The King's 2025 Xmas message

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The King began the talk by speaking about praying with the Pope as a historic moment of spiritual unity. Now, Charles is the nominal Head of the Church of England. The Church of England broke with the Church of Rome about 500 years ago. And since that time, there has never been a time when the Head of the Church of England has prayed with the Pope of Rome. This was the first time it has happened. So, this was a real ‘first’ in bringing together these two churches which would be a good thing, wouldn’t it? Bring them together. Would it be a good thing? No, it wouldn’t be a good thing, would it?  #churchofengland #faith #jesus #kingschristmasmessage #lightforthelastdaysmagazine #Messiah #salvation  https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/bible-teachings/the-kings-2025-xmas-message/

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00:00Okay, they weren't the only ones. King Charles gave a Christmas message.

00:04Anyone hear King Charles' Christmas message?

00:06Yeah, okay.

00:08Right, well, yeah.

00:11Positively, he did describe Jesus as the Saviour of the world.

00:15He also said that we need for peace and reconciliation, which we do.

00:19Negatively, the question was, save us from what?

00:24There was no idea of how to find peace and reconciliation with God

00:27and what the birth, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus is really all about.

00:33He's the Saviour, but what's he saving us from?

00:36And if you don't understand that, then the message is a bit empty.

00:40He began the talk by speaking about praying with the Pope

00:43as a historic moment of spiritual unity.

00:47Now, Charles is actually the nominal head of the Church of England.

00:50Church of England broke with the Church of Rome about 500 years ago,

00:53and since that time, there's never been a time when the head of the Church of England

00:57has prayed with the Pope of Rome.

00:59This was the first time this happened,

01:01so this was a real first in bringing together these two churches,

01:05which would be a good thing, wouldn't it?

01:06Bring them two together.

01:08Would it be a good thing?

01:10No, it wouldn't be a good thing, would it?

01:12Problem is that the Church of England, although it has its faults,

01:15and there are many of them, especially today,

01:18if you look at its foundation,

01:19you find that the 39 articles of the Church of England

01:22are mostly scriptural and biblical,

01:24founded on Protestant principles.

01:28Salvation through faith in Christ alone,

01:29by grace alone, through scripture alone,

01:32all things were denied by the Church of Rome.

01:35The Church of Rome has erected a work system

01:37which really denies the gospel

01:39and also elevates Mary to redemptive status,

01:44so you can pray to Mary to forgive your sins.

01:47Ask Mary, Hail Mary, full of grace,

01:49to forgive us and to bring us right with God.

01:52Well, Mary can't do that.

01:53Mary's in heaven because she is saved,

01:55she's believed in God as saviour,

01:57but she's not a mediator.

01:58We can't approach God as a mediator,

02:00and the Roman Catholic Church has actually put Mary

02:03in a place alongside Jesus as a mediator,

02:05which is a denial of the truth,

02:07because Jesus is the one way to God,

02:09and he's the only one who can bring us

02:11into a relationship with God.

02:14So basically, Charles praying with the Pope

02:17was not a spiritual unity in the gospel,

02:19it was a unity in the dark,

02:21and we need to have a unity in the truth,

02:24which is that you should call his name Yeshua,

02:27for he will save his people from their sins,

02:29and there was nothing about saving us from our sins.

02:32He spoke about a journey of faith

02:34through which people coming to Jesus,

02:36i.e. the wise men and the shepherds,

02:38he said, face physical and mental challenge,

02:41and they found inner strength to overcome it.

02:44Again, that's an interesting statement,

02:46but if you look at what Jesus is actually offering us,

02:48he's not offering us inner strength

02:50to overcome our challenges.

02:52He's offering us a new birth,

02:54and strength coming not from ourselves,

02:56but from outside by the Holy Spirit,

02:59coming into our lives,

03:00and giving us the strength to follow God.

03:02If you look for strength within ourselves,

03:03that's the kind of idea you have in yoga,

03:05and also in humanism,

03:06that you find that man has his own salvation,

03:10and if you look within yourselves,

03:12as Paul says,

03:13I know that in myself, in my own flesh,

03:16there dwells no good thing.

03:18So we need to be set free from ourselves

03:19to be set free to have God coming to us from outside,

03:23and that's why Jesus came to save us

03:25from ourselves, from our sins,

03:27to give us new life in Jesus.

03:30He also went on to speak about

03:31the great diversity of our communities

03:33through which we can find the strength

03:34to ensure that right triumphs over wrong.

03:36Okay, so the diversity of our communities

03:40gives us the strength

03:41so that right will triumph over wrong.

03:43Is that true?

03:45You're all shaking your heads.

03:46I don't think you're a believer in our King.

03:50Well, hopefully in our King Jesus,

03:51but not King Charles.

