The Greatest Gift (CAPTIONED)

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Posted by: hischild on Dec 23, 2009

Christ became flesh doing the Father's will and forgiveness and peace are ours because of His obedience.

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Message based on Hebrews, Chapter 10, Verses 5-10.
Text from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
Let us rise for this morning's sermon text recorded for us
in the Letter to the Hebrews where we read from Chapter 10,
beginning with Verse 5 ...
THEREFORE, WHEN CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD, HE SAID:
"SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU DID NOT DESIRE,
BUT A BODY YOU PREPARED FOR ME;
WITH BURNT OFFERINGS AND SIN OFFERINGS
YOU WERE NOT PLEASED. THEN I SAID, 'HERE I AM -
IT IS WRITTEN ABOUT ME IN THE SCROLL - I HAVE COME TO
DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.'"
FIRST HE SAID, "SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS,
BURNT OFFERINGS AND SIN OFFERINGS YOU DID NOT DESIRE,
NOR WERE YOU PLEASED WITH THEM" (ALTHOUGH THE LAW
REQUIRED THEM TO BE MADE).
THEN HE SAID, "HERE I AM, I HAVE COME TO
DO YOUR WILL." HE SETS ASIDE THE FIRST
TO ESTABLISH THE SECOND.
AND BY THAT WILL, WE HAVE BEEN MADE HOLY THROUGH
THE SACRIFICE OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL.
This is the Word of our Lord;
let us pray:
Glorious and gracious God, may the words of my mouth
and the meditation of each of our hearts
be acceptable in Your sight, our only Source of Hope and
Comfort.
Amen.
Pastor Dave
motions for the congregation
to be seated.
Dear Followers
of our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ.
Religion truly covers
all aspects of a believer's life.
Or at least that would be the goal of faith.
The desire of the Lord
who is the One who wants to have
first and foremost prominence
in the believer's heart
and in his life. If we look at the Old Testament
for a moment, we see how the Old Testament believer ...
His entire life was governed
and guided by his religion.
By the faith that he professed.
Even everything that he ate,
had been directed by God.
There were sacrifices that continually
HAD to be made for sin.
There were laws of cleanliness and uncleanliness.
There were festivals that needed to be celebrated with
the first-fruits of the offering
that came to the Temple of the Lord. That house where God
had placed His Name on earth
was the center and the focus of
everyday life for the Old Testament believer.
The Law and all its
requirements were the driving force
of the believer's life and they consumed
each and every minute
of what they had to do.
And yet, in the Letter to the Hebrews,
we hear this morning that there WERE those
sacrifices, there WERE those burnt offerings,
there WERE those sin offerings.
They were required each and every day ...
for the sins of the people.
But God had a different plan in mind.
God had a greater plan in mind
to remove people's sins
once and for all.
To send the great High Priest into this world,
who would sacrifice Himself,
for the sins of the world. It WAS the Father's plan,
that the Son would come, the Messiah would come
in the flesh ...
born of a woman ...
born under Law.
To do His will and to accomplish the
forgiveness of sins by His sacrifice once
and for all.
And we see the beauty of God's plan played out
in Scripture. We see how those Old Testament believers
longed for God to accomplish
His will. We heard the prophet Micah this morning
proclaiming to God's people, that that Messiah
was going to come.
That that Messiah was going to come out of the city of
Bethlehem, the smallest
of God's clans.
That He was going to be a great King.
He was going to shepherd His people ... with love,
and with justice. That God was going to send
that Christ into the world.
And Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient
to the Father's will.
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit
in the womb of the virgin Mary.
And the joy that Mary felt we heard about in our Gospel
lesson for this morning. She realized that
God was accomplishing His salvation.
He was bringing peace and forgiveness
to ALL people ...
to ALL generations. They would KNOW that HER son
would be the Savior of the world.
But that was accomplished
because God's eternal Son,
who from the very beginning
of our existence ...
even before ...
as He sat with the rest of the persons of the God-head
and discussed how They would create a universe.
By the power of the Word,
it was created.
And Jesus was there
when light burst forth
out of that darkness.
Throughout the Old Testament history, we see Jesus coming
again and again described as the Angel of the Lord
to those people who needed to be comforted.
That God was going to CONTINUE
to keep His promise. The promise that He made to
Adam and Eve. The promise that He made to Noah. The promise
that He made to Abraham and all of the other patriarchs.
That through one of their seed,
