My Soul Magnifies The Lord Series

My Soul Magnifies The Lord (The Magnificat)

OKAY – who here like’s Christmas music?

AND IF – you do, when do you start listening to it?

DO – you have a Christmas playlist?

NOW - this week I went on Spotify, and I found their ‘Best Christmas Playlist’ for 2022 (their top 100).

NOW – I have no idea how they complied their list, but I want to see if you can guess the top ten on their list...

OKAY – so I am going to read (or sing, lol, some of the lyrics) and as soon as you know what they song is, shout out the title...

Spotify

Best Christmas Playlist 2022

#10

I wanna wish you a merry Christmas (3 x)

From the bottom of my heart

(Feliz Navidad)

#9

I can see me now on Christmas morning

Creeping down the stairs

Oh, what joy and what surprise

When I open up my eyes

To see my hippo hero standing there

#8

There'll be parties for hosting

Marshmallows for toasting

And caroling out in the snow

There'll be scary ghost stories

And tales of the glories of

Christmases long, long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year

#7

I really can't stay (Baby it's cold outside)

I gotta go away (Baby it's cold outside)

#6

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Jack Frost nipping at your nose

Yuletide carols being sung by a choir

And folks dressed up like Eskimos

(the Christmas Song)

#5

It's the best time of the year

Now I don't know if there'll be snow

But have a cup of cheer

Have a holly jolly Christmas

#4

Don't cry, snowman, not in front of me

Who'll catch your tears if you can't catch me, darling

If you can't catch me, darling

Don't cry, snowman, don't leave me this way

A puddle of water can't hold me close, baby

Can't hold me close, baby

#3

Take a look at the five and ten, it's glistening once again

With candy canes and silver lanes that glow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

#2

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear

Voices singing, let's be jolly

Deck the halls with boughs of holly

Rockin' around the Christmas tree

#1

I don't want a lot for Christmas

There is just one thing I need

I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas is you

OKAY – so that is Spotify’s top ten Christmas songs.

AND – I am sure that you probably have your own top ten or top 100.

On a count of 3... shout out for top 2 Xmas songs

YOU KNOW...

I was thinking this week that of all the holidays that are celebrated, I cannot think of one where songs and music are such a part of it, as they are with Christmas.

LIKE SERIOUSLY...

Could you even imagine celebrating Christmas without music songs... AND – not just those on Spotify’s top 10.

BUT – songs like:

O’ Come All Ye Faithful, Joy to the World,

Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night,

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Away In The Manger, Silent Night...

AND LISTEN – I think that part of the reason for this is that singing songs of praise may be our best response to the mystery of Christmas.

AND – what a crazy mystery it is, right?

I MEAN... seriously think about it.

Immanuel, God with us.

The Word (God) becoming flesh and dwelling among us.

AND UNDERSTAND B/S – if God didn’t do it, if He didn’t reveal it… We would never have thought it up.

I MEAN – why would an…

• All powerful

• Always existing

• All knowing

• All present

• Creator of absolutely everything God

Do what He did…

• Leave all the splendor and glories of heaven

• Put on human flesh... LIKE – how in the world, was the God (who created everything) reduced first to a mere embryo, and then to a 7 pound baby boy... who entered the muck and mire of this fallen and broken world, in order to pull us out.

NO

I don’t get it, I cannot understand why He would do this for fallen, frail, finite creatures like you and me...

But I am beyond... beyond glad that He did!!!

AGAIN – songs are a major part of Christmas, - and not just in recent years, but ever since that first Christmas 2000 years ago.

UNDERSTAND MGCC – when we look at Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus, we find God’s Christmas Playlist.

A playlist that consists of 4 songs.