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GOD IN THE MANGER

GOD IN THE MANGER. Luke 2:7 – 12, John 1:1 – 14. INTRODUCTION. This world is happy to let Jesus Christ be a baby in a manger, but not willing to let Him be the sovereign King, Lord, and Savior that He is. Yet that is the central truth of the Christmas story: the Child of Christmas is God!.

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GOD IN THE MANGER

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  1. GOD IN THE MANGER Luke 2:7 – 12, John 1:1 – 14

  2. INTRODUCTION This world is happy to let Jesus Christ be a baby in a manger, but not willing to let Him be the sovereign King, Lord, and Savior that He is. Yet that is the central truth of the Christmas story: the Child of Christmas is God!

  3. GOD IN THE MANGER • Christmas is not about the Savior's infancy; it is about His deity.

  4. GOD IN THE MANGER • Christmas is not about the Savior's infancy; it is about His deity. • None of us could ever fathom what it means for God to be born in a manger.

  5. GOD IN THE MANGER • Christmas is not about the Savior's infancy; it is about His deity. • None of us could ever fathom what it means for God to be born in a manger. • Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes.

  6. III. Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes. • He didn't give up being God, but He willingly gave up the independent use of the privileges and powers that were His as God.

  7. A. He didn't give up being God, but He willingly gave up the independent use of the privileges and powers that were His as God. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:5-8

  8. III. Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes. • He didn't give up being God, but He willingly gave up the independent use of the privileges and powers that were His as God. • He chose to subject His will to His Father's will.

  9. B. He chose to subject His will to His Father's will. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. John 5:30 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. John 6:38

  10. III. Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes. • He didn't give up being God, but He willingly gave up the independent use of the privileges and powers that were His as God. • He chose to subject His will to His Father's will. • He remained fully God

  11. III. Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes. • He didn't give up being God, but He willingly gave up the independent use of the privileges and powers that were His as God. • He chose to subject His will to His Father's will. • He remained fully God • For nearly 2,000 years, debate has been raging about whom Jesus really is.

  12. III. Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes. • He didn't give up being God, but He willingly gave up the independent use of the privileges and powers that were His as God. • He chose to subject His will to His Father's will. • He remained fully God • For nearly 2,000 years, debate has been raging about whom Jesus really is. • Let the Bible speak.

  13. E. Let the Bible speak. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:1-3, 14

  14. GOD IN THE MANGER • Christmas is not about the Savior's infancy; it is about His deity. • None of us could ever fathom what it means for God to be born in a manger. • Jesus voluntarily suspended the full application of His divine attributes. • The biblical evidence is overwhelming that this child in the manger was the incarnation of God.

  15. He was omniscient. IV. The biblical evidence is overwhelming that this child in the manger was the incarnation of God. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. John 2:24-25

  16. He was omniscient. He did the works of God. IV. The biblical evidence is overwhelming that this child in the manger was the incarnation of God. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. John 14:11

  17. Who was this child? He was God. We can see that clearly now. The Scriptures are clear even though the world seems content to keep Him as a seasonal decoration, the baby in the manger was God Almighty! He was the Savior of the world.

  18. This Christmas...can you see Him for who He really is? Do you know Him as your personal Savior? He came into this darkened world that we might literally see the light of His love and accept the greatest gift ever offered...salvation and eternal life!

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