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| David Ray Jr. |
This was the Introduction I wrote for the 2015 Christmas Program at Grace Bible Church, Sangerville, Maine. This wasn't read, because our Pastor, David Ray Jr., prepared a better opening.
However, this says much about God's plan to save all mankind from their sin. And if it hadn't been for the strange birth of God becoming a Man, we never would have had the Cross to celebrate at what we call Easter.
They Missed Christmas
Introduction:
Before God ever created the world, He knew
everything that would happen on earth. He knew that man would sin and destroy
the perfect world God created. Man would reject Him and rebel and sin would
rule. Because of this flaw, God had to
destroy the sin and that meant destroying the sinners. But God so loved His
wonderful creation, He had a plan to save everyone from their sins. That plan
was that He would come and be destroyed in the place of all the people God
lovingly created for His pleasure.
Over 2000 years ago, God fulfilled part of that plan
when He became a man, born of a virgin and living here among us for 33 and a
half years. Then He died the death that sin deserves so he could allow us back
into His perfection again.
On the day we call
Christmas, we remember the day that God came to earth. God came to earth as a
small, poor baby and that was just the beginning of the life God planned for
Himself. The story is strange and beautiful, full of worship, and anger, and
love and murder. Several people knew and embraced the miracle of the first
Christmas, and yet at the same time, many rejected it and missed Christmas.
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