The Gift Of Jesus Series

“You attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness…” Phil 2:5-7

AND LISTEN – Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of Lords – didn’t come with a trumpet blast and great fanfare. Rather he came as a small baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manager – Almighty God, laying in a feeding trough for animals..

Though He was Literally, the fullness of Almighty God in the flesh -- there were no Royal attendants meeting his needs. Only the loving hands of his mother and the strong, calloused hands of Joseph. They were just common people. And in that manger -- lay the Savior of the world; Jesus the Christ.

But Jesus (like any baby) did not stay that way long -- Jesus grew, He took His first steps, said His first Words -- He ran -- He skipped His first stone -- He helped His dad in the carpenters shop -- He laughed -- he cried -- He fell down -- He got up -- He loved -- He cared – He lived… AND BECAUSE HE LIVED - the world for 2,000 years has never been the same.

OKAY LISTEN UP – I need you to do something… I need you to Imagine with me for a moment, the world without Jesus. Imagine what the world would be like without Him.

NOW – obviously there would be huge implications in regards to our sins being forgiven. BUT that’s not what I want to talk about here – I just want us to try to get a little glimpse, a picture of what the world would be like if that little baby never came 2,000 years ago. AND LISTEN – there is absolutely no debate (at least no intelligent debate) that our world would be different.

For one thing - LOOK at all the great works of art – by Rapheal, Da vinci and Michelanglo – that would never had been painted. Look at all the great music (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) that never would have been written. UNDERSTAND there would be a huge whole in art, music and poetry had Jesus never lived. This Tuesday on Pax TV there is a special called “Jesus in the Arts.”

If Jesus never came - there’d be no hospital’s or people called The Good Samaritan, there’d be no salvation army out there helping people ($19 billion a year through churches for needy) – there’d be no YMCA (young men’s Christian association) – there’s be no churches dotting our landscapes – there would be no carols to sing at Christmas (no – “Joy to The World” “Away in the Manger” “Hark the herald angels sing” “O little town of Bethlehem”) because there’d be no Christmas – they’d be no crosses – not on buildings on water towers, around people’s necks or hanging from their ears…

And if there was an America, it would not be the same – BECAUSE the reason that brought our founding fathers here would no longer exist – (you see, despite the best efforts of the history revisionists we know that our founding fathers came to America in order to worship Christ freely and spread his gospel)..

AND – who knows what the status of education would be in this nation – since all public and major universities were found by the church…