Endless Hope and Relentless Joy Started With a Baby Boy

BEHIND THE Vocal WITH KEVIN DAVIS

#475 - "Infant Male child" by for Rex & COUNTRY

Luke Smallbone talks about this hit, original Christmas song, and the lyrical and spiritual inspiration behind it.

Recently, Dove Honour-winning New Creative person of the Year for KING & Country released their beginning new music in well-nigh two years, their Christmas anthology Into the Silent Night. The album features the Christmas classics "Angels We Have Heard On High" and "Little Drummer Male child" along with the original songs, "Into the Silent Night" and studio and live recordings of their song "Baby Boy."

What's especially notable near Joel and Luke'due south collection of songs is that only like Christmas by their big sister, Rebecca St. James, they have recorded songs that are all Christ-centered and recognize the holiness and reverence of this joyous season.

Whether you are a follower of Jesus or just someone who enjoys good music, this album will government minister to your soul, lift your spirit and most importantly focus your attention on Christ. I had the adventure to speak with Luke virtually "Infant Boy."

Please tell me virtually the background message behind the song.

What'due south weird near writing a Christmas vocal is that you typically write them in the summertime. You have to go them fix to tape in time for Christmas. Nosotros wrote this vocal in June of last year, and both Joel and I didn't know what to expect. I came in with the idea of an "Alleluia" chorus and didn't know where it would become from there. As we talked about information technology in the room nosotros discussed how the war was won by a baby boy, and how counterintuitive that is, and how true information technology is. Jesus saved us all and came to the world as a infant. It'south the outset Christmas vocal nosotros've written. Never since take we written a song that speedily. I think it was on the tip of our tongues and was very real and raw and we were very thankful for this song. It is very special for u.s.a..

Which Bible verses connect to the bulletin of the song?

Luke 2:7-fourteen (NKJV): And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Now there were in the same land shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock past nighttime. And behold, an affections of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone effectually them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you skillful tidings of slap-up joy which volition exist to all people. For at that place is born to yous this day in the urban center of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this volition be the sign to you: Yous will find a Infant wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger." And suddenly in that location was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

Revelation 19:1 (NKJV): After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and ability belong to the Lord our God!"

What's the takeaway message for listeners well-nigh the song?

I remember that when it comes to Christmas, nosotros need to remember well. We demand to think truly what Jesus came to exercise, who He was, and who He is. I think sometimes we forget that a picayune bit. We forget who He really was. We encounter the mangers and all that and forget how He came. He came as a fiddling boy and in the most humble and simple style, and the nearly extraordinary way all at the same time. Really, nosotros've never seen annihilation like that.

Nobody who is a King comes and so humbly. That's incredible. We demand to call up Him well, and think who He was and who He is and not just what makes u.s.a. experience good or what lodge or the media tells us about Christmas. In writing a Christmas song, we wrote the aforementioned type of song we'd otherwise write, but used Christmas phrases and paint that picture, just the melodies are more than of what we know and how nosotros write. We perform this vocal all twelvemonth long, and we say this is one matter we should never forget. Nosotros should never forget the birth of our Savior.

Lyrics:

If you told me all about your sorrows
I'd tell you 'bout a cure
If you told me you can't fight the battle
There's a babe boy who won the state of war
The war was won past a babe male child

Alleluia
We can sing it
Alleluia
Heaven's ringing
Alleluia
Endless hope, relentless joy
Started with a baby boy

Oh before that silent night
No savior and no Jesus Christ
The world cried out so desperately
And a infant male child was the answer
Yes, heaven's reply was a baby boy

Alleluia
We can sing it
Alleluia
Heaven'due south ringing
Alleluia
Countless promise, relentless joy
Started with a baby male child

See the King is coming down
And He's hither without a crown
The baby boy without a bed
Giving life back to the dead

Hear the angels shout information technology out
As the people come and bow
Unexpected majesty
Alleluia, what a male monarch

Alleluia
We can sing it
Alleluia
Heaven's ringing
Alleluia
Endless hope, relentless joy
Started with a baby boy

I am moved every fourth dimension I read the Gospel account in Luke of the angels singing "Celebrity to God in the Highest, And on globe peace, goodwill toward men!" This song perfectly captures that celebratory revering of Jesus. What's amazing is that considering of how humbly Jesus came to earth, people didn't recognize Him. As the song says, "Encounter the King is coming downward / and He's hither without a crown / the baby boy without a bed / giving life back to the dead."

We should never forget that Jesus was born in a stable, probably a cave, with animals, and his parents were running for their lives. In that location are still billions of people on earth that don't know Jesus as their Rex. Ane twenty-four hours He will rule the new heavens and the new world, and every knee will bow, and every natural language will confess that He is Lord.

The earth is still crying out badly for a Savior, and our job every bit followers of Jesus is to tell the world that He came, He lived a perfect, sinless life, He died for our sins, and He is risen! That's cause to celebrate and sing out loudly, "Alleluia / we tin can sing it / Alleluia / Heaven's ringing / Alleluia / Endless hope, relentless joy / Started with a baby boy." Amen to that!

(Check out the lyric video.)

NRT Lead Contributor Kevin Davis is a longtime fan of Christian music, an avid music collector and credits the bulletin of Christian music for leading him to Christ. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three daughters.

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