What Would The Angels Say? Series

When you look around you, notice the magnitude of the earth and its beauties. Think about the great redwoods of the west coast, or wonders like the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. Take your mind to places like Mt. Everest that rises 5 and a half miles above the face of the earth, the Barrier Reef. Stand at the coast and consider the vastness of the oceans and seas. Imagine lying on your back on a clear night and taking in the immensity of space, with its billions of miles and as many planets and stars. How awesome is our Creator who gave us it all to enjoy and manage! How awesome is our God who in His infinite, omnipotent creative mind spoke all things into existence! Think to yourself how awesome and magnificent the creation is! And yet – we are told not to worship the creation as so many do, but rather worship the God of the creation. As big as it all is – God is bigger, more infinite, more awesome than our minds can imagine.

I want you to think of all the stars you see at night. The distances between them are huge. The distance from the Sun to the closest star, which is named Proxima Centauri, is over 4 light years, which is equal to 24,854,847,689,493.36 miles. To walk this distance would take you about one billion years. Even our fastest space probes would take sixty thousand years to travel this distance, and remember that I told you our fastest one runs at a slow pace of over 27 miles per second. Now, from earth, you can see this star that is so far away, but if you were to travel there and look back at the earth, do you know what you would see? Nothing! It’s so small you’d never find it, like looking for a speck of dirt from the top of a water tower. Image looking for the nation of Israel from that star, or better yet, looking for Bethlehem. Let’s top that and look for a virgin girl named Mary, one girl out of a few billion from almost 25 trillion miles away! Now, if that’s next to impossible to imagine, let’s make it real and find that one microscopic egg that she carried deep inside her body, and you figure out how the God of the universe, which is beyond our ability to even imagine, took His infinite, omnipotent being and put it all inside that one little egg and miraculously fertilized it!

I don’t understand it, and neither did Mary or Joseph, and if you try to you’ll end up somewhere down in Rusk or in Wichita Falls. But listen, the angels came and announced it, "You will bring forth a son!"

Hebrews 10:25 says,

"Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou has prepared me."

From the promise of the Messiah to Jesus, God was at work preparing that body that the only begotten Son of God would occupy – He was no ordinary Son! He was the Son of God! 1 John 4:9 & 10 says,

"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."