A Thought For Your Christmas GATHERING

This week your families will gather to celebrate Christmas. Your children and grandchildren will be coming home for the holidays. As your pastor, I hope that each of you will have a delightful time together. Perhaps you can make your family's Christmas gathering both enjoyable and spiritually profitable. Maybe, while everyone's mind is entertaining thoughts of the incarnation and birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, you can make for yourself an opportunity to tell who Christ is, why he came, what he did, and where he is now.

There is no better way to do that than to give an explanation of the message that Gabriel delivered to Mary. The angel declared to the young virgin. "He Shall Be Great." in those words we have an inspired description of our Savior's person and work. Jesus Christ is treat in Himself. He is more than the babe of Bethlehem. He is the God-man Mediator. He is God the Eternal Son, and he is the perfect, sinless man. Jesus Christ is Great in His Wondrous Works. While upon the earth, he accomplished a perfect righteousness as our representative. He died as our Substitute, satisfying every claim of divine justice against us. He arose from the grave, demonstrating our justification. And he is seated upon the throne of glory as the King of Grace giving salvation to whom he will by sovereign power.

Perhaps the Holy Spirit will enable you to point some in your household to Christ this Christmas, by declaring unto them the great salvation of Jesus Christ.

Don Fortner