Christmas Devotional

The Christian should resemble a fruit tree, not a Christmas tree! For the gaudy decorations of a Christmas tree are only tied on, whereas fruit grows on a fruit tree.

John Robert Walmsley Stott (English Preacher)

I. In the Fullness of Time

Thesis: Jesus came at a strategic point in human history

Galatians 4:4–5 CSB

When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Sub-point 1: God sent his Son.

Sub-point 2: In the fullness of Time.

Illustration:

Questions: Do you see what I see?

II. In the Fullness of Grace

Thesis: Jesus came as the perfect manifestation of God’s grace

John 1:14–16 CSB

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John testified concerning him and exclaimed, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”) Indeed, we have all received grace upon grace from his fullness,

Sub-point 1

Sub-point 2

Question: Do you hear what I hear?

III. In the Fullness of Time, God will Unite all things in Christ

Ephesians 1:10 CSB

as a plan for the right time—to bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth in him.

Illustration: