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• First things first… Before we MEET AGAIN – NEXT Sunday….Christmas will have passed…
· And so just wanna say to everyone – Merry Incarnation!
· I have NO DOUBT that as most of you listened last week to Joe’s “Not So Ordinary Sermon” on Christmas…
· That you were potentially anxious about where he was going with it.
· And I ASSUME – that as he made his way through it…
o You were able to BREATHE easier KNOWING that he wasn’t calling you to turn your trees into firewood…
o Or your Christmas PLANS – into OLD plans.
See the point of last week’s sermon was to highlight – THE REALITY of Christmas
· It’s EASY for us to get – SWEPT away in the current of POPULARISM…
· To FIND OURSELVES surrounded on every side – by the MAJORITY…
· And inoculated with POPULAR THOUGHT!
· And Christmas is a prime example of this.
AT THE SAME TIME – what we heard in the sermon last week is that there’s FREEDOM in CELEBRATING – the birth of Christ, or His resurrection….or
His eventual second coming…!
· We are FREE to WORSHIP God – IN Christ…
· AND SO - - there’s freedom.
· Freedom to celebrate…
· BUT
· If you remember – the sermon last week highlighted – THE REALITY of Christmas…
· IN LIGHT OF – the world’s response to it.
AND BECAUSE – THAT – was the focus….
· It leaves us THIS WEEK – with this….
SLIDE: Sermon Title
A Christmas Elephant – In the Room of This World
· Based on the REALITY of Christmas – and the World’s Response to It…
There REALLY is a Christmas Elephant in the Room of This World!
And based off of THAT Elephant – we’re going to be able to ARM ourselves today…
· Arm ourselves with some TRUTHS to wield against the world.
· We just recently came out of looking at the ARMOR of GOD…
· Well today – we’ll get to maybe put some Arrows in our Quiver…
The first thing we need to do is UNWRAP the Christmas Elephant in the Room of the World…
· We’re not gonna save the PLOT TWIST for the end…
· We need to get right to it – SO – we can properly PREPARE ourselves …
· So we can properly ARM ourselves…
· And so - - WHAT IS IT?
What’s the Christmas Elephant in the Room of This World??
SLIDE:
The lost soul that celebrates Christmas, celebrates its own separation from God.
In other words - the lost soul that celebrates Christmas - celebrates its own destruction...
· NOW – BECAUSE that’s true…
· WE - can ARM ourselves with the implications OF that truth!
• I have 3 kids at home, and when it comes time during our day for A SNACK…
· Which actually happens probably 27 times a day…
· Most times, it turns into – 20 questions!
• Why?...
• Because…
1.
My kids can be picky eaters…
2. My kids don’t like to give a lot of detail when telling you what they want to eat…
• It might sound like this…
• “Dad, I’m hungry…”
me: Ok, you’re hungry - makes sense…BUT what do you want to eat?
Tia: I want food…
Me: I know…BUT WHAT do you want to eat?
Tia: What do we have?
Me: We have, this, and that, this, and that…
Tia: I don’t want any of that… can have gum?
Me: No – you’re hungry, you need FOOD, BUT what do you want?
TIA: Never mind
OK- you get the point…
• A lot of times, kids like to leave out – Important information!
• And sometimes we adults will do the same…
· Sometimes we leave out the IMPORTANT information…
• When we deal with IMPORTANT issues, and yet someone leaves us with only GENERALITIES...we seek to dig deeper!
· We seek to ASK the questions we need to ask…to gain the info we need!
· But even THAT can be a problem for us!
· A LOT of times – we as a people – just DON’T ask questions… (Penguins of Madagascar Movies – “We question NOTHING!!”)
· It’s this IDEA that we just – DO as we’re told and we DO NOT question things…
- And I think this can be VERY prevalent in things that are SOO common to us – we just GO WITH THE FLOW (HENCE – the “Not So Ordinary Christmas Sermon” – from last week)
• The problem is - when something becomes SOOOO COMMON, such as Christmas, it can be easy for us to FOLLOW the crowds and fail to UNWRAP the Elephants in the room…
SO - today, we're going to UNWRAP the Christmas Elephants in the ROOM…and ARM ourselves for the benefit of the world!
WE KNOW - that - a lost soul that celebrates Christmas, is celebrating its own separation from God (destruction / death)
And SO - what do we do about it?
We ARM ourselves with QUESTIONS...
QUESTIONS to ask those LOST SOULS around us - that are SO close to our hearts!!
The first ELEPHANT we’ll look to UNWRAP - the first question we’ll look to ARM ourselves with is this...
In speaking to that LOST SOUL....we ask
SLIDE:
Yes you’ve heard of the birth of Jesus, but do you know why He was even born?
Why did Jesus come?
WHY was He born?
Answer?
Let’s focus on 2 REASONS...
Because SIN separated us FROM God...
Because BEING separated from God - WE ARE - DEAD!
MANY, many people do not believe this...
The world certainly does not!
SIN came into the world - Adam and Eve CHOSE to SIN and in doing so - USHERED sin to HUMANITY!
RESULT? 2 of them...
SIN - SPIRITUALLY separates us from God! - - SPIRITUAL REALITY!!
AND - We see the PHYSICAL representation of this - in the GARDEN!!
What happened?
Here we have a PHYSICAL separation - REPRESENTING the Spiritual separation
Prior to the FALL of MANKIND - we know another fall happened as well...
WHat was it?
The Fall of Satan and the Angels...
A Spiritual FALL -
Spiritual forces - FALL / separated from God!
And THEN....a physical representation of that happens - IN THE GARDEN!!
But that wasn’t the only RESULT of SIN!
Romans 5:12 told us that - something spread to ALL men…what was it?
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