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Pastor Mensa Otabil, general supervisor of the International Central Church of the Gospel (ICGC), has urged Christians to remember the poor during Christmas.
He asks them to give to support the poor, especially children in orphanages and those on the streets, as part of efforts to bring them the love of Christ.
Pastor Otabil in his Christmas message wished Ghanaians and Christians around the world a Merry Christmas, saying, “Pastor and Ms. Otabil and the entire family of Christ Temple wish you a Merry Christmas! May the love, joy and peace of Christ always be with you ”.
Pastor Otabil said that Christmas was to mark the incarnation or arrival in the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world.
He said that the birth of Jesus Christ was the greatest birth ever to take place on earth and that nothing could compare to it; stating that all the activities that led up to it were miraculous.
Quoting a hymn, he said: “The hopes and fears of the whole world are fulfilled in you, O little town of Bethlehem.”
Pastor Otabil said that on the day that Christ was born, God had the hopes and fears of humanity and completed it through the birth of His son.
He said that the Lord God chose a girl, Mary, to be the mother, and that she fulfilled the promise that was given in the book of Genesis; the mother’s seed will strike the serpent’s head.
And finally there is the woman who bears the seed and she gives birth to the seed of the woman, which will crush the head of the serpent and with her death the domain of Satan was destroyed.
“It was the beginning of the end of the power of Satan, it finally ended at Easter but this was the beginning; this child was born in a manger in a lonely place. ”
He said that God brought his son into the world in Bethlehem and that there was no place for people to receive him and if the innkeepers only knew who was being born.
The General Superintendent said that Christians could learn many lessons from the birth of Christ and that there were many who had been born homeless during the Christmas seasons and that others had no place to lay their heads and needed to be helped.
He pointed out that the birth of Jesus Christ, although great in its message of salvation, was also very hard and difficult for parents on the day of His birth.
He urged Christians to follow suit of that and “visit someone, give someone, encourage someone, ease someone’s burden, especially young children who are homeless on the streets and in orphanages.”
“This Christmas, may we show you the love of Christ; to your nephews / nieces to your children to the neighborhood children, just do something, not to save the whole world, but do something for a child to let them know that there is a place in your heart for them, “he urged.
—GNA
