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Christmas Gifts
We are in our Christmas series for this year and what I want to do is talk about Christmas gifts.
Proposing to Miss Kimmie
Ring in a box, in a box, in a box
heart pumping as she opened each one.
the gift that changed my life and hers as well.
It was the gift that changed our lives together.
We always look for the perfect gift.
The gift that will change lives, because it brings joy to someone, it makes their life easier, it treats them to something that they normally wouldn’t have.
or as in our situation, it was something bigger than us.
That’s the type of Gifts that our Heavenly Father has given us through the fleshly, human birth of his son Jesus.
We said two weeks ago that Jesus came to give us peace.
Peace in this chaotic world
Peace from this chaotic world
That we receive peace when we receive him as our savior - and heals us from what really ails us
That we receive peace when we allow him to be King in our lives - As he rules in our hearts, our hearts and lives line up with what he created us for and to do.
That this peace will bring peace between us and God
and then between us and man
That we would have as the angels had prophecied - Good will toward each other.
But we closed with the thought that we have to seek this king
The shepherds had to go look for the child that was spoken of, and when they did, things in them had changed
Why?
Because they searched for and found, in the midst of a chaotic world, the promised prince of peace.
Turn with me to
One of the Greatest Gifts that Jesus has given to us is
The Gift of Healing
Here Malachi prophecies about the Sun of Righteousness arising with healing in his wings.
And the effect it would have upon God’s people.
That word S-U-N is a metaphor for the SON of righteousness, this prince of peace and messiah whose birth we are celebrating this week.
So we see that this promised messiah would have healing in his wings.
What are wings?
We know that Jesus does cry over the city of Jerusalem saying if you had only let me take you under my wings as a mother hen does to her children.
But that’s not what this is referring to.
Talk about the Tallit (prayer shawl)
It could be that the hem of his garment that this woman touched by faith was actually the wings of his tallit.
And if it wasn’t, it doesn’t change the fact that this Christmas Baby was born with the ability to heal us.
And to do that in several ways.
We already spoke about his ability as savior to heal what ails us - that being our sinful nature.
We just looked at how he heals us physically.
What he did for the woman with the issue of blood, he will do for every one of us.
We know that he heals us spiritually and emotionally.
There could be many testimonies of this today.
But what I want to take some time to look at today is how Jesus just heals us from every day life.
I believe that it’s important that we see that Christmas can have an effect on life in general today.
And it does.
But Jesus came to give us....
Healing in Life
Here are some accident reports made on actual insurance claims.
Leaving home for work I drove out of my drive and straight into a bus; the bus was five minutes early.
I was driving my car out of the driveway in the usual manner, when it was struck by the other car in the same place it had been struck several times before.
I had been learning to drive with power steering.
I turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a different direction going the opposite way.
One wheel went into the ditch.
My foot jumped from the accelerator pedal, leapt across the lane to the other side and jammed in the trunk of a tree.
I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident.
I was knocked out as a result of the collision and was taken to hospital where I sustained serious injuries.
Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and struck a tree I haven't got.
The accident was caused by me waving to the man I hit last week.
I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.
I pulled into a lay-by with smoke coming from under the hood.
I realized the car was on fire so took my dog and smothered it with a blanket.
I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.
A truck backed through my windshield onto my wife's face.
Now we laugh at those things, because they sound really goofy
But we also laugh at those things because we know that they really happen.
And though we might not have experienced those things, we all have some pretty crazy stories ourselves.
I guess we could say that we’ve all had some pretty bad days.
And we may look at them and laugh, but how many know it’s pretty hard to laugh as you are going through them?
Listen to this guys stories:
Those are some bad days.
What do you do when you face something like that.
What happens when drive into the wrong house and strike a tree that you haven’t got?
How do you handle that?
How about just the crazy stuff that happens all around you every day?
In the last message, we spoke about the peace that Jesus brings to our lives.
But even amidst that peace, some of these things cause pain, don’t they?
How do you handle that?
It’s because in that Healing of life, Jesus brings us comfort through His Holy Spirit.
The same Paul whose story we just read, wrote this just 10 chapters earlier
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
You see, he had learned to be comforted by Christ.
In the middle of your tribulation, God will comfort you
In your sufferings, God’s comfort will be there
In all the things that you will never be able to understand, God gives his wisdom and grace.
This child born in Bethlehem so long ago, this prince of peace not only gives us peace, but we can live in that peace because he sends us the comforter.
The Holy Spirit.
Many times we think that the Christian life should be problem free, but how many have found out that’s not the case?
That’s why we have the Holy Spirit.
He is called the comforter.
He takes this junk of life, the accidents and craziness around us and gives us comfort.
Look what Paul calls God here - The God of all Comfort
He says that he comforts us in all our troubles
troubles = afflictions, annoyances, inconveniences
Isn’t that good???
And Paul adds a little testimony from his own life when he says that this comfort has enabled him to endure his sufferings.
That’s healing.
This healing isn’t a healing from cancer, but from the cancers of the world.
It’s not a healing of what ails you, but a healing of what’s coming against you.
It’s the cough drop of life.
Soothing.
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