Follow Along with the Message

Heaven’s Christmas Production

Pastor Tom Lundeen

This was the only angelic Christmas announcement that involved more than  angel (note Luke 2:13, 15), and also the only  to more than one person.

It was a  of angels giving God’s message to a  of people, and it was quite a production (note Luke 2:8-14).

1. The Truth of Christmas is for  People

Note Luke 2:8

The great good news of Christmas isn’t just for the  and powerful.

It’s not for  people.

No one is excluded, , or forgotten (note Luke 2:10).

2. The Truth of Christmas Produces  Responses

A. —the shepherds caught a  of heaven and just a glance at who God really is (note Luke 2:9). The gospel ( news) only becomes good when you and I recognize the not so good news, that you and I are people with spiritually defective DNA who’ve offended a holy and perfect God, and we need to humbly  and say ‘YES!’ to Jesus as Lord.

B. —the shepherd’s initial response of fear shifted to joy when they realized that this holy God had not come in judgment, but had come to  their greatest problem… (note Luke 2:10)

3. The Truth of Christmas Requires a  

Note Luke 2:11

Whenever you or I hear the message of Jesus...it is always for the purpose of calling us to make a choice, to  what we’re going to do with Jesus.

• ...He uses His creation to constantly remind us that He is the  (note Psalm 19:1-4; Romans 1:20).
• He gave us a  so we understand (despite the efforts of the culture to deny this reality) that there is right and wrong, and what we have done is wrong/sinned (note Romans 2:15).
• And then He has revealed Himself through His truth/Word and through Jesus (note John 1:1-5, 10-13).

We are all responsible to respond to the  God gives us.

Note Luke 2:15-18, 20

When you  meet Jesus and say ‘YES!’ to Him as Lord, your life will begin to change.

Christmas matters because:

• Have you embraced the truth about Christmas and have you responded to the  to meet and say ‘YES!’ to Jesus as Lord?
• (John 3:16, AMP) - For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. 

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