God's Final Word (Christmas)
Robert Dawson
Hebrews 1:1-3
The Christmas story is really a fun story, at least from the outside and not having lived it. It is an amazing story. You have...
- Angels all over the place delivering birth announcements
- Drama and suspense. Will Joseph believe Mary and take her to be his wife or will he refuse to believe and send her away. Tune in tomorrow and watch as Ancient Nazareth turns.
- Shepherds, sheep, angel choirs, a mystery star in the sky, the barn, the manager and the magi.
It is a cool story. It is well-known and easy to learn. We can see all the moving parts in our nativity scenes and Christmas pageants/plays. While the story is well-known, primarily because of the Christmas season, it doesn't mean that people clearly see, know and understand what the story is all about.
We can easily get absorbed in the sugary sweetness of the nativity, the images we have in our minds, and lose sight of the magnitude of that moment, what really happened and what it means for us.
Just a cursory reading will show that the NT doesn't allot a great deal of time and space to what we consider to be the Christmas story (Shepherds, stars, magi and the manger). That's the story only read in opening chapters of Matthew and Luke. We don't find the Christmas story presented in that way anywhere else.
While the NT doesn't expend a large amount of space for the nativity story, the NT does ''spend a lot of time looking back and showing us the importance of the incarnation from God's perspective'' and how it fits the great salvation narrative of the Bible and what the incarnation really meant and means for us.
Today, I want us to look at a NT passage that, while it may not tell us the story of Christmas in the traditional way, shows the glory of Christmas because it reveals to us the glory of Christ.
It reminds us of who that frail baby in the manger was, is and why He came. It presents Jesus Christ as Savior and reigning ...
Robert Dawson
Hebrews 1:1-3
The Christmas story is really a fun story, at least from the outside and not having lived it. It is an amazing story. You have...
- Angels all over the place delivering birth announcements
- Drama and suspense. Will Joseph believe Mary and take her to be his wife or will he refuse to believe and send her away. Tune in tomorrow and watch as Ancient Nazareth turns.
- Shepherds, sheep, angel choirs, a mystery star in the sky, the barn, the manager and the magi.
It is a cool story. It is well-known and easy to learn. We can see all the moving parts in our nativity scenes and Christmas pageants/plays. While the story is well-known, primarily because of the Christmas season, it doesn't mean that people clearly see, know and understand what the story is all about.
We can easily get absorbed in the sugary sweetness of the nativity, the images we have in our minds, and lose sight of the magnitude of that moment, what really happened and what it means for us.
Just a cursory reading will show that the NT doesn't allot a great deal of time and space to what we consider to be the Christmas story (Shepherds, stars, magi and the manger). That's the story only read in opening chapters of Matthew and Luke. We don't find the Christmas story presented in that way anywhere else.
While the NT doesn't expend a large amount of space for the nativity story, the NT does ''spend a lot of time looking back and showing us the importance of the incarnation from God's perspective'' and how it fits the great salvation narrative of the Bible and what the incarnation really meant and means for us.
Today, I want us to look at a NT passage that, while it may not tell us the story of Christmas in the traditional way, shows the glory of Christmas because it reveals to us the glory of Christ.
It reminds us of who that frail baby in the manger was, is and why He came. It presents Jesus Christ as Savior and reigning ...
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