No Room for Jesus

Isaiah 53:3 NKJV

3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Introduction

We have a problem when we have no room for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now there was no room for the Lord Jesus, the Bible tells us clearly and plainly in Luke 2:7: “There was no room for [Him] in the inn.”(Luke 2:7)

And ever since that time, this world has had no room for the Lord Jesus. It was not by chance that there was no room for Him in the inn. Although humans were involved in it, the providence of God saw to it that there was no room for Him in the inn, because it pictures and typifies something that all of us need to learn: it shadowed and foreshadowed - a lifelong rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Isaiah prophesied of the Lord Jesus Christ in Isaiah 53:3—and this is what Isaiah had to say about the coming King of kings and Lord of lords: “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”(Isaiah 53:3)

What was Isaiah saying? Isaiah was saying what we found when Jesus found no room in the inn: that Jesus Christ has been and will always be upon this earth, until He comes as King of kings and Lord and lords, despised and rejected. There’s no room for Him.

The Lord Jesus was born in a barn, in a smelly stable. The Lord Jesus, when He died, was not even allowed to die inside the city of Jerusalem; He had to die outside the city out on a garbage heap. He was crucified between two thieves. And when He was buried, He was buried in a borrowed tomb. He came into this world a naked baby and He died a naked man. Now, don’t get the idea in your head that since that time this world has become more cultured and there’s more room for the Lord Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, you will find in America today there is more antipathy and more hatred of Christ than perhaps ever before in the history of this nation. And this vile world that crucified the Lord Jesus Christ the first time still has the same proclivities in it that would crucify Him again, if it could.

I. No Room for Jesus in Government

There’s no room for the Lord Jesus in the governments of this world. The United States of America is very careful today to let it be known that we really don’t have room for the Lord Jesus in our governmental affairs.

And the governments of this world have not changed. Psalm 2:2–3 say this: “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”(Psalm 2:2–3) There is no room for the Lord Jesus Christ in the governments of this world—no room for Him!

II. No Room for Jesus in Education

There’s no room for the Lord Jesus in the great institutions of higher learning. And it breaks my heart to say this, but in our schools—and now, God help us, even in the high school and grade schools—there’s room for evolution, there’s room for humanism, there is room for Bible criticism, there is room for blasphemy, there is room for liberalism, there is room for post modernism thought, but there is no room for the Lord Jesus Christ. A

Now I know that we cannot turn our classrooms and public schools into Sunday School classes; but if you’ll go back and read the history of this nation, you’ll find out that America was founded and built on a Judeo-Christian ethic and that the early founders of our nation were not ashamed to speak of the Lord Jesus Christ. I’m amazed and appalled today that there are some who would not want a coach to lead a team in prayer or to speak of the Lord Jesus Christ. Where is our freedom of speech? And where is our right and freedom of religion? And godly people seem to have their hands tied.

Now we want education, but we don’t want Christ. And I want to tell you that all education without a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ is but splendid ignorance. And you educate people without Christ, and what you educate is a clever devil. There is a devilish wisdom that permeates all of society because people do not know the Lord Jesus Christ.

III. No Room for Jesus in Religion

There’s no room for the Lord Jesus Christ, believe it or not, in much of the religion of this world including what is referred to as Christianity in America today. Did you know that there’s a lot of sentimental talk, and a lot of religious jargon, but really no room for the Lord Jesus Christ? NO TRUE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST, NO SURRENDER, NO SERVICE, NO DESIRE TO KNOW AND WALK WITH GOD.

Matthew 7:13–14 NKJV

13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Matthew 7:21–23 NKJV

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

One of the saddest things in all of the Bible is Revelation 3:20

Revelation 3:20 NKJV

20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

2 Timothy 3:1–5 NKJV

1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

How sad to think that the Lord Jesus is excluded and left outside the door and we do not truly make room for Him! There’s no room for the Lord Jesus Christ in the many cults that are springing up across America.

IV. No Room for Jesus at Christmas

The sad thing is that there’s no room for the Lord Jesus Christ even in Christmas celebrations. How many people will really honor the King of kings this Christmas?

