother which more ago than ten years I preached in these same lines and that the Gentleman finally has brought to His body, as well as to its husband, who two months ago in his wedding commented wife to us, who never would forget this education. To our Mónica sister and her Renato husband, then, and for its children when they come, as well as it is for us, it serves every Christmas to it to approach the world the beginning of the History of histories, the one of the birth of the King of the Universe, ours loved Gentleman and Salvador Yahshua, more known like Jesus de Nazaret, been born in Bethlehem, according to the prophecy, born in the manger.

THE FIGURES OF THE SPIRITUAL BETHLEHEM

We go to Bethlehem, this time only of step, to register in the census of the sky because Christ has been born in our soul, soon we return to Nazaret, our life, happening before through Egypt, the desert. We finish in Jerusalem to die to our old man in the cross with Christ, our Gentleman and Salvador, to revive with Him.

The virgin Maria symbolizes all soul in which Christ is born for being generated from the Spirit. She, anyone of us, do not consider themselves worthy, and nevertheless fortunate. Not engendramiento has east origin of Jose, who represents our meat, because Christ is born in us by the faith that gives to the Spirit Santo us, and not by our works of the meat, our moral, or our efforts of justice.

Jose, our meat, normally does not use the mind for the things of God, but to rationalize and to explain scientifically as the things work. For that reason he wanted to leave Maria secretly, since, as we would say today: In which head fits the mind of Christ? It is necessary to be born to assimilate again that one must refuse to itself.

Nonsubjects to receive to Christ in your soul, because it is EMANUEL, God with us. Thus it is prophesied that the Christ would be born from a virgin. Isaiah 7:14.

In the manger that imagines every Christmas are in addition the animal, of which emphasize two, the donkey and the ox. Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphally riding backs of a pollino son of asna.

These two animal, in the same way that accompanied to Christ in the manger, accompany to us from our birth; in the day of rest, it will rest your ox, animal that this our mission in the world and Christ, our work throws of the plow, representing, and will rest your ass, animal of load, representing the spiritual load and the responsibility in the life, because no longer you will take your load, but voluntarily you will take your cross; both loads. Whenever we have done as the Gentleman recommends: … You Take my yoke exceeds and learn of me, who I am tame and humble of heart, and will find rest for your souls, ^30porque my yoke is easy and light my load. Mateo 11:29. So that when taking our cross, and our yoke with Christ is being of benefit to those by which the load takes. It sees the study PRIEST.

The visit of the shepherds, and the ewes, are the brothers that shepherd the flock of the Gentleman which there are to visit a new soul in which Christ has been born, to adore to the Gentleman in a new manger, where we see the work that He has done in a person giving him the gift of the faith that causes that it is born again, the major of the miracles, that so many times happens unnoticed. The shepherds must watch at a new soul like a treasure, like a a son of God that has been born and that there is to take care of until it grows spiritually making use of everything what God has given them so that the Church, the flock of the ewes that we are all including a leaders, shepherds and teachers of Scriptures, we are enriched with the conjuncture of a new soul of God.

The visit of the magical or wise kings, as it could not be otherwise symbolizes the recognition of the leaders of the world of which in us there is a wisdom, a love, and a mind superior, which is of God. The knowledge of God is superior to all human science and surprises which sincerely looks for the knowledge and the wisdom, which bring, to the Gentleman in us, gold, incense and mirra: the precious metal symbolizes the king level (… a kingdom of kings and priests for God, Its Father…), the incense symbolizes the unction that has seen in us and with whom we were united to God, and the bitterness of mirra in the persecution of this world when taking the cross of the message of Christ, before an opposite and enemy society of God.

The star that guides the wise people symbolizes that God is God of the Universe, that It is over the creation, because he is Hers. That God is worth of all science to show Its supremacy observes which it, and by this it directs to the world on the feet of His Son Jesus Christ, Who is in us.

BIBLICAL TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES

… The ox knows its owner, and the ass the manger of its gentleman… Isaiah 1:3.

… They, having heard the king, went away; and there am the star here that had seen in the east went in front of them, until arriving, envelope paused where he was the boy. 10Y when seeing the star, rejoiced with very great joy. 11Y when entering the house, saw the boy with their mother Maria, and postrando itself they adored, it; and abriendo its treasures, they offered presents to him: gold, incense and mirra. Mateo 2:9.

