Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)
For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
There are very few
Christmas Bible passages, especially from the Old Testament, more well known
than this one.
We know it speaks about
Jesus:
· It tells us something about His authority[1]
· It tells us something about His Personality[2]
· It tells us something about His ability[3] and then
· It tells us about His deity[4]
The Bible says, For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given, Unto us…
All that happened
concerning Christ was direction toward us
I. HIS THOUGHTS
WERE TOWARD US
Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)
For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to
give you an expected end.
What’s amazing is that
the Bible says He knows our thoughts and yet He still has good thoughts toward
us.
He isn’t thinking ill of
you.
He isn’t thinking of how
He may harm you.
He isn’t thinking how he
can make you:
· Miserable
· Afraid or
· Anxious
God’s thoughts toward us
are thoughts of peace and not evil.
He says He is thinking
about how He can bring us to “an expected end.”
That is an end that is
with Him in glory forever.
II. HIS FAVOR
WAS TOWARD US
Isaiah 60:10c (KJV)
…in my favour have I had
mercy on thee.
Some scholars believe
there could have been six to seven billion people on the earth in the days of
Noah’s Flood.[6]
Out of all of those
billions of people, God picked one family to show favor to, and gave them the
ark in which to hide from judgment.
Thousands of years later,
the population of the earth has once again exploded into the billions and God
once again chooses to show favor.
This time the His favor
was in the form of the Saviour.
And this time, the grace
was directed toward us.
You and me
Any and every one of us
who will believe Him.
III. HIS GIFT
WAS TOWARD US
For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given,
2 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)
says,
Thanks be unto God for
his unspeakable gift.
Christmas is the best
time in the world to teach a person, especially children, about the gift of
salvation.
The gift is:
1. Purchased by someone else – sometimes it is very
costly
2. Given out of love – we don’t have to give
the gifts, we want to
3. Impossible to earn – we don’t have to do
anything to get it or to keep it
4. Only enjoyed when received –
the gift is ours when under the tree, but not a benefit to us until we take it
and open it
Salvation is
1. Purchased at the cost of the cross of Jesus
Christ
4. Must be received – But as many as received
Him, to them gave He the power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name.[9]
Which leads me to this
final thought,
IV. HIS
SALVATION WAS TOWARD US
The Bible says, Romans
10:13 (KJV)
For whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Underneath your
Christmas tree there will be gifts with all sorts of different names on them.
Under mine will be gifts
marked for:
· Anita
· Bohannan
· Kimberly
· Caleb
· Lisa
· Jared
· James
· Joshua
· Kaylee
· Zacharias
· Mom
· Dad and maybe even
· Marvin
God has placed there a
gift marked for “whosoever.”
· It’s packaged in the Bible and
· It’s wrapped up in messages like this one
All you have to do is:
· Accept it as your own.
· Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you sin
· Call upon His name and
You will be saved.
[5] Genesis 6:8
[6] Since Jesus said that
the days of the coming of the Son of man will be like the days when the Flood
came, that the population may have been similar to today. It is certainly
possible, given the life expectancy of pre-Flood man, that the populations were
much greater than evolutionists believe.
[7] John 3:16
[8] Titus 3:5 (KJV)
Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
[9] John 1:12
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