Title: Those Who Rejoice at Christmas
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Title - Those Who Celebrated Christmas
Text - Luke 2:1-14
Today is Christmas when all mankind greets each other with Merry Christmas as one.
We also hope that today we will be able to say Merry Christmas with the people next to us.
When James Irwin landed on the moon after traveling in space on Apollo 15, the Bible verse that came to his mind constantly is Psalm 19:1-4.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament reveals the work of his hands.
Day speaks to day, and night gives knowledge to night; there is no language, no word, no sound,
His voice goes through all the earth, and his words reach the ends of the earth; God has pitched a tent in heaven for the sun.
It is said that while memorizing these words, he looked at the earth from the moon and looked at the stars around him.
Perhaps just imagining this will excite us.
When he returned from his mission, he looked out the window and saw a star that looked like a small ball, and it was Earth. That's when I remembered the words of John 3:16, "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." Did you love and choose human beings living on the earth, and did you humble yourself to become a human being and come into the world to save them?
Looking at it that way, the earth has never felt so beautiful.
Today is the day that our Lord is incarnated as a human being of this world.
He chose a stable in the outskirts of Bethlehem as the place to be born.
Look at verses 6-7 of the main text.
When Joseph and Mary returned to their hometown of Bethlehem to register, they found an empty room. I go here and there
There was no way to get an empty room. His wife's stomach was getting fuller, and Joseph, feeling anxious, first went to the stable to avoid even the cold dew.
In such a situation, she suddenly went into labor, and Mary had to give birth in the stable.
They cleaned the manger that contained the animal's food and laid the baby there.
He was born in a stable full of bugs and stench.
And the angel spoke of the birth of Jesus Christ, the God of God, in this stable, good news for all the people.
Look at verses 10-11.
Dear saints,
God had a purpose in creating man. I wanted to work as a partner with God. I wanted to love, serve, and fellowship with God.
But man did it with his own heart. I broke my promise.
As a result, humans began to feel anxious, conflicted, and anxious.
There was sorrow, there was pain, there was death.
Nevertheless, God did not give up on humans and continued to love them.
In order to restore such a human being, as a way to restore it to its original form, God Himself lowered himself to the level of a human being and decided to come into the world, and he chose that region and people. As a result, the place he chose to come to is the stable, Bethlehem.
You know the true Christmas joy when you believe that He came to save mankind.
However, many did not believe that Jesus was coming, and few greeted them with joy and dancing.
The characters appearing in the Christmas story recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are just ten numbers.
At this time, as we approach Christmas in 2010, we would like to examine who truly received and rejoiced in Him who came as the Savior through the text.