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Luke 2
Proposition Statement
What is Christmas about?
- “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Outline
1. God’s eternal plan...
2.
He Came to Bring Peace
3.
2. … to bring peace...
3. … to those with whom He is pleased
1. God’s Eternal Plan
Jesus’ birth foretold (too much coincidence?)
- I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
- Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
- But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
The birth of Jesus was God’s eternal plan to send a Saviour after the Fall
He planned and orchestrated history to bring about what He promised
including OT pictures of redemption
Noah
Moses (Exodus)
Serpent on the pole
The sacrifices
God even uses political leaders - even using their evil intent to fulfill His purposes
What God promises, He can deliver - because He is sovereign
Christmas is a reminder:
The birth of Jesus was the eternal plan of God.
We have the assurance that just as God was sovereign over all the circumstances of the world and history and rulers to bring about the birth of Jesus...
He is also sovereign over circumstances and history and rulers to fulfill the purpose of Jesus birth.
Which was...
2. …to Bring Peace...
Since the Fall in Genesis, the world has been at war
it put an end to peace
Adam’s sin brought a curse on God’s creation - and a curse on man
Every man is born a sinner - with a sinful nature
We are born having a selfish, prideful, s
What has been the result?
War & acts of terrorism
According to the NY Times, of the past 3700 years of recorded history...
only 268 years have been without any major wars - that’s 8%
108 million people died in wars in the 20th century alone
Natural disasters
In every individual - a selfish desire to do evil
According to some disaster relief organisations, about 1 million people have died in ND in the last 20 years
and overall 218 million people were affected
In the last hundred years, an estimated 8 million have died
To us, those might seem like far away troubles
Crime
Corruption
Personal suffering & loss
Financial stress
Depression and anxiety
The world is broken
We are trying to find peace any way we can
Materialism (Hollywood)
Sport
Ambition and work
Charity work (ease our consciences)
We can find peace for a time in these things, but it never lasts
Christmas truce of 1914
“The English brought a soccer ball from the trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued.
How marvelously wonderful, yet how strange it was.
The English officers felt the same way about it.
Thus Christmas, the celebration of Love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time.”
marvelously wonderful, yet how strange it was.
The English officers felt the same way about it.
Thus
The next day they were shooting at each other
Christmas, the celebration of Love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time.
They were only “friends for a time”
All our worldly loves can only give us peace for a time
We have to deal with our main problem:
- but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Personal sin
The Solution:
- And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
In Matthew’s account, the angel tells Joseph in a dream...
Luke 2:1
- (Mary) will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Mat 1:21-23
To solve our dilemma, God Himself came to us
Almighty God - the Creator of the universe, holy and perfect, became a man
He endured every kind of humiliation and rejection
born in Bethlehem to poor people
born in a barn and made to lie in a manger - a feeding trough
rejected and despised His whole life
Eventually, crucified on a wooden cross
Exactly as He Himself had sovereignly planned it
Amazing how the angels appeared to shepherds guarding their flock that was to be slaughtered - to tell them that the Lamb had been born
WHY?
To satisfy God’s justice against our sin
To be the sacrifice on our behalf that would satisfy God’s justice against our sin
To make peace between God and sinner
To redeem us and restore us back to what we were made for
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