Celebrate Your Messiah (Luke 2:8-20)
Gary McManus, 12/24/2020Part of the Christmas series, preached at a Midweek Meeting service
Christmas Eve, December 24 2020,
Celebrate YOUR Messiah
All season we have considered expectation,
anticipation, promise and fulfillment.
What do we expect? To what do we look forward
at Christmas and in the coming new year?
In preparation for the Christmas Eve message, Pastor asked:
“I can’t wait for Christmas”. It got two and a half million pages.
Pastor even checked the phrase “Christmas will be here soon enough”.
It had only 700,000 pages.
The internet is more “I can’t wait for Christmas” than anything else.
What about you?
Between “I can’t wait for Christmas” and “Christmas will be here soon enough”,
where are you?
Do you still retain any of a child’s anticipation for Christmas no matter your age? Can anyone really get “overexcited”? That is a strange word.
I pray that Christmas for you, as a follower of Jesus, may have excitement and anticipation for the celebration of the coming of Jesus Messiah.
Does it matter when we celebrate? Is December 25th THE day?
That Jesus WAS BORN is THE MOST IMPORTANT FACT.
It is important that WE, the followers of Jesus, celebrate the fact that Jesus was born. Over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament were fulfilled in/by Jesus.
God had a plan. God told us that God had a plan through the prophets.
God made good (is making good) on ALL of God’s promises concerning you and me and Jesus Messiah! DO you feel like celebrating yet?
Jesus wasn’t just any baby born.
Jesus was the Lord God Almighty. (John 14:9)
Our God didn’t just create human life, God lived it.
Jesus would have to experience the worst of human experiences,
including death. Jesus experienced the worst death.
God took the human route to get to you and me.
This is God’s love for you and me.
John 3:16: God so loved the world that God gave. . .
God so loved you and me that God gave God’s son, Jesus.
If you and I will trust God through Jesus—if you will live by faith,
you’ll live with God now and forever.
God came to take down any and all barriers YOU have to a relationship with our God.
You only need to say yes to this Jesus Messiah.
Messiah has come to you and come for you.
This is what we Christians celebrate at Christmas.
Christmas is really a celebration of ONE gift.
Jesus Messiah is/was God’s gift to you and for you.
You can have a relationship with God Himself through this Jesus child born,
Jesus Messiah. Amen.
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