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Significant Gifts
What are some of the most significant gifts you’ve received that have changed your life?
When I was 5 I was given my first bike.
I learned to ride and access to a whole new world arrived in my life.
I rode played on that bike.
My next bike I rode to school, work, baseball practice and all over town.
When I was 16 my first car was made available to me.
So many more opportunities arrived into my life w/ that ‘69 Chevelle.
My freshman year in college I was given my first study bible.
A Ryrie Study bible.
I didn’t just read the bible, I studied it b/c I had good notes right there that helped me understand it.
A whole deeper level of understanding of God and my spiritual life arrived.
In 1946, a mom named Gladys took her son to a Tupelo, MS hardware store on his 11th birthday.
He’d been saving for months and it was his dream to buy a .22
cal rifle.
They knew he wouldn’t have enough but Gladys decided for his birthday gift to pay the difference.
The clerk brought the rifle out for them to see but to their disappointment, the price tag said $28.
That was real money in 1946 and Gladys just couldn’t cover the difference.
The clerk took the rifle back, and seeing their disappointment made a suggestion.
He brought out a guitar for the 11-year old to consider.
The price was $7.75.
It wasn’t the rifle, but the agreed the guitar would be a nice birthday present.
A few years later, this boy took this guitar into a recording studio in Memphis, TN. and recorded the single, “That’s All Right.”
And, w/ that, the recording career of Elvis Presley was launched.
It’s amazing how a simple gift can not only change the lives of a few individuals, but also change the world.
W/ the gift of that guitar, Rock ‘N Roll arrived.
This morning we’re going to study and see how one gift given on that first Christmas not only changed the lives of individuals around the world but in so doing changed the universe forever.
B/C of that gift, no only are these individuals able to receive forgiveness, we are also able to forgive every wrong committed against us throughout our lives.
The Gift
This gift changed everything, not just pop culture.
David was given insight into a conversation between God the Father and Jesus the Son at some point in eternity past.
Jesus is speaking describing what His Father said to Him.
Today.
What day?
Poetic language is not confined to conventional definitions.
The day described is the day of his birth in Bethlehem, the day of His death and the day of His resurrection in Jerusalem.
It’s a period of 33 years.
His incarnation.
The time he was on earth as a man.
Today, I have become your father.
Jesus’ birth.
I became a father the day my daughter Alyssa was born, April 4, 1989.
On the day of Jesus’ birth, His father gave Him a gift.
I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possessions.
This little baby, lying in a manger, on the very first Christmas morning was given a special gift by his Father that changed everything.
Now, I’m going to address 3 questions regarding the gift.
Why?
Why did God give such a gift to Jesus on this day?
How?
How did He orchestrate giving the gift.
So what?
What difference does it make to you and me?
Why?
Why’d He do it?
The mentality the world that has always existed toward God is rebelliousness.
We’re all sheep.
Independent.
Doing our own thing.
Stubborn.
The Nations conspire and the ppl plot and scheme how to throw off the chains and shackles.
What they are calling chains and shackles is the moral code of God.
It’s the biblical moral, ethic, lifestyle.
It is the 10 commandments, but it’s more.
It predates Moses and it is expanded and expounded on throughout the Bible.
Throughout history people have always seen this moral code as extremely unfairly restrictive and rebelled against it.
It goes back to the Garden, there was 1 tree Adam and Eve were told to avoid.
They could eat anything else they found.
It goes back to the Garden, there was 1 tree Adam and Eve were told to avoid.
They could eat anything else they found.
“Don’t tell me I can’t do what I want to do.
I feel strongly about this.”
A desire to be in control of my own life, bowing to no one.
This moral code is not really chains and shackles or an overly and unfairly restrictive leash.
It’s not abusive.
It’s protective.
Every rule and restriction God laid on us finds its foundation in love, In fact, every command is a gift of love.
No different than a parent who loves his child restricting that child from running w/ scissors, playing in the street, or drinking a bottle of bleach.
God is saying, “I love you.
Don’t do this.
You’ll hurt yourself.”
Throughout history people have schemed to get rid of God so they can do whatever they want.
Be the captain of my own ship.
The boss of my own business.
It’s very inconvenient to have God looking over my shoulder all the time.
A killjoy by reputation.
Who is He to Judge.
Oh, right.
Nations have conspired how to removed God from culture and ours is in the thick of the conspiracy.
Merry Christmas everybody!
Or, should I say, Happy Holidays so as not to offend anyone.
God is being expelled from every aspect of our culture.
From public schools, state universities, government buildings, military and public lands.
How long will it be before all private businesses will be required to remove all hints of God and Christianity as has already happened to photographers, bakers, and a big hobby shop.
Collectively, we don’t want to be told we can’t do what we want to do.
Oh the weight of those chains.
Get rid of the nativities in public places.
Crosses, too.
In spite of it all, God still loves us.
Amazing.
He sent His son into this world that wants Him to leave us alone.
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