Now, what is going to prevail this Christmas? Do you know what will happen in the average church? There will be a letdown in attendance. There will be a diminishing of offerings, and evangelism will hit the bottom in the Christmas season. I mean, Christ Himself—there will be no room for Him in Christmas.

Now as I said before, that doesn’t mean that people will not get excited about the sweet little Jesus boy, and the baby in the manger, and all of that. People don’t mind having a nativity scene; the giddy crowd doesn’t worry about a nativity scene. As I said before, anybody can be sentimental about a baby. But they don’t understand the cross and the crown. But they don’t understand that Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings. And that same crowd with tears in their eyes singing “Silent night, holy night” will be in a drunken brawl and orgy to bring in the New Year. How sad it is when we move that quickly in one week—from Bethlehem to Babel just in a week!

There’s no room for the Lord Jesus Christ. No room for Christ in the governments of this world. No room for Christ in the institutions of higher learning. No room for Christ in the liberal churches of this world. No room for the Lord Jesus Christ even in the celebration of His birth. Do you know who the heroes of Christmas are today? Tiny Tim. Rudolph. Some jolly old red-nosed fictitious character named Santa. As a matter of fact, you can take the same letters in Santa and just rearrange them a little bit and spell “Satan.” It’s an amazement. I’m not saying that Santa is Satan, but I’m saying what a shame that so many of our children are deceived and hoodwinked and they don’t know about Bethlehem’s babe, the virgin-born Son of God. He’s left out. The Lord Jesus Christ is left out of this celebration of Christmas. And what a shame it’s going to be!

V. No room for Jesus in our Families

Focus on work, play, entertainment, ball games, children’s events, etc… and take us all our time… NO ROOM FOR JESUS

What is this teaching our children? What is it showing them?—— a false assurance that we can have no room for Jesus but still be “Christians”—— this is a lie from hell and is leading out children and families to destruction and eternal damnation!

VI. No Room for Jesus in our daily life

How much time do we spend during our day focusing on the things of God, working to advance His kingdom (not our own)? What consumes our thoughts, or talk, our hearts?

Conclusion

Now if you want the Lord Jesus this Christmas season, you may have Him. And if you’re tired of all of the hustle and bustle, all of the noise and clamor, the jingle of the cash register bells, and all of that, let me tell you where you’re going to find the Lord Jesus: you’ll find Him where you’ll always find Him—outside, excluded, in the manger. Now you’ve got to come out of the inn to find Jesus. The inn will be crowded. But you won’t find Him there. If you want to find the Lord Jesus, come out of the inn and go out to the barn, out to the stable, look in the manger, and there you’ll find the Lord Jesus Christ. You say, “Must I do that?” Well, that’s not so bad; that’s good—because I want to say that His presence is going to change that barn to a palace, and that manger will become a throne. You see, if you want to find Jesus this Christmas season, don’t ask the crowd. “He is despised and rejected of men.”(Isaiah 53:3) They don’t know where to find Him.

But here’s where you’ll find Him.

Hebrews 13:12–14 NKJV

12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.

That is, out of the city, out there on the garbage heap—that’s where Jesus suffered.

You say, “Well, what does that have to do with me?” He suffered on the outside. There was no room for the Lord Jesus; no room in the city of Jerusalem. He died out there on the garbage heap, in the graveyard, between two thieves. And the Bible says, “Now, let’s go on out there with Him. Let’s be—“bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.”(Hebrews 13:12–14)

There’s no room for the Lord Jesus in the affairs of this world. If this world had no room for Jesus, I have no room for this world.

A worldly Christian is a contradiction in terms. You might as well speak of a “heavenly devil.”

The Bible says that we’re to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”(Ephesians 5:11)

I want to tell you, this world is against our Lord and His Christ. And if you think that you can have Christ with one hand and the world with the other hand, you don’t know the Bible. Listen again to what the Bible says: “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.”

His day is coming. When He comes again, He’s not going to come as a little baby. When He comes again, He’s coming as King of kings and Lords of lords with those nail-pierced feet that will touch that Mount of Olives. And when He does, it will split in two, and Christ will reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. I’m going outside the gate with Him. No room for Him in the inn. There’s room—plenty of room—out in the barn. He’ll turn that barn to a palace and that manger to a throne.