Merry Xmas? NOT!

John 3:17 “For God sent not his Son into the world not to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

Sometimes we tend to view sin mainly in terms of actions: doing this or not doing that. But sin, according to Scripture, is mainly a condition which produces sinful actions. We are born with this condition, spiritually sick and ruined, helpless to heal ourselves.

Christmas is the celebration of our “spiritual immunization,” our complete cure for the consequences of this deadly condition. We have the condition but we experience none of its eternal effects. We have been “immunized” by the love of God, through Jesus Christ.

It is because we have experienced grace first hand that we celebrate Christmas. That’s why we refuse to remove the “Christ” from Christmas. To remove God’s grace would be to alter the formula for the world’s forgiveness and render it useless.

More than a child was born in a stable in Jerusalem. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to remove forever what we could never purchase on our own.

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. John 1:14-16

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:17

This is the real Christmas celebration in the heart of every born again believer, that, because of God’s amazing grace, the Son of God was given, to usher in a New Testament, a Testament of His love whereby we, through Jesus, are free from the effects of our sinful condition.

Merry Christmas!!