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 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.   Luke 2.11

There aren’t many words that start with X.

I checked the dictionary, found a few, and couldn’t pronounce most of them because they are words we rarely use.

Then it hit me.

The letter X is an ancient symbol for Christ because it stands for the first letter in the Greek word for Christ,

Χριστός (pronounced “chris-tos”).

R.C. Sproul explains it this way,

Christos is the New Testament Greek for Christ. The first letter of the Greek word is transliterated into our alphabet as an X. That X has come through church history to be a shorthand symbol for the name of Christ.

Luke 2.11 uses three words to describe him, Saviour. . . .Christ. . . .Lord. Each word is vitally important. Saviour is an Old Testament word that means ‘one who delivers his people.’ Christ is the Greek version of the Hebrew word Messiah, which means ‘the anointed One.’ Lord is a term for Deity. It’s a synonym for God.

He is the Saviour, He is the Lord, and He is the Christ, the one sent from God. This is the heart of Christmas. God loved us enough to send His only begotten Son.

X stands for Christ, who is our Saviour and Lord. And that’s what Christmas is all about.

We call you Lord because that is what You are. We call you Saviour because You came to save us from our sins. We call you Christ because all God’s promises are fulfilled in You. Glory to you, Lord Jesus, now and forever, Amen.