The Cradle that Rocked the World

By Pastor Terry Roberts

Faith Christian Family Church

How could they know? The shepherds, wise men, and onlookers who beheld the baby that night knew that He was special but they didn’t know how special.

How could they know He was God’s answer for the sins of all mankind? How could they know that He was the fulfillment of thousands of years of prophecy and preparation? How could so much ride on the birth, life and death of one human?

He was unique. He was born of a virgin. That made Him qualified like no one else in the universe to take the sin and punishment of mankind. The scroll of mankind’s fate was sealed and no one was found in all of the universe who was able to unseal the scroll except the sinless Son of God.

This truly was a special baby. His arrival on the earth signaled the potential end to the curse of sin and death. His birth was a message to us that He had not given up on us. He was born as the fulfillment of God’s promise to Adam and Eve back in the garden that the seed of a woman would be born to crush the head of the enemy.

Here was God’s answer to humankind’s problem coming in the form of an innocent newborn. Christmas is special because it is God telling us and reminding us of how much He loves us. We celebrate the baby born in the cradle that rocked the world.