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NEW SERIES

I love the Holiday Season

I love getting together with family and learning more about them

This weekend was so fun

Now we get to finish off the year with a new series

This series is entitled Christmas for All

It is a series that will focus on the people surrounding the birth of Jesus

We will be looking at the diversity in the people that surrounded His Birth

We will look at what this diversity means for us today

Sometimes, we forget that God loves all people

Rich or Poor

High Class or Low Class

Those who have Social worth or feel Socially Poor

Jew & Gentile

Black or White

Homeless & Philanthropist

Religious & Atheists

He loves all people and wants to have a relationship with them

Why?

Because he doesn’t believe in long distance relationships

He desires to draw near to those who desire a closer more detailed relationship

How was this made available to us?

This Christmas, we have the privilege of celebrating how God the Father has loved us

9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Christmas is the celebration of the Incarnation of God the Son, aka Christ Jesus

Christmas is the celebration of the Incarnation of God the Son, aka Christ Jesus

This Christmas, we have the privilege of celebrating how God the Father

This Birth, The Sending of His Son is how God demonstrates His love toward us

This Birth, The Sending of His Son is how God demonstrates His love toward us

It is how He chose to display His love toward humanity

It is how God’s Love for his people was made real

It is how He chose to display His love toward humanity

It is how His Love toward us was made tangible

It is how He enabled sinful people to approach a Holy God

Have you ever asked yourself why?

If God is perfect, why would He need us?

If God is perfect, why would He relegate himself or bring himself down to the form of an imperfect human?

Why would a Holy God want to compromise his reputation by adopting sinful man?

Look at the end of verse 9

I love how the NLT puts it

NLT God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.

That we would live into a fearless view of life

That we would live in a way that represents who Christ is

Sacrificially loving

Sacrificially serving

Sacrificially living

Sacrificially giving

How many of us want to be more like Jesus?

How many of us want to Live through Him?

How many of us want to live into what He promised us?

That we would live into a fearless view of life

Where the only opinion that matters is that of the Lords

Where the only person we are looking to please is Jesus

Where transformation is welcomed

Where there is a paradigm shift from the will of self to the will of God

That this shift would cause us to live into our sentness

That we would represent Christ flawlessly in every area of our lives.

This is probably the hardest thing ever

But it is what will transform us the most

Sacrificially loving

Sacrificially serving

Sacrificially living

Sacrificially giving

Will cause us to know what it is to live through Him

It will cause us to love unconditionally

It will cause us to serve without selfish motives

It will cause us to give our time and efforts to those in need

It will cause us to do the unorthodox

It will cause us to love our kids better

It will cause us to love our wives greater

It will give us compassion for our neighbors

It will set in place patterns of sacrificial living

The most important thing, is that it will cause us to love people in a way that points to how Jesus has loved us

People will wonder why?

Because this love is foreign to those who don’t know Jesus

This love has yet to be experienced

21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you!

As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

People long for the grace that the God of the Bible provides

So who will they experience it?

By Christians actually living it out

Church, the best way to understand the incarnation is to actually live into the power of Christ’ sentness by realizing that it is with that very power that we are sent into this world

The only

The best way to understand why Jesus was sent into this world

Is by living into that very purpose of our salvation

Is by allowing the transforming work of the Gospel to take place in our lives

By being little Christ’s and coming to this world to serve and not to be served

By living sacrificially for the joy of seeing others come to Christ

By picking up our cross daily and being a follower of Christ

Church, we need to realize the power of Christ’s words in

As God the father sent Jesus to this world

So Jesus sends his church

So Jesus calls us into His Mission

Because we are ill equipped, unqualified, untrained,

He breathes on us and imparts to us our only necessity

The Holy Spirit

That we would be filled to overflowing