Dec. 09, 2013 Monday Message:
“You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him
Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the
Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!” (Luke 1:31-33)
As
Gabriel was speaking to Mary, she must have been filled with excitement and
breathless anticipation of her part in bringing the Son of God to earth. For
her, it’s the beginning of a new adventure; for mankind, it’s the solution to
an ongoing problem, a 4,000-year-old problem.
Mankind had been fighting sin like a “Whac-A-Mole” arcade game. A
sin pops up, you whack it with the mallet, but another one immediately pops up
somewhere else. It seems like there’s no end to it!
Well, actually, there IS an end to it. In heaven, there is no sin.
Also no disease, no suffering, no hunger, no poverty, etc. In other words, all
the problems of this life will be solved in the next reality.
So we just need to figure out how to get to heaven. What gives us
assurance of salvation? The correct answer is Jesus! He said, “No one can come
to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6b)
Jesus is God’s gift to us, a free gift, and faith in who Jesus is
and what He can do is confirmation of our reservation in paradise.
Another 2,000 years have passed, and we’re no closer to
eradicating sin than we were when Jesus walked the earth. Sin was and is a big
problem – but now we have a bigger solution – Jesus – and at Christmas time we
celebrate the Son of God coming to earth to rescue us!
Norton Lawellin
Jesus in the City Fellowship (JICF) meets every Sunday at 10:30am
in the North end (gym) of the Oliver Ministry Building, 2647 Bloomington Ave.,
Minneapolis. This Sunday, Dec. 15, special guests “People of Hope” lead
worship, and Pastor Michael continues our Christmas journey.
NL
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