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Immanuel God with Us ALL
We have spent the fall focusing on love.
We began in October focusing on God’s love for us and the need to deepen our love for Him.
Then November was all about loving each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.
December has been about loving those around us.
All the love we have for and from God, the love we have for each other and the love we should show others is available because of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.
We celebrate Immanuel, God with us.
As we read through the birth of Jesus in the gospels this morning, please focus on who God chose to reveal Jesus to and who they might represent
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Let’s start in Matthew 1 with Joseph.
Carpenter
Working Class, man.
Followed the law of God, and went about his business.
Young Woman
Last week Rob Harrell went through this passage stressing to us that nothing is impossible with God.
But I want you to realize the implications of this, God chose a virgin, probably a teenager to be the mother of the messiah.
Through her he revealed that Jesus would be the king forever.
So we have a working man, and a young woman.
Who else did God show he was with at the birth of Jesus.
I don’t have time to read all of Matthew 2, but you remember the story of the Magi.
Here is the kicker verse.
Magi
Kings
Wise Men
Astrologers/ Scientists
Foreigners
Sometimes, we get caught up that Jesus came for the lowly and poor which he did, but he also came for the rich and intellectuals.
I think we miss this sometimes, but it is important when you are listing the groups Jesus came to save and to show that God is with us.
Now let’s read the birth of Jesus story in Luke.
This is the one we are all most familiar with, but don’t let familiarity stop you from seeing what God did at the manger.
Shepherds
Poor
Forgotten
Ignored
Don’t we all fit into one of those categories at some point?
Man, woman, rich, poor, ignored, young or old, but just in case you don’t think you fit into one of them, listen to the beginning of the gospel of John.
God with us All
In him was life and that life was the light of all mankind.
What does that mean to us?
At the birth of Jesus, we are all welcome.
Rich, poor, man, woman, child, North American, South American, Asian, European, African, Australian, forgotten, ignored, or lonely.
Jesus, God saves, came for each of us to show that God is with us.
Immanuel.
But just like any and every gift it must be received.
We can choose to ignore that God is with us or we can choose as Joseph, Mary, the magi, the shepherds and all other believers have done which is to receive the God’s gift of Jesus.
If you have not received that gift I pray you do now.
If you would like to have someone pray with you or talk to you we have a prayer team that will be located to my left during the last song and will remain there after the service as well.
Because Jesus came so that we could all be restored to the right relationship with God.
So we could truly be with Him.
So we could receive the full implications of Immanuel God With Us.
Do you understand the implications of that.
God is with us!
God is not off in some distant throne room watching us like we are on TV.
God is with us!
He did not create everything and then step away to see how bad we could mess it up.
God is with us!
When we are hurting we are not alone.
God is with us!
When we are hurting, grieving, sick, God is with us!
When life feels like it is more than we can handle, God is with us!
When our families seem to be falling apart.
God is with us!
When the world seems to be falling apart, God is with us!
Friends, GOD IS WITH US!
Now that is something to celebrate this Christmas season!
Since God is with us all then we need to make sure everyone knows that.
We need to be the angel proclaiming to all Luke 2 10-11 Do not be afraid, I bing you good news of great joy for all people.
Today in the town of David a savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord!”
So, as we enter the week of Christmas, but so much more than that as we enter into the rest of our lives.
We need to be proclaiming to All Immanuel, God is with us!
We need to reach out to those we like, those we don’t like, those we spend time with, those we usually ignore.
As Damaris reminded us a few weeks ago, we need to be reaching out to help serve and love the least, the last and the lost.
Not just during the Christmas season, but from this day forward.
WHY?
Because IMMANUEL, God is with US!
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