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Christmas Gifts
I want to turn our thoughts for the next couple of weeks over to Christmas, and the subject of Christmas gift giving.
If you are anything like me, you have been wondering for a while now, what you should get so and so.
They seem to have everything.
They are the hardest person to buy for.
Sometimes I just go through Amazon putting in strange search phrases hoping that something will come up and that will be it.
I can also tell you that the success that I have had from that method is like .001%
But we are going to talk about Christmas Gifts - and more precisely, the greatest Christmas gifts of all.
Those gifts that Our Heavenly Father has given to us through the human birth of his son and our savior, Jesus Christ.
Let’s look at a part of that Nativity Story today.
Jesus came to give us peace.
Why is that so important today?
because
We Live In A World of Worry!
And here we are in the time of celebrating his birth and it becomes the most stressful time of the year.
We are overly busy - it’s a wonder that we can get anything done.
Man how did we shop and get things in time without the internet?
We run around and see the family, go to the parties, and we just never get things done.
The word that I’ve heard so much in the last few weeks in meeting with people and being with people has been “tired”.
We are overextended
In our lives and our time
In our commitments
In our wallets and checkbooks.
Many are hurting
They are alone
They are angry
They are in misery
And yet the angels prophecy about this christ child was that he would being peace and goodwill toward mankind.
Jesus had this to say about worry
I like that.
- “Every day has trouble.
What are you worried about?”
Boy if we could really understand that phrase, how different would our lives be.
When we worry, we allow our minds to focus on the negatives of life that are actually out of the scope of our control
Which one of you can worry yourself taller?
I don’t know what tomorrow holds
So, I can go home and worry about it all night, and lose sleep
or I can trust the God who says that he holds my tomorrows in his hand and trust him to get me through it.
Thats what Jesus is saying here.
And he gives us three reasons about why we shouldn’t worry:
It’s unnatural - the animals don’t worry about having enough
They don’t worry about a place to live.
They trust God.
It’s unhelpful - We waste so much energy worrying about things and nothing changes..
It is unchristian - Because worry is really a lack of faith in God.
It’s taking life into our own hands
It’s putting our faith in other things that are much less than God is
It’s telling God, I can’t take you at your word.
But Jesus’ Christmas Gift is
He Gives us A World of Peace
Peace as our savior
This is what mankind needed.
The problem that ailed mankind was their sin
The thing that brought the worry to mankind was their inability to free themselves from the ailment.
Isn’t that what we worry about today?
Those things that we cannot fix.
Those things that we have no control over.
This savior heals that ailment
This savior fixed that worry.
He was the promised on of God
He was to be the fulfillment of all the prophecies that they looked to
He was going to fix the world by fixing the people that make up the world.
Now some would say, well that was a failure.
Worry and anxiety are some of the key problems of our culture.
And that would be right, because not everyone has excepted this savior into their lives.
He can only help those who seek him.
But Pastor, even Christians still deal with worry.
And again, you would be right, but if you look deeper into the situations of the believers life, you will see that they only worry about the areas of their lives that they don’t completely turn over to him.
Peace as our King
My brothers and sisters, you need a king in your life.
You need something that will rule you, because left to our own devices, how many have found out that we are a little wacked?
Comeon, right?
Now I know that most of us wouldn’t call it a king, but there is something that overides the decisions of our lives
There is something that drives us and makes us who we are.
We react according to it, we love according to it, we treat ourselves and others according to it.
And God originally designed us so that it would be Him
That we would walk and talk and live life according to Him
But mankind rebelled.
Adam and Eve sinned
And now pretty much we all live according to that sin in our lives
We don’t care if it’s killing us, we still do it
We don’t care who gets hurt as long as it isn’t us
We live life pretty much to ourselves.
So see that which drives you as your king
See that which causes you to make decisions as your master today, because you are always going to answer to it.
Who is it this morning?
What is it?
Most important question - Is it Jesus?
And if not, why not?
The angels say, Goodwill toward men.
goodwill = is mankind doing good toward each other.
Watch your news each evening and you will see that we need some more good will in the world
But then watch your news in the evening and you will see that we have some great will toward one another.
But it all comes down to doing what Jesus taught when he said that you need to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
So the King has spoken, Are you listening?
You can’t listen if he’s not your king.
If this 2nd law of life as Jesus taught is not what you live your life by.
If it’s not the driving force of your life, than you will never be involved in the good will of and toward mankind.
So if you want true peace - then accept the King of Peace in your life.
The angels proclamation had a requirement to it, didn’t it.
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