It is striking that the first text Handel chose following the dramatic events surrounding Messiah's birth was a text that has a close connection to Messiah's triumphal entry to Jerusalem at the beginning of the Passion Week. But Handel chose the part of the text that emphasizes the royalty of the Savior and focuses attention on the mission of Messiah and the way in which the people of God should respond to that mission and the news of it. Messiah brings the salvation of a King, for as Handel paraphrased it, Messiah is a righteous Savior. He is just and having salvation.
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Rev. David Mook is the pioneer pastor of Phoenix Free Presbyterian Church, founded early in 1986. Following his graduation from Bob Jones University in 1974, he joined the faculty in the Division of Speech, continuing there until 1983 when he entered the Free Presbyterian...