CHRISTMAS DOXOLOGY (3 OF 3)
Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11
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Christmas Doxology (3 of 3)
Series: Christmas Unwrapped
James Merritt
Philippians 2:5-11
Introduction
1. There are several things you can always count on seeing during the Christmas season. Houses covered up with Christmas lights, highways covered up with Christmas traffic, malls covered up with Christmas shoppers, fields covered up with Christmas trees, kids covered up with Christmas toys, either on a bumper sticker, or a car, or a billboard on the highway, or printed on a sweatshirt you will see these words, ''let's put Christ back into Christmas.''
2. I always get somewhat amused by that sign, because if you truly understand Christmas then you understand you can't take Christ out of Christmas, because if you do it really isn't Christmas. It is like saying, ''let's put the tomato back in tomato soup,'' or ''let's put the bananas back into banana pudding,'' or ''let's put the baseball back into baseball.'' when the truth is you really can't have one without the other.
3. That is why we have been in a series that we've called ''Christmas unwrapped.'' far too many people unwrap Christmas gifts without ever unwrapping the gift of Christmas. The earliest record of any celebration of the birth of Jesus dates to about 300 years after he died. It was because of his birth and only because of his birth that Christmas became a holiday tradition.
4. It really is quite amazing that all over the world billions of people will stop everything they are doing to celebrate this son of a carpenter, born in a truck-stop town that only had one red-light, to a teenage girl and a young man that wasn't even the biological father.
5. He never wrote one word that was recorded, never spoke to more than a few thousand people at one time and he never traveled more than thirty miles away from his home. Yet, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week there will be millions of people studying what he said, reading the words that he spoke, and worshipping him as god and th ...
Series: Christmas Unwrapped
James Merritt
Philippians 2:5-11
Introduction
1. There are several things you can always count on seeing during the Christmas season. Houses covered up with Christmas lights, highways covered up with Christmas traffic, malls covered up with Christmas shoppers, fields covered up with Christmas trees, kids covered up with Christmas toys, either on a bumper sticker, or a car, or a billboard on the highway, or printed on a sweatshirt you will see these words, ''let's put Christ back into Christmas.''
2. I always get somewhat amused by that sign, because if you truly understand Christmas then you understand you can't take Christ out of Christmas, because if you do it really isn't Christmas. It is like saying, ''let's put the tomato back in tomato soup,'' or ''let's put the bananas back into banana pudding,'' or ''let's put the baseball back into baseball.'' when the truth is you really can't have one without the other.
3. That is why we have been in a series that we've called ''Christmas unwrapped.'' far too many people unwrap Christmas gifts without ever unwrapping the gift of Christmas. The earliest record of any celebration of the birth of Jesus dates to about 300 years after he died. It was because of his birth and only because of his birth that Christmas became a holiday tradition.
4. It really is quite amazing that all over the world billions of people will stop everything they are doing to celebrate this son of a carpenter, born in a truck-stop town that only had one red-light, to a teenage girl and a young man that wasn't even the biological father.
5. He never wrote one word that was recorded, never spoke to more than a few thousand people at one time and he never traveled more than thirty miles away from his home. Yet, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week there will be millions of people studying what he said, reading the words that he spoke, and worshipping him as god and th ...
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