The Christmas Gifts: LIFE
The message of Christmas is the message of new life.In the midst of this Advent season in 2022, we will seek to grow deeper in our understanding of the free gifts available to us through Christ and his coming. Gifts we cannot earn and do not deserve.Today we focus on the gift of Life.
Matthew 1:18-21
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Why did Jesus come? Why was the ultimate gift of Christmas given?
To save people like you and me, so that no one would ever have to be lost in sin ever again.
Perhaps one reason the Messiah came as a baby is because, each year, we would peer into the manger, celebrate His birth, and think about new life.John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Ask Jesus why He came?“…so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.”
“If Christmas is just a nice legend, in a sense you are on your own.But if Christmas is true, then you can be saved by grace.”-Timothy Keller