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The World at Christmas
Christmas is a special time of the year.
It seems as if all the world is drawn into Christmas.
Out of all the different nations.
Out of all the different people.
Even out of all the different religions, the world can’t help but celebrate Christmas.
The traditional, American thought of Christmas, is a winter wonderland, a white Christmas.
I’ve never experienced a white Christmas.
I’ve known Southern California Christmases, where it’s a cool 75 degrees.
Christmas is celebrated in the deserts of Africa.
I have a friend who is from New Zealand, and he grew up celebrating warm Christmases, because it’s summer there right now.
For this one holiday, the world bursts out in song together.
At Christmas, in some sense the world comes together and sings the same song.
There is a desire for peace and harmony.
For this one night, people want the world to get along.
The world loves to join in with Linus in a Charlie Brown Christmas and when he quotes , ““Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Unfortunately, peace between humans misses the point.
But it’s not enough for the world to merely recognize this great day.
That’s not what Christmas is about.
God wants people to know Him.
is written by Paul to his young friend Timothy.
In the first half of , Paul is urging Timothy to pray.
And he urges Timothy to pray for people all over the earth.
He urges Timothy to pray for all people.
All the different types of people.
For kings.
For servants.
For people of different religions.
And the purpose behind this prayer is that they wouldn’t remain in the dark any longer, that they would come to a knowledge of the truth.
says these words, “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.”
Even though there are all these different religions in the world, God desires for people to know that there is one God.
He’s not presenting Himself as a higher power, or just any God.
At Christmas, in some sense the world comes together and sings the same song.
There is a desire for peace and harmony.
For this one night, people want the world to get along.
He wants people to know Him personally.
Unfortunately, peace between humans misses the point.
They need to know that there is one God.
It’s not just the world that wants peace, God also wants peace.
That’s because mankind is at war with God.
From the very beginning God has been a kind and providing God.
In the Garden, He gave to Adam everything he could possibly want.
Food
Comfort.
Even a companion, knowing that it isn’t good for man to be alone, he created Eve to be his wife.
And yet, Adam didn’t remain in that location forever.
Shortly, after creation, he disobeyed the one rule he was given.
And every person after Adam, has continued in his great, great grandfather’s tradition.
We all have sinned.
God has said, obey, be perfect.
And every single person after Adam, has disobeyed.
God has been kind, and even given laws to us, so that we wouldn’t have to guess what He wants.
Worship only Him.
Don’t use His name in vain.
Don’t lie.
Don’t steal.
Don’t lust.
Love others.
But like Adam before us, we’ve only continued to sin.
How many times have you lied?
How many times have you failed to love others?
The result is that where there is sin, there is a call for justice.
says that the the soul who sins shall die.
The result of all our sinning is that we are at war with God.
He’s not at war with us.
But we are at war with Him.
We are the ones who are lawless rebels.
says, “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.”
And we go through our vain days, knowing that the day is coming when we will stand before God and receive judgment for our own offenses against Him.
The true peace at Christmas is that God has sent a mediator.
goes on to say that not only is there one God, but there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
The mediator that God sends isn’t trying to make a compromise.
He doesn’t sit there with God at one end and man at the other, trying to find a common ground.
Because remember, God has done nothing wrong.
The only thing that men deserve is judgment.
says, “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,”
This mediator is actually trying to restore us to God, to eliminate our need for His justice.
A mediator is someone who is trusted on both sides.
And the mediator that God sends is none other than Jesus Christ.
It says, “the man Christ Jesus.”
He’s not just any person, but the man Christ Jesus.
Jesus came as a man.
Like us.
He’s a mediator that we can trust, because He’s one of us.
He was born as one of us.
He lived as one of us.
He was tempted like one of us.
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He suffered like one of us.
He’s fully man.
This mediator would need to do something that has never happened before.
He’s going to pay a ransom to God.
He’s going to pay the price of our sin.
says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Now just think about that.
Because of sin, there is an eternal payment.
Death.
Hell.
How do you pay off Hell?
I think of those Mastercard Commercials.
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