The Good News Message (Luke 2:1-20)
Introduction
A MOTHER was having a gathering to celebrate the birth of her newborn son. She invited a bunch of friends over to celebrate his arrival. She welcomed her guests, and they all had a great time celebrating, eating, and drinking.
After a while, one of the ladies said, “Well, bring the baby out. Let us see it.”
The mother went to get the baby from his crib—he was nowhere to be found. She started to panic and feel fearful. Suddenly, she remembered that the baby was still at her parents’ house, where she had left him that morning. She and the guests had been having so much fun they had forgotten what the party was about in the first place. During the Christmas season, many people get busy with celebration and forget that the birth of Jesus Christ is the reason for the season.
God's good news message comes according to his perfect timing.
Christ was revealed to the wise men that were Gentiles by a star, because they were given to stargazing. He was discovered to the shepherds by the apparition of angels. The scribes that were conversant in Scripture, they found it out by searching the Scriptures. God applies Himself to every man’s condition.
God's good news message comes with clarity and spreads to others.
God's good news message results in joy and praise.
IF YOU go to the hospital for an operation, you want your doctor to use sterilized equipment and to be in a sterilized environment because you do not want viruses and bacteria getting in the way of your health. Sin is a spiritual virus that has no place in the sterile environment of God’s holiness.