A Time of Significance

Introduction

I would like to speak for a moment from the topic “A Time of Significance.”

“A Time of Significance.”

I would suspect that we all can look back over our lives and locate days of significance. Days that time stamped you for the rest of your life.

For some of us it doesn't take a long hard look to find a time that changed your life.

There has been some bad decisions and some good decisions. There are some things, that make you ask yourself Lord, what was I thinking?

There are days that should stand out in your mind as significant.

There is a day that should resonate if you can’t think of any other day as significant. It doesn't matter about your background of socioeconomic status.

This day should be significant in all the world!

Although, it was prophesied and many looked for it, the birth of Christ was celebrated by a few.

A few Shepherds were alerted by an Angel and Three Wise-men followed a Star to visit a child wrapped in strips of cloth in a stable lying in a feeding troth.

Matthew, begins his account with an elaborate genealogy that places Jesus as an ancestor of King David and Abraham. He is writing to the Jews and presents Jesus as a King, better than David and a teacher greater than Moses.

Mark’s Gospel records nothing about the birth of Jesus. Mark starts his story of Jesus with the calling of John the Baptist in the wilderness. The first time we see Jesus in this Gospel is when Jesus comes to be baptized by John.

Luke’s Gospel is an attempt, in his own words, to put in a place “an orderly account” of the birth, ministry, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Luke wrote his Gospel primarily for a Gentile audience

The Gospel of John, possible the last of the Gospel to be produced, records the birth of Jesus in heavenly, if not spiritual terms and language.

For John, this birth started in Heaven: Jesus, the Word was in the beginning and was God. All that is created was created through Him. John then describes the birth of Jesus with powerful language: “…and the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us”. John writing to Greek-speaking Gentiles across the Roman Empire

John 1:14 KJV 1900

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The Birth of Jesus Christ should be in all of our minds a time of significance.

The Incarnation of Christ Involved a Supernatural Birth

Luke 1:35 KJV 1900

35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Luke

Luke 1:

Luke 1:34–35 KJV 1900

34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Yes! it was an Immaculate Conception.

Yes! it was an Immaculate Conception.

The Incarnation - God took on human flesh.

The Birth of Jesus Christ should be in all of our minds a time of significance.

There Was a Necessity of The Incarnation

Romans 8:3 KJV 1900

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

We have a problem called sin!

Romans 5:17–19 KJV 1900

17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Romans

The Birth of Jesus Christ should be in all of our minds a time of significance.

The Cost of The Incarnation

As we celebrate Christmas, Buy all of the presents , trees and dinners.

Whether you recognize it or not, and just in case you don’t admit that you are a sinner.

There was still a cost of Incarnation.

Philippians 2:6–7 KJV 1900

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Php 2:6-7

The same Jesus who John declares:

John 1:1–3 KJV 1900

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:

Isaiah 9:6 KJV 1900

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: And the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

John wants you to understand how it all came to be.

The Revelation