CHRISTMAS THEOLOGY (2 OF 3)
Scripture: John 1:14-17, John 118
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Christmas Theology (2 of 3)
Series: Christmas Unwrapped
James Merritt
John 1:14-18
Introduction
1. There are some things that are facts that are absolutely true, but they are just hard to believe. Honey does not ever spoil. You can enjoy honey that is ten-thousand years old. That is why my favorite term for Teresa is ''honey'' because I could be married to her for ten-thousand years. I am more in love than ever.
A full head of human hair is strong enough to support twelve tons (I think I am down to about a half a ton). Dead people can get goosebumps. I know that is true. I know I have seen that happen to many people during my preaching.
2. If you could fold a piece of paper forty-two times it would reach the moon. The movie, first man, just came out and I learned this. Neil Armstrong had to go through u.s. Customs in Honolulu, Hawaii, on his way back from the moon. Some things are just hard to believe though they are true.
3. That is why it should not surprise us that thoughtful people find so many things about Jesus hard to believe. Take the cross for example. Many people find it hard to believe that one man, dying on a roman cross, atoned for the sins of the entire world. Take the empty tomb. The resurrection is a stumbling-block too high for many to get over, because nobody comes back from the dead. Take the virgin birth. Nobody has difficulty with the fact that Jesus was born, but born of a virgin? Without a human father or artificial insemination? That is a biological impossibility.
4. The hardest thing to believe with Jesus is not how he got here or what he did, either when he was alive or after he died. The real difficulty is Jesus himself and who he was. The hard message for many to swallow is not the good Friday message of atonement, or the Easter message of resurrection, but the Christmas message of incarnation.
5. This is the real stumbling block of Christianity. To say that god became man is where Jews, Muslims, Unitarians, Je ...
Series: Christmas Unwrapped
James Merritt
John 1:14-18
Introduction
1. There are some things that are facts that are absolutely true, but they are just hard to believe. Honey does not ever spoil. You can enjoy honey that is ten-thousand years old. That is why my favorite term for Teresa is ''honey'' because I could be married to her for ten-thousand years. I am more in love than ever.
A full head of human hair is strong enough to support twelve tons (I think I am down to about a half a ton). Dead people can get goosebumps. I know that is true. I know I have seen that happen to many people during my preaching.
2. If you could fold a piece of paper forty-two times it would reach the moon. The movie, first man, just came out and I learned this. Neil Armstrong had to go through u.s. Customs in Honolulu, Hawaii, on his way back from the moon. Some things are just hard to believe though they are true.
3. That is why it should not surprise us that thoughtful people find so many things about Jesus hard to believe. Take the cross for example. Many people find it hard to believe that one man, dying on a roman cross, atoned for the sins of the entire world. Take the empty tomb. The resurrection is a stumbling-block too high for many to get over, because nobody comes back from the dead. Take the virgin birth. Nobody has difficulty with the fact that Jesus was born, but born of a virgin? Without a human father or artificial insemination? That is a biological impossibility.
4. The hardest thing to believe with Jesus is not how he got here or what he did, either when he was alive or after he died. The real difficulty is Jesus himself and who he was. The hard message for many to swallow is not the good Friday message of atonement, or the Easter message of resurrection, but the Christmas message of incarnation.
5. This is the real stumbling block of Christianity. To say that god became man is where Jews, Muslims, Unitarians, Je ...
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