December 23, 2023 Messages

How God Gives Us Christmas

From Luke 2:1-11

Message Theme:

Worldly added to personal can produce God’s saving .

1. Worldly operate in the of God.

📖 Luke 2:1 ESV In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

📖 Luke 2:3-4 ESV And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David

📖 Micah 5:2 ESV But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

2. Personal are often the to God.

📖 Luke 2:5-6 ESV to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.

📖 Luke 2:23-24 ESV (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

📖 Luke 2:7 ESV And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

doesn’t show up in the of but in the of .

📖 Isaiah 53:5 ESV he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

3. Have I His saving ?

📖 Luke 2:8-11 ESV And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Sermon in a Sentence:

Jesus came to us under the of this and experienced the of our so that we could know His saving in our .