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Christmas Message:  December 24, 1995
 
*"And a Little Child Will Lead Them."*
Scripture:    Men:           Is.
9:2, 6, 7
                   Women       Is.
11:1, 2, 6
                   Children      Lk.
18:16, 17
 
*I.
"And a little child will lead them."*
Wurmbrand:  From the Lips of Children
 
p.
12d  'A child whose parents were divorced came across this vs. (Is.
11:6) and demanded, "Then why don't they let us lead?
We would never have invented pubs, casinos or nuclear war.
If we were leaders, there would be no spankings and no divorce."'
p.
38c  "How did they lose it?
p.
41a  "Father, did they let him in?"
 
p.
113c  "I will always be grateful to you for what you have shown me."
(She saw herself losing her childhood innocence and wanted to let someone in - but she didn't know who until she was told.
God is able to call us wherever we are.)
p.
115c  "Do those poor people have a house yet?"
 
p.
50c  "Children love their parents by instinct."
(It is not our earthly father who died to us.
It is the Heavenly Father who sent His Son to die for us---because---
          it is we who have died to God.)
We had fallen out of love with our Creator.
Sin had torn a mighty gulf between man and God.
\\ *II.
Jesus was a child of victory.*
A person coming to the rim of the Grand Canyon, 18 mi.
wide and 1 mile deep exclaims, "Something (mighty awesome) happened here!"
In Mt. 27:51 the curtain of the temple (30 ft.
high, 1 ft.
thick) ripped from top to bottom, the earth shook and rocks split and tombs opened.
And those at the feet of Jesus on the cross at the moment he died exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of God!"
 
          Something mighty awesome happened in that moment that began the day Christ was born of a virgin.
The presence of God on the earth as a child would cut through the population of man as no other 'would be' savior has ever done.
Heb.
4:12   The Word of God will divide soul & spirit, joints and marrow, thoughts and attitudes of the heart - because Jesus Christ, the Word of God, is living and active.
Lk.
12:51    Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?
No, I tell you, but division.
2 Tim 5:19-20      We know that the whole world is under the control of the evil one-but we are children of God because the Son of God has come and given us understanding so we may know God.
He is true God and eternal life.
(Jn 3:16-18)
 
          Lk 2:35       He will cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed, a sword will pierce your own soul.
Mt.
10:35    A man will be turned against his father, a daughter against her mother, a Daughter in Law against her Mother in Law, to where a man's enemies will be members of his own household.
Mt.
12:49    Jesus said, pointing to his disciples, "Here are my mother and my brothers.
Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
1Jn.
5:11-12         And this is the testimony---
\\           His ministry on earth began when he became like us and ended when he died like us.
Yet he was more than we could ever be only in ourselves because he was sent from God.
He is God!  His eternal ministry of redemption began in the Garden of Eden when God exclaimed to Satan that the seed of a woman would crush his head (Gen 3:15).
The words of Christ on the cross, "It is finished," announced not only the completion of his redemptive work but the defeat of Satan as Christ rose from the dead on the third day.
The last enemy, death, was destroyed as Satan's seemingly invincible weapon against man was disabled, having no eternal power to keep man in bondage to sin.
Satan has been thrashing about on the earth like a mad wounded bull these last 2,000 years trying to take as much of mankind with him as he can get.
But Christ has put a fence around all those who trust God through his blood shed on the cross for them.
He will deal further with this mad bull, Satan, whom he will himself put in a pen (bottomless pit) for a 1,000 years and then destroy forever in the lake of fire.
The eternal ministry of Christ continues to all those who believe as he delivers them from the penalty of sin and keeps them safe.
This will continue as he returns to rule the world in righteousness and recreates his creation in perfection, unmarred by sin.
Those without Christ will join Satan in the lake of fire.
There is a dividing line through the ages as the tectonic plates of sin and righteousness on the earth ground together in temptation and split apart from the choice of sin by mankind in the Garden of Eden.
Man became separated from God, man on the side of sin, God on the side of righteousness.
This dividing line became clear to all when Christ died on the cross as the only bridge between sin and righteousness, between man and God.
It is a narrow bridge.
There is only one way.
Acts 4:12.
Something mighty awesome happened here when Christ was born to make the way for man to return to God.
The grand canyon of sin has been crossed.
/And a little child will lead them in victory over sin and Satan./
\\ *III.
Jesus was a child of peace.*
Jesus came to bring peace and make peace between man and God (Jew & Gentile).
Eph 2:1  For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing line of hostility -- creating one new man out of the two, thus making peace -- reconciling both of them to God through the cross--
 
          Rom 5:1  Since we have been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ex.
19:12  In giving the Law, God put limits around his mountain.
No one was allowed to touch it.
2 Sam.
6:6  In taking the ark to Jerusalem, Uzzah reached out and touched it on the cart when the oxen stumbled and was stricken dead.
(God is altogether holy.)
Heb.
12:18ff  You have not come to a mountain that can be touched--But you have come to Mt. Zion--to God--to the spirits of righteous men made perfect--to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant.
See that you do not refuse him who speaks.
They did not escape who refused him who warned them on earth - nor will we escape if we refuse him who now warns us from heaven.
At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised to shake not only the earth but also the heavens -- so that what can be shaken may be removed and what cannot be shaken may remain.
Let us worship God with reverence and awe--
 
/And a little child will lead them in peace with God./
/ /
*IV.
Jesus was a child of purpose.*
His purpose was to be about his Father's business in his Father's house (Lk.
2:49).
Jn.
2:17 confirms that zeal for God's house would consume him.
Christ reveals his purpose to his disciples in Lk. 18:32 that he would be mocked, insulted, spit upon, flogged and killed only to rise again on the third day.
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