Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac . I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day . So grab your cup of coffee , sit back , relax and let me help you start your day right . Good morning everybody , Welcome here .
We are just one week before Christmas Eve and to help celebrate that , today , we're going to take a look at one of the oldest Christmas carols , but also one of the most beautiful Christmas carols , One that you all know and probably have sung already in church at least two or three times by now . We know it today as O Come All Ye Faithful .
But when it was written , back in the early 18th century , it was written in Latin , and although it's hard to prove exactly where the song and music came from , most musicologists today agree that the hymn was first associated with an 18th century Catholic layman named John Francis Wade .
He had been born and raised in France , but later was forced to move to England after the failed Jacobite uprising of 1745 . Now , although Wade is given most of the credit for the writing of this hymn , there are some who believe it originated with the Cistercian monks .
They were an order that branched off from the Benedictines and they didn't use musical instruments . And with the song O Come All Ye Faithful , there's a lot of repetition within it , so some believe it might have been the monks . The first English translation of the song came out about 1841 and was translated by an Anglican priest named Frederick Oakley .
Several years later , a Scottish pastor by the name of Robert Menzies reported that the song had rapidly become the fashion in Edinburgh . Apprentice boys whistled it in every street and it was even said that the blackbirds in the square joined in the chorus .
Whatever its background , the song has become immensely popular , and part of the reason of that is that it's very easy to sing . It's not complicated at all , but it has a true sense and essence of worship that comes with it . O come all ye , faithful , joyful and triumphant . O come ye . O come ye to Bethlehem . Come and behold Him born , the King of angels .
O come , let us adore Him . O come , let us adore Him . Let us adore him . Oh come , let us adore him . The call to worship the Son of God , Jesus Christ , who was born in that manger , is the essence of this song .
We are worshiping God for his greatest gift to us , Jesus Christ , the Son of God , born in that manger over 2,000 years ago so that we could have a relationship with God and he could save everyone who put their faith and trust in him .
It is a powerful , beautiful , wonderful song of worship , which is really what Christmas should be about worshiping God and thanking him for the greatest gift ever given , that of Jesus Christ , his Son , given to us . I hope that sometime over the season you'll get the opportunity to sing the song again .
Some of the older songs are sort of fading out of popularity these days , but this song is all about worship , worshiping God , honoring Him , adoring Him , being in awe of Him for sending Jesus Christ to be born in that manger on Christmas morn , so long ago . I'm going to leave you with a little bit different version of the song this morning .
This one's by Danny Gokey , and in his version of the song he doesn't call it O Come All Ye Faithful . He calls it O Come , Let Us Adore Him . I'm going to leave you just a short clip of Danny singing that song and then in your show notes there will be the YouTube link where you can either click on it or copy and paste it .
You can go and watch and listen to the video on YouTube . I hope you have a wonderful day , my friends . Don't let all the busyness of the season take you away from the purpose of the season , and that's to worship and thank God for what he has given to us . Have a great day , my friends . We will talk again tomorrow In the highest .
Oh come , let us adore . Oh , come , let us adore .