03:53Okay, yeah, well,

03:55in fact, there's no reason why diversity in itself

03:59should help in right triumphing over wrong.

04:03For right to triumph over wrong,

04:04we need to have faith in action

04:06which comes through faith in God

04:08who gives us the knowledge of good and evil,

04:11which is to be found in the words of the Bible.

04:14We need biblical truth and morality

04:15founded in God's commands,

04:18not the relative values of diversity and humanism.

04:21And if you look behind the message,

04:23which comes out of a lot of the church,

04:25actually, as well as what Charles was saying,

04:27there's a message that somehow through humanism,

04:29through our own strength,

04:30we're going to find the way to overcome.

04:32The Bible says we're not.

04:34We need the strength which comes from outside of us

04:35through faith in Jesus.

04:39He went on to say,

04:40it seems to me that we need to cherish

04:41the values of compassion and reconciliation,

04:43the way our Lord lived and died.

04:45As I meet with people of different faiths,

04:47I find it enormously encouraging

04:49to hear how much we have in common,

04:51a shared longing for peace

04:52and a deep respect for all life.

04:54If we can find time in our journey through life

04:57to think on these things,

04:58we can all make the future more hopeful.

05:00Okay, well, compassion and reconciliation

05:04are very important values.

05:05They're important to us.

05:06We should have compassion on all people.

05:09For God so loved the world

05:10that he gave his only begotten son

05:11that whoever believes in him

05:12should not perish but have everlasting life.

05:15That includes everybody.

05:16It includes the people inside

05:17and the people outside the world.

05:19We should have love and compassion for them.

05:22We should seek to live in harmony

05:23and reconciliation with all people,

05:25whether they believe what we believe or not.

05:27God, we should not be the ones

05:29who try to make trouble and division

05:30and strife in our society.

05:33But the purpose of the Lord coming

05:34and his life and death

05:36was to bring us reconciliation with God.

05:40First of all, you've got to put the reconciliation

05:42right on the vertical

05:44before you get it right on the horizontal.

05:46And there was no message of that at all

05:48in what Charles has said

05:50and what a lot of the church says

05:51at this time of year.

05:53You need to have repentance from sin

05:55and a new birth through faith in Jesus Christ.

05:59And diversity does not bring this about.

06:02In fact, diversity ultimately

06:04actually begins division in society.

06:07People are divided by language,

06:09by culture, by religion.

06:11And also it means that diverse religions,

06:13different religions,

06:14are considered to be equal in value

06:16to each other.

06:18And this is where the real problem comes

06:19as far as if you're a Bible believer

06:21is concerned.

06:23You can have love in your heart

06:24for unbelievers,

06:25whether they're Muslims or Hindus

06:27or nominal Christians

06:28or atheists,

06:30but you don't put their beliefs

06:31on the same level as what we believe.

06:33And that's what they're asking us to do.

06:35That's what Charles is actually asking us to do.

06:37To say that all these religions

06:38have got something in common,

06:39they're all seeking for peace,

06:40they're all seeking for reconciliation,

06:42and they've all got something to give us

06:43to offer on this subject.

06:46Jesus said,

06:46I'm the way, the truth, and the life.

06:47No one comes to the Father

06:48except through me.

06:51There's one God,

06:51one mediator between God and humanity,

06:54Jesus Christ.

06:55And if you try and move that around,

06:58you've actually lost

06:58the very heart of the Gospel.

07:00And that's what came across

07:01in what Charles was saying.

07:05And he spoke about

07:06people of different faiths

07:07longing for peace,

07:08showing respect for others.

07:09Yeah.

07:10I'm sure there are people

07:11of other faiths

07:12who are sincere.

07:13I'm not saying they're all

07:14bad people by any means.

07:18And people can be good people,

07:20according to whatever religion

07:21they're good in worldly terms.

07:24No one's good enough for God,

07:25but they can be better than others.

07:28And some people can live

07:29according to good principles,

07:30which they've picked up

07:31from their religions.

07:33But they can't have salvation,

07:34and that's the important thing.

07:36The important thing is that

07:37God didn't actually send Jesus

07:38into the world

07:38to try and make us

07:39to be slightly better people

07:41than we were before.

07:42He came into the world

07:42to give us salvation.

07:45And salvation is only available

07:46through Jesus Christ.

07:48And if you take that away,

07:49then you can have a sort of measure

07:51of human goodness,

07:52but you can't have

07:52what God requires.

07:55And you can't have the life

07:56which God requires,

07:57but it can only come

07:58through the Holy Spirit.

08:00And without Jesus,

08:01you can't find true peace with God,

08:03and you can't find salvation.

08:06Because as we read in Matthew's Gospel,

08:08you should call his name Yeshua,

08:10salvation,

08:11for he will save his people

08:12from their sins.

08:13Amen.

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