Sermon Tone Analysis

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.

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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.

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

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!

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.

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.”