In our previous message “Magnitude Of The Coming Of Christ” we learned how the coming of Jesus Christ has made a global effect on all people bringing them all to a point of making a decision to believe in Him to be saved or choosing to reject Him and being lost. Today let us consider that God’s love toward mankind is to provide a Savior and give those who believe in Christ Jesus “Christmas Hope”.
Old Testament Scripture Reading Jeremiah 31:31 – 34 (KJV)
(31) “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
(32) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
(33) But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(34) And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
New Testament Scripture Reading: John 15:1 – 13 (KJV)
(1) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
(2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
(3) Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
(4) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
(5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
(6) If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
(7) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
(8) Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
(9) As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
(10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
(11) These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
(12) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
(13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Transforming Power Statements:
1) The love of God has always been available to be chosen or to be rejected, by man ; and the Bible teaches that God has never changed from His position to love man and to have a covenant relationship with mankind, but rather that man since the fall of Adam tends to reject God’s love.
2) In this passage in Jeremiah, the covenant people are in exile in a foreign land under captivity because they and their kings have rejected God’s law and His prophets, and God writes through the prophet to reassure Israel that He still plans to keep His covenant even though they as a nation are reaping the consequences of their unbelief.
3) Jesus in John 15, styles Himself as the “True Vine” saying that we all who choose to stay connected to Him will produce the fruit that only He and His Father can provide through our lives; which is a beautiful way of showing that He is fully invested in us, so we should also be fully invested in Him; This provides us all with Christmas Hope!
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