Why Jesus Came: Jesus The Reason For The Season!

SERMON OUTLINE:

(1). HE CAME: The Son of Man came.”

(2). HE SEEKS: “The Son of Man came to seek and to save.”

(3). HE FINDS: “What was lost.”

SERMON BODY:

Ill:

• You might recognise the photo of this lady - Gabby Login

• She was the host of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year show.

• And has sparked fresh controversy this week,

• By wishing viewers a 'happy festive season' rather than 'Merry Christmas'.

• We assume she did it to be woke or politically correct,

• But I am glad to say it seems to have backfired on her,

• With lots of criticism from the public and other media sources.

• TRANSITION:

• The BBC (or Gabby Logan) may want to go back to a Pagan festivals,

• But I will stick with Christmas and Jesus being the reason for the season.

Note:

• In history there is no greater or more influential figure than Jesus Christ.

• And one of life’s great questions has to be,

• Who is Jesus Christ,

• And why did Jesus Christ come to the earth?

Ill:

• If you did a survey on the street.

• Who is Jesus or why did he come you would get a variety of responses.

• YouTube: UK Vox – Who is Jesus?

• Download Link: https://youtu.be/qStz4lBsvCQ

• Some argue that Jesus came to give us an example of God’s love.

• Others say that he came to be the Perfect Man,

• Many people consider him the greatest teacher of all time.

• Others he was a prophet, a messenger from God.

• Still others believe he came to establish a new religion.

• TRANSITION:

• Question: What did Jesus say about himself?

• Answer: Luke chapter 19 verse 10.

• “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

• In one simple sentence,

• We have recorded the sublimest statement of the mission of Christ.

• He spoke those words to a man hiding in a tree.

• Many of you may know the story of Zacchaeus,

• If you don’t then here it is.

• YouTube: Zacchaeus,(Friends & heroes).

• Download Link: https://youtu.be/7U1KWld6V4o

(1). HE CAME: The Son of Man came.”

• The question of did Jesus exist has long been settled.

• No serious scholar today believes he was an invented figure.

Ill:

• Shocked a few years ago on a tennis holiday.

• Speaking to one of the group, a German lady,

• Who confidently told me regarding Jesus, “I don’t believe it!”

• So, I replied, “Which bit don’t you believe?”

• She replied, “All of it! I don’t even believe there was a Jesus!”

• When I pressed her on her evidence for that claim,

• She said, “I don’t have any, I just don’t believe!”

• And critics claim Christians have blind faith!

• It is a historical fact that Jesus existed & was crucified.

• No serious historian doubts that today.

• They may not believe he did miracles or rose from the dead,

• No serious historian doubts his existence or violent death.

• The big question all of us have to decide is,

• Was Jesus just a great a man or more than a man?

• Was he divine?

Note:

• Christians believe that Jesus was unique.

• We started life when a man’s sperm fused with a woman’s ovum.

• Now that in itself is remarkable!

• The probability of you being born is about 1 in 400 trillion.

• Now think of how ‘lucky’ you are!

• But the Bible teaches Jesus always existed as part of the Godhead.

• Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

• And that he chose to enter his own creation!

Ill:

• On February 15, 1921,

• There was a doctor who performed an appendicectomy.

• A surgical operation in which the vermiform appendix,

• (a portion of the intestine) is removed.

• The doctor performing the surgery was Dr. Evan Kane,

• Who during his 37-year medical career,

• Had performed nearly 4,000 of these operations.

• so, this surgery was not at all unusual,

• Well, except for two things.

FIRST:

• This was the first time that local anesthesia,

• Had ever been used in major surgery.

• Dr. Kane believed that local anesthesia,

• Was much safer than putting a patient completely to sleep.

• The problem was trying to find a patient,

• Willing to be the ‘guinea pig,’

• Someone who would allow Dr Kane to operate on them.

• Most people are squeamish,

• At the thought of being awake during their own surgery.

• Others are fearful that the anaesthesia might wear off too soon.

• Well after much searching,