Morrisville, December 26
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Jesus Is the greatest gift that has ever been given.
Let's look at some gifts and their characteristics that may have been given this year.
legos
Hot Wheels
I. What Christmas Gifts Offer
I. What Christmas Gifts Offer
1. Legos - Building
1. Legos - Building
1 Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2. Dolls - Friendship
2. Dolls - Friendship
17 A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 (NASB95)
24 A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
3. Smart Phones
3. Smart Phones
a. Communication
a. Communication
[I-phone, Samsung Galaxy, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.)
12 in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.
16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
b. Knowledge
b. Knowledge
[on the internet you can find just about any kind of info you want – news, building instruction, recipes, medical info.]
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
2 Peter 1:20–21 (NASB95)
20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,
21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
Ephesians 3:14–20 (NASB95)
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,
16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
Colossians 1:9–10 (NASB95)
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
c. GPS Directions
c. GPS Directions
24 With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterward receive me to glory.
20 My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you.
23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life
13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
4. Jewelry - Riches
4. Jewelry - Riches
[“Every Kiss begins with Kay”]
Ephesians 2:5–7 (NASB95)
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Revelation 21:16–21 (NASB95)
16 The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal.
17 And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human measurements, which are also angelic measurements.
18 The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
19 The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
[Jewelry is beautiful, but all of it is just building materials. If someone were to wear the jewelry of today into heaven it would be like wearing a 2x4 necklace or a ring made of blacktop.]
Legos - Building
Dolls (Toy Story Characters) best friends
Cell Phones communication, knowledge, directions
Jewelry riches/beauty
Christmas presents fall far short of what God has given to us or will give to us.
II. What Christmas gifts cannot provide:
II. What Christmas gifts cannot provide:
1. Eternal life
1. Eternal life
14 “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
40 “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
2. Forgiveness of Sins
2. Forgiveness of Sins
1. Eternal life
43 “Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”
18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’
Ephesians 1:7 (NASB95)
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
3. Peace of Heart
3. Peace of Heart
1. Eternal life
2. Forgiveness of Sins
John 14:27 (NASB95)
27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
Romans 5:1 (NASB95)
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,