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Point: God put everything He is in the manger.
Nothing was held back.
The fullness of God dwelt in a manger.
This is the king of love God provided on that Christmas Eve for the redemption of men.
Do I give everything I am to God?
Read: Matthew 1:18-25
In Birmingham, England, there is a store called Lewis’s.
It’s a great chain store in one of the main streets, and wanted to extend.
Right in the way of the extension was a little chapel of the Quakers, a Friends’ meeting house.
Lewis’s sent a letter to the leaders of the Friends’ meeting house saying, “Dear Sirs, We wish to extend our premises.
We see that your building is right in the way.
We wish therefore to buy your building and demolish it so that we might expand our store.
We will pay you any price you care to name.
If you’ll name a price we will settle the matter as quickly as possible.
Yours sincerely.”
They got a letter back by reply which said, “Dear Sirs: We in the Friends’ meeting house note the desire of Lewis’s to extend.
We observe that our building is right in your way.
We would point out, however, that we have been on our site somewhat longer than you have been on yours, and we are determined to stay where we are.
We are so determined to stay where we are that we will happily buy Lewis’s.
If therefore you would like to name a suitable price we will settle the matter as quickly as possible.
Signed, Cadbury.”
Here is the clincher.
The Cadburys are the great chocolate-making, candy-making people in England.
They have an enormous spread of business all over the country and the Cadburys are Quakers.
They could very well have bought Lewis’s many times over.
Point: It is not the size of the building that counts, but who signs the letter.
It is not the size, location or condition of the stable that counts, but who is in the manger.
We forget that it is not the size of the church that matters, but who and what is preached in the pulpit that matters.
Who is worshiped that matters.
Is Jesus central?
What is a hymn?
What is a chorus?
Unless focused on Christ alone:
In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
This Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
Here in the love of Christ I stand.
In Christ alone!
– who took on flesh,
Fullness of God in helpless babe.
This gift of love and righteousness,
Scorned by the ones He came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied –
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.
-Stuart Townend & Keith Getty
What matters at Christmas is not the gifts, ham or turkey, traditions and customs, or even the date we celebrate, but what matters at Christmas is who is in the manger.
The world will tell you only a normal babe, who became a normal man and who died a normal death.
Nothing special, no significance.
But the Bible says, the One who was born in the manger over 2000 years ago was God.
Luke 1:35
What dwells in the manger at Christmas is the fullness of God, the full measure of God.
This is why Jesus is the greatest gift ever given.
Jesus is God complete in man.
The word “fullness” is a noun and definite article meaning “the fullness”.
It means complete, completely satisfied.
Have you ever been completely satisfied.
No wants, no needs, no desires to be fulfilled, complete?
Full measure has been attained.
Perfection.
Ever experienced that?
For in Jesus all the fullness of God dwells meaning the full measure of God was Christ.
God put everything He was/is in the manger.
Nothing was held back.
No price was too much for God to be with us.
All the chips are in.
Emmanuel “God with us”.
Everything that is God, makes God God, was Jesus, in Him, in the manger.
Simply…WOW!
This is the Incarnation.
John 1:14
Do I see the glory of the manger?
Do I see the glory of Jesus, “The Full One”?
How can one born of woman, be complete, be full?
A mystery, that is unfathnoble, but is.
That which seems impossible, is.
Nothing is impossible for God, with God, and in Christ (Luke 1:37; Mt. 19:26).
So then, is it possible to be full?
Full of God?
The Apostle Paul, who once persecuted and put Christ followers to death, encourages,
To be filled with the fullness of God is to be empowered by the Holy Spirit and to know the love of Christ.
To know the love of Christ, is not simply an intellectual exercise, but an intentional physical exercise.
How can I know the love of Christ, how can I know this to be true (like Zechariah questions)?
Do you believe in that the manger happened?
Do you believe the testimoney of the Bible to be true?
Do you have any reason to disbelieve the Bible not to be the Word of God? Do you feel a pull, a working, a drawing?
That is called the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God drawing you to what is truth, what is grace, what is love.
Pulling you to the manger.
The manger is the fullness of faith.
God born unto man to redeem men from sin and death.
Jesus, “God with us”.
Shepherds testified, kings glorified, wise men unified; “your redemption has drawn near” (Luke 21:28).
The Holy Spirit works through truth, God’s truth, He is truth.
We seek truth, He draws those to the truth.
The fullness of Truth is found only in the manger.
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