What’s Most Important About Christmas?

What’s Most Important About Christmas?

Out of all the sights and sounds of Christmas

what is most important to you?

Is it the date of His birth? 

If so, which one? 

December 25^th?   January 7^th?   April 17^th? 

the 15^th day of Tishri (the 7^th Jewish month the Feast of Tabernacles)?

June 17^th (according to the latest astronomy computer charts)?

Is it the celebration? 

The decorations and gifts?

What is most important?

Is it the uniting of family and friends?

Is it the food?

The time off work to take a vacation?

Or, the Christmas programs at churches and on TV?

I have now taken a few days to look at Christmas

and I asked myself the question…

What is the most important thing about Christmas?

 I spent a lot of time searching Christmas on the internet,

 but I did not find it there.

So I ask…Where could I find the answer 

 to what is most important?

It is too simple…

“God’s Word”

What does He tell us?

In the Gospels of Mark and John,

we don’t find the story of Jesus’ birth.

But John does say, “In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning…

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only,

who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:1, 2, 14 NIV

In the accounts of Matthew and Luke,

 we see Jesus’ birth fulfills God’s words to the prophets.

Matthew gives us the genealogy of Jesus starting with Abraham;

showing Jesus is the God of the Jews.

Luke gives us the genealogy of Jesus starting with Adam;

showing Jesus is the God of all mankind.

As wonderful and important as all these things are,

 the center of it all is…The virgin birth!

God became flesh, like you and I.

God came down to our level, so we can know Him.

Until that time, no man had seen God.

As God/Man, He showed us how to 

overcome fear, suffering, and death.

The most important thing is… 

God came in the flesh, like you and I,

 so we might have eternal life.

He is the Savior of the World!

Scripture Reading

John 1:1-18 NIV

1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

6 There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John.

7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light,

so that through him all men might believe.

8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.  

10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,

the world did not recognize him.

11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name,

he gave the right to become children of God—

13 children born not of natural descent,

nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,

who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said,

'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'"

16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

18 No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, 

who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

1 John 1:1-4 NIV

1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,

which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched

 — this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared;

we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life,

which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard,

so that you also may have fellowship with us.

And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

4 We write this to make our joy complete.