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Welcome
Welcome to our Christmas Day Service this morning.
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These reading was written 2700 years ago, 700 years before Jesus came.
And later on we are told by the same writer:
Christmas time is a celebration of the birth of a baby named Jesus who existed before time itself.
It is a time of so many paradoxes, seeming contradictions and puzzles.
God becomes man.
The Creator becomes part of creation.
The unseen becomes seen.
The omnipotent One, the all-powerful one becomes weak.
The immortal is born and dies.
For what reason?
According to these prophecies the birth of Jesus cannot be separated from what He came to do, to save us from our sin.
From the cuteness of a baby to being put to death as an adult in the flesh was to pay the punishment for our sin and give us peace.
Christmas time is God demonstrating that He loves us.
Oh, it not that He loves a world with billions of people and He loves the billions of people, yes, this is true but it is not about statistics and numbers…but it is personal, He cares for the single ‘ones’.
Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth because you, you individually, matter to God.
You can really say: “I matter to God.
I mean something to God”.
There may be approaching 8 billion people on this planet but I am known to God.
The wonder of Jesus coming in the flesh and to remain human forever is that he loves you.
God gave us the greatest present, His presence forever because He loves us and gave Himself for us.
For all that goes on today, tomorrow and afterwards it is enough to know that we are loved by God Himself; that we are of worth to Him; that we matter to Him; that He cares about the things that concern us.
The angel said that this was good news to all.
The message goes out to everyone.
Jesus was born to save you.
Unfortunately not everyone will receive the message.
Some will sit on the fence, some will reject it.
However Jesus Himself said:
If you receive Jesus you receive God’s favour and blessing.
Christmas is not just to celebrate a birth of a child or even an extraordinary child.
But He was born to die as our Saviour.
And as foretold by Isaiah over 700 years before this is what happened in Jesus paying the penalty for our sin on the cross.
Christmas is hinged with sadness that this was all necessary in the first place.
But why was this necessary?
It all started in the garden of Eden and the rejection of God’s command.
This caused a separation from God causing a lack of peace in one’s heart, causing a breakdown of relationships between people, and causing wars between peoples.
Instead of peace with God there is war.
So, it was necessary for Jesus to come.
In that Isaiah prophecy Jesus is called the Prince of Peace.
He came to bring not only peace between peoples, peace in relationships but peace with God.
Someone had to pay the price for our wrongdoing - if we are to pay it the price is death and hell.
But Jesus came into this world to pay the price on our behalf and Jesus was the only One who could do this perfectly for He is also God.
It was the only way to save us from the wrath of God and bring peace and reconciliation.
But of course the story didn’t end with His death but He rose again from the dead.
Now, it is up to you to say yes or no to Jesus this Christmas.
To sit on the fence is a no to Jesus.
Today when we are with our family will Jesus get a mention other than in a prayer of thanks for the food, if that?
The shepherds could not keep the story to themselves.
Will you?
Christmas time is an amazing time, a time of great joy, for the Saviour of the World was born.
Very God became very Man.
Because of His death on the cross it is Jesus who is all important for He is the only way to eternal life:
If we receive Him into our lives then eternity will be spent with the One who loved us so much He was sent into the world to get us for God so loved the world.
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Benediction
Let us go from this place proclaiming
that we have seen the glory of God
Believing that there is a light that shines in the darkness
Which the darkness shall not overcome
And may the love of the Creator
The joy of the Spirit
And the peace of the Christ-child
Be with you this Christmas, and evermore
Amen.
Bibliography
http://worshipwords.co.uk/christmas-blessing-cara-heafey-uk/ [Last Accessed: 24/12/18] The benediction: Christmas blessing — Cara Heafey
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