{"id":2309,"date":"2022-12-13T01:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2022-12-12T23:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T23:19:45","slug":"celebrate-his-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/celebrate-his-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate His Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday,\u00a0December 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Celebrate His Birth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.\u00a0<\/em><strong>Luke 2:11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Jesus died on the cross \u2019the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom\u2019 (Mark 15:38). This allowed access for everyone \u2013 this includes us and not just the high priest \u2013 into the Holy of Holies, the very Presence of God. Sinful man, through the death of the Savior, would now be free to approach God directly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why His birth \u2013 the birth of the Savior is celebrated. A new life would become available to all. Celebrating the birth of Jesus reminds the world of a wonderful opportunity to come to know the reality of the presence of God. Life can be enjoyed to the full, with hope and confidence for the future, by a direct relationship with Him through the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soon Jesus would declare, \u201c<em>I am the resurrection and the life<\/em>.\u201d New birth would take place \u2013 born again by the Spirit of God. \u2018<em>The old is gone, the new has come<\/em>\u2019 (2 Corinthians 5:17). As Jesus would say to Nicodemus: \u201c<em>You must be born again<\/em>\u201d (John 3:7). Restoring the most important relationship to mankind. A unique bonding that is stronger than any human friendship. This is communion with God Himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday,\u00a0December 13 Celebrate His Birth For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.\u00a0Luke 2:11 When Jesus died on the cross \u2019the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom\u2019 (Mark 15:38). This allowed access for everyone \u2013 this includes us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}