altogether lovely

Bible Reading

Song of

Solomon5.10-16

My Beloved is bright and ruddy,

standing out among ten thousand.

His head is like refined gold; His locks are

bushy, black as a raven.

His eyes are as doves' eyes on

the rivers of waters, washed with milk, sitting

on a setting.

His cheeks are like a bed of

spices, a raised bed of aromatic

herbs.

His lips are as

lilies dropping

flowing myrrh.

His hands are like rings of

gold filled with jewels;

His body an ivory plate

overlaid with sapphires.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold;

His face is like Lebanon,

excellent as the cedars.

His mouth is most sweet;

Yes, He is altogether

lovely.

Here ends the Bible Reading.

All of us look beautiful.

At least from one angle.

Jesus is

Altogether

Lovely.

Holy Bible says

three things

about JESUS

1. He knew no sin.

2. He did no sin.

3. In Him was no sin.

John 8:46 Which of you convicts Me of sin?

John 19.6 Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in him.

As we celebrate Christmas,

let’s remember that the CRADLE is

meaningless without the CROSS.

Jesus is Altogether

Lovely.

I am Altogether

Filthy.

In order to make me beautiful,

He chose to become

ugly.

See what Isaiah, a prophet, who lived 700 years before

Jesus was born, said

about JESUS…

He has no form nor majesty that we

should see Him…

…there is no beauty

that we should desire Him…

He is despised and rejected of men;

A Man of sorrows…

…and acquainted with grief;

Many people were shocked when they saw

Jesus.

Jesus was so disfigured that He hardly looked human. - Isaiah 52.14

This Jesus is

altogether

lovely.

He wants to make all of us

altogether lovely.

Col 1:21,22And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to

present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in

his sight:

Jude 24,25Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present

you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

To the only wise God our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ be glory and majesty, dominion and power,

both now and ever. Amen.

Psalm 149:4

Jesus takes pleasure in his people: he will

beautify the meek with salvation.

Now the important question is this:

Is He altogether lovely to you?