The God Who Appeared: ‘his Purpose’

SERMON OUTLINE:

(1). A Perfect Body (vs 5).

(2). A Perfect Sacrifice (vs 5-9).

(3). A Perfect Desire (vs 7-9).

(4). A Perfect Conclusion (vs 11-12).

SERMON BODY:

Question:

• Did Santa bring you the present you wanted?

• How many of you received a book as a gift?

Ill:

• One popular book given as a gift this year would have been,

• ‘The Body: A Guide for Occupants’ by Bill Bryson.

• It is a great read;

• You will not agree with many of his conclusions,

• Because Bill Bryson is an unashamed evolutionist,

• But the book is full, and I mean full of fascinating facts.

• Without realising it, he proves on almost every page that the body has a designer.

• Intelligent design is written all though the human body.

I used to use the old illustration by C.H. Dodd:

• The human body contains;

• Chalk for 2 sticks.

• Fat for 7 bars of soap.

• Iron to make a 3inch nail.

• Sugar for 7 cups of tea.

• Phosphorus to make 2,200 matches.

• Lime to whitewash a hen house.

• Sulphur to rid a dog of flees.

• Water to fill 6 buckets.

• Magnesium for one dose of salts.

• Potash to explode a toy crane.

• Lead to make 200 pencils".

• If you add all the chemicals together;

• Then the chemicals found in the human body are worth about £15.

But think again:

• Bill in his book gives us a breakdown and the accurate price of human ingredients;

• As you might expect, inflation has struck again!

• To round it all up; 96 thousand, five hundred and fifty pounds.

• And in the book, you get the chemical breakdown.

"We are made of seven billion billion billion atoms, the constituent elements of which would cost £96,546.79 on the open market (excluding VAT)."

• TRANSITION: In his book, ‘The human body’,

• Every chapter of this book is proof upon proof upon proof that we had a designer!

• “We are fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139 verse 14)

In our final study in this Christmas series called; ‘The God Who Appeared’

• We are reminding ourselves again;

• Of why Jesus came, why he took on a human body,

• Why he became part of his creation!

Ill:

• Youtube: https://youtu.be/hmUKdIc0y9I

• Facts You Didn't Know About The Human Body

(1). A Perfect Body (vs 5).

ill:

• And like you and I every 24 hours

• His body and your heart beats 103689 times

• (one hundred and three thousand, six hundred and eighty-nine)

• His body and your blood travels 168,000,000 miles

• His body and you breathe 23040 times

• His body and you inhale 438 cubic feet of air

• His body and you eat 3. 25 pounds of food

• His body and you drink 2. 9 quarts of liquids

• His body and you lose 7/8 pounds of waste

• His body and you speak 4800 words, including some unnecessary ones

• His body and you move 750 muscles

• His body and your nails grow. 000046 inch

• His body and your hair grows, 0.35 millimetres.

• His body and you exercise 7,000,000 (seven million) brain cells

• That takes place in an average human body every 24 hours.

Notice:

• Verse 5 links this verse to the Christmas narrative;

• “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;

Ill:

• Over this Christmas period we have reminded ourselves that:

• “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us”

• The ‘Incarnation’, the word is derived from the Latin ‘in’ and ‘caro’ (flesh),

• Meaning, ‘clothed in flesh’, the act of assuming flesh.

• On Boxing Day in the Curley household, we enjoyed Chilli Con Carne for dinner.

• Which is Spanish and translated means, ‘Chilli with Flesh, Chilli with Meat’.

• “The Word became ‘Con Carne’” with ‘flesh’ with ‘meat’

• In other words, Jesus had a real body, he was not a spirit creature,

• But was fully human as well as being fully divine!

And don’t miss this:

• This Book of Hebrews (and the Bible clearly teaches);

• That God prepared his Son a body, specifically for the purpose of sacrificing it

• In fact:

• Without a body: no last supper, no communion memorial,

• Without a body: Judas could not have betrayed him with a kiss.

• Without a body: no soldier could have punched him or whipped him,

• Without a body: no soldier could have put a purple robe on him,

• Without a body: no soldier could have placed a crown of thorns on his head,

• Without a body: no soldier could have plucked the beard from his face.