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God's Christmas Gift
Contributed by Grant Adams on Jan 17, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: Jesus Christ was God’s Christmas gift and God never gives anything but the best. James 1:17
Paul said in 2 Corinthians 9:15, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.”
Christmas is that time of year when everyone’s thoughts turn to gifts and giving. I want to look at 6 things about God’s gifts today.
I. It is an Unsolicited Gift.
2. Many times, this Christmas season, I have been asked, “what would you like for Christmas?” what can I get for you, my wife, and my children. Get a listen together.
3. Many times, gifts are the result of a specific request.
4. Not so with God’s gift. His gift was an unsolicited gift.
a. It was God who saw my need and gave.
b. Adam and Eve did not seek God.
II. It is an Unlimited Gift
1. I am sure some of us have looked at some gifts that was out of our price range. Most of us have a champaign taste and a beer salary.
2. We have a cost reference. There are some gifts that we cannot buy.
3. God’s gift is unlimited. No one is excluded from receiving His gift.
a. John 3:16
b. 1 John 2:2
c. Hebrews 2:9
4. No such thing as a limited atonement. The bible means exactly what is says.
a. No matter how educated or uneducated.
b. No matter how wealthy or poor.
c. No matter how privileged or underprivileged.
d. No matter how unloved or unwanted.
e. God’s Christmas gift is unlimited. No one will die and go to hell and look back to heaven and say, “I wanted to be saved, but Jesus didn’t die for me.” Wrong!
III. It is an Unspeakable Gift
1. Rest assured that God never gives anything but the best. 2 Corinthians 9:15
2. For years, song writers and poets alike have tried to describe God’s Christmas gift.
IV. It is an Unchanging Gift
1. Hebrews 13:8; Jesus the same yesterday, today and forever.
a. Times change, styles change, attitudes and taste changes.
b. Nearly everything we know changes.
2. Jesus, God’s Christmas gift never changes.
a. His perfection never changes. It would mean Jesus was not perfect.
b. He never changes in understanding to more understanding from impatient to patient, from merciful to more merciful or from willing to more willing.
c. All that Jesus is He always have been and all He has been and is, He will ever be.
3. Christmas gifts we received several years ago have now become obsolete.
a. Jesus is always current.
b. He is always new, He never changes.
4. We enjoy the same God, same Savior, and salvation that all the great men of the past have enjoyed.
V. It is an Undeserved Gift
1. The very fact that salvation is a gift indicates that it is undeserved.
a. If it is earned or deserved, it is no longer a gift.
b. A gift is something offered with no strings attached.
c. Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 11:6, Matthew 7:22-23
2. If one worked to earn heaven, the motive behind the work would render it ineffective. 1 Corinthians 13:3
3. You spell G.R.A.C.E. “God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense.”
4. Everything we have received has come from one of three ways
a. Earn it
b. Steal it
c. Someone gives it to us.
5. John 4:10
VI. It is an Unclaimed Gift
1. John 3:16
a. Jesus tasted death for every man, but everyman is not trusting Jesus for salvation.
b. To multiplied millions Jesus is still a stranger.
2. Many parents and friends have sacrificed to purchase gifts for the ones they love. Wrapped them in beautiful packages, laid them under the tree. The excitement builds as Christmas day approaches.
3. How sad to imagine that even after sacrificing for those gifts, they go unopen.
4. Yet the greatest gift of all, God’s Christmas gift. Jesus is still unclaimed by millions.
