Celebrate Jesus

 

    Jesus' birthday is right around the corner.  It is the time of year were we are already in a mood of gratitude after Thanksgiving.  We need to use that to focus on the real reason that we celebrate Christmas.  It is celebrating the birth of Jesus.  It is a day that we remember that His birth brought universal joy into the world.

    To remember the birth of Jesus also reminds us of hid death on the cross.  He came into the world to save it, but that meant that he had to die for our sins too.  Sin is sin.  That truth never changes. He is the only one who could fix our broken world by giving us a way out of the clutches of sin.

    Anything good that we have in this world is from God given to us through the Holy Spirit and blessings.  The message that matters is that the Trinity is three separate entities, but one God.  They work together as one: perfect synchrony.  We can't fully comprehend it because we have never experienced perfection, but who they are and how they work is another truth.

   To celebrate Jesus is to celebrate God's Word.  It is not taking one or two scriptures that you like and turn them into a life moto.  It is embracing all of God's Word.  Even if you never memorize a verse verbatim, you can learn God's Word and the message it speaks.  You can use it to be the best Christian that you can be by even reading the hard parts, studying the parts you don't understand, and not manipulating scripture to suite your purpose or desires in life.

    Death and sin are married.  It is a unity that will not be broken because it was spoken into life by God when He warned Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  They brought it into reality, but God spoke the connection into place.  We celebrate Jesus because he opened a door to change things.  Death and sin's unity doesn't change, but our ability to change can.  Jesus opened the door to Heaven where anyone who choses to believe in Him can enter.  That is the key to enter Heaven.  No one can break in or sneak in.  Salvation is the only way.

    We celebrate Jesus because of His power.  His power enriched faith giving it life instead of blindly hoping for the best.  His power gives us grace.  Jesus' power makes the connection personal and relational in a way that it transforms you from the inside out (heart to mind to appearance).

    Your perception of the cross tell you a lot about your salvation.  You can deny it and say moronic words to try to deny the truth, but it only makes you look like a fool to God.  You can mourn it and never truly understand why it happened.  Or you can celebrate it and embrace salvation.  The cross is a divider.  It makes it clear on who is saved and who is not.  

    Jesus' death on the cross reveals fools and scandalous people who think they know everything.  The worldly people live in unbelief.  They scoff at the truth and make fun of us who do believe.  They try to change things by introducing tolerance which is evil.  There is a line for Christians and they try to erase it.  Their ideas are moronic, but it is what they live by, so they try to make us look moronic.  If you celebrate Jesus, then you will fight the ways of the world and speak for the truth that God laid down for all people.

    Jesus changes lives.  You can be the most worldly person and he can change your heart.  Christians today just need to be courageous enough to speak up and ask people to believe.  We need to be prepared for whatever rebuttal that they may throw at us: anger, questions, insults, physical attack, try to make you look evil, and more.  

    We live in this world, so there is no way we are not affected by the world.  We live in this world, but we are not of this world.  Our home is in Heaven.  We need to remember that and not be afraid or damaged by knowing what is happening in the world.  We need to be strong enough on the cross to live in this world and still stay holy.

    We celebrate Jesus because he gave us calvary.  He gives us the ability to change.  He changes our perception on things, evens, people, and the spiritual world.  He gave us the cross as a bridge.  We cross that bridge and go through the empty tomb into Heaven.  That is only possible because of Jesus.

Psalm 150, John 1:1-5, 1 Corinthians 1:20-31, & Philippians 4:4-7