R.C. Sproul

You know, you wonder how long they marveled.

You wondered how long the excitement lasted, the duration of their zeal.

and happiness from their experience, which had to be a converting experience.

Maybe every Christmas they made mention of it.

Not Mary.

Mary kept these things, everything that she saw, everything that she heard,

She kept it and pondered it in her heart.

Eight days later, when she took the child to the temple for circumcision, she pondered that.

When the boy was 12 and confounded the doctors in the temple, she pondered that.

Every night that she tucked her son into bed, she pondered these things and pondered them and pondered them.

That day she stood at the foot of a cross and watched him die.

She pondered that until Sunday morning came.

and He arose, not in humility, not in shame, not in disgrace, but in glory, in triumph, in exultation.

And the shepherds left doing two things, praising God and glorifying Him.

everything they heard, and everything they had seen.

That's the lot of the Christian, to give glory, honor, dominion, power, and praise.

We join the angel saying, worthy is the lamb who was slain.

to receive the fullness of the glory of God.

That's Christmas.

When Elohim is used for Yahweh as a name and title for the God, the plural of majesty is calling attention to the superiority, to the transcendent greatness of the Most High God.