Merry Christmas! Christians and even non-Christians around the world celebrate Christmas as the day when Jesus, the Messiah, was born in the town of Bethlehem. It all happened in a glorious moment.
Christmas is a time of excitement and a time of connection. Let us always remember that it is a time of the celebration of the birth of Jesus. We may have a very cluttered life and forget what the purpose of life is all about. Christmas itself can even be a distraction from worshiping the Christ-child. Let us always remember that Jesus really is the reason for the season.
At the time of the First Coming or Advent, the eternal Son of God took to himself full humanity. This means that he became a man without ceasing to be God. John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” The eternal Son of God became a human being. The Son is uniquely the God-man. That is why the Son of God is unique and the very heart of Christmas.
This is the climax of the storyline of the Bible. Adam and Eve disobeyed God; God promised a descendent who would crush the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15). Jesus is that descendent.
Matthew opens his Gospel by boldly declaring Jesus is the Messiah (Matthew 1:1). Paul writes, “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship” (Galatians 4:4–5).
Christ took “the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” (Phil 2:7). He was called Immanuel or “God with us” (Matt 1:23). God himself, in the Christ-child, condescended and entered into our hopelessness to rescue people from their sins.
Jesus Christ is the virgin-born Savior of the world and his birth is the most important arrival in the history of the world. God has provided a rescue plan through Jesus’s death for our sins and resurrection (1 Cor. 15:3-4). Make this a special Christmas day by trusting the Lord Jesus Christ alone for forgiveness.
Christmas means hope for you and me, despite all our unending failings. Merry Christmas to you, and all glory to Immanuel, the God who is with us, and will be with us forever.
Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:
He appeared in the flesh,
was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
was taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16
-Pastor Seboe