Is there room for the Good News of Jesus?
12/25/05 AM
Pastor Brad Dyrness
Sparks Nazarene Church
It is amazing how bad news is good news in the right perspective!
It is the best news of all human history!
“And we’re here today
bringing you good news: The Message that what God promised the fathers has come
true for the children—for us!
What makes Jesus’ life and death Good News?
Both the birth and the death of Jesus was predicted long before Bethlehem. Still the angel’s message was: I Bring you Good News of Great Joy!
“How far is it from Bethlehem to Calvary?”
Many people are content to leave Christ in the cradle.
A Christ child is a safe Christ because he makes no demands on our life.
The journey from the cradle to the cross makes that peace possible!
How many of us are satisfied with the pretend Jesus and miss the meaning of Christmas?
The Good News
is:
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted…
It is the one Bible verse that almost everyone knows… by memory,
And some of us know by HEART!
SO…
To experience the good news of Christmas, not just for a season but for eternity, we too must bow to Jesus.
Don’t leave Jesus in the cradle…