Christmas Sermonette
The greatest enjoyment of Christmas is reserved for those who, through salvation, have a personal relationship with the One whose name capsulates Christmas. Amazingly enough, the word, “Christmas” is the most popular word of this time of the year yet, in many instances, the most abused word. Christmas is abused when meaning gets lost in activity. The Christmas pace is exhausting for we have the tendency to allow the holiday aspect of Christmas to dominate our activity. If its important to see Christ in Christmas, its doubly important to see Christ in Christians!
Luke 19:10 fits in perfectly with every “Christmas Text” we reference this time of the year. Please not the following outline:
The Meaning of Christmas – “For the Son of man is come…” The birth of Christ, Jesus, the Son of man, and God incarnated in human flesh.
The Mission of Christmas – “…to seek and to save…” Jesus came on a “seek and save” mission! It is well that we remember that the “manger scene” would become a “Calvary scene” including two visitations. “And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.” – Luke 2:16; “And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.” – Luke 23:33 The success of the “seek and save” mission had to include the sacrificial death of the Lamb born at Bethlehem.
The Miracle of Christmas – “…that which was lost.”
The greatest miracle did not occur on the 32nd Street but rather on a “dead end street”! Salvation through Jesus Christ takes the “lost problem of the present” and turns it into a “lost problem of the past”. We who are saved have the assurance that “am lost” is now “was lost”! The Redemption of the lost is the miracle of Christmas for that means the mission of Christmas is accomplished!
Chuck Peters – 12/17/2022
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