What Gift Can I Bring?
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· 24 viewsGifts of Gold Frankincense & Myrrh brought to Jesus are examples & types of great things WE can bring to Him.
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In this traditional season of gift giving, how many of you have someone in your life that is very difficult to get a gift for?
Maybe you just don’t know what it is that they want.
Maybe it seems like they have everything already.
I think we can sometimes feel this way about God.
He is the God of the Universe and can create anything He wants.
so.......
How can I possibly give anything to God? But I want to.
There is one thing that God cannot have without your help.
YOU!
In God’s infinite & perfect love for us, He gave us the freedom & free-will to choose whether or not we would have relationship with Him.
Free-will is the greatest gift that God could give to us
I think it is the most terrifying gift that God could possibly give us - because I know what I’ve done with free-will in my life.
God knows that some people will choose Hell over having a personal relationship with Him.
God gave us free-will even though He knew full-well that some of us will NEVER choose to have a personal relationship with Him.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
God wants to have a personal relationship with every person.
If you have not given your life to God through Jesus:
This is the best gift you could give to God - Yourself!
Once we have made a decision to have relationship with God through Jesus Christ, what can we possibly bring to give to Him?
What can we possibly bring to give to Him?
What can we possibly bring to give to Him?
I’m so excited to preach the rest of this message to you because it hit me so strongly that:
The gifts that were brought to Jesus, as a baby, are gifts we can personally bring to Him today!
10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. 11 And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
3 Gifts Brought to Jesus:
3 Gifts Brought to Jesus:
Gold
Frankincense
Myrrh
5 Properties of Frankincense & Myrrh:
5 Properties of Frankincense & Myrrh:
1. Reduces swelling & gives pain relief
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
2. Eases stress and anxiety
7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
3. Improves skin
3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
4. Kills harmful bacteria
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
5. Promotes Restful Sleep
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep.
3 Noteworthy Properties of Gold:
3 Noteworthy Properties of Gold:
1. Can be completely purified
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
2. A great conductor
heat & electricity = fire & power of God
29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
3. Malleable & ductile
8 But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.
Our life can be like these gifts brought to Jesus.
What if we were able to bring to Jesus a life like Frankincense & Myrrh?
- A life that is healed, whole, peaceful, beautiful, & restful
Jesus wants this life for you & gave His life so you could have it.
What if we were able to bring to Jesus a life like gold?
- A life that is completely pure & holy, that contains and distributes the fire and power of God, and that continues to be able to be moldable teachable and changeable by God and His word?
Jesus wants this life for you & gave His life so you could have it.
Immediately, our mind & old nature wants to fight the possibility of living this quality of life because it is simply impossible.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
27 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
This life is completely possible through the miracle of grace, God’s own ability, that He provides to us through Jesus.
Having, and living, this quality of life is a process
It’s not going to happen all at once, but it is going to happen.
The process begins with the decision to have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and it is maintained by consistently staying connected to Jesus through a fresh and daily decision to come to Him.
Just One Thing:
Just One Thing:
Daily let the process of God work in your life so you can experience & give your life of Frankincense, Gold, & Myrrh back to Him.
Discussion Questions:
Discussion Questions:
What fashion trend makes you cringe or laugh every time you see it?
Give some thought to the significance of free-will & share some of your thoughts.
Please read Mark 10:27 and share some areas of your life that you have felt impossibilities, but where God is able to change those things.
How can you practically yield in a greater way to the process of God working in your life.