Let Us Rejoice, For He Has Come Series

C. I bring good news of great joy for all people. We’ll get to this in just a moment. But the Angel also said, today. The time has come. God was keeping his promise.

Galatians 4:4-5 says, “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.”

Or as another translation says, “In the fullness of time…” This didn’t just happen by coincidence. This wasn’t just the luck of the draw, and congratulations, you’re the lucky winner to receive a savior today. Please come to Bethlehem to collect your prize.

No, not at all. This was the very time in history, [and that’s another whole sermon], that God wanted to send his Son. From the time Adam and Eve sinned in the garden to this day, this was the appointed time.

So we need not fear, because in God’s timing, He sent his Son.

D. The scripture also says that Jesus was born.

Here he was:

The eternal one, caught in a moment of time.

The Omnipresence corralled in a cave manger.

The Omnipotent cradled in a helpless infant who could not even raise His head from the straw.

The Omniscience confined in a baby who would not say a word.

The Christ who created the heavens and the earth cradled in a manger in a cave stable.

For when God would draw near to a cold, cruel, sinful, suffering humanity, he placed a baby in a manger in Bethlehem.

II. Because He Came, We Can Have Joy. Why?

A. Verse 10: I bring you “good news.”

Now don’t we all like to get good news.

1. You got that promotion

2. You’re going to have a baby

3. The loan was approved.

Where do you go, to look for your good news?

1. Morning newspaper.

2. Cup of coffee

3. A good friend

4. God’s Word.

Illustration:

We Can’t See What Is Before us, We are Never Content

In a Peanuts comic strip Lucy is speaking with Linus at the base of a hill. She says, "Someday I’m going over that hill and find the answer to my dreams.... Someday I’m going over that hill and find hope and fulfillment. I think, for me, all the answers to life lie beyond these clouds and over the grassy slopes of that hill!"

Linus removes his thumb from his mouth, points toward the hill, and

responds: "Perhaps there’s another little kid on the other side of that hill who is looking this way and thinking that all the answers to life lie on this side of the hill." Lucy looks at Linus, then turns toward the hill and yells, "Forget it, kid!"

The Shepherd, probably along with many, had heard the O.T. Scriptures read, and were waiting and watching.

Question: Are you content? Are you searching in life? Does it seem like life’s answers are just out of reach, or just over the next hill, or job promotion.

Let me share with you today, that you can find contentment and joy in Jesus Christ. Because he has come, he has brought good news.

B. What is that good news?

1. “a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” V. 11.

a. This was the savior of the word.

b. Little, unassuming town of Bethlehem, born to what seemed like to many, where unqualified parents.

c. And yet God chosen them