all nations on earth would be blessed.
And God's Son ...
the Eternal ... Almighty ... All-powerful God,
humbled Himself
by taking on ... human ... form.
By coming as
one of us.
It just boggles our mind
to begin to understand that!
But we know
that that was God the Father's will.
Jesus Himself said:
Here is My body; I am prepared to do
Your will and He came into this world
to accomplish what God the Father
had promised.
He obeyed that Law perfectly that God had set up.
He KEPT ALL of God's commands.
He carried out those sacrifices Himself,
He did everything that was
REQUIRED according to the Law. And He did it with a heart
that was filled with devotion, and love.
NOT out of obligation or some sense of duty.
Or even some sense of self-righteousness.
He did what the Father
sent Him to do ...
which was sacrifice Himself for the sins
of all people.
He DID what the Father
desired of Him
and as His children, as His brothers and sisters,
we also will do the same. We know the JOY
that WE have in OUR salvation
and with Mary we want to proclaim the praises of God
in our lives. And we do that
by submitting to what the Father asks of us
by willingly placing ourselves under
His care, in His protection,
and doing His will.
By carrying it out, with hearts that are
devoted to Him, who WANT to be His children,
who WANT to live our lives
in that life of faith that is pleasing to Him
because we KNOW what the sacrifice was.
Our sinful nature says we shouldn't
deny ourselves anything.
If we WANT it, we should go after it, we should GET it,
and we don't care HOW we do it.
Because it's ALL ABOUT ME and it's ALL ABOUT WHAT I WANT
and I don't HAVE TO take care
of my brother or sister next to me.
I don't HAVE to think about
how it's going to affect my family.
I don't HAVE to think about the future.
I'm only concentrated on me, right here,
right now.
Jesus Christ never said that.
But He thought of a world who needed Him.
Think of
the predicament Mary was in.
Think of the responsibility placed
on Joseph.
With the hearts that are devoted to God,
His will, will be done
in the lives of His people.
Because we realize that tremendous sacrifice
that Jesus Christ made in
humbling Himself
by leaving behind the servants
and the attendants of heaven, who were created
to do His will.
By coming into this world, not owning a home,
not having a place to call His own,
relying on the kindness
of strangers, and
the kindness of His friends for His life
and His support.
And yet those same disciples, were the ones who
in His darkess hour,
deserted Him. Left him alone,
to do the Father's will.
And even when Jesus was questioned by
Pilate, as to whether He was a king,
He responded: I AM a King ... but not of this world and
I have at my disposal
thousands of angels
and if that were what God desired, they would be here
to fight.
But that was not God's will.
It was God's will, that He would be
the uncomplaining Lamb ...
alone and solitary.
Sacrificed once for all
for the sins of all people.
And He accomplished
what the Father sent Him to do.
And there we rejoice.
And there we find our comfort ...
because you and I know
that we struggle each and every day
to live according to God's will.
Sometimes we blatantly defy Him ... and say:
I'm NOT going to do Your will.
Sometimes we just neglect it.
And think, well maybe I'll get to it tomorrow.
We don't always follow
what God has asked of us.
But yet, we are here because
we find comfort in the forgiveness of our sins.
It's here that we find
the strengthening of our faith
and the encouragment to live our life
of love to God.
What we do this morning, we have to take with us this
afternoon and continue it tomorrow and the day after
as we remind ourselves of
that great sacrifice
that Christ made ...
that He became flesh ...
and lived among us, is the tremendous
blessing of God.
That He died in our place for the forgiveness of our sins.
It's where we find our comfort
and our joy. And that each and every day
in response to that, by the Holy Spirit
we live a life of faith
dedicated to Christ in this body
fulfilling God's will, waiting
for that day when He is going to come as our
great King and give us our glorified bodies
so that eternally we
may do His will proclaim and praise His Holy Name
for having accomplished His salvation,
having accomplished and given
to us the fruit of our faith ... eternal life.
This week
we celebrate ... Christ's birth ...
knowing His death.
Looking forward to the time when
He is going to end this world and come in
judgment. And each and every day
that we are in these mortal bodies,
may we give praise ... to Christ,
who took on this human flesh.
Who accomplished the Father's will ...
Who sacrificed Himself,
for OUR sins,
so that we, in turn,
can live in faith.
Amen.
Let us rise.
Now may the peace of God which goes beyond all of our
understanding, keep your hearts and your minds and
especially your lives in the one true faith unto life
everlasting.
Amen.

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