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Don’t Miss Out At Christmas
Luke 2:1-7
/A prophet is not without honor except in his own home /- Jesus
The Innkeeper
What was his reason?
Census is under way
Everybody is coming to Jerusalem
Like a big convention coming to town
We have no reason to conclude that he was hostile, unsympathetic, or unloving - just to busy!
What is ours?
Our lives are filled with needless things, human interests, and just plain stuff
Get the cheapest price - buy it - take care of it - fix it - store it - dump it
We are so preoccupied with the temporal.
Note: Mary herself brought forth her first born.
It was not that the middle eastern people are inhospitable.
Jewish woman kind and uncaring.
But where were the mid wives - Where was the innkeepers wife?
Mary was alone!
Herod - Matt 2:2
What was his reason?
He wasn’t a Jew - He was appointed by the Romans
Always afraid of losing his position
When he was close to death he commanded all distinguished citizens to be collected, imprisoned and put to death at the moment of his death.
This would insure weeping at his death even if it was for another person
All the children two and under
Somebody would interfere with his career, his position, his power, his ambition, his plans, his lifestyle
What is ours?
What about my plans, my priorities, my set of values?
Will I have to alter the way I think, act, talk, or live?
We are kings to ourselves!
Religious Leaders, the Jewish People and the Romans
John 5:39-47
What was their reason?
Prideful indifference
A limited worship of God
The wrong God entirely
What is ours?
Who needs God
I don’t like the message
I actually worship other things
My little children - keep yourselves from idols.
The People of Nazareth
Luke 4:16 ff
What was their reason?
Familiarity
What is ours?
Yeah - I was raised in that stuff.
I was made to go to church
I was watching a country western singer do a rendition of /The Little Drummer Boy/’‘’ - I know nothing about her spiritual condition.
Hopefully it cam from the heart.
But I do watch people who have nothing to do with Jesus any other time sing the carols of the season and many of those songs tell the wondrous story of the gospel.
So, how will it be for you this Christmas?
Preoccupied
Don’t want Jesus - the Lord to invade your space
Don’t like the message and its connotation
All too familiar
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