… There were shepherds in the same region, who at night guarded and kept the watches on their flock. 9Y I have here, an angel of the Gentleman appeared to them, and the glory of surrounded them to the Gentleman by brilliance; and they had great fear. 10Pero the angel said to them: You do not fear; because there am here I give you new of great joy, that will be for all the town: 11que has been born to you today, in the city of David, a Salvador, who is CHRIST the Gentleman. 12Esto will serve to you as signal: You will find the boy surrounded in diapers, laid down in a manger. 13Y suddenly appeared with the angel a multitude of the celestial followers, that praised God, and said: 14 Gloria to God in the heights, and the Earth peace, good will towards the men! 15Sucedió that when Los Angeles went of them to the sky, the shepherds said to an a others: We happen, then, until Bethlehem, and see this that has happened, and that the Gentleman has declared to us. they 16Vinieron, then, hastily, and found to Maria and Jose, and to the boy laid down in the manger. 17Y when seeing it, presented what it had been said to them about the boy. 18Y all that heard, were marvelled than the shepherds they said to them. 19Pero Maria kept all these things, meditating them in its heart. 20Y returned the shepherds glorifying and praising to God by all the things that had heard and seen, as it had been said to them. Lucas 2.

When a person receives to the Gentleman in her heart, she is born again she transports and us in the time to the situation of the shepherds who kept the watches at night, a symbol of the time of the dark of the history of the humanity until the kingdom of God is restored. Then, those shepherds were visited by the angel and millares of angels who announced the birth to them of the King in a manger, and glorified Their name with spiritual songs. We leave running joy like those shepherds to come to see the Gentleman in a soul, where he finishes being born and we embrace to a new brother in the faith, to a new member of the body of Christ, another manger of where without a doubt many will eat when it begins to give testimony of the faith. We give to glory to God with songs and spiritual hymns making contributor to the new brothers of the precious thing that are their lives for us and for God.

… each of you it does not untie in the day of rest his ox or its ass of the manger takes and it to drink? Lucas 13:15.

The day of rest is the day in which a soul knows the Gentleman. Then she is when it unties his loads, those of the life and the spirituals it takes and them to drink, this is rests the disciple of his projects of life and religion in the Gentleman, putting it everything in His hands so that our soul can drink of the spring of the Spirit, taking his cross, the new load by love of Christ.

… And they put their wheat on their asses, and they went of there. 27Pero abriendo one of them its coat to give to eat to its ass in the inn, saw its money that was in the mouth of its bag. Genesis 42:26.

The ass eats in the inn, in the enclosure of the inn are the mangers, the part of outside, thus took making the men of God by generations, taking its asses and their oxen to the mangers, of here the representation, literal as as much spiritual.

… I daros Jesus have sent my angel for testimony of these things in the churches. I am the root and the lineage of David, the shining star in the morning. 17Y the Spirit and the Wife say: They see. And the one that hears, says: They see. And the one that is thirsty, comes; and the one that wants, takes free of charge from the water of the life. Apocalypse 22:16.

CONCLUSION:

Jesus is born and dies then outside the orthodox place, and this evidence has two approaches. One is because the world and the religion do not accept the truth of God… and the other is because Jesus not house with them, does not consider them worthy of Him…

We are mangers andante, containers of spiritual food that we took to alive Christ so that those that they have the heart abierto to the Truth and the Life, eat and they are born again by the greater gift than a person can receive per Christmas, the faith in the Son of God, and that faith comes to hear the Word of our God, in the Gospel of the Salvation of Jesus Christ. Therefore they make many spiritual gifts and not only per Christmas, although for a soul that is born again, it is Christmas independent of the day of the year in which it knows the Gentleman, spiritually speaking.

I want to ask to him the Gentleman, to the central protagonist of our lives, and more now in Christmas, that yet this that we have shared this Christmas, each of you you are like a manger in which they eat your neighbors and your families, so that we flood of spiritual food the world, so that our Gentleman is the center of attention in the day of their birthday, and the guest of honor in our houses, and that you make with all the family a simple oration that really leaves the heart in which we invite Jesus to sit down to the table in our houses and to bless itself with Its presence. Merry Christmas brother, Merry Christmas Mr. Yahshua, Jesus de Nazaret, born in Bethlehem in the Manger. Amen.

Miqueas 5:2… But you, Bethlehem Efrata, small to be between the families of Judá, you will leave the one to me that will be Sir in Israel; and their exits are from the beginning, from the days of the eternity…