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Introduction
No Christ = No Christmas
This is the time of year that our world looks at the Coming of Jesus to the earth more than any other time.
-he came as a baby but he was the Son of God
-for the Bible says: The HG or the Spirit of God is the one that impregnated or overshadowed Mary
impregnanted or overshadowed Mary
-he looked and acted like a normal child but he was the Son of Man
-he got his human body from the genes of his mother Mary
Lk. 19:10 sums up the entire Christmas story in one sentence.
The reason why God wrapped himself in flesh and came to this earth was “to seek and save the lost”
We don’t know how much he weighed that day but if he was around 7 lbs, you could say he was “7 lbs of salvation.”
He was a 7 lb Messiah
Not very big but he took on the biggest job ever assigned to a human being in history of mankind.
He had the responsibility to redeem me and you.
“ “ “ “ to purchase our salvation with his own life.
Its hard for us to comprehend the complete picture of the Incarnation of God
Incarnation—that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person, became man.
Christ is both God and man.
Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he of whom they are predicated is God.
A Divine Person was united to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom.
8:32; 1 Cor.
2:8; Heb.
2:11–14; 1 Tim.
3:16; Gal.
4:4, etc.).
The union is hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed or confounded, and it is perpetual.
Easton, M. G. (1893).
In Illustrated Bible Dictionary and Treasury of Biblical History, Biography, Geography, Doctrine, and Literature (p.
344).
Harper & Brothers.
We don’t fully grasp the whole meaning because we have nothing to compare it to.
God had never done this before!
John 4:24 tells us God is a Spirit!
And this Spirit decided to come to earth as a man and I Tim.
3:16 tells us:
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
The Apostle John tried to help us understand what God did in the manger in
Jesus Christ the eternal God and creator of this world became flesh for one reason: to save our souls!
God Almighty , mixed his divine nature with human nature to become the sacrifice for our sins… he paid the price for my soul!
Friends!
W/O Jesus Christ, there would be no Christmas!
This time of the year would be just like any other time of the year.
-just another month of the yr; just another day on the calendar
There would be no special programs or breakfasts
There would be no lights on houses or decorated trees
There would be no wrapped presents under the tree or manger scenes in our living rooms.
W/O Christ there would be no “eggnog” or caroling from house to house.
W/O Christ, Dec. 25th would be just like March 15th or Aug. 12th, nothing special to most people!
I realize Jesus was not born on Dec. 25th, it was more than likely in late Sept or early October but Dec. 25th is a unique day in our hearts because we remember, he was born for our sakes.
He was born for our salvation.
He came to “seek and to save the lost” of this earth.
There would have been no Acts 4:12 if God had not come in the flesh for our salvation.
-W/O Christ, we’d just be born, live for awhile and then die
-it would all be over with, possibly no eternity
-no hope, no mansions in glory, no eternal rewards
But because of Jesus Christ, I have the chance to be saved.
I have the opportunity to spend eternity with him.
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Charles Wesley would have never penned the words to “Hark, the Herald Angel sing” w/O Christ.
“O Little town of Bethlehem” or “The First Noel” would be meaningless.
O Come ye Faithful and Joy to the World wouldn’t make any sense.
How can we sing about “Away in the manger” if there was no baby?
Certainly songs like “Silent Night” or “When we all get to Heaven” would have never been written w/o Jesus Christ being born.
W/O Christ, we have no salvation!
“ “ “ “ no hope of glory!
“ “ “ “ no reason to celebrate!
Just think!
If you took the name of Jesus out of the Bible and the story of the Incarnation out of the Word of God, what would you have left?
Nice stories, some history and some words of encouragement
But it would read like any other novel
God wrapping himself in flesh and coming as a babe in the manger for our salvation makes the Bible different than any other book written.
The Word washed me when I read or heard it
The Word gives me strength and direction
The Word tells me how to overcome sin and how to be saved
But W/O Jesus, it couldn’t do that!
W/O Jesus= we have nothing worthwhile!
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It got my attention when there has been a systematic effort to remove the word “Christ” out of our vocabulary this year.
President Biden couldn’t even be bothered to mention Jesus this year.
They made us stop praying publicly in our schools an few years ago, and now in many places, you can maybe pray, but you can’t mention the name of Jesus.
-you have to pray generic prayers about God or Lord but you can’t mention Jesus Christ!
As I heard someone say: When you are praying, you are talking to someone.
You have to say “Jesus” or you aren’t praying to anybody!
-just talking to the wind
The world wants us to say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.
The world advertises “get your holiday trees” and your “holiday lights” instead of Christmas Tress or Christmas lights.
They want to remove Jesus Christ out of our hearts and minds and make this time of the year just like any other time.
The very word “Christian” means to be Christ-like
W/O Christ, there would be no Christians!
-we would all just be sinners!
Paul writes the church in Ephesus and he describes what we would be like W/o Christ.
Eph.2:2-4 ,12
But because God did come and was born as a man on this earth, we can read vs.13,14, 19
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
W/O Jesus Christ we’d just live in houses but W/Christ we are part of the household of God.
-what a difference Jesus makes!
W/o Christ= No salvation
“ “ No hope of Glory!
“ “ No peace, no joy, no rejoicing.
“ “ No celebration or healing
“ “ No deliverance from addictions and carnal spirits
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