Jesus Is Our Source For Life Series

The Christmas season is officially here. It began as soon as the Thanksgiving dinner was over. However I noted that in Walmart, the Christmas trees and lights and things were out for sale long before Halloween was over. Some radio stations and satellite/internet stations has been playing Christmas music since November 1st. But I’ve been disappointed in these different Christmas music stations, the Christmas music they play is most mostly the “Jingle Bells,” “Rock around the Christmas Tree,” and I’ll Be Home for Christmas” type of music. No real carols about the birth of Jesus is being played, not often at any rate.

We like Christmas. We want it the season to start earlier every year. But so often in all the hype of Christmas we miss the what Christmas is really all about. Being in church, the Sunday School answer to all of this is that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” We get that. We have the pins and the signs. But is that the message we truly convey? Is that the message we promote. Yes it is Jesus birthday, so what.?

This sermon series we will look at Christmas. Its more than a reason. It is all about Jesus. Today message is central to this series. Jesus is our source of Life. More than that, as we shall see, Jesus is the source of all life, physical, spiritual, and eternal. Jesus is life.

John 1:1–4

Though John doesn’t record the birth of Jesus, he does give a most profound introduction to the coming of Jesus. We will be looking at John’s introduction over the next few weeks. When we realize the grandeur of Jesus, we will only begin to see how incredible was the humbling of Himself to come to earth as baby, born into a poor family.

John 1:1–2 (NKJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.

John makes it very clear. "The Word" here is very clearly Jesus. Jesus was with God and Jesus is God. Jesus was at the beginning. Jesus is the beginning. and for the matter, Jesus is also the end.

Revelation 22:13 (NKJV) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

And Jesus was the very agent of creation. Not only did Jesus create the expanse of the universe, he is also the very creator of the intricacies of the atom itself. Scientists will never be able to create life in the laboratory. Why? Because all life exist only in Jesus.

Colossians 1:16–17 (NKJV)  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

Did you get that last line? “in Him all things consist.” I like the NIV and HCSB rendering this line: “in Him all things hold together.” We would not exist if it were not for Jesus. Don’t you think Jesus might know a thing or two about each one of us? The psalmist proclaims this:

Psalm 100:3a (NKJV) Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;

When we are broken, who better to fix us than our maker?

ILL: It was said of Charles Steinmetz, the mechanical electrical engineering genius and friend of Henry Ford, that he could build a motor in his mind, and if it broke down he could fix it in his mind. So when he designed it and actually built it, it ran with precision. One day the a massive generator, built by General electric, broke down at one of the Ford plants. None of Ford’s men could fix it, and time was of the essence, so they called in GE’s top engineer to fix it, Steinmetz. He looked over the massive generator and asked for a ladder. As Ford’s skeptical engineers watched, Charles climbed the latter and made a small “X” on the side of the generator. He instructed the engineers to remove the plate where the “X” was and replace the windings from the coil field there. They did so and the generator worked perfectly.

A few days later Ford received a bill from Steinmetz for $10,000. Ford wrote back, “Charlie, don’t you think your bill is a little high for just marking a little X?" Steinmetz sent back a revised bill: “Making a chalk mark on the generator - $1. Knowing where to make the mark, $9,999. Ford paid the bill.

Only Jesus knows where the fixing should be done in our lives to keep us in perfect running order. Christ always knows which screw to turn, which belt to loosen, and the most beneficial fuel to use. [1] We need Jesus for every aspect of life.