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Intro:
Me - I love Christmas.
Nobody does Christmas like the church.
I grew up in church.
Me - I love Christmas.
Nobody does Christmas like the church.
I grew up in church.
Ill - 3rd Grade Bible Teacher - What is the best part of Christmas?
PRESENTS!!!
When my mom came to check me out she pulled her aside… Car ride home.
Mom asked same question.
PRESENTS!!! What should be the best part?
Jesus’ birth.
You know what my favorite part of Christmas is now that I’m 44 yrs old?
PRESENTS!
But they look different now.
I get excited about what the birth of Jesus means to me and the world.
Salvation!
Eternity and earth...
I’ve discovered since then just what Christmas means.
I know that because of Christmas I have amazing gifts from God that I can unwrap daily.
I also have understood that most times I get up and I don’t unwrap His gifts.
When I unwrap Christmas then I experience their benefits.
When I don’t unwrap them dysfunction reveals itself in my life.
I also have understood that most times I get up and I don’t unwrap His gifts.
When I unwrap Christmas then I experience their benefits.
When I don’t unwrap them dysfunction reveals itself in my life.
We - As we look at the coming days of this Christmas season most of us don’t see delight we see dysfunction.
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We love dysfunction in Christmas movies.
Cousin Eddy is hilarious.
When we see it in the people we love we cringe.
When we see it in ourselves we shutter.
So what is your dysfunction?
Can you name it?
Dysfunctions create a Christmas cocktail that is very hard to swallow.
Most of us are not looking forward to Christmas gathering because of the deep dysfunction.
This Christmas will be no different than any other Christmas.
Acceptance and we try to please everyone.
Security and we will control everything.
Significance and we can wait to preform.
These dysfunctions create a Christmas cocktail that is very hard to swallow.
Most of us are not looking forward to Christmas gathering because of the deep dysfunction.
This Christmas will be no different than any other Christmas.
95 percent of people in our society have a strong sense of inadequacy, Inferiority, and insecurity.
- Maxwell Maltz
God - This is not a new problem.
When you look at the biblical account of Christmas we see major dysfunction.
The Christmas story was chaotic.
God sent Jesus to earth at Christmas to be our messiah.
Jesus wasn’t sent to a fancy, formal family but His first coming environment was dysfunctional and dirty.
Jesus family had no money, no name and no influence.
Out of that mess Jesus was going to rise us to be King of Kings.
This story involves a virgin birth.
Can you imagine the looks and the gossip.
The emotions Mary and Joseph had to navigate they were not accepted and experienced rejection from society.
Their lives were completely out of control so security was tough to grasp.
This unwed teenage couple felt very insignificant.
Did you ever notice that the very first visitors to Jesus birth were not family.
Was there absence their dysfunction disapproval?
Who was there?
Shepherds.
Stinky, lowly sheep herders.
The biblical Christmas story was every bit as dysfunctional, chaotic and messed up as our situations.
It was exactly the way God wanted it!
He did this for our benefit because He loves us.
God knew we needed rescued from rejection, control, and insignificance.
Never unwrapping Christmas and it’s message, ensures we will never recover from the mess.
If we don’t use the gift of Christmas to deal with sin, negative patterns pleasing, controlling and performance we will stay in the chaos and mess.
God also knew that we couldn’t rescue ourselves.
That healing and the vicious cycle wouldn’t start with us.
God knew that He had to send Jesus to experience the exact same dysfunction so that we would listen.
John 3:16-
He gave
God gave us a gift to unwrap and that gift rescues and points the way to recovery.
I love Eugene Petterson’s paraphrase...
whole and lasting life
We need to unwrap that God sent Jesus to save, everyone spends forever somewhere, but also to set free.
It’s not more pleasing, controlling and preforming that give us a whole and lasting life.
We long for our world to be made right.
But we don’t experience that desire.
How do we unwrap this message and truly recover from the mess?
Sure God sent Jesus to give you heaven and eternal life BUT he also sent Jesus to save you as you are confronted with chaos at gathering this Christmas season.
Let’s not go through the motions again.
What if we believed Jesus could make our lives whole and functional.
Each week we are going to take one dysfunction and be rescued and recover from the mess.
Unwrapping The Gift Of Security
Ex: Man was secure in the garden.
In their original home was perfection until the enemy lied to them and they turned away from God and His perfect plan.
They were no longer secure in God.
They needed to be rescued and recover from disobedience.
Anxiety entered the world and this huge dysfunctional desire to control and manipulate people and situations started dominating thoughts and actions.
Man stopped having faith in God and started trying to control.
Mess.
Chaos.
We are still dealing with this today.
95 percent of people in our society have a strong sense of inadequacy, Inferiority, and insecurity.
- Maxwell Maltz
Ill - My insecurity (ride to Fruitland with pastor Greg)
The longer I don’t unwrap the gift of security, ensures that I will stay insecure.
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