WHERE DOES GOD FIT IN? (2 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Luke 1:26-45
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Where Does God Fit In? (2 of 4)
Series: A Straight-up Christmas
Jeff Strite
Luke 1:26-45
A Sunday School teacher had her students put a manger scene in a corner of her classroom. It was the Christmas season, and her pupils were excited as they set up the model barn and covered the floor with real straw and then arranged the clay figures of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the Wise Men, and all of the animals - all of the clay figures faced the little crib with a tiny doll represented baby Jesus.
When the scene was all set up one boy kept going back and standing in front of it totally engrossed by what he saw. But there also a puzzled expression on his face. And the teacher finally asked him, ''So, what do are you thinking? Is there something you'd like to know?''
The boy kept his eyes glued on the manger scene, and slowly said, ''What I'd like to know is, where does God fit in?''
As I was working on today's sermon, I started to ask myself that very question: Where DOES God fit into this story? I mean... it's fairly obvious that the baby in story is the Son of God. Or, as the Gospel of John tells us: ''In the beginning was the Word (that's Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'' John 1:1
SO... PROBLEM SOLVED! (pause) Or is it?
You see, GOD was way more involved in this story than just being the baby in the manger. For that simple scene - with Mary and Joseph and the baby living in an obscure smelly barn, surrounded by shepherds and sheep and goats and calves... and all of it taking place in UNimportant little town called Bethlehem. For all that to happen (for just that little scene)
A lot of planning had to take place.
A lot of planning by God.
1 Peter 1:20 says ''(Jesus) was foreknown before the foundation of the world
Galatians 4:4 tells us that ''when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son''
This thing had been in the works for centuries. Everything in that Bethlehem story had been meticulously planned ...
Series: A Straight-up Christmas
Jeff Strite
Luke 1:26-45
A Sunday School teacher had her students put a manger scene in a corner of her classroom. It was the Christmas season, and her pupils were excited as they set up the model barn and covered the floor with real straw and then arranged the clay figures of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the Wise Men, and all of the animals - all of the clay figures faced the little crib with a tiny doll represented baby Jesus.
When the scene was all set up one boy kept going back and standing in front of it totally engrossed by what he saw. But there also a puzzled expression on his face. And the teacher finally asked him, ''So, what do are you thinking? Is there something you'd like to know?''
The boy kept his eyes glued on the manger scene, and slowly said, ''What I'd like to know is, where does God fit in?''
As I was working on today's sermon, I started to ask myself that very question: Where DOES God fit into this story? I mean... it's fairly obvious that the baby in story is the Son of God. Or, as the Gospel of John tells us: ''In the beginning was the Word (that's Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'' John 1:1
SO... PROBLEM SOLVED! (pause) Or is it?
You see, GOD was way more involved in this story than just being the baby in the manger. For that simple scene - with Mary and Joseph and the baby living in an obscure smelly barn, surrounded by shepherds and sheep and goats and calves... and all of it taking place in UNimportant little town called Bethlehem. For all that to happen (for just that little scene)
A lot of planning had to take place.
A lot of planning by God.
1 Peter 1:20 says ''(Jesus) was foreknown before the foundation of the world
Galatians 4:4 tells us that ''when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son''
This thing had been in the works for centuries. Everything in that Bethlehem story had been meticulously planned